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  1. Doomtints
    Good game. Gimenez saved the day be telling Belisle to just throw strikes, damnit.
  2. Doomtints
    Yes. This is the year the Twins finally beat the umpires Yankees in NY.
  3. Doomtints
    The Twins know what they have to do.
  4. Doomtints
    Gardy made that mistake more than once. Players should be rested, but to me it seemed he was overdoing it.
  5. Doomtints
    Probably not. Colon will be on the playoff roster should the Twins survive the WC game, but he probably won't be in the rotation.
  6. Doomtints
    After the Twins clinch, there will be a couple of filler games. He should pitch.
  7. Doomtints
    Steppenwolf had those two really good songs but managed to produce nothing else listenable. Fast forward to The Damned, who seemed to make an entire career out of cloning "Born to Be Wild" in as many was possible. Missed opportunity by Steppenwolf there.
  8. Doomtints
    You say this a lot, but 3-man rotations are the norm in the playoffs. Teams want 3 starts from their ace, which only happens with a 3-man rotation for a 7-game series. It's been this way since at least the 60s, if not forever.
  9. Doomtints
    Please provide proof this is how he isn't doing it.
  10. Doomtints
    I don't think Molitor "pulls pitchers too early." Search the forums, you will find me saying that he pulls pitchers "too late" -- after the game is out of control. Think about what is truly being said a little more. I already said it explicitly in what you quoted, but I can say it again if it helps you "let it go": Molitor has no idea when to pull a pitcher. Too early, too late -- who cares? It's the same problem. He is terrible on both ends of this.
  11. Doomtints
    We are making the same point. He has no frigging idea what he is doing. He pulls people too early, he pulls people too late. He has no game awareness and no idea how to evaluate performance. He makes his decisions in a bubble.
  12. Doomtints
    The problem with those playoff percentages is they have never been quality checked, are based on dubious assumptions, and they change daily which makes them wrong 161 game days out of the year. We don't need percentages. The Angels/Rangers need 5-game swings to happen with 9/10 games left. This isn't likely. Is it 75% unlikely? Don't know, don't care. If someone tells you that they DO know, run away. Whether or not we have these percentages, we are still evaluating the outcome day-to-day. The percentages do nothing for us. They don't help us and they are without meaning.
  13. Doomtints
    The Cubs narrative of having crappy teams forever isn't really true. They have one of the best W-L records in baseball history. They just didn't win "the big one" for a long time. They're a lot like the Vikings.
  14. Doomtints
    Molitor is weird... Pulling the starting pitcher after 4 2/3 innings so he can't get the win when the tying run is not at the plate. He has done this more than once to young pitchers, pulling them when they have just 1 out to go to get the win. I really hope he's gone. I'm tired of the embarrassing way he manages pitching during games.
  15. Doomtints
    Given their remaining schedule, it is entirely possible the Angels win 6 or 7 games, yes. But still, this is on the Twins, and I think they know that. They should be able to make it even if just by 1 game.
  16. Doomtints
    So you will be happy when the magic number is 1 or, even better, 0. I think that's true for all of us. As far as algebra goes, the Angels need to win x+2 games, x being however many games the Twins win, just to tie. The Twins will probably win 5 more games (.500) meaning the Angels have to win 7. I wouldn't worry about the Angels doing that. The Twins would need an epic collapse to miss the playoffs this year.
  17. Doomtints
    I don't buy it that the AL playoff teams would fear the Twins. The Twins are hitting with a lot of power, but so is everyone else this year. As usual, the playoffs will come down to pitching. Sure, teams will concede that a couple of the Twins starters could beat them on a good day if the defense is playing well, but that's probably more realism than fear. It's doubtful that the Twins would catch anyone off-guard, anyone they face will play the games to win.
  18. Doomtints
    The Tigers have played the Twins hard all year. These will not be easy wins for the Twins, but they will be a hell of a lot easier than NY and Cleveland.
  19. Doomtints
    With Houston and Cleveland vying for the #1 seed and the best chance to feast on the Twins in the playoffs, it is good that they both have games left v. the Angels. I don't think the Twins will need 85 wins, but 85 will guarantee it. I think the Twins have 5, maybe 6 wins left in them in the regular season. This means the Angels need 7-8 wins to TIE the Twins. Not likely. The Twins would need to crash hard to lose this thing.
  20. Doomtints
    Considering there was a play (1955) and musicial (1958) regarding this franchise's inability to beat the Yankees, we are not talking about a new problem. Through 2007, the the franchise record against the Yankees was 760-1068, which is the worst W-L record against any team. And, of course, since then the record has only gotten worse.
  21. Doomtints
    If you're worried about the bullpen, do not look at how many pitchers they burned through yesterday in a losing effort.
  22. Doomtints
    I think it was just one person who was questioning his intelligence/toughness/whatever. We should have called this out at the time. Buxton looked completely lost in his at bats, like he wasn't even seeing the ball. In every other part of his game he looked more than competent. His intelligence/ability should have never been questioned.
  23. Doomtints
    Kepler's metrics as of today are nearly identical to his stats last year, but he played fewer games last year. So yeah, it's a step back, but not a big one. Kepler is playing well enough, but with so many people stepping up he is easily forgotten. For his first full season, he is doing fine.
  24. Doomtints
    It the Twins play ~.500 ball the rest of the way, they probably make the playoffs. None of the remaining games will be easy. I don't see Detroit playing prospects until the Twins are either eliminated or clinched. NY will want to pull away from the Twins, and Cleveland is playing with a chip on their shoulders. I was expecting the Toronto series to be split. I'm sure a lot of us were. Getting Sano back will help a lot.
  25. Doomtints
    Duffey's positive stats have always been misleading. Regression was only a matter of time. We will have many conversations over the next six months about how he should go back to starting, but in the end I think we will all find he just isn't very good.
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