Monkeypaws

Saw this snippet on the web on how he has been torrid, not horrid of late: http://fantasynews.cbssports.com/fantasybaseball/update/25318534 Happy to hear he's playing again - hadn't heard.

Oh my Eddie - throws, triples; what a special player this kid will be.

Oh wait, this is Detroit? I thought we were playing the White Sox...

I am gonna miss Pelf - when he's good, he is so much fun to watch. If baseball were a 3-5 inning game, he'd be a superstar.

Great camera angle on that Hicks catch - it was like being at the game. Good catch too.

Loyalty to a guy who has been here? I would have loved to see Kepler....

LOL. I searched baseball ref for "Graham" to check out the particulars on JR, and of course, he was second on the list to "Moonlight Graham."

I hope Kyle responds to this game the same way he did to the Royals game. He was putrid tonight - it happens. The bp has been stellar, and the offense is making a late arrival. Positives.

Feel bad for Robinson or Pelfrey not to make it. Pelf can be great a single time through the order. Robinson has been a good 4th outfielder. Life is hard though. Cotts/Duensing will be the tough call - probably. Duensing's control has been so bad this season, I'd lean toward Cotts. They both are gone this off-season, no?

Nice write-up: appreciate it. While not signing Cody was a bummer, it will help add depth to next year's draft with a 2nd and the 74th.

Or Span.

Very sweet line for Santana, with a little help from Perkins: 7 IP, 5H, 1 BB, 7K. He's been money for what it is worth.

The guy just speaks well, with intelligence and correct grammar, not too many ums or ya knows. This guy has legs.

Jepsen please!

The future keeps getting brighter, and closer too. I feel like Wile E. Coyote at the entrance to a railroad tunnel.

I'm a member of the Felix Jorge fan club.

Dougie Baseball delivers 2 championships in 2 levels in 2 seasons. He might be kinda good....

Torii will think he has something to offer yet on the field, in large part to his recent resurgence. And I will offer a tip of the cap to a 40 year old who has held his own against players nearly young enough to be his children. I also would like him to stay with the Twins organization, now that we have him back. The solution to me would be to give him a sweetheart deal as a roving instructor, or some such thing. He probably gonna want that farewell tour though, and after a respectable season, who could blame him? Doing right by your stars is important for an organization: otherwise you see Harmon Killebrew in a Royals uniform. The Twins gave up on Hunter much too early, and I think he deserves to go out in style, somehow.

Is there still such a thing as a player-coach? I'd like to keep him around, but not as a full-time player. If he could be rostered as a coach, but still play on occasion, that would be ducky. He obviously will believe after this season that he has something to offer on the field, and who could blame him? He has been an upgrade.

This Mr. Duffey and his big yakker might be somethng special.

This kid looks like Morneau 2.0 to me.

To me, the "bad fans" are exactly the opposite, the die-hard folks that put 99% of their lives into the support of a team whose players would have as little to do with them as possible IRL. Think euro soccer hooligans as the most extreme example. I'm old enough to remember when a lot of major league athletes had off-season jobs. Harmon Killebrew sold bloody cars for example. There is a sense of entitlement that exists in top level sports professionals that wasn't there a generation or two ago. Hard to lose sleep over a devastating loss when my club of millionaires lost to another club of the same.

Being realistic makes you a bad fan, if you consider fan short for fanatic. I don't think you need to worry on this one....

You could argue that Arcia was rushed to MLB, and as a result he has major flaws in his game. Him being rushed is debatable, but given what the Twins have trotted into the outfield the last 4 seasons, understandable. Dude has a career ,297 BA in the minors, including this years putrid numbers at Rochester, and is ony 6 months older than AB Walker. He's probably their worst handled prospect since David Arias, and we know how that turned out.

Would have preferred Oswaldo to tell the truth. No beef with Molly though, even though Buxton did squeeze an infield hit off Rondon the night before, and was 2for three in the game. BB has a lot to learn.