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Why DFA? It's fun to ask why DFA-A...

You have to compromise to get stuff done in Washington. The GOP doesn't want to, and hasn't wanted to since Newt Gingrich showed them how lucrative being an ******* can be. This isn't on the Democrats, the Republicans want to give the Democrats nothing and are willing to break the government to make that happen. This is nothing new, we've been seeing this for a LONG time. The old cliche is that money can't buy happiness, look at how true it is. The 1% who are funding the GOP coffers are hateful, spiteful, rude, and clearly incredibly unhappy. They want to burn everything down and murder the goose that laid the golden egg.

I'm not sure about Kepler, but yeah 2018 is the year for him to start rocking if he can.

As many Twins fans will tell you....

Let's just give Rosario the opportunity to hit more dingers in more playoff games, no? His defensive drop off is a concern, but I'm sure the Twins see it and will work on it. Maybe Rosario is being a bit lazy with Buxton over there and just needs a wake up call/some inspiration to play better.

This is shaping up to be a decent offseason as far as rebuilding the bullpen is concerned. Add in a 3+ starter or two and the Twins will have to be taken seriously by everyone in the division.

It would have been fun to see some "great finishes" from past MN teams when they were in MN. The Lakers had 5 championships in MN. The North Stars never won a championship but they had a very interesting (and brutal) history. And of course the Kicks were dominant for that one year or two before the league split up the season in a weird way and caused the league's demise (rule #1, don't confuse your fans).......

The Vikings are still lacking a "great finish." Let's see how they play against Philly. I think they can handle whoever the AFC team ends up being, esp. at home.

Someone pulled out the statistics for 2015 it was something like.... 450 Americans immigrated to Norway. 50 Norwegians immigrated to the US. You would expect more than 50 just with career moves and marriages.

Boshers is one of the better LOOGYs in the game. He will get picked up, but he'll never be an all-star.

Boshers is a LOOGY under a manager who doesn't understand how to use a LOOGY. Of his 38 appearances, only 5 were to one batter and 7 to two. He pitched to more than 3 batters sixteen times! Boshers would be OK on a different team, but even then he would be the first guy cut to make room for someone else.

Kirby Puckett ... Hm ... haven't heard of him. I'll have to check him out.

Screw the rules! Oh wait they are all following strict fashion rules for entry into the social group. nm

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The Saints have a new "Most Disappointing Loss." The Vikes gotta play a full game though.... they also only played for one half v. Chicago. This won't work in Philly. This seems to be more of a problem with the offense, mind you, and likely it's the play calling. Plus, the offensive line needs to be better.... The Philly D is even tougher than the Saints D, and likely the Philly game will be a cold, low-scoring game where Keenum won't be able to toss interceptions and get away with it.

This signing immediately improves the Twins drastically. Good job.

Rodney is not too happy about this. Levine said he thinks he was "ahead of the market" on Rodney, which is an epic way of saying "oops." But at least he fixed the problem (albeit by spending more money).

Absolutely. If the Twins think Buxton will be a star and they think they can field a team that can compete in the playoffs outside of Buxton, seal the deal.

Polanco's season was far from tragic, but he did have a slow start. Like the rest of the team he had an awesome August. The Twins need to bottle up whatever happened in August and use it liberally next year. I know Polanco can do it. He's still young and still learning. I'm very excited about his future, but let's hope he doesn't spend too long in the batting doldrums like he did last year....

Based on his oWAR of 2.7, the only two players who had a better year offensively for the Twins are Dozier and Sano. Plus, Buxton is still getting better. If you are going to use OPS as your measurement (which is fair enough), Buxton had a .583 OPS in the first half and a .893 OPS in the second half. I understand that we want to see consistency, but all signs indicate that he is continuing to improve offensively. His work ethic is just too insane for a big fall off to happen. The concern is injuries. If he puts up another 135+ games next year, good enough ... think about extending him. Good things will happen with Buxton in a Twins uniform.

I love the idea of getting the cornerstone players on long contracts, but I feel like doing this without addressing the pitching is a waste of time. Buxton will get a long term deal at some point.

Good deal.

The 3 tattoo is apparently on Johnny Depp. I don't have any tattoos, but I would only get jokey ones. For example, I could get a tattoo of a thermos. Then if it's too hot or too cold, I can make a big production out of adjusting the Thermos Tat. Or, I could get a tat 2. Or, I could do what I did in the original post, and say I would never get a tattoo only to then reveal a tat 3. The clincher then would be to say, "Ah, I was just kidding. I would get a tattoo," followed by revealing a tat 2 in another location. I used to be a HUGE Words with Friends player, and I was obsessed with how often the word "Qi" was played in nearly every game. It was at this time when I met a girl who had a tattoo on her wrist of two scrabble letters -- QI. There was nothing for it but to marry this girl, obviously. Strange how stuff like that works out.

As a whole, I think the Twins have been pretty good base runners for a while. They may or may not be the best at it, but they can apply enough pressure on the opposing team to where they have to take Twins baserunners seriously.