2011 Twins Game Recaps

2011 Game 68 Recap: Residents of Petco – 5, Residents of Petco North – 6

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Mauer's back, Valencia hit one a country mile, and our bullpen is nice enough to pad Capps' stats.

 

It's late and I've been drinking and playing cribbage, so that is all.

26 thoughts on “2011 Game 68 Recap: Residents of Petco – 5, Residents of Petco North – 6”

    1. Many Twins followers gnashed teeth during Mauer's absence. They sent anti-Mauer e-mails and attached vicious comments to Mauer stories that appeared on startribune.com and other websites.

      Patrick Reusse, formerly so disdainful of bloggers, now using the words of stribbies to make a point. Good grief.

      1. This is a trend in journalism that I just despise. A news outlet posts a story online, people respond to it, and then news outlet reports on what people are saying about the actual new story as if it had actual relevance or added anything of value to the story. Media. They can all vacate my greensward, please.

        1. Ugh. No kidding.

          Super-dido for television. Do I really want to know what the online comments were on your news story, Mr. Local TV news anchor? No, I do not. I don't give a varmint's aft about the comments you received from rubes. I do not want to hear from the "Facebook Friend of the Day". I want you to find and report on the news. I want you to DO YOUR JOB.

          reporting on teh Stoopids is one lazy step away from the extremely lazy step of reporting on the "media coverage" on an actual story.

          1. He was back up in the second and grounded into a double play. "Hey, 6-4-3 ... now, Joe really is back,'' a man shouted.

            It was me.

            Somebody had to do it.

            So much for not involving yourself in the story.

              2. Look, I know the difference between an opinion piece and a news article, but the point remains the same. He's reporting from an event, and when he can't find mass support for his opinion he plays the role he's looking for. He's outraged, out-raged, that fans aren't full of vitriol at Joe Mauer, so he tries to stir up the hate. And to what end? I'm sick of reading that Joe Mauer is an overpaid crybaby. If he'd left for the Yankees, or boston, or LAAAAAA, or the Mets, or ___________ all we'd of heard about is how greedy Joe Mauer was. We'd never hear the end of how he took his talents to the money, and forsook all the love that we nice minnesotans poured into him. I call bullshit on the writers at the Srib. You don't get to have your cake and eat it too.

    2. "I'm extremely surprised," he said. "I was convinced -- listening to sports talk radio for the past couple weeks -- that there were going to be plenty of boos for Joe when he finally came back.

      Sports talk radio is misleading? Reusse is on the radio! That's who I rely on for all my sports-related information!

      1. The idiots that call in to talk radio to rant about Mauer don't actually go to games.

        1. Reading the comments to this article make me think of SSS, and how it place seems such more a pleasant and fun fan community when contrasted with the strib boards.

    3. The fact that there are people reading this who it will influence kills me. Somewhere there is an 8 year old kid reading the paper somewhere saying to his Dad that Joe Mauer is a baby and a woos.

      I know I went on a rant about this before when Schecky wrote this article but gees, I don't get it. Is it for the page views? Do they really feel this way? Isn't there a social responsibility to not be a jerk? The funniest thing is when you have the access of Reusse or Souhan and write this crap, the team will begin to be disrespectful towards the writers and then the writers can pen an article bemoaning the players not giving them the access they once had.

      The circle of crap continues.

      1. He won the MVP award in 2009! He has won two batting titles! Remember? It is awesome. Quit being a jerk.

          1. Ugh. Yeah. Three batting titles! Quite being a butt-head, Reusse.

  2. I'm not down at all on Burnett for the three runs. He gave up a couple of two-out singles and then the homer was a pitch down and in off the plate. You just have to tip your cap to the guy on that one. Burnett was due to give up a homer sometime this season. Fortunately, it didn't matter.

  4. We were entertaining last night so I didn't have as much of a chance as I would have liked to watch the game. It looks like I missed a really great first inning and a really stressful rest of the game.

    1. yeah, my boss took me out for a strange, awkward dinner. got in home just in time for the top o' the ninth (though i was sure i was going to get some free baseball there).

      i realized that i have yet to see nishioka play this year. i didn't have mlb.tv in the beginning, and i missed the last few games.

    2. Yeah, after the first inning we went straight into survival mode. If the Friars had scored just one more run, I would have gone right back to Revere's ridiculous steal attempt in the first, and last night I couldn't have stood that much more rage.

          1. Bullpen last night: 3 IP, 4 hits, 0 walks, 4 Ks. Not much to complain about there. Just the home run on a pitch that was down and in and not a strike. Not even borderline.

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