less cowbell more neau

It would be cool if there was a team that could take advantage of the chaos in the AL Central this year, I mean, besides Cleveland. Oh, well.

That pretty much sums it up.

First time caller, long time listener. Are Falvey and Levine signing players to short-term contracts for the sole purpose of flipping them in July? I'll hang up and listen to the answer on the radio. Thanks.

I'm glad they extended him. I was worried they were going to flip him for some prospect mascot in July.

I thought that was their strategy.

"Brusdar Graterol" -- My iPhone's autocorrect will not like this one bit.

Welcome, Randball's!

Reds re-affiliated with the Chattanooga Lookouts

Then of course he'll be traded in July.

Once again, I am shocked by something the Twins FO did, but this time pleasantly so.

Manny being Manny in Minny!

One year contract, so they're planning on trading him in July.

Bunts, lots of bunts.

Giving you a like for posting "Rocco's Modern Baseball Team" before I did. Will the baseball games interfere with the inevitable D&D LARPing or will the Dungeon Master incorporate the game into the scenario somehow?

Keep, unless the Twins are morphing into a perpetual rebuilding motion machine, in which case it doesn't matter.

Well played, Mauer.

So the Twins are buyers now?

Do you want the team to get histoplasmosis? Because that's how you get histoplasmosis.

Twins' crummy slumbering lumber is humbling but we're unencumbered by Tribe's bumbling bullpen.

On a lot of teams, having patience at the plate is considered a virtue.

Baghdad Bob would've been impressed. Via the Strib: “I’m very confident that with the talent we have in that [clubhouse] and the leadership, that this is going to be galvanizing,” Levine said as the Twins dressed quietly nearby. “I think they’re officially [angry] [["pissed off" actually]] now.” Like several of his players, Levine adopted a that’s-just-baseball attitude about the walk-off defeat on Gary Sanchez’s three-run homer. That attitude is why the Twins won’t be devastated by their seven-game losing streak, he said. “We feel like we have a very talented team, but we fell into a bit of a rough patch. These are moments of adversity that either galvanize the group, or hamstring the group,” the general manager declared. “I’d expect they’re going to go home and be happy to play in front of a home crowd [that’s] not wearing ski caps. I believe things are going to turn around in short order.”

O.J. is helping Rodney find him as we speak.

I'm not worried. In a post-game interview, Thad Levine said that these losses have "galvanized" the Twins. By the time they are mathematically eliminated from the post-season, they will be a mighty force to be feared by all.

I don't know what everyone is complaining about, so far this series has had all the excitement of a Twins-yanquis ALDS match up. Will the Twins manage to win a game or merely get swept aside? When will the Twins give up that 2-run lead? I swear, I half expect Joe Nathan to step out onto the mound and give up a walk-off home run to A-rod.

Well, we gave it a good run. Not our year.