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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I love Sano but my epiphany on him came a few years ago, in a plate appearance against Chris Archer in fact. All of us had already seen the same streaky Sano by that time, either locked in or zoned out. Sano was in one of his slumps, and Archer worked him to 1-2, then 2-2. Then I thought “yup, here comes the high outside fastball waste pitch, followed by slider low and away on 3-2, for swing and a miss,” and... that’s what happened. I’ve only seen one game so far this season but I assume Sano still hasn’t changed much, otherwise this thread wouldn’t be here. I think Sano is fine, there’s nothing really “wrong” with him, but he just doesn’t see the pitch out of the pitcher’s hand as well as the average MLB-er. So it takes Sano that extra moment to recognize the spin, get his body in motion, and by that time, it’s too late. So, knowing all of this, he makes up his mind to swing a tiny bit earlier than he should (also accounting for all the check swings we have seen over the years). Anyway that’s just one idea.
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    Just to fill in more context: Duran threw 115 innings in 2019 as a minor league starter (about 5 innings per start), he threw an unknown number of simulated innings in 2020, and was down to only 16 innings at triple A in 2021. Have the Twins announced an innings limit for Duran for 2022? Seems like there will be one, granted, not all innings are alike. Is 50 to 70 a good guess? That’s a light but okay number of innings for a typical big league reliever over a full season. As a starter, 50-70 innings won’t get you to the All Star break unless the starts were very short. The big league bullpen seems like the right place for Duran. I don’t see the point of shipping Duran to AAA right away.
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    Welcome back!
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    Damn! I cannot say I am displeased with the starting 9. This signing certainly gives context to this goofy cryptic Tweet from yesterday:
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    Well you were right they did trade Donaldson! i really thought Kiner-Falefa was going to be the full time short stop for the next year or two until Royce Lewis was ready for his chance, or Martin. There was some logic to that move to acquire him. But now Kiner-Falefa gets traded right away again to the Yankees. So What do I know?
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    It’s just us. Although, Texas, Cinci and the Yankees have been involved in some recent moves as well.
  8. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I was looking forward to watching our rag tag bunch of misfits from last year oh well. Go Twins!
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Agree. Garver is the better guy to have than Sanchez.
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    Sunday Bloody Sunday
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    You are in mid-season form already. I love it!
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    I can’t explain it. “Larger bases for you players, so that fewer of you get injured.” It’s a weird bargaining chip and the evidence for it seems dubious.
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    Indeed, if the Twins front office carried a player on the big league roster for ten years but never put them in a game, you might find a way to praise them for smart roster management! The rest of your post is the usual pro-owner, anti-player stuff, and we’ve all went circles on this so many times, and few of us have any desire to engage anymore.
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    Actually, for the times we are living in, that doesn’t sound like a far-fetched scenario to me (except for the last part).
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I’m hearing that the players countered with bringing back the neighborhood play on double plays at second
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    Bang-bang play at first!
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    Bad weather coverings? No indeedy! It’s the owners proposed new larger bases!
  18. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I firmly believe the Twins would have won that game, if Hosken Powell could have come around to bat again in the ninth. ?
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    One of my favorite players as a kid - and I don’t know why. maybe I was at the game he homered off of Palmer? My father liked to take me to games when the Twins were facing great pitchers. I have distinct memories of seeing (or being at) Fidrych and Nolan Ryan game at the Met, and seeing a lot of Dave Goltz games. Hosken Powell also homered off of Fergie Jenkins his rookie season! (had to dig through the game logs for that one)
  20. Hosken Bombo Disco
    On Harbaugh, I went from zero to sixty, and now back to zero, in the span of about 72 hours. I sure did talk myself into circles on that one.
  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Yeah if the new GM wants Harbaugh, then let’s roll already. Not a Harbaugh fan but I can live with that.
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    I want to go into this Vikings reboot with an open mind. I don’t want to get invested in an early ‘take’ and then end up trying to defend the take after it turns out wrong. That said, the combo of Adofo-Mensah and Jim Harbaugh seems like it has zero chance of working out. (but Vikes could still get to the playoffs, sure, esp if Rogers leaves GB.)
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    I lean towards parting ways with Cousins. Because what we saw yesterday is what championship caliber quarterback play looks like, and while Cousins ain’t bad, he ain’t close to those other guys either, including Stafford apparently. Unrelated, I ran across this old clip of Cousins experiencing a brain cramp and taking a knee right before halftime instead of spiking. How many times did we see stuff like this at the end of halfs in 2022.
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    I don’t know Paul Allen personally so will not comment there. Nor do I really mind Bercich or Johnson that much—although they do have some bad habits to clean up. I’m just throwing out some ideas. But yeah the whole presentation suffers these days. I think it gets so difficult at that station to pretend to get excited every August and every week of the season after so many years of underachieving. The Wilfs are long overdue to change it up.
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