Oh goody. Its going to be a weekend of "woe is me" from everywhere because its David Ortiz's last games in Minnesota (barring playoffs!). Because something that happened in 2003 (There are about two generations of Twins fans that never saw Ortiz play in a Twins uniform. I mean, David ortiz once played in a game where Bob Tewksbury was the starting pitcher and Terry Steinbach was catching. Ortiz has been around forever) is affecting the current state of the Twins now.
Makes me wonder what would happen if Joe Mauer was let go or traded and then has a couple of banner seasons. Would the Boo Joe Mauer crowd boo the Front Office for letting a good player go? I dont know.
I do now I get tired about the Twins blunder. Why can't people let go ?
Red Sox wearing blue Twins wearing red jerseys.
Ok.
Confused the shit out of me when I got to the bar.
Why wouldn't you try to teach someone a knuckleball before meeting them flame out, even if only for a short period? It doesn't seem to have much to do with a pitcher's stuff, so why not give it a try with some of your low A-ball gascans?
I would try it with every marginal pitcher at every level.
What do you have to lose? Sure, the odds are overwhelming that they won't pan out, but if you can turn even one Alex Wimmers into a Tim Wakefield, that would make it all worth it, right?
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Gladden was mentioning Wright's story of being a minor league Scrub with marginal stuff that went to the knuckleball and now here he is.
Provus was wondering aloud why more teams didn't try to do that.
I wish this game was a little more entertaining.
Jepsen gives up a two out RBI double.
*drink*
**glug glug glug glug glug**
At least Bogaerts is on my fantasy team.
I took out Hosmer to put in Bradley about a half hour before game time.
I agree with davidwatts' introduction. There's plenty of recent stuff to be down on the Twins front office for. We don't need to hammer them for something that happened thirteen years ago. At the time, not very many people were particularly sad to see Ortiz go. And it's not like the Red Sox were such geniuses and knew what Ortiz was going to become. He was basically insurance when he was signed.
Looking back at his stats, it is crazy to think the Twins decided he was worth giving up for nothing and that no other team had much interest.
That said, I am very tired of hearing about it and agree it is beyond relevance at this point.
Not a shutout!
Welp, I'll get to see park bat while I wait for pizza to be delivered.
So, that was underwhelming.
Bert: "When you're 18-41, patience is not what you want to hear."
Me: "On the contrary, that's exactly when you need patience, especially with young players."
or just plain ol' patience to get through the season.
Seriously, Bert? We're supposed to believe the whole problem with the Twins' starters is that they don't pitch inside enough?