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  1. LaBombo
    But Terry Mulholland's record of oldest Twins pitcher to hurl at a complete game still stands, right?
  2. LaBombo
    Does it smell like moderately priced Irish pub-themed dining? Maybe that's Bennigan's. Whoever it was, their fish and chips really messed with my Bartolo.
  3. LaBombo
    http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/red_forman_2043.jpg TR's Older Bro likes this
  4. LaBombo
    http://www.twincities.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20140929__9-29TerryRyan.jpg TR4ever disliked this.
  5. LaBombo
    As long as it ends with a Colon:
  6. LaBombo
    http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0zhooTqc71r99f4t.gif
  7. LaBombo
    I'm torn over whether to fall for this, or for Gamecast's claim that the White Sox have a pitcher named Bummer.
  8. LaBombo
    Lump sum or reverse mortgage?
  9. LaBombo
    Glad you cleared that confusion up at the end. Now we can focus on worrying about elbow and shoulder problems instead of a partially torn prostate.
  10. LaBombo
    Sorry I'm late. What did I miss, other than half the summer?
  11. LaBombo
    How did you pack that many excellent insights into five sentences at six in the morning? Was there a whole lot of coffee involved?
  12. LaBombo
    And that's when the lady socked that man right through the internet and set off the donnybrook, officer!
  13. LaBombo
    Stayed in SD for a few days for a close friend's wedding there almost 20 years ago. Went out on the town with him and a bunch of his SD friends for his bachelor party and they were all great guys. Probably just a coincidence that almost all of them had moved to CA for college or work from the Midwest.
  14. LaBombo
    Alternative article title: "Twins still a pretty bad team despite record". If three of your five best players by WAR don't have significant trade value despite being on team-friendly contracts, then the question of whether or not your team is an over-achieving mediocrity that needs to trade them for the best reasonable offer just... sort of works itself out, doesn't it?
  15. LaBombo
    I'm hoping the Twins see the rest of this year as a chance to improve their talent instead of literally cutting their losses by fielding the lineups that will provide the fewest losses this year instead of the most wins next year and beyond. If Castro figures in their future plans, then he could use the rest from Garver playing in half the games.. If not, then that's all the more reason to see what Garver can do in the majors.
  16. LaBombo
    Yup, now that the fig leaf of contention is gone, it's hard to see what's keeping the Twins from thanking Top Gimmy for the memories and giving Garver regular playing time, unless it's that they don't believe he'll ever warrant regular playing time.
  17. LaBombo
    I edited exclamation points into it to make it louder. A little trick I learned while traveling in non-English countries like Indonesia and East Los Angeles.
  18. LaBombo
    'The Dodgers are a playoff team!!!' 'The Twins are not a playoff team!!!'
  19. LaBombo
    Either Santana and the other marketable veterans aren't going anywhere in the offseason just like they aren't going anywhere now, or else they'll be shopped in what may be a potentially less lucrative winter meeting environment. The former now seems much more likely to me. And I'm not terribly optimistic about the Twins organization making any significant improvement through free agency this offseason after its current owner and his new front office shored up the "total system failure" of the worst team in the history of the franchise with a one-point-something WAR catcher whose first search hit on Yahoo is person locator BeenVerified's boast that "We Found Jason Castro". So that pretty much leaves the progression of the young players as the only meaningful avenue of improvement. Maybe that's enough. I don't know. But I doubt it.
  20. LaBombo
    If nothing else, games like this force me to admire the optimism of Twins fans who actually hope to see the Twins play a few extra games against good teams at the end of the season.
  21. LaBombo
    Hoping the Twins will reimburse Eddie for the cost of the (non-mini) storage unit. And that it's not part of a chronic hoarding problem.
  22. LaBombo
    Colon is getting fatigued? Who knew a morbidly obese middle aged man might begin to tire halfway through a professional athletic event? In other Los Angeles news, Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson is beginning to suspect that Sergeant Al Powell was right about the terrorists shooting at the lights... http://ejtangonan.weebly.com/uploads/1/8/5/1/18519042/970849313_orig.PNG
  23. LaBombo
    With any luck he left some graffiti in the Twins' clubhouse at Target Field to remind everyone in the future of those brief, glorious days when the Twins counted as one of their own the thief who stole the 2005 AL Cy Young award from Johan Santana. http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m20sjenlJQ1ql4teio1_500.jpg
  24. LaBombo
    Is it just me, or does Puig still run the bases like he's being radio-controlled by a pre-schooler with ADD?
  25. LaBombo
    I guess if you had your heart set on the Twins firmly committing to the "optics" of contention, then it's hard to see a better available move than picking up Garcia. But the trade comes with a much steeper commitment than a #20-ish prospect or a few million unspent dollars from the season's payroll budget. It comes with a commitment to the improved performance of the current youngsters on the MLB roster as almost the only meaningful source of improvement in the team for the foreseeable future. If you see them turning the Twins into contenders in 2018 and beyond with minimal outside help, then adding a fig leaf of contention like Garcia for 2017 and standing pat for the future makes a world of sense.
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