Balta1701

QUOTE (kapzk @ Jul 18, 2011 -> 10:15 PM) Really? I was hoping a bit less money maybe about 10-12, even Konerko isnt that highly paid. Maybe Buerhle would take somewhat of a discount with us. Danks I doubt would demand that much given how this season has been on him. Hopefully we can lock him up to long term somewhere between 9-11 million per No, John Danks will not sigh that contract. He might go for 5/$80 if you offered that now.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 18, 2011 -> 10:07 PM) Beltran is nothing special. I truly don't think Reyes is going to get traded either. The Mets might just be dumb enough to take the picks.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 18, 2011 -> 10:06 PM) But that all changes if they can acquire a Beltran or Jose Reyes caliber of player. That level of midseason move just doesn't sound like the Twins to me.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 18, 2011 -> 09:57 PM) How crazy is it he stole over 30 bases last year? It sincerely seems like he hasn't reached base 30 times this year. Ozzie sent him in a lot of unnecessary spots last year too.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 18, 2011 -> 09:50 PM) 55% success rate on steals and falling. Mostly, this is on Pierre, but we're also not getting anything out of Rios in that category this year, either. Ramirez is running less than ever, too. Rios is never on base to run.

So the Royals give the runs right back. Reminds of us.

"boy he pitched well tonight." Sigh.

That was just an awful throw by Escobar. Plenty Of time there.

Well crap. The guys who always kill us.

Nice play Becks

I see Buehrle somehow walked Francoeur

I noticed when I tuned in for the 2nd inning that Hawk was already praising Davies's stuff.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 18, 2011 -> 09:02 PM) Seems very very weird to be cheering FOR the Twins, one of the first few times I can remember that in a regular season game against a division opponent. Did Rios really line out hard or was it just the "soft" liner variety? Then again, it's off Davies so you would hope he would accidentally make hard contact against someone. Cheapest single of Beckham's life, should have been a DP ball!! 9 game hitting streak, 14 hits in those games. Rios's ball was off the end of the bat.

Just supply-side economics

QUOTE (FlySox87 @ Jul 18, 2011 -> 08:09 PM) Yuck. That place f***ing stunk. Binion's casino has helped clean up the worst spot.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 18, 2011 -> 06:37 PM) lol, yeah I know. The funny thing is I could see them giving the Red Sox a decent battle and possibly upsetting them. It's the whole winning the division thing that I don't see happening at all. The Red Sox have been pretty bad against us the last couple years.

We've successfully put a spacecraft into orbit around a main belt asteroid, 4 Vesta, for the first time.

Link Interesting that the LAT didn't spell out what he actually said.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 18, 2011 -> 05:54 PM) Yeah, I understand what Balta's saying about how we needed Morel just to provide some good defense while the 8 other hitters provide the offensive punch. However, there's really no excusing just how unproductive Morel has been at the plate. I thought it was interesting hearing the Tigers announcer on Saturday basically laughing at how bad his numbers are this season. He's actually hitting just over .270 since early May. I'm surprised that his power numbers haven't improved...but yet, isn't that exactly what you'd do if you got benched every time you got a hit?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 18, 2011 -> 05:22 PM) The bolded does not compute for me. Why would we need substantially below average production with the bat? We might have expected it...but you're saying we needed it? Let me rephrase..."That is all we needed. Anything beyond that would be a bonus." Coming into the season, I'd have said that if we had an .850+ OPS from Dunn, and .825+ OPS from Beckham, and hell, a .775 OPS from Rios, along with decent numbers from Quentin, I wouldn't care if Morel was hitting .220, he wouldn't be deciding games with that bat. If you'd told me that Dunn and Rios would have OPS's below .550 or wherever they are now, then yeah, I'd say Morel's O would be hurting us...but only because no one else is hitting the ball either.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 18, 2011 -> 05:13 PM) Like with Brian Anderson in '06, all we needed was league-average or even slightly below league-average production from Morel and, combined with his defense, you could play him everyday. Like with Anderson, Morel is so bad offensively that whatever he gives you with his glove is negated by the fact that he's as worthless on offense as I was when I was messing around with lighter fluid the other day, set a small grass fire, and tried to put it out by spitting on it. I was, of course, drunk. Really, that's not what we needed from Morel this year. We needed substantially below average production with the bat but a decent glove. For the most part, we've gotten that. The problem is that Dunn, Rios, and Beckham have failed to do their job.

Good. Explains why every time you tell me that the solution to our problems is more tax cuts I have to laugh.

Do we seem fast?

Brains of Hyena make one fast.

Zero nutritional content.