Minnesota Twins @ Seattle Mariners Jun 28-30...

[86Hawk]

Is Servais taking a nap? How do you not get that reviewed?

 

[Threedee]

Funny thing is though, if we get two out of three from the Twins at home, it's kind of what you would have taken going into this series knowing what we do about our order.

Party on Garth...

Well, I mean, the Marlins and Rays are much worse teams. We have to make up for shitty play by being less shitty now.

 

[Jase]

Hey, yall... Same old shit. The owners don't care. The players can feel it. The manager is hamstrung. Welcome to designed mediocrity. 53% is the only thing they're shooting for. It's been spoken. Why is ANYONE surprised?

 

[Crizilla]

I really didn't think much about that whole 53% thing at first but now I do. Lol. This is the only franchise in baseball I swear to God that would come out and say something like that. The Diamondbacks made the WS last year with 86 wins. The difference between them and the Mariners? They would never come out and say stuff like that, and they actually have coaching going on.

 

[Chapow]

Is Servais taking a nap? How do you not get that reviewed?

Every team in MLB has someone in a video room that pretty much immediately starts reviewing any close plays. That person tells the manager whether or not they should challenge a call on the field. So if a manager doesn't challenge a very close play, it's because they've been told not too by the person who's job it is to make that call.

 

[86Hawk]

Every team in MLB has someone in a video room that pretty much immediately starts reviewing any close plays. That person tells the manager whether or not they should challenge a call on the field. So if a manager doesn't challenge a very close play, it's because they've been told not too by the person who's job it is to make that call.

Exactly my point. This was from yesterdays game. Was clearly safe. Nothing happened. I was watching the Twins broadcast and they were in disbelief That we weren’t doing anything about it.

 

[Chapow]

Exactly my point. This was from yesterdays game. Was clearly safe. Nothing happened. I was watching the Twins broadcast and they were in disbelief That we weren’t doing anything about it.

Don't know what to tell you. If Servais (or any other manager) doesn't challenge a close play, it's because their replay person has told them not too. It's as simple as that.

 

[Threedee]

I really look forward to seeing our bullpen perform late in games.

 

[stack55]

There went our series winning streak at home.

 

[Crizilla]

The 2001 team deserves to keep the record anyway.

 

[hawkfan68]

I think we all now know why the Astros didn't want Stanek back.

 

[bobsuncle]

Astros are 3 games back. This lead was NEVER going to stay or get extended. This organization won't win anything with this current ownership. Period.

 

[beastalamode]

I'm already imagining the excuses they're gunna throw at us after the season is over. Zero accountability I'm sure

 

[Vesuve]

I'm already imagining the excuses they're gunna throw at us after the season is over. Zero accountability I'm sure

Servais: "We need to play better baseball."

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Absolute train wreck. All while sitting on their hands. Just wait til the deadline when they get a formerly good player and try to tell us how great of a move it is. Same shit every.......single.........season.

 

[Hawkinaz]

Servais: "We need to play better baseball."

Sounds like Pete Carroll

 

[Chapow]

Servais: "We need to play better baseball."

Me: "We need to get better players."

 

[Chapow]

Absolute train wreck. All while sitting on their hands. Just wait til the deadline when they get a formerly good player and try to tell us how great of a move it is. Same shit every.......single.........season.

Considering they'll probably be well behind the Astros for the division by that point, they'll probably trade Munoz for Luis Urias and AJ Pollock. That's how they roll.

 

[NoGain]

This past off-season and the results of it was the first time I really had to portion more of the blame on Dipoto. For the most part, I've been pleased with Dipoto's performance as GM given the constraints he's had to deal with. Our farm system went from the very bottom to near the top in a fairly short span of time. When he came in, he gave that last veteran team one last chance to make a run, and when they fell short, he blew it all up and started over, as he should have.

He also got us into the playoffs in a respectful amount of time, made a few timely and savvy trades, got Castillo and Julio signed, etc... My criticism has been more with the ownership than Dipoto. But it's clear he didn't do a good job playing his subtraction and addition game this off-seaspon. He swung and missed a bunch, and it shows.

If we collapse this year and don't make the playoffs and our record is a near the same, I just hope a lot more air comes out of the "pleasantville" atmosphere which seems to permeate the franchise from ownership, to media, down to the fans.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

You're making it sound like the fans are ok with mediocre. No, they are not at all. We're f'ing pissed. People are sick of this sh** every damn year.
I don't know where this pleasantville comes from. This fanbase is plenty pissed. Just because they sell out on the weekend, that doesn't mean the fans are not angry about them doing nothing, again. Watch the games on Sat and Sun again, a LOT of boo birds. And they deserved it.

A guy takes his kids to the game, that doesn't mean he's not pissed off and/or tired of the BS from this management and ownership.