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They are Episcopalian? He does not like any criticism, but he does always seem to really respond extra quickly if it is a person of color or if it is a woman.

This is preaching to the choir -- but look at his twitter feed (or really don't). With all the disasters going on His tweets praising himself or denigrating someone else far out number his tweets regarding the disasters. Even when he does tweet about them, half of them are patting himself or his agencies on the back, and the others you feel are because someone told him - you should tweet this about Puerto Rico. I guess his aids told him not to get personal with Kim Jon Un right before the attack, but his ego and impulses are more important to him than a potential global crisis. As I was watching Tilerson being interviewed, I could not help but think - it is great at this time we have a Secretary of State whose main resume point is that he was CEO of Exxon and was maybe chosen because of his relationship with Putin and/or his willingness to dismantle the State Department (which is now short of staff that it could probably use now). Glad Trump has his priorities and speaks out against NFL players with more ease than he does white supremacy groups. (and can you imagine the swawking if Obama's secretaries were all using private jets to fly about one hour).

I am pretty sure I did not at the end of April. Good thing he was not pulled earlier for the slow base-running.

I think he will possibly get a little jump, because people will think he looked Presidential during the hurricanes and FEMA seemed to be more efficient. Although I read somewhere, Obama (and W after Katrina) were the ones who made changes to how we react to natural disasters. Plus, who knows how things will go long-term when the media buzz has died down. It does bug me when he takes credit for something that was actually done by a previous administration. At times mocking the predecessor (usually Obama) saying look what I got done that you did not, even though the predecessor was actually the one who did the work and set everything in place. He also seems to go off the rails anytime he gets any positive feedback. The media will comment -- he sounded more Presidential (they get fooled by Teleprompter Donald almost every time) and two days later he will have tweet storm or be Rally Donald.

Sounds like that new Graham Cassidy health care bill that they are trying to sneak by with 90 seconds of debate and before the CBO can do a complete analysis might actually be worse than the previous ones, and has a chance of passing. It is sad that the thing they have spent almost all their energy on the last 8 years or so is removing health care and not bothering to come up with an alternative. They really don't care about people, they just want their victory against the former president at any cost. http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/18/news/economy/obamacare-repeal-graham-cassidy/index.html

I don't know - I heard a lot of the posters on these threads are actually bots and not real people. Have you read some of the posts?

I am still hoping he gets a hit or two in the second game of the ALDS regardless.

I think he will get hit 2000 in the ALDS -- possibly game 2.

So do you think if Obama had retweeted a mock video of him hitting a recent political opponent with a golf ball and knocking that person over, that the GOP would just chuckle about it and not be foaming at the mouth? Do you think Melania is explaining to Barron that showing a video of a woman being hit and knocked over - even if it is by his father - is nothing to emulate? She is against cyber-bullying after all. Also - retweeting tweets that basically show off how rich you are and pat you on the back for your charity donations -- does not exactly shout out class or dignity or presidential.

Did you not read the rules above? P.J. Walters -- our pitching staff from 2011 to 2016 could have maybe used some tweaking..

It is great to see so many people contributing. If Sano had gone down in June, I think his absence would have been more heavily felt. (Last year is starting to feel like it was a dream).

Stating the obvious - but we are approaching mid-September and the Twins are still relevant. That is just nice to say.

I suppose she liked dating an older man. [it is nice to see how many different people on this team have come through at different times. It is not just one or two people carrying the team.]

This probably does not belong on this thread since it is nothing of substance, but this amused me: Phil Miller‏ @MillerStrib 25m25 minutes ago Joe Mauer sounded enthused over Drew Butera StarWars bobblehead day Sunday. "I can put it with my Trevor Plouffe & Brian Dozier" SW b-heads.

Does the dummy participate in TwinsDaily?

I would say last year was probably the beginning of the improvement. I think the last six months obscured that when he tanked. I never understood why they did not DL him instead of having him try to play through an injury, esp. since the season was already lost. I was glad when they DLed him earlier this year and just gave him time to heal. True and kind of funny, since in every other aspect from what I have heard he is not exactly a controversial or polarizing guy as a person.

Evil and a coward because he is going to do his best to push the blame on this to Congress. He holds himself accountable for nothing. Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 25m25 minutes ago Congress, get ready to do your job - DACA!

I remember when I used to catch him on the radio, his you could really tell who he disliked by the tone of his voice. Often he would have a legitimate criticism, but for certain people there seemed to be an extra personal animus that did not exactly seem professional. I think Mauer and Perkins might fall in there, but the prime example was Kevin Slowey. I remember some really mean girl comments back in the day (some of them might have been early tweets). I know Slowey was not exactly low maintenance, but Souhan seemed to really go after him at a personal level. This next statement is pure speculation on my part and has no substantive weight. I have always wondered how accurate Souhan's assessments were when he talks about thinks like his sources say Slowey is a blight on humanity (he did not actually say that - but I think it was close). He would make it sound like that was the common consensus, but it is a big organization that is bound to have a number of opinions. I wondered if he sometimes chooses to talk to the people who he knows will give him the opinion that he wants, or most of the people, esp. players, don't really want to share too much with him, so he might not always get a well rounded view of what people think.

Because of what he is paid he should be able to play and fight through a brain injury.

The last name Butera.

Well if anyone would know this ....

You forgot to carry the one.

I am guessing Mauer probably had a few undiagnosed concussions as a catcher, but I agree they are unpredictable, and one can do it.

With Mauer having his best post-concussion season (it does make you wonder how much the concussion cost him), you have to wonder if he could maybe go help the Vikings offense. I bet he can still throw a mean pass that goes beyond 5 yards.

Morneau has not officially retired yet has he? I suspect that is not too far off in the future - and it would not surprise me if the same was true for Perkins. It must be a little strange for Mauer to see most of the people he started out with are no longer active players. He himself having maybe 1 to 3 years left. Time does fly -- 2006 does not seem like it should be 11 years ago.