Gardenhire looks ahead to 2012.

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I'm officially bored with trade speculation now

This video has me ready for some actual baseball. Is it spring training yet?

by ColossusOfRhode on Dec 8, 2011 4:00 AM EST reply actions

Same here.

I just want to hear we re-signed Cuddy (and Kubel too!), then I don’t care what table scraps are left for the Twins to sign.

"Don't take life for granted, because tomorrow isn't promised to any one of us." -Kirby Puckett
#OccupyTwinkieTown

by less cowbell, more 'neau on Dec 8, 2011 8:54 AM EST up reply actions

That's exactly where I am

Re-sign Cuddy and then I will look at the line-up in the spring and figure out which new guys I am supposed to be cheering for.

by ColossusOfRhode on Dec 8, 2011 2:57 PM EST up reply actions

More confirmation that the Twins make personnel decisions based on what they consider Baseball Morality

Capps is a good person and a gamer and played through injuries. That’s what motivates decisions like resigning him that would be hard to justify if you were just looking at players as black-and-white commodities.

by Luke in MN on Dec 8, 2011 7:55 AM EST reply actions

First rule of business

Make it easy for people to give you their money.

But the SECOND rule of business is: it’s not personal.

We need to get away from keeping around “good guys that battle” and start keeping around “good baseball players”. I understand there needs to be a balance between the two to keep a happy locker room (I mean, we don’t want to go out and sign a locker room cancer or anything) but the bigger percentage should be “good baseball player”

by TC Mooch on Dec 8, 2011 8:34 AM EST up reply actions

It might not be personal.

But these are people that the staff has to deal with on a daily basis. If I’m hiring a new engineer and he/she happens to be brilliant, great. If this person is a colossal butthole, I don’t care how brilliant they are.

I’d rather follow a team full of people I like that gets blasted in the first round of the playoffs than one full of jerks I can’t stand that wins the WS.

I guess what I’m saying is, to me there’s much, much more to baseball than a win-loss record and a business, so I have no problem with people being considered for quality of character and work ethic.

by fastfred on Dec 8, 2011 11:56 AM EST up reply actions

I'd rather watch a team win the WS. I was around for both of ours, and seriously

did not care what they were like off the field.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!!!

by bf4mvp on Dec 8, 2011 12:26 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

by less cowbell, more 'neau on Dec 8, 2011 7:31 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs

They have good ball players that aren't jerks. It can be done. We just seem

to want to sign the ones that aren’t all that good.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!!!

by bf4mvp on Dec 8, 2011 9:58 PM EST up reply actions

HA! Gardy agrees with me!

I said the other day Nishi and Casilla (OK, he added Carroll) makes a good infield. Of, course, I don’t know if I really want to be agreeing with a manger of a 99 loss ball club . . .

by Theo77 on Dec 8, 2011 9:19 AM EST reply actions