242 thoughts on “2011 Game 66: Hosers at Magical Target Field”

    2. Two weeks ago, I would not have cared that they were off for two and a half days. This week, it's brutal.

  2. Got up at 3AM. Drove to ND. worked all day. I'm drinking Crown Royal and Dad's about to make popcorn.

  3. Hooray, no tv for me again. When did WGN switch to being the f'in Sux station instead of the Cubs?

  4. Hooray, we have baseball! I don't know if I could have survived a 3rd day in a row with no Twins.

    1. Pfft, Revere only aspires to be Pierre. Also, I'm pretty sure Pierre aspires to be Pierre at this point.

  11. No runs, but at least we made him throw a lot of pitches! Six pitch PA by Delmon? Inconceivable!

    1. And it wasn't even a strike out! This guy is definitely one of the best left fielders in baseball. Any team would be lucky to have him. You'd have to give me a king's ransom to trade him if I were Bill Smith.

    2. I wanted to laugh at that, but then it just reminded me how much I hate Delmon and his "approach" at the plate.

  12. With Konerko on first and AJ at the plate, I bet the Twins could have set a record for the slowest turned 4-6-3 DP if they had tried.

      1. He wasn't sure Nishi could handle turning two on his first day back. Oh, wait...

    1. That is--without a doubt--the boldest prediction anybody has ever made about anything. Ever.

      1. Believe that. I was already trying to figure out some non-dirty yet risque picture to go with it.

  17. Man, Vancouver looks like they are very, very interested in winning the cup tonight.

        1. Hmm. If Vancouver loses, maybe there will be riots which destroy buildings and lower property values and I can afford to move there sometime in the next few years. Go Bruins? That being said, if the Canucks win, my brother is totally getting a Stanley Cup Champions t-shirt. It's a tough choice.

        1. I really want Vancouver to win despite getting crushed. That, and I assume Boston fans would be extremely insufferable douches if the Bruins won.

  18. Is having AJ, Konerko, and Dunn all in the lineup just a ploy to make Pierre look faster?

  24. hmm. i just noticed that the twins must hog the straight over the pitcher cam. sox feed is slightly to the right.

  34. Can you imagine how much people would hate the White Sox if they played in New York or Boston? I mean, as hard as it is to admit, there are players on the Yankees and Red Sox that might be likable had they not signed/been drafted/traded for by those teams.

    But the White Sox, ugh. Those guys are all dinkledonging insufferable. .

    1. I don't understand why Chicago doesn't get more hate. People from Chicago are as big of assholes as any east coast city.

      1. People talk about the Cubs' curse. People talked about the Red Sox' curse.

        Before 2005 no one talked about a White Sox' curse.

      2. It's weird. In New York, I felt a real sense of people seeming assholish solely because they've got somewhere to go and they have no time for anything else. In Chicago, I really got a strong sense of anger.

          1. I did do that out there. We got some faux-anger from good-natured guys in Hosers hats (yeah, I was surprised at the politeness too). My friend Greg was wearing a Cubs hat when we visited the south side, though, and there was real anger there. I didn't get that.

            1. the week i moved to chicago, i was listening to NPR, and on the local newscasts i heard something to the effect of:

              "a local chicago man was rushed to the hospital last night for emergency facial reconstructive surgery. apparently the young man, a cubs fan, got into an altercation with a white sox fan at a local bar and was struck in the face with a beer mug."

              1. That is pretty much how I would expect a fight between the two fan bases to go.

                2. My favorite story about Southsiders: the contention that the Ligue'swere at the Cubs game that day and had moved on down South for the night game. Except that the Cubs were on the road.

  37. Dunn's blazing speed saves the day! I had prepared myself for a 3-2 game after Pavano fell behind.

    1. I am still stuck on these. I love them because I can buy them in 12 packs. Other good beer should take notice.

    2. I received a six pack of this today because my wife was at a play group with another nanny who's boyfriend is just recently a recovering alcoholic, so she was getting rid of all of the booze in the house.

      1. I'm not sure the first review is credible:

        Tastes are grassy field hops, peppermint, catmint flower pedals, pills, fructose, fruit, interesting yeast, mannitol, gardens, going bad grapefruits, sink water, hidden booze, fsandwiches and or-school pepperjack (back in the day), boiled sauce and cheese.

  39. One of these years I am going to go to Twins Fantasy Camp. It might be 20 years but I am going to do it.

      1. Nah, it will be Punto talking crap on the radio broadcast after I go in spikes high.

        1. actually, that's something interesting to think about: which players are going to be one of the voices of the twins in, say, 10-15 years?

            1. No shit, I heard someone on the radio in Fargo say that II should replace Gordon next year.

              2. Yikes, and here I thought that was the least likely thing anyone could think of.

          2. Free can reignite his Nick Punto twitter account if he comes back!

          3. Nishi (after the team becomes the Tokyo Twins in 2022 as part of the global realignment).

  40. stone's scouting report on casilla was way off, but he seems to have the right one for _elm_n.

    1. Tolbert took the throw and walked it over to first himself for the double play?

      1. I got a 6-unassisted putout at first during one of our softball games on Sunday. That was kind of fun.

        1. I'm picturing a hitter who was either drunk or morbidly obese. (both plenty common in rec league softball.)

          1. It was an obese woman who hit left-handed. There was also a runner on third. I put the shift on and move to the 2nd base side of the bag. The ball was hit slightly to my left, so I picked it up and ran over to first while looking the runner back to third the entire time.

  48. You would think a guy like Dan Gladden would really hate the nickname Dazzle, right?

  49. Carl Pavano has currently allowed four additional hits to what he would have allowed were this game last night.

  52. 3 runs are good, but 30 runs are more than 10 times better. Let's make this happen.

  53. can we teach revere to play a marginal SS? that's enough to send tolbert down, right?

    1. He'd probably have pretty good range, but I'm not sure he can get the ball all the way from short to first on the fly.

        1. Hey! I am wearing my original (no back print) WGOM shirt tonight. I bet that is an awfully rare one, huh?

          1. I'm working on something, just been a bit tied up with sanding the exterior of my house. If you're interested in taking a vacation to West Texas to help me paint this fence, er, house, you're more than welcome. You'll only have to pay for your airfare, some of the supplies, and be willing to work in 104º heat.

    3. Makes me want to make some kind of Mortal Kombat-chop with Shao Kahn popping up and saying that.

    1. The grass is always greener.... Wait, no, seriously it is this time.

        1. heh. after i hit mail, i thought to myself, "yeah, he was probably joaking..."

  59. Just woke up from my Crown Royal induced slumber. Could also be that I slept about 3 1/2 hours last night. I'm thinking that the Twins might just win this game.

    1. remember when we could be up by 6 runs going into the 8th, and you couldn't utter that statement with any reasonable sense of certainty?

  64. Never allowing the relievers to pitch has really turned the page for the Twins in June.

  66. This is awesome. Starting pitchers going deep into games. Pavano, Liriano and Baker in the race to be the ace. Taking the bullpen out of play is a definitely a winning strategy for this team.

  79. I hope that double does two things. Keeps Juicy up with the big club and brings in the Crainwreck.

    1. Au contraire. They fear your Dinkledonger call so much that they are determined to foil it.

    3. Gavin Floyd has always had an irrational hatred of you. I've never understood why.

  83. Revere, Dinkleman, and Hughes have the three highest batting averages in tonight's lineup.

  94. twins fans are so loud, they're almost drowning out the hawk. don't stop now, boys!

  98. That game made me feel like I've been constipated since late Sunday afternoon and I was finally able to take a huge dump!

    1. That game made me feel like I donkey-punched a girl to her death and then stole her TV!

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