Benchwarmerjim

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Jul 14, 2005 -> 09:39 PM) Why would Gardenhire start Boone in the 3-hole?? He hasn't hit well all year. Why put that pressure on him? Oh well...Good for us. found out why. From the Star Trib Boone allowed to pick his spot La Velle E. Neal III, Star Tribune July 15, 2005 TWIN0715.NOTES With Seattle, Bret Boone had 123 at-bats in the No. 5 slot and 147 at-bats as the No. 6 hitter this season. Then he walked into Twins manager Ron Gardenhire's office on Thursday. "Boonie, where do you want to hit?" Gardenhire asked. "Second or third?" "You're giving me the option?" Boone replied before asking for the No. 3 hole. That's exactly what Gardenhire wanted to hear. And so the newest Twin, with a .234 batting average but with a wealth of hitting experience, made his debut as the No. 3 hitter Thursday. No offense meant toward Joe Mauer, who has batted third for most of the season, but Gardenhire might be sending a message by putting Boone in the middle of a batting order that has lacked consistency. "It's going to be a good thing," Boone said. "A fresh start. A good team. A good bunch of guys. I'm looking forward to it." Boone actually hit third during most of his four-plus seasons with the Mariners. But he said it doesn't matter where he hits in the lineup. He has seven home runs and 34 RBI, but the Twins are hoping that joining a pennant race will get his swing going. Boone said Thursday that his problems aren't mental but mechanical, something he was trying to fight his way through in Seattle. "You keep working until you get it," Boone said. "I've been in and out of it. I've had a couple games where, 'there it is,' and it wouldn't stay there." Boone had an inauspicious start to his Twins career when his glove broke during warmups before the first inning. Boone had to run into the clubhouse for a backup. "The long layoff probably wilted the leather," Gardenhire said. http://www.startribune.com/stories/509/5507694.html

hmm. I dont know. We score 2 runs, and Lohse gives up 3 the next inning. Thats the way its gone the last month

hahahah. nice Im an All Star

yeah. he KO his first at bat. got a hit in his second. The fans really cheered for him. They interviewed him ont he radio in the pregame. He IS arrogant. lol

the twins announcers were talking about the trad in the pre game on the radio. and one mentioned that Byrnes is arbitration eligble in the off season so that might be a reason for the trade of him. I think the Wilson/Day deal intrigues me. I thought Zach Day was one of the Nats good young pitchers. But I then looked at the stats and saw a note that he and Frank Robinson didnt get along. Maybe the Rockeis got a steal in him

Some of my favorites not mentioned already 'Hunger Strike' -Temple of a Dog 'Everything Falls Apart' - Dogs Eye Veiw 'Shame on You' - Indigo Girls 'Runaround' - Blues Traveler 'Most Precarious' -Blue Travler 'Say It Aint So' - Weezer 'The Good Life' - Weezer

^^^ Brock Sampson rocks hahah. nice. Back in the day when Corey Koskie and David Ortiz and Eddie Gaurdado roamed teh clubhouse, they was always pranks going on. They tried to one up each other. Guardado still pulls pranks on the Twins when they play Seattle

whoa -- Humphrey Terminal evacuated Associated Press July 14, 2005 AIRPORT0714 The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport's Humphrey terminal was evacuated tonight after two bomb-sniffing dogs smelled something suspicious in two vending machines at the terminal. About 200 passengers were sent to a parking garage across the street and a bloomington bomb squad was on the scene. The Humphrey terminal is the smaller of the two terminals at MSP. All outgoing flights were delayed and all incoming flights were diverted to the larger Lindbergh terminal. Metropolitan Airports Commission spokesman Pat Hogan said two dogs sniffed suspicious materials in two seperate vending machines. One machine was at the south end of the terminal and the other was in the center of the terminal. Hogan said everyone is safe but officials were taking every precaution to find out what the dogs detected in the machines http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5505441.html

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina admitted to 10 NCAA violations committed under former football coach Lou Holtz in a report released Wednesday. Five of the violations were classified as major. The report was prepared jointly by the NCAA enforcement staff and the university and has been forwarded to the NCAA's Committee on Infractions, which can accept, reject or modify the proposed penalties. The school found violations occurred when prospective student-athletes were given impermissible tutoring sessions and offseason workouts from 1999-2002. South Carolina was also found to have a lack of institutional control. "These are serious violations that are not in keeping with the values of the University of South Carolina and our athletics programs," University President Andrew Sorensen said. "They certainly cast our university in a light, which no one in the Carolina family condones." Holtz did not immediately return messages left by The Associated Press at his home in Orlando, Fla. The school proposed two years of probation, a reduction from 56 to 50 paid campus visits for football recruits this year and next; and a loss of two football scholarships for the 2006-07 and 2007-08 academic years. Steve Spurrier, who replaced Holtz, says he hopes the NCAA will accept the penalties, "which I believe are fair, so that we can get this matter behind us." School officials said Tom Perry, former senior associate athletic director for academic support services, and Pat Moorer, former strength and conditioning coach, are no longer with the school. Holtz retired at the end of last season. "Any violation of the NCAA legislation is unacceptable, and I regret that five violations not previously discovered by the athletics department were discovered," said Mike McGee, who retired after more than 12 years as South Carolina's AD last month. The report closes a chapter during which South Carolina had some of greatest success as Holtz went 17-7 and won the Outback Bowls in 2000-01. "Any success that we have in athletics should be earned honorably and never be tainted by any violation of the rules and regulations that govern intercollegiate athletics," University of South Carolina board Chairman Herbert Adams said. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2107170

hmm. Will Sir Paul finally get his songs back? -- NEW YORK - A financial company specializing in asset acquisition sued Michael Jackson on Monday, saying it is owed $48 million in fees for rescuing the singer's stake in the publishing rights to songs by the Beatles. Prescient Acquisition Group Inc. said in its lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that the pop music celebrity enlisted it in November 2004 to provide financial advice and to secure refinancing of a $272 million debt to Bank of America. On behalf of Jackson and his company MJ Publishing Trust, Prescient secured $537 million in financing from Fortress Investment Group LLC, enough for Jackson to pay off the debt and exercise an option to buy the remaining 50 percent of the Beatles library he didn't already own, the lawsuit said. Prescient said it was entitled to an immediate payment of $24.8 million, which is 9 percent of the financing used to pay off the Bank of America debt and a $3.3 million advance to Jackson and his company. Prescient accused Jackson of breach of contract, saying that it had done what was expected in a written agreement and that Jackson and his company were not entitled to "retain the benefits of those services in equity and good conscience without paying to Prescient an amount to be determined at trial." A lawyer for Jackson did not immediately return a telephone message for comment Monday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050711/ap_en_...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

Well, the deal is Boone and $$$ for PTBNL I wonder how much cash. I havent seen a story saying how much

Joe Borowski, who as designated for assingment by the Cubs, signed with Tampa Bay today and will join them after the All Star Break He could probably start for that team. Their pitching is horrible

FAN: "You're my favorite player. Can I have your autograph?" PAUL: "What's my name?" FAN: "I don't know." HAHAH. Priceless

It wasnt mentioned in the article, but the men who planned and coordinated the massacre were never caught and still running loose. There was a special about this on CNN earlier today. I caught the tail end of it. I am hoping they rerun it so I can catch the entire thing

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jul 11, 2005 -> 04:33 PM) What is benchwarmerjim's opinion of this???? yuck I am not liking this

Dutch Peacekeepers Haunted by Srebrenica AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The images don't go away: Bosnian Muslim men being herded onto trucks for execution. Women and children sobbing, pleading for protection. Piles of corpses. Gloating Serb forces. For the Dutch troops who were unwilling witnesses to the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica, the memories are made harder by a nagging question: Could they have done more to stop it? Mandated to defend the U.N.-declared "safe haven," the Dutch battalion stood by as the carnage unfolded, and has been accused by some of sharing responsibility for the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. Nearly 8,000 people died after Bosnian Serbs overran the enclave 10 years ago Monday. While the Dutch watched, the Serbs separated Muslim men and boys from their families, loaded them into trucks and took them away for execution. The U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague has ruled it was genocide. Official inquiries have cleared the 370 troops of blame. Overwhelmed, undermanned, under-armed and with orders to shoot only in self defense, they were helpless to stop the onslaught, independent investigators have concluded. But the debate rages on, and no one has walked away unscarred. There are soldiers suffering nightmares or sleeplessness, depression and guilt. Many can't hold down jobs. Drugs and alcohol are recurring problems. Holland's national Veterans Institute says it is giving psychological help to about 100 soldiers — more than a quarter of those who were there. Cpl. Andries Poortinga was one. Poortinga, one of 171 soldiers whose accounts appeared in "Memories of Srebrenica," published last month, saw tens of thousands of refugees cramming into the U.N. camp at Potocari, a suburb of Srebrenica, as the Serbs pounded the area from the surrounding hills. For days, the battalion had waited for reinforcements and air support. None came. One soldier already had been killed by Muslim forces. By the time the Serb attack started on July 11, the soldiers' nerves were shot. "All those people ... screaming and crying. A truck, normally fit for 18 people, was packed with 200 refugees. We helped them from the truck and gave them a place in the factory hall," Poortinga recalled in the book. "It was hell. I did my best, but after a while I collapsed. The shouting became louder and louder. The shooting came close, grenades fell, dust came from the ceiling. I found myself crying like a baby. I am not a baby at all, but then I was like a child." Co-author Hendrina Praamsma said 40 percent of those interviewed had needed psychological treatment at some point. Some had attempted suicide. "Most of them feel abandoned, rejected, falsely accused," she said. A 1999 report by the United Nations said Yugoslavia's then president, Slobodan Milosevic, bore primary responsibility. Milosevic is now on trial in The Hague. Nonetheless, Holland remained traumatized. In 2002, an exhaustive study by the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation concluded the government of Prime Minister Wim Kok had sent ill-prepared troops on an impossible mission because it wanted to boost its international prestige. The report prompted the government, still headed by Kok, to resign. A subsequent parliamentary inquiry also cleared the troops of blame. But Srebrenica isn't over for Holland. A district court in The Hague is hearing a civil suit by Bosnian Srebrenica survivors seeking $2.6 billion in compensation from the state for its troops' failure to protect them. One of them is Hassan Nuhanovic, a U.N. translator whose brother and father were forced off the U.N. base by Dutch troops and haven't been seen since. Their accusations reawakened the shame among some veterans, said Jan Burger, head of the Veterans Institute's social services. In the past two months, with the approach of the 10th anniversary, another half dozen Srebrenica veterans have sought help. "They can't leave the images they saw," Burger said. Some people's lives are destroyed, he said. Others "have learned how to put it in its proper place. Even if they can manage their lives, Srebrenica will never leave them." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050711/ap_on_...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

on the TV broadcast yesterday, the Twins announcers were saying how decent the front the lineup is with Stewart, Punto, and Mauer. They all make the pitchers throw lots of pitches

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jul 10, 2005 -> 03:26 PM) Mike Sweeney is so damn good, I can't even explain how much respect I have for that guy as a hitter. seriosuly. If he could only stay healthy for an entire year. He absolutly owned the Twins this weekend

GAHHHHH Im not happy about this one bit

James the Twins fan checking in here. (dont throw anything at me yet!) Well, its the All Star break and your team is running away with the division. I must give your team some props for an outstanding first half. I kept hoping for some sort of slowdown so my team can catch up, but it never happened. But I also must say, you Sox Fans here... you guys and gals are pretty cool.I had this thought about Sox Fans as just being a beligerant blowhards. Boy I was wrong. A lot of you are very passionate about your team, and a lot of you are very knowledgable about your team, baseball in general, and the whole world. And you cant knock a bunch of folks for that. Im not quite throwing in the towel, but 10 games is a lot of games to make up. But you never know And if your team does make it to the playoffs and my team doesnt, well youll have one person here cheering for ya James ok now you can throw things at me

This is why you ALWAYS bring your glove to the game

that doesnt seem fair. Maybe its something baseball can look at in the off season

Twins win

What were the other roster moves to fill their spots ?

QUOTE(Antonio Osuna @ Jul 7, 2005 -> 09:39 PM) He was once a bench player for the Sox. He then left us as a FA to play for the Royals, who gave him about $500,000 more. Ahhh. There is no excuse for losng to the Royals. They are a bunch of AA ballplayers..and Jose Lima