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Satire, a definition for which is kindly provided at the top of the article if you come to it from the Front Page. Some (but sadly not all) responses here might best be viewed in the same light. It's fun to play along.

Unless he turns into a perennial all-star, I am fine with this for the time being, and good luck to him. We turned quality hitting (mainly) into quality pitching (though I don't like the injury risk). which is usually a winning trade. I'm not sure where on the field he would have played for the Twins, and slotting a young guy at DH very early has its problems. Not every trade should be judged by whether we fleeced the other team - we redistributed our talent pool with that trade. Time will tell.

You know what? Googling simply "marshmallow salesman" turned up all you need to know on the first hit, at least when I tried.

Maybe just a matter of money. He might feel he's worth more to some team than the $4M he got from the Twins last season, and no team has met his price yet. Bottom feeders wouldn't want to pay more than that, and top teams might set their sights higher than him, so it could be a limited market in-between, and he's waiting them out? Maybe he'd rather retire than come down enough in asking price to attract a team with zero postseason hopes? Professional pride can sometimes play a factor. Here's the latest I could find, from a month ago. Cardinals, White Sox, Red Sox? https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/players/dylan-bundy

Sure, change the argument when the argument you presented was a bad one.

The marshmallow industry isn't the cutthroat business it once was. These days, company reps are almost universally nice guys. Please discard your outdated stereotypes.

Mrs Ash and I can be as frugal as we please. (And we are.) But no one is paying to watch us live our lives. And we haven't entered into some kind of competition with other couples. Next straw man, please.

"Will" be versus "should" be? It's way too early to even try to guess one specific name. Shortly before the draft, the Twins will likely "war game" the draft in 5 simple steps: who would they take if they had the #1 pick, who would they take if they were #2 and their first guy were already taken, and so on. They only need to go 5 deep. If they are smarter than everyone else, then there will be 2-3 of these names available to them when the draft actually plays out - and if they are exactly as smart as everyone else then they will get who they wanted for #5 at #5. (If they are dumber than everyone else, it will look to them for a while like they are smarter than everyone else. ) In that same June-July timeframe, we amateurs/outsiders won't know what their thought process would be. So folks like us will need to go 10 deep or so. A lot more work, to sort things out, than if you have the luxury of doing just 5. And then add to it that it's only March now and there is going to be a lot of rising and sinking of prospects' evaluations. Now we need to consider two or three dozen? Sorry, but I'm lazy and will not invest the effort at this time. (Even if you change the question to "should" be.) Lots of intriguing names in the mix. Put me down for "not a corner bat." Skenes? Sounds fine. Might or might not sound fine in July.

Not a corner bat at #5, please!

I foresee Rocco in the Twins' front office someday, possibly even soon. He's just too much on the same page with FalVine for them to ever cut him loose, even if the on-field performance dictates a change in personnel in the dugout, which is almost every major league manager's eventual fate.

And these are the same people posting these wildly divergent opinions from one day to the next?

And he's still usually viewed as the primary chip toward acquiring front-line talent. It will take more than this one article before he's truly the sweetener that Duensing was.

Mrs Ash researched this before I got around to it, and she didn't find convenient nearby lodging for three (son Bashbury is also attending). So we are, once again, off in the hinterlands of Lehigh Acres in a STR house when we come down in a couple of weeks. Oh joy.

All this indignation over a man's indignation? That kind of thing kind of riles me up. Almost to the point of indignation. Almost. Almost? Nah, let's be honest. I'm indignant. I'm all in.

Long and extinguished, more like.

Jose Salas catches the final out. Good to see all the young'uns get some playing time. First cuts must be coming soon...

"Trailing 3-2, for what it's worth." These announcers are homers, and not of the four-base variety, with their sour grapes remarks.

... and now a "home run for Minnesota" with no clue as to who the batter is, if you go by the on-air "talent." They can identify positions on the field and which side the batter is on, but it takes them forever to look up our guys' names. / edit - which turns out to not be a homer after all.

The Rays' broadcast team have no information whatsoever about the Twins on the field. Plays described as going to the "left fielder" etc, with no elaboration. Not a very good offensive showing for the Twins today. Nice to hear Noah Miller gets a base hit in the late going.

I don't mind the star - it's a detail that could grow on me. It's just that it's not distinctive by itself, and the M isn't distinctive. The Marlins' M isn't/wasn't distinctive either, but the fish on it made the logo more unmistakable. An M with a stylized star? Meh, unless and until it becomes associated with a World Series champ.

I went to mlb.tv but there seems to be only a radio feed, and the Rays' broadcast team at that. Am I overlooking anything?

Fun video - thanks for bringing it to our attention.

MLB isn't college football, where the hometown heroes can go 2-10 but the season is a success if they beat Iowa and Wisconsin. Unless the rivalry during a particular season is organic, I'm not too interested in that aspect. Cleveland and Chicago certainly look like the main challengers in the Central, but I don't feel like worrying about them until it's too late.

For me it's the version with clashing colors for an outline, that makes me think "Marlins." (Sorry, I don't know how to make these images smaller, for side-by-side comparison.) Obviously when you see them together you can pick out differences - it's not orange and turquoise, it's an orangish-red and some darker shade of blue. And not all the Twins (or Marlins) versions have the outline. But just being shown a hat with an M, of roughly the same angle to the lines? I think Marlins. Or for that matter, Milwaukee, or Montana, or Missoula Montana, or ...