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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/28/2023 6:36:55 PM

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Calling out your players to the press should definitely help.

“ ... The truth of the matter is we were flat, and we made no adjustments in the game almost whatsoever,” Baldelli said. “And if you’re going to call a spade a spade and say how it is, that’s not good baseball.

"To be falling flat as a group right now, we demand more of ourselves than what we’re doing right now.”

"We're not going to win unless we make adjustments at the plate and, ultimately, barrel a lot of balls and hit,” he said. “... I hope that helps our players, because saying something out loud, that's the truth, is normally the best way to acknowledge something, get over it and move on and do better.”

https://www.mlb.com/news/rocco-baldelli-critical-after-twins-swept-by-braves

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/28/2023 6:59:07 PM

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Rocco has fallen in love with "barrel on the ball" recently.
Rocco is a pinhead

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/28/2023 8:20:20 PM

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truth of the matter is we were flat, and we made no adjustments in the game almost whatsoever,” Baldelli said

That's on him and his amazing staff as much as it is on the players.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/28/2023 8:20:55 PM

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It only took 82 games for him to come out and see and say what has been in the press in a while.

BRILLIANT!

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/29/2023 6:34:48 AM

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0-23 with runners in scoring position

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/29/2023 8:52:16 AM

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Our stars yesterday were Castro and Maeda.....the stars need to perform or go on the IL.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/29/2023 10:25:41 AM

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With half a season to go, Rocco needs to admit that it is time to roll the dice and put Buxton in the OF and open the DH slot to get a good hitter in the lineup.

Michael Taylor in CF ever day is just killing us. His .258 OBP is building too many outs into the batting order. His .664 OPS is just pathetic for an every day outfielder. Taylor isn't even a good enough hitter to be considered a platoon player. He sucks against lefties and righties.

Max Kepler is Taylor with less speed and defense. He sucks against RHP and is downright abysmal against LHP. His OBP/OPS is also downright pathetic for an every day player.

Get those two out of the lineup. Get Buxton onto the field. Get a hitter up here worth DHing and get Correa's head out of his ass.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/29/2023 10:30:32 AM

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Couldn't even muster up a run today.

Wow are they good...

Seriously Morty Popkins should be let go post haste.

We are going to look foolish against the Orioles the next few games too.

The Orioles have been awful for decades.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/29/2023 10:32:27 AM 1 votes

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Calling out your players to the press should definitely help.

“ ... The truth of the matter is we were flat, and we made no adjustments in the game almost whatsoever,” Baldelli said. “And if you’re going to call a spade a spade and say how it is, that’s not good baseball.

"To be falling flat as a group right now, we demand more of ourselves than what we’re doing right now.”

"We're not going to win unless we make adjustments at the plate and, ultimately, barrel a lot of balls and hit,” he said. “... I hope that helps our players, because saying something out loud, that's the truth, is normally the best way to acknowledge something, get over it and move on and do better.”

https://www.mlb.com/news/rocco-baldelli-critical-after-twins-swept-by-braves

So if Rocco stays silent on it, you don't like that. If he says something about it, you don't like that. Maybe you're the ones that aren't doing anything right?

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/29/2023 11:21:08 AM

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Calling out your players to the press should definitely help.

“ ... The truth of the matter is we were flat, and we made no adjustments in the game almost whatsoever,” Baldelli said. “And if you’re going to call a spade a spade and say how it is, that’s not good baseball.

"To be falling flat as a group right now, we demand more of ourselves than what we’re doing right now.”

"We're not going to win unless we make adjustments at the plate and, ultimately, barrel a lot of balls and hit,” he said. “... I hope that helps our players, because saying something out loud, that's the truth, is normally the best way to acknowledge something, get over it and move on and do better.”

https://www.mlb.com/news/rocco-baldelli-critical-after-twins-swept-by-braves

So if Rocco stays silent on it, you don't like that. If he says something about it, you don't like that. Maybe you're the ones that aren't doing anything right?

To paraphrase...BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/29/2023 11:58:05 AM

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ORIGINAL: David Levine

Calling out your players to the press should definitely help.

“ ... The truth of the matter is we were flat, and we made no adjustments in the game almost whatsoever,” Baldelli said. “And if you’re going to call a spade a spade and say how it is, that’s not good baseball.

"To be falling flat as a group right now, we demand more of ourselves than what we’re doing right now.”

"We're not going to win unless we make adjustments at the plate and, ultimately, barrel a lot of balls and hit,” he said. “... I hope that helps our players, because saying something out loud, that's the truth, is normally the best way to acknowledge something, get over it and move on and do better.”

https://www.mlb.com/news/rocco-baldelli-critical-after-twins-swept-by-braves

So if Rocco stays silent on it, you don't like that. If he says something about it, you don't like that. Maybe you're the ones that aren't doing anything right?

Are you actually blaming the fans for the Twins pathetic display of baseball? Should we be clapping harder?

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/29/2023 5:01:12 PM

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/29/2023 5:09:36 PM

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/29/2023 5:11:16 PM

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/29/2023 5:12:10 PM

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Bummer. DL beat me to it and also did it better.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/29/2023 5:17:35 PM

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Thanks guys

time to replace the bag over the head

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/29/2023 5:44:18 PM

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Bummer. DL beat me to it and also did it better.

Story of your life.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/29/2023 7:11:53 PM

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Bummer. DL beat me to it and also did it better.

Story of your life.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/30/2023 6:26:52 AM

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I have free MLB TV and I won't watch them

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/30/2023 10:44:46 AM

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I believe young Royce Lewis has driven a truck through the massive flaw in the Merry Popkins hitting approach. These guys are going up there holding out for the perfect pitch. As a result they lay off hittable pitches in hopes of an even better pitch that never comes. They get behind in counts and chase pitcher's pitches with two strikes.

Twins hitters are also very willing to stand there, look at strike three and bitch about it when the tracker shows that it was absolutely a strike. This frosts my nuts more than sliding into first base. One of the first things we were taught in little league was not to be too picky with two strikes. If it's close to a strike you gotta swing.

The rookie with 133 plate appearances figured out this wasnt working and went back to...see ball-hit ball. He attacks the first hittable pitch he sees. Meanwhile Correa, Buxton and Kepler are following the Popkins plan and are well below their career production levels.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/30/2023 10:57:33 AM

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Bugs me

Where has this fake anger at tue hitting g approach and results been

82 games
It’s been trash from the start

And now you put players and coaches on notice?

SMH

This is either the most oblivious manager ever
Or delusional that bad was gonna miraculously get fixed.
Hopefully his job
And those around and above
Are on the line

Athletic says they’ll be buyers
Cuz of the Correa contract

Gotta bring up Wallner
He’s embarrassing them by his results and the awful Kepler and Gallo numbers

And play him

Stop this platoon stuff
Let players sink or swim

Worse than Gene Mauch
With the same mediocre results and record

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/30/2023 10:58:26 AM

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Bummer. DL beat me to it and also did it better.

Story of your life.

Sick brag

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/30/2023 11:41:11 AM

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Athletic says they’ll be buyers
Cuz of the Correa contract

Gotta bring up Wallner
He’s embarrassing them by his results and the awful Kepler and Gallo numbers

And play him

Stop this platoon stuff
Let players sink or swim

Being buyers is great. What do we have that anyone wants?

So agree on Wallner. He is wasted in St. Paul. Just release the less than worthless Kepler to make room. Move Buxton to OF and Taylor to the bench. While they're at it get Christian Vasquez and .594 OPS out of the lineup. Jeffers has an .804 OPS yet Vasquez continues to get the majority of starts.

Also agree on the pinch hitting. I'm tired of Kirilloff getting AB taken away from him. Get the sub .700 OPS out of the lineup and you don't need to PH.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/30/2023 12:07:56 PM

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We worked our way back into 1st place in the division, so there's some good news.

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RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread - 6/30/2023 7:44:59 PM

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Twins were 0-23 with RISP against the Braves.
Lewis ended that streak in his 1st at bat.

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