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I'd just like to point out that Joe Crede is just one more confirmation of the Twins' Hat Effect*.
*Any ballplayer or fan looks markedly improved when wearing a Twins baseball hat. Performance/behavior does not necessarily correspond, unfortunately (see White, Rondell).
I, for one, welcome our new former-Sox-now-Twins-capped overlord.
Crede is a giant
Trivia time: What is the longest losing streak for the Minnesota Twins, and for bonus points (to prove you aren't just throwing out a number) in what season did they do it?
13 in 1982.
You got the season right, but you're off on the length of the streak.
The year I knew. The length of the streak was somewhat of a guess.
Let's split the difference and go with 14 games in '82.
Ding, ding, ding! Yep, a full two weeks of crap from the Twins in their initial season in the dome. The second-longest streak was 13 games in .... 1961, the Twins' first full season at Met Stadium. Hopefully, the Twins can avoid a double-digit losing streak in their first season at Target Field (something they've managed to avoid doing under Gardy).
15 games in 1982?
Nope.
I'll go with 11, in 1982 (obviously).
Still wrong.
Look up the thread, sctf.
I always like it when the national media write a story on the Twins, but I thought this part was funny:
Yeah, they missed Torii's power so much while scoring 111 more runs in 2008.
the Twins also missed his clubhouse leadership...thats worth a lot more than a bunch of homeruns
I don't think they'll miss the trade-protected $74 million he's due in his age 33 - age 36 seasons.
Boof needs surgery
That really sucks for Boof, but that will help Humber and Mijares have a greater chance to make the club. I wonder if the Twins would feel more urgency now to get a deal done for Juan Cruz.
I made the mistake of reading the comments section. Or I started to. Then I went blind.
Wilson Ramos [Among other Twins getting some love from BA's top 100 prospects]
For some reason, whenever I see "Wilson Ramos" my brain always substitutes "Wilson Alvarez."
Mine substitutes "Pedro Ramos."
Does anyone else have a job where they are required to lie...or really bend the truth...on a regular basis? Even if it's the right thing to do? Man, it's exhausting.
I did that in the old job quite a bit, mostly to avoid major bureaucratic headaches. I figure if someone is too lazy to look into how things are officially supposed to be run, I'm not going to help them create more work for me or my staff. Things will still get done properly, but if someone who knows the equipment is actually calling the shots, they'll also be done with the minimum amount of hassle and drama.
Does anyone else have a job where they are required to lie...or really bend the truth...on a regular basis?
Dude, I'm a civil servant. Of course!
Hopefully the two of us don't cause a crisis of confidence in the government among the citizens of the Nation.
"Have I lied to you...I mean...in this room?"
Enter Lawyer jokes here:
I was in a leadership role at a retail outlet. Believe me, I was strong-armed to deceive people (the employees more often than the customers, actually) on a regular basis.
Ahh, retail. I don't think I could ever do retail again. Even working as a lowly cashier for Target I had bouts with my conscience on a daily basis. Here I am, being pressured to sell Target Visa cards to customers, and if I don't do well enough I get a lower raise. But I refused to push a credit card on a customer who obviously was in debt to their ears already and didn't need another one.
Different company, same story.
Without exaggeration, I think major steps should be taken against credit cards. Like, governmental impositions should be put on them. People are dying because of their debt.
I worked for a promotions company one summer. It started out pretty fun. I got to go to tons of Twins games for free to hand out Ameriquest mugs to cute girls, went to concerts for free and chatted up cute girls while wearing a Pontiac shirt, and went to parades to hand out pamphlets to cute girls.
Then I learned the depths to which my supervisor was willing to sink to meet quotas. I had no qualms with filling out stacks of bogus "requests of information" at Twins games, because it didn't really hurt anyone but the megalithic insurance company I was schilling for. But once I learned that many of the contests I was signing people up for had ended months prior, and the prizes I was telling people about didn't exist, and that my job actively involved breaking numerous trespassing laws...
One week I was sent with one other dude to a Wal-Mart to sign people up for their terrible credit card. They basically told me to do whatever it takes to get those applications filled, or it would be my last job. For the first couple days I actually tried, convincing teenagers to apply for that crippling credit trap just to get a free screwdriver. Convincing overwhelmed mothers of five to sign up to get a free umbrella. By the third day my conscience finally kicked in and I only signed up people who actively wanted to apply. It was maybe the worst week of my life, not only because of the moral nausea, but also because I had to spend like 50-some hours standing in front of a talbe at a Wal-Mart in Albert Lea.
Later that summer, the boss started withholding everybody's paychecks, and one day when we were supposed to be working some And-1 Jam Session or whatever all us employees walked out and met with a labor attorney. We had to threaten a lawsuit in order to get paid. After that fiasco the boss declared bankruptcy, fled the state, and nobody ever heard from her again. Worst job ever.
Thanks for sharing. I feel better now about my job
Yeah, I was in the middle of a shift and Ground Round when we got a call to lock the doors and close the store forever. No warning. Our last three paychecks bounced, but the high-ups paid themselves their bonuses before getting out.
A year (and a class-action suit) later, we were all surprised with checks for our lost pay and then some. And a few of the high-ups ended up in big trouble.
you had me at "standing in front of a table ... in Albert Lea."
My father will be on Bourbon Street tonight. I'm quite jealous.
Here they don't do Mardi Gras like N.O. Instead, it's Pancake Day. Why? I haven't had a definitive answer yet, but there are pancakes involved.
No pancakes for Lent! Eat them all today.
Also, remember that drinking beer doesn't break your fast on Ash Wednesday (or Good Friday).
gotta love the old "if it goes through a straw, it goes through the law" mentality!
Did anyone else see the Twins episode of "30 Teams in 30 Days" on the MLB Network? Apologies if anyone brought this up and I missed it on another thread. It was a lot of fun, but...I'll wire an imaginary twenty-dollar bill to anyone who can guess what the very first quote was after the opening credits and chyrons and such.
The Twins do the little things?
Your fake money is on the way, good sir.
Another lowlight:
"Jason ku-BELL."
One of the most productive DHs in the league, third-most productive Twin last year. They were doing an hour-long special on the team...shouldn't they have gotten that right? Granted, he got just one mention from just one guy...which is goofy in and of itself.
Well, the dude does kind of get overshadowed by his perennial MVP candidate teammate Jason Morneau.
I suppose, but on what other constantly-contending team would the third-most productive hitter's name get butchered like that?
Or, for that matter, the first/second-most? I've gotten used to nobody putting the accent in Morneau's name in the right syllable, but c'mon.
I think nibbish was referring to this golden moment:
HA! I read things so quickly that I didn't even recognize that nibbish had written "Jason." I knew I was missing something...little did I know it was right there in his sentence.
The Jason reference aside, it's Morneau as in porno... that should be told to every sports dude in the country. They'd never forget it.
Never made that connection, funny enough. Yep, that would do it.
They're repeating the episode on Saturday at 3PM.
Today's baseball birthdays:
Honus Wagner (1874)
Eddie Murray (1956)
Nick Esasky (1960)
Stubby Clapp (1973)
Randy Keisler (1976)
Nick Blackburn (1982)
TWO HOFers on one day! How come I don't know Stubby Clapp?
He's only appeared in 25 major league games (for St. Louis in 2001), but I gather he's something of a minor league legend, as well as something of a legend in Canada, for whom he will play in the World Baseball Classic (he was born in Toronto).
For more information, see here.
That's a question for the ages. From what I remember, he certainly got mileage out of that name.
Avoid the Clapp! signed Jimmy Dugan.
I saw Stubby Clapp play in Indianapolis while he was with the SkyChiefs a few years back. I pretty much spent the entire game doubled over with laughter.
Avoid the Clapp! signed Jimmy Dugan.
that is one of my favorite lines ever from a movie
That's good advice!
Ah, Honus. I'll celebrate by pulling out a few of his cards that I have laying around.
One of my favorite pictures.
http://dbtnomore.squarespace.com/storage/AAEF001Honus-Wagner-In-dugout-with-bats-Posters.jpg
Aw hell yeah. Ken Burns used that one a lot.
+1 Huge "You Wish".
Today's Fort Myers News-Press took a pre-season look at the Twins. It's a pretty vanilla report, and not really worth linking to, but I loved this quote:
"Michael Cuddyer, Delmon Young, Denard Span and Carlos Gomez each can play all three outfield positions if necessary, which at least gives Gardenhire some flexibility."
Technically, I guess, that's true--after all, Jason Kubel could play shortstop if necessary--but if it's necessary to put Cuddyer or Young in center, we're in trouble.
"Dr. James Andrews will perform the surgery. If he is unable to fulfill his duties, there's also a screaming vagrant down the street with a knife."
This was supposed to respond to JeffA just above. Damn it.