2011 Twins Game Logs

game 31: twins at red sox

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Well, hey! I'm able to post a game log from my phone. Good times.

Last night's game was a lot of fun. In fact, the last few games have been. I'm under no illusions that everything's gotten better, but as long as they can fake it until a couple folks get off the DL, we could turn this thing around.

Time to give one of baseball's more annoying fanbases just a little more to bitch about.

112 thoughts on “game 31: twins at red sox”

  3. Woah! I get the game on Fox. Then again, I might be better off listening to the radio.

  4. Hehehe. And a 1-2-3 inning with Morneau out at first base. And he is safe.

  5. Raging Tonsils playing his first ball off of the monster. He is already more adept our there than Manny ever was.

  6. Interesting fact about Rene Rivera from his time spent in Buffao: he looks like how you would imagine a turtle to look when attempting to play catcher.

    1. Regional match-ups consist of a lot of land when you take into account exactly how large Red Sox Nation really is.

      1. I should know by now...if the Sawks or Yankees have one of the games of the week, I'll get it here, whether it's an interesting matchup or not. This time, I benefit, despite the teams being a combined 26-36.

    1. I took it back! I realized you don't really need any 2b help. Or pitching hurt.

        1. My wife and I had exactly the same reaction as you did to the first replay. Alternatively, I'm OK with blaming Joe West for it.

    1. I'm guessing if the rain delay goes more than 20 minutes or so, that's probably who's up next.

  19. On the bright side, Slowey is back.

    and now Atteberry is talking about the Red Sawks having Wakefield potentially available. Please make that happen.

  22. I've been listening to Rays-Orioles during the delay. Jeremy Hellickson vs. Jeremy Guthrie. Jeremy Accardo may be soon relieving Guthrie, and Joe Angel said it would be the first time ever that the first three pitchers in a game were all named Jeremy.

    2. That is a conversation specifically engineered to amuse the WGOM.

  26. So, if Buchholz was throwing simulated innings, he must be near the end of his rope here.

  27. Yay, Fox is not going back to the game. "contractual obligations". Phsst.

    2. I can understand that, what with enough time spent on the other game for viewers to become invested. Hopefully they go back after this one's over, but...I don't know.

      1. Nope, they said not going back at all. I suppose not enough air time to finish the Twins game, so they'll just screw us out of it.

        1. Well, I'm annoyed, but that's what happens with rain delays on national television. Of course, the clear solution would be to then free up that game to be on MLB.tv, but they'd rather do nothing than something, so it won't happen.

          1. Yeah, I'm mildly annoyed, but it's mostly because I was glad to be able to watch a game for once, only to have it snatched away again. TV schedules are nearly immutable.

      1. Not that I'm doubting you, you're 100% correct. I'm just curious what that asshole did.

        1. Youkilis attempted to steal second and was thrown out. But, it was ball four. west signal led out, Youkilis walks off, Plouffe re-tags him, still safe. I think it was the right call.

          1. I had the feeling West was wrong on both out calls. Somehow the other umps managed to make the proper call without any help from Cowboy.

      2. On Lowrie's walk, when Youk went to second, West called him out. Then, when Youk popped off the bag on his slide, Plouffe tagged him again, and West called him out again. I have no idea what the call should've been, but West is definitely an idiot.

        1. Joe West makes me confident that I could be considered an excellent MLB umpire.

      1. Yeah, Buchholz has got some nasty stuff today, and the AAA nature of the lineup doesn't bode well for about half of the batters making solid contact.

    1. Or just the combined efforts of two generally crappy baseball players?

      1. Could be. I was pretty excited about having a catcher take a walk and get on base.

        1. In my mind I kept saying, "I know it'll be a double play, but a home run in this awful park would be awesome."

  35. Annndd now they are threatening to call the game due to rain. Of course it would be official, and end 2-0. This sucks.

    1. Its not like today's assbats were coming back from a 2-run deficit anyway.

  36. Whoa, according to Gameday, pitch #3 to Cuddyer was some incompetent umpiring.

    1. With this crew? C'mon, you don't really believe a computer is better than humans, do you?

      1. According to Jayson Stark's recent steaming pile, these guys got nuthin on Paul Emmel's crew.

        1. Thanks for giving me something to go check out besides the game and one of the least-atttended game logs ever.

            1. WHY AREN'T PEOPLE AS MAD ABOUT SOMETHING WITH A WORSE VIEWING ANGLE AS I AM!!?!???!!!?

              The shitty part is that it is a good play to use as a "we need replay" example, but it felt more like he just wanted to invalidate Liriano's no-hitter.

                1. That's what I thought was so weird about his railing against the accomplishment like he did.

  39. Eric Karros said one of the most idiotic things I have ever heard. He said that because Wakefield throws a knuckle ball, it throws the timing off the hitter for a day or two after that and thats why the Twins bats are silent

    1. that was about 5 minutes after there was a discussion about how the Twins miss Nick Punto

      1. Karros was 'splaining why 3-4-5 hitters shouldn't take walks a couple of weeks ago, 'cause they aren't paid to get on base, they're paid to drive in runs. I'm pretty sure Karros had multiple concussions during his playing days.

  40. I was really hoping the 4 run lead would mean we didn't have to suffer through the appearance of the Papelboner.

    1. Luckily, I closed Gameday long before my least favorite baseball player ever made his mugshot appearance.

    2. Gross. Verlander steals Liriano's ROY award, and five years later, he throws a no-hitter four days after Liriano? This is proof that God hates me.

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