>it helps in multiple spheres of life, but seems especially
>applicable to being a mn sports fan.

Yep. It's kind of a real "oh, I guess that's happening" moment in time for a lot of people lately, it seems.

>i don't really have much else to say. signing a 34yo third
>baseman with marginal beard game seems like a twins-y thing to
>do ... especially given him being strongly relevant 4-6 years
>ago. very twins-y.

I am incredibly uncomfortable with his beard and dumb hair. He is incredibly good at baseball but emanates aggressive doofus-ness. I think the recent history you're suggesting there is a probably more reasonable answer than my hope that two injury-warped years followed by a huge bounceback 2019 are just bad luck followed by a return to normal. But 2019 was pretty in character in the sense that it looked like usual good Josh Donaldson season. High walk rate, average limited by a big flyball rate but a lot of those flies go over the wall, so voila - really good hitter. Though his strikeout rate is ticking up noticeably. That's probably something.

Two years seems hopeful, but not unreasonably. That's the mood I'm trying to strike.

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