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Maybe the reverse of the Borchard/Thornton trade for the Pirates?

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 30, 2012 -> 10:56 PM) If his old coach was using video and s***, my guess is that Coop will be a good change of pace. Coop is all about approach and a new mindset can often cure the ills of mechanics, particularly inconsistent mechanics. Joseph David Magrane (born July 2, 1964 in Des Moines, Iowa) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher and is currently a color commentary broadcaster for the MLB Network. He was teamed with play-by-play announcer Dewayne Staats from 1998 to 2008 as part of the Tampa Bay Rays television team He pitched one year with the White Sox, but most famous for his time with the Cardinals.

Drew would be a starter at 2B/SS, arguably. Too expensive.

Chris Carter has two more doubles tonight, off David Price. 8 HR, 17 RBI's in just 61 AB's. .279

Since when is Saladino in AAA? Guess he took Olmedo's place. Not sure if he or Mitchell are ready, but we'll find out soon enough. Got a hit in his first game, played SS.

http://www.baseball-umps.com/mlb-umpires/randy-marsh/ E-mail contact for Randy Marsh, head/supervisor of MLB umpires.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 30, 2012 -> 09:24 PM) It's unbelievable how the play was right in front of him and he chickened out from making the tough call against the home team. Adrian Johnson, right? That deserves an e-mail barrage to the Commissioner's office on the replay issue. Who's the supervisor of umpires these days? Not Steve Palermo anymore....trying to think. And 3 hit White Sox batters. We need to kick their butts tmrw.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Jul 30, 2012 -> 09:22 PM) He should have been out. How was AJ supposed to throw him out? Good Job Twins. You're 14 games under .500 and 11 games behind us. f*** off. Ahead of the Royals though, lol. Well, they were the team with the momentum...and we gave it right back to them in the first. Too many defensive miscues the last two nights, and Span made a great play on the Rios ball to turn the momentum back to the Twins. We got beat by the "PIRAnHAS" again, with the bottom 3 in the line-up doing the damage. WHAT NEW, STONE PONY??

The key is we have to beat the crap again out of Blackburn tomorrow. It's not going to be as easy as last Tuesday's game...

Defense has just killed the White Sox in the last two games.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 30, 2012 -> 10:14 PM) Who else is left in Twins bullpen? Duensing, Jeff Gray, Manship, Perdomo, Robertson

Right now, A's and Angels are you two wild card teams. Pirates and Nationals in, what a season so far with Harper arriving and then getting swallowed up by Trout hysteria.

Rios and Viciedo saved this game defensively. Rios with another cryogenic linea. AJ with a chance to be the hero but not a good match-up with lefty.

If the Dodgers don't get Dempster, the White Sox or Rangers will swoop in. The Rangers won't give up Olt or Profar though, that much is crystal clear.

Tank doesn't make that play and Morneau just had an RBI single for a 7-6 lead. Finally, the defense comes through in the last 2 games when it's most needed.

Matt Thornton basically can't get lefties out anymore. It's kind of sad actually. We've seen both Marte and Thornton go from the best LH set-up guys in baseball to ... well, whatever Thornton is now.

THIS IS SCARY. Thornton finally got the clue he might not want to throw a FB to Willingham. One more to go.

GREAT PITCH BY Matt. LOL. Jesus, thank god, Morneau and Mauer both hit balls that would have been out in the old park, Rios missed one too probably because of the outdoor stadium.

Quintana with a well-deserved off the hook there. YOUK continues to struggle offensively, but he's played a solid 3B and only missed the now infamous Escobar/Red Sox game.

Mauer, Willingham and Morneau. Earn your $5.5 million here Thornton. We need this game.

I take back my criticism of DeAza's bad throw to the plate earlier in the game. He's almost Pods-like (2nd time with us) in terms of his uncanny clutch hitting. 4 hits for Alejandro.

At least we should have YOUK, Konerko and HOPEFULLY Rios against the LHPer in Perkins. We've got a good chance, although we're typically not a comeback team in the 9th.

This is getting to be unreal with that A's team. Cespedes and Carter teaming up to score a run off David Price. Rios gets revenge against Span. Maybe that will turn the momentum around for us. Meanwhile, another cryogenic linea hit by one of these two teams tonight. MERCY. Sox nemesis Suzuki with a double for a 2-0 lead. Who the hell is going to emerge from that AL WEST?

Still don't think Konerko scores if Rios' ball isn't caught by Span. Maybe....the same maybe Doumit beating out the double ball Alexei threw into the dugout. Would have been 2nd and 3rd there.

This is just ridiculous. We're hanging out 2 line drives per inning right at people. Twins' defense just better than ours in this game...the difference, but it's not like our offensive approach has been bad at all.