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Yay humidor!

Hve I ever mentioned how much I love Correa? Best SS ever!

But that won’t wake me up

If all I get from this is a bruised arm, I'm blaming you

Lol brat ?

Max and team … fun times …

Thanks for putting the Kars4Kids theme song in my head

Because no contending team is going to give us the assets we want or need to contend, if not this year, next year. They want those same pieces for themselves. If they even had the assets to trade to us, they would want to give us prospects that are years away, and this is not where we are now. That is a big signal to all our current players that we are only ever playing to build, not win. And it's a very bad signal to any potential free agents. This 'well, we won't win the WS anyway' rationale is very, very short-sighted, imo. We have Correa for the year, so go for it, and ride out the year with Correa. No one, and I mean no one, fills his shoes at SS. No one. And if Correa walks at the end of the season, so be it. Did we not learn any lessons from trading Santana? If you think we are going to get anything better this time around, I think it's wishful thinking.

Concur with most here. If we are in it, even if we think the likelihood of winning a WS is less than other teams, if we are in it, we keep Correa. It makes NO SENSE to trade him at that point, none. Lewis will not fill his shoes at ss no matter how good he's doing, he will not, not even close. And trading Correa while we are contending, we may as well just hang it up and not contend. As for what we could get for him, we will never get a return for what he's worth, never. No contending team will give us enough because they want to keep their pieces, too. And no building team is going to give us that many prospects for someone who is gone at the end of the season, because he will not stay on a building team and will opt out. And if we are completely out of it, and I mean zero chance to make the playoffs then maybe we can have a discussion, but that is looking less and less likely the case. We will have to see what the next month brings. Remember Santana and what we got for him? I consider these two comparable talents. Yeah ... no team will be able to afford the prospects or players in a return and we will be the worse for it. The lesson from the Santana trade is to keep your best talent and try to win, and if he walks at the end, so be it.

And re-watching Max's grand slam ... I want a DQ Blizzard ... darn it ...

I wonder how many of us never thought that would be something we'd be saying ... but you're right. But that's what this team has been doing ... picking it up for one another.

You may not like that arrangement, either. I’ve met Chief.

Damn it ... now I want a blizzard and no DQ nearby!

I said this not too long ago in another thread seeing specifically the turn around in Kepler … I think I said something along the lines of ‘I think they’ve finally found Rowson’s replacement’

I’m glad you’ve come around to this! Seeing is believing ?

And with Alcala returning, too (hopefully)

But well intentioned. But, back to Lewis. As I and others have said ,,, Lewis being sent down wasn’t my first choice, but I’m not upset by it, either. I don’t think it’s some great wrong and it is what it is. Imo, I think he will be back up. I would have thought sooner, May 31st as I said earlier, but now I’m not sure what to think. Did I think Miranda would soon follow Lewis to AAA? Yes. What do I think since he hasn’t been? Eh. Didn’t call that one right, but then it is what it is. Bottom line for me, the Twins are winning. As long as we are winning, I don’t really care where Lewis and Miranda play and who’s up and who’s down, but if the Twins start faltering, I hope there is tweaking to the roster.

No, Otto wasn’t trolling. Yes, you were.

Your goat bleats and giggles? Mine screams. Literally. Yes. Screams. (Google ‘screaming goats’ and watch a couple videos … mine does that.)

The thing about his first go around was he was called up way too soon, essentially AA to the majors, due to necessity because of injuries. He wasn’t ready and it showed. And the latter half of the season in AAA, he was really rolling then. My only hesitancy this year was starting him in the majors - thought he would sit too much and he needed to play - but he’s really shown he belongs

So? There were others to the IL. Not sure the point of this, except more trolling.

Welcome to TD! Jump in wherever you can, whenever you want! Look forward to seeing what you put up in this space.

And, that, is a talking point I can agree with. I questioned the decision, too … I think we all did. But I don’t think anyone was giving up. Thanks. ?

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