Justin “Huge Platoon Split” Masterson
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Masterson in 2011:
| Season | Split | IP | ERA | TBF | H | 2B | 3B | R | ER | HR | BB | IBB | HBP | SO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | vs L | 70.0 | - – - | 297 | 78 | 16 | 2 | 34 | 32 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 41 |
| 2011 | vs R | 58.2 | - – - | 234 | 41 | 8 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 23 | 2 | 4 | 54 |
I would like to see the following line up tonight:
Span, Laddie, Joe, Justin, Jimmer, L’orange, Repko (9), Nishi, Revere (7).
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I have a feeling Masterson is going to make Cuddy look silly tonight. Time for Jimmer and Joe to do some work.
Let’s get one back tonight.
Mauer back at first base, rest of regulars in there. Twins have all five possible lefties in there.
If you’re going to throw Span and Morneau out there, why leave out Kubel?
I guess I forgot about the Dude. It has been a while. Whoops.
YDRODB
Good sequence after the walk.
Joe ate his Wheaties again this morning, it seems.
Victor Martinez with a high-larious
slidedance to safely reach home after briskly jogging from first on an error.Whoever had 7.24pm in the pool wins.
Mauer .295
Cuddyer .294
if Dick Bremer had his way, Joe Mauer would get a Gold Glove at first base this year
And Gordo.
He does look pretty damn good out there. Too good for my liking.
Could Morneau catch when he comes back?
Wasn’t he drafted as a catcher?
I think that’s a bit insulting to the hard-working, everyday first basement that are excellent glove men out there. But less of an insult than a Rafael Palmeiro gold glove.
“everyday first basement”??
Why would bloggers be insulted???
Just finished Basic Black, a Lewis Black documentary, so I’m in the proper mood for this one now, I believe.
Gordo: “He’s not hit a HR against Masterson.”
me: “He’s due.”
geez, Gordo just says that it’s NOT Orlando Cabrera at second, and then a minute later he calls him Orlando Cabrera. Loved ya, man, but enjoy your retirement.
…Aaaaand it looks like someone locked the door to the WGOM clubhouse…
You’re not alone, I promise.
I’m heading home. But I left the keys on the table.
That’s what happens when people leave their shoes on.
I’m here now. I had to let the A/C repairman in.
His [temporary] solution? Bypassing the thermostat, basically wiring the A/C on.
He’s been perplexed by the system since he started working on it.
Ever since the weekend of July 1, we’ve had it on about 50% of the time.
Repair #1 lasted 4 hours (til 7pm on Friday the 8th), and went out just before he took the weekend off and we decided to sweat it out and not call him til Monday.
Repair #2 lasted a week.
“Repair” #3 is today.
At least today we knew not to wait to call the guy.
100% Guaranteed means he’ll keep coming back til he figures it out.
i just got back the missus-sipp. what’ve missed the past couple days?
I just learned Gardy was born in West Germany. Surprisingly, I did not know that.
Ich bin ein Dortmunder.
Was he an Airforce brat?
I’m guessing. Just saw his b-ref profile
Army. Butzbach
$5 says Revere gets this one out of the infield.
hmmm. victory, I guess.
I won’t be around for long, Inlaws are visiting for the evening, but they took everyone but me out to DQ, while I wait here for the A/C guy.
It’s my FIL’s birthday, and he just got back from work. I have no idea what to say to him, but since we both love wine, I assume it’ll be easy in an hour or two here.
I love social lubricants.
How have I never heard that term? I love it.
Usage: Rob liberally applied social lubricants prior to his sales presentation.
I’ve always liked ‘adult beverages’.
Good thing Liriano gave up a hit there, I was afraid Gardy would leave him out there for a 150-pitch, 11BB no-hitter.
I watched Bull Durham today, and in Nuke’s first start he has 18 walks and 18 strikeouts. My immediate reaction was, “124 pitches at the very minimum? On his first start? I don’t think so.”
I’m a dork.
The 18 walks might kill my suspension of disbelief for that movie.
I’m annoyed at how annoyed it made me. Nobody would ever be allowed to pitch 10 walks in his first start, let alone 18.
I believe Alex Wimmers would like to have Nuke’s manager.
Unless you’re Steve Dalkowski.
He must’ve had two three ball walks to be at a minimum of 124.
126. I said that aloud at the time, but effed it here. My Kingdome for an…oh, right, I have one.
Heh. Was “Kingdome” intentional re: the 3-pitch walks? (I know it’s not the Kingdome anymore, but still….)
it seems like Matt LaPorta kills us, but I see he has a .233 average, but has 5 HRs
Delmon ‘Tiny Ballerina’ Young out there in left
Breaking Bad time.
Grand Canyon Sunset Amber Ale (holy caramel, Batman) and Shiner Ruby Redbird, a beer I still can’t decide if I like after three or four bottles. It’s unconventional with its grapefruit/ginger taste, I’ll give it that.
Not the most successful “new beer” day, but definitely an interesting one.
PBR and a Papa Murphy’s pizza. The heat has made me too lazy to cook.
I’d kill for a Papa Murphy’s pizza right now. I’m a huge fan, but we’ve been in penny-pinch mode for a while. Now that the Milkmaid has started her new job, it won’t be long.
That’s a tasty pizza.
Mrs. Runner made ground turkey burritos. Mmmmm
I had some new brews tonight. Started with a Twisted Thistle IPA and followed it with a Sierra Nevada Harvest at Lucky Baldwin’s in Pasadena.
ooooh. Twisted Thistle is a fav. really floral nose.
The SN Harvest is nice, but I’m not buying all the hype for wet hopping.
I’m not buying all the hype for wet hopping.
!!!!
*B -- O -- I -- N -- G*
ouch.
The number 9 hitter too.
Crap. Need those K’s here.
Ok, the popup will do.
man, there is no way I’ll win any trivia questions on Mrs. Runners’ dog of a laptop.
phew! one down…
Barfield would’ve had him
That could’ve been a lot worse.
True, but this team is kind of falling down in scoring runs this series.
yeah, hopefully we can come up with another middle reliever soon
C’mon, score some [redacted] runs! Please?
Getting carved up by Justin Masterson is really frustrating me. This entire series has been so frustrating.
Masterson’s pretty good, man.
Delmon proving the blind squirrel, acorn theory there.
Revere should really not be leading off right now. I wish I wasn’t so sure that Gardy will leave his sub-.300 OBP at the top of the lineup when Span and Kubel get back.
*sigh*
bo-ring.
Twins baseball.
I’m protesting the trivia answer. The Twins were SECOND in attendance in 1962 (to the Yankees) but they were first in 1963. I’m assuming Atteberry/Gordon misread it.
The Moops!
I quote that all the time. I’ve probably done it to the Milkmaid alone 50 times, and she can never remember where it comes from.
R A L L Y
Valencia on deck for the reaction shot tonight.
I hope he didn’t give the same one.
Oh for fuck’s sake.
holy frack, we sure are good at killing rallies the last few games
Alright, I’m leaving. I got here right after Cuddy’s AB. I’m obviously the bad mojo.
This is just not an acceptable situation for Dumatrait to pitch.
It just keeps getting better!
Got any idea for a banner. What were the dimensions again?
hungry joe says the sweet spot for height is 160 px, and the width isn’t really a huge deal.
Yeah. 1000px or less is probably a good rule.
160 px can be done but it might be a MS Paint creation because I can’t find my disk for Photoshop to install it on my laptop.
I did the avatar banner with Paint, and I think hj has done all 173 of his banners that way, too. Is there a problem with it?
Nope, I suppose there isn’t except that I not particularly gifted with it.
All I can say is that I hadn’t really made anything in a paint program in years, and the avatar banner still took me no time at all. It must be fairly idiot-proof.
Well I’ve taken multiple images, now I just need to figure out how to merge them into one file.
Go under the “paste” drop-down menu on the left and use “paste from” to choose images you’ve downloaded/uploaded.
Should be in your mailbox now, spooky. I have a couple of other ones in my head as well.
heh. brilliant!
This!
Paint.NET is a good fill in for MS Paint.
Scoreless inning by Capps!!!!!11111
Dogs and cats sleeping together…
Uh-oh, we’re out of catchers.
Bring in a reliever to face Revere? Why?
lefty Revere and (potentially) the next two batters
continuing to see respectable pitching wasted.
Cleveland agrees (tonight).
Twins are treading dangerously close to the borders of GOSO-land in this one.
Somebody needs to break a chair.
Or Gardy’s door.
Maybe Butters can try the naked batting practice thing?
Does it make me a bad person if I want the locals to continue struggling and are forced to become sellers at the deadline? This roster is not championship material. Blow it up, I say.
you already are a bad person, so don’t worry about it
You’re a dead man. Dead.
I’ll call you George. Bad to the bone. B-b-b-baaaaad.
This team, when healthy, can be pretty good. We just have nothing in the upper minors. If we sell, we could see another dark age for a while.
So, even when it might be time to sell, I’m not going to want to see it very much.
If only I could picture them recognizing that they are sellers.
This is going to be an awesome walk off win.
I wasn’t gonna say anything lest I jinx it, but excellent call.
That last half inning was a thing of beauty. Thanks hitman.
I’ll be here all week.
I’m seeing a Tomei mash for the win.
Huh. I’m seeing a Cuddyer DP
Nah. Strike out on slider a foot outside.
or mebbe a walk.
D
PPerez’ balls to Joe weren’t that far off.
Winning run at the plate…
Cuddly!
sweeet. Will they IBB Thome? Prolly.
i would.
The only situation where it’s the only thing to do unless the guy is really having a hard time throwing strikes.
Cuddles!
crap. A bad time for a double.
I’m getting thirsty
So, what’s Danny V’s BA with bases loaded again??
.500
career 500/474/938
and NOW what’s his BA??
Better.
.529
Winning run at second….
double play in order.
need a couple wild pitches here
L’orange!
either you are a really fast typist or you had that cued up already.
I’m not a very fast typist.
Prescient though.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
JUI
CY!
JUICY!!!!
Why the hell did he not dive?!?!?!?!?
I think he figured the tying run scores either way. I’m guessing he assumed Cuddyer would wait to see if he would catch it. Also, just the guy’s second game in the OF thanks to Liriano’s beanball.
Because he had to be standing to airmail that throw.
It’s not like he was worried about where Hughes was going to end up.
He had to keep it down to have any chance to get Cuddy.
JUICY
Heh. Looks like Perez is the one breaking that chair.
That was a pretty sweet call if I do say so myself.
That’s why you’re the Hitman.
I figure if I call it every game during the 9th inning it has to come true sooner or later.
Just don’t do it on the next road trip.
Heh.
Game over, season not over!
Dan is the Man!!!
Perkins for the win.
Needed that. Thanks Sweet Danny V.
Juicy’s college roommate did not look pleased.
You know, if the guy does dive and catch that ball, Cuddy gets doubled off. That would have been something
To end the game. That would have been the bonehead play of the year, which is saying a lot. Calculated risk, I guess, since the guy is normally an infielder.
Bad positioning too.
I don’t know why they were still playing no doubles there.
I didn’t think of that. Good call. If anything, you should be playing shallow.
Calculated risk, I guess, since the guy is normally an infielder.
that too
also, the ‘no doubles defense’ led to a Cuddy bloop double.
Cuddy didnt care if that ball was being caught. He was rounding third when the ball landed
That’s one of those plays where it’s a great read if it falls in and you’re an idiot if it doesn’t. I would have preferred the latter since if he gets doubled off the Twins lose. If he holds up, the game is tied either way, and if it falls in, you still have the bases loaded with one out in a tie game in the ninth inning.
Where’s the fun in that?
Edit: But I agree with your sentiments.
Is that two or three walkoffs for Danny? At least two.
Third this year along with one last year.
Four in his career.
Hmmm, 3 + 1 … Oh, yeah!!
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