117 thoughts on “2011 Game 61: Twins at Clevelands”

    1. Looks like however you're paying attention to the game is about 40 seconds faster than my setup

  5. Radio is pretty quick- that may be the only redeeming feature. Oh, I guess Atteberry (sp? I know Rhu-ru knows the proper spelling) is on today, so I got that going for me.

      1. Ahh, Google is your sekret. As much as I use it for all kinds of stuff, you'd think I'd use it a little more sometimes.

    1. I can get MLB.tv on my PS3 right now, but the Milkmaid is playing vids and I can't stop her because she doesn't get many mornings off. Meanwhile, I can't get it to run on my laptop today. Dumb.

          1. I was just thinking of how she wants to spend her morning off playing video games. (unless by vids you meant movies.) If my wife were a gamer, she wouldn't get annoyed when I spend Saturday and Sunday mornings vegging on the couch.

            1. Oh, I see. Yeah, the Milkmaid loves the occasional video game. Her thing is to go two months without touching a controller, and then obsessing over a game for a few weeks until she's done literally everything there is to do on it.

              Right now, the game is Epic Mickey on the Wii.

  8. OK, gonna listen to the game while I attempt to replace struts on my car. Keep it close, boys.

  10. The Twins are really smacking the ball today. They've almost all been outs so far though.

    1. There's your 2011 Minnesota Twins. I'm just glad Gardy could find it in his heart to let Valencia play today after not using him to pinch hit for freekin Tolbert last night.

    1. Just trying to make things happen, move some guys around a little bit, get some uniforms dirty.

    1. As I read that post he's plunking Cabrera, so there's that.

      Anyway, seems to me its Baker this year, if only the locals weren't so weird about him.

      1. And last year, it was clearly Liriano. Pavano is old and eats innings, though, so the grumpy old men in the booth will always favor him.

        2. I'm behind Baker as Ace. My darling Charley is a stopper: he's not on a scheduled rotation. When do you most need an out or seven? That's when you can send him in. Like the old Neshek Button, only getting out more lefties.

    2. I also liked the "Revere slipped because he's inexperienced" bit as opposed to, you know, because sometimes people slip.

      Oh, and now we're talking about winning games with your defense alone.

      1. Yeah. When I'm denied MLB.tv, I always have a dilemma - listen to Dazzle and get angry, or listen to someone else and miss the hilarity?

  18. Had to take another quick break from work to say that I would really like Gardy to kick _elm_n to the bench when Span comes back and play Revere every day.

  19. All kidding aside, what could the Twins expect back if they were to trade elm'n. Is there still anyone that doesn't doubt his talent? Are we looking for a Hoey like return? If we package him with Slowey can we expect one top 100 prospect back? I have just about had my fill of this dude.

      1. Oh, I see what you did there. Just let the question roll all the way to the wall, didn't you?

    2. He's making $5.38 million this year, so no, I don't think he has any positive trade value. The Twins might be able to get something in return if they pick up all of his salary. A Hoey-type seems too optimistic of a return.

    3. I think a Slowey-Young package could fetch something on the low end of decent

    4. If Delmon started hitting well today, did something noteworthy (like a 15-game hit streak) with some RBI, and stayed relatively hot through July 31st, I bet you could get something for him at the trade deadline, especially if a lot of teams think they are contenders and there are more buyers than sellers. But in the offseason, there are too many OF/DH guys to pick up on the cheap, so I don't think you'd get much of anything for him then.

    2. When I was a kid, we’d head up to Breezy Point every year for summer vacation. One day on that trip, we’d trek to Fleet Farm in Brainerd for supplies. This was the only store that my folks would always buy us whatever treats we wanted as we left (as opposed to never from every grocery store and big box retailer). Now, I do about 35% of my hardware shopping at the Brooklyn Park Fleet Farm. But my childhood memories are so ingrained, even though it’s a completely different store, and I’m not on vacation, I still buy myself some candy or nuts at the register. This doesn’t happen at Home Depot or Lowe’s or Menard’s or True-Valu.

      Thus is Gardy with bunting in Cleveland. Wedge and Cliff and Carsten are gone, but Jacobs field just feels like a good place to bunt.

      1. Not only that, but how the hell is the offense going to come back from a tie game?

  33. I am a little behind here but man, Matt Capps is a turd.

            1. But we simply must have something easy to tally for the huddled masses!

              1. I wonder how many of the huddled masses could accurately describe a Win or a Save. That would be a fun experiment.

                I wonder how many players could do it. Hell, Jack Morris thinks a quality start equates to a 5.90 ERA. There's no way that guy can explain the ins and outs of a Save or maybe even a Win.

                    1. I was trying to parrot the Black Jack to the HOF arguments. Even if he was a gamer and a "winner", his arrogance and lack of quality analysis (like your point about a likely inability to distinguish a save or win) makes him tedious (at best) to listen to.

  34. I haven't been listening to the game, so I make no judgments about the move, but it makes me sad that, in this situation, Phil Dumatrait is the best we can do for a reliever.

    3. Now that he has a major league save Bert will think of him as a viable option in the 9th inning.

    4. Don't know why James wasn't used. Is it because he pitched two innings yesterday?
      It's always that he just pitched two innings yesterday! The first two times he wasn't called up, that was why. And they almost didn't call him up when they finally did because he had just pitched two innings.

  39. Bit of an understatement from the AP guy:

    Minnesota starter Carl Pavano wound up with a no-decision, and probably deserved better.

    I'd just come right out and say that he deserved better. Indians down to their last out, pitching to a career .225 batter, Capps gives up a HR and voilà, Carl gets a no-decision instead of the win.

    1. AP writers always qualify every damned statement so they don't come off as editorializing. In this case, yeah, there's no debate about it so he should have just used the assertive voice.

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