D. Hocking

I think people have been saying all year the Twins would be one of the elite MLB teams in 2017.

I was in meetings most of the day and am catching up now. One thing is missing from the thread. Is math no longer cool?

No big shock -- but McConnell is such a hyprocite talking about obstructing the judicial process. I still am not sure how he does not just burst into flames. I have heard the Nunes replacement is just as disinterested investigating Russia as he was.

This better not jinx our being undefeated for 2017.

If you would have shown your work you would have at least gotten partial credit.

This actually did give me some school flashbacks. If I have a finals dream tonight, I will know why.

If someone starts doing math problems in Spanish, I think it would take the game thread to a whole new level. It is kind of a bummer that Mike's birthday is 363 days away.

As expected.

I knew a few people who changed their majors in large part to linear algebra. It caused a lot of anguish and grief.

I have heard the only thing in that void is Hawk Harrelson's voice on an endless loop.

On the latest N. Korea launching. I am not sure we have the best team in place to deal with this. A bit scary. Department of State‏Verified account @StateDept 1h1 hour ago Secretary Tillerson: The United States has spoken enough about North Korea. We have no further comment. https://go.usa.gov/xXnXN

Sadly - I thought this was real. Even more sad, is that it is not inconceivable that he would tweet this. I did notice he retweeted Drudge. For someone who tweets about fake news so much, he does not seem to have a problem citing "news" that is biased towards him. I wonder if his hard core supporters ever sit and ponder that.

This is just so classless, even if he does feel the previous administration handled things badly, this was not the time or place to instantly politicize it. WASHINGTON, April 4 (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday blamed a deadly chemical weapons attack in Syria's Idlib province on the government of President Bashar al-Assad and said the incident was "reprehensible and cannot be ignored by the civilized world." "These heinous actions by the Bashar al-Assad regime are a consequence of the last administration's weakness and irresolution," White House spokesman Sean Spicer told a briefing. "President Obama said in 2012 that he would establish a 'red line' against the use of chemical weapons and then did nothing." Images of the attack in Syria

You did just turn a year older. Memory is one of the first things to go. It will be interesting to see how your mental facilities will have gone down by next opening day.

I have to admit - this might seem greedy - but I would love not to start 0-9 this year.

There has been talk for years the Twins need to do more for the Spanish speaking players. It is nice to see that the game thread is trying to do the same thing for Spanish reading posters.

Luckily for us Jeff Belzner knows star-quality and great acting ability when he sees it.

He is like Cher or Lassie or Urkel - he is famous enough to only go by one name.

Did you notice the post that said it was Mike's birthday?

So you are saying they probably made the right decision in ending the Sano as outfielder experiment? That seems like a bit unreal now - like something a bit crazy that could only happen in a fever dream but never really happened.

Can anyone confirm if Sano mouthed "I dedicate this moonshot to Mike's birthday" as he ran around the bases?

Mike - this was just lying around the internet.

Must be kind of a bummer to have it so close to a national holiday (Bert's Birthday). It probably gets lost in the festivities of that great American tradition that will be celebrated in a few days. (Ah - I see someone already mentioned Bert's Day - hard to escape such a big event).

I am pretty sure Ms. Piggy would consider herself at least a queen or possibly empress. Damn - too busy at work today -- and this thread is moving. I am afraid I am going to miss some really well thought-out and rational posts by not being able to read everything.

Jared is now in Iraq assessing the mid-east situation. I am sure he is the most qualified person to do this -- although I would feel better if Ivanka was there as well. Hypothetical question, if Chelsea and her husband were filling similar roles if Hilary had been elected, do you think every head on Fox News would be exploding?