61 thoughts on “Game 119 – Minnesota GOSOs v. Cleveland Indifference”
Ahhh, Tolbert.
Part of me wants to see Butters at SS.
funny, but I don't think it will enhance his spot in many fantasy leagues.
I'm more interested in the comedic possibilities.
That's gold, Jerry!
I don't plan on spending too much time here tonight but I just wanted to complain about summer beers being pulled off the shelves in favor of autumn/oktoberfest beers. It is f'n August! Come on!
I've got RSL Toronto on my i-phone and the Twins on the PC - also plan to keep an eye on the Braves game and try to catch Uggla's at bats. Love technology.
I just turned off the Twins on the radio. In the meantime, I'm finishing up a pointed letter to FTLT's congressman. I'll then walk to the corner and drop it in the mail box. What's technology?
Its Satan - best to just to keep a continued distance and ignorance from all of it.
The Devil is in the details.
Details like holding on to late inning one run leads?
LOL - Uggla already with a hit today - Twins full time on the PC.
Write your congressman.
@ Angry Buffalo beer fan
I'm pretty sure all of my congressmen have resigned amid sex scandals.
*ponders move to upstate NY for eventual run for office.
Interesting Utah centric Beer politics - all the republican congressmen and senators are Mormon - but also have financial interests in breweries and also view Beer as "big business" which as the Tea Partyesque politicians they are means Big Business gets what Big Business wants. Fly's in the face of many hard core and dry Mormon voters.
Worked with a Mormon chap on an assignment many years ago in Denver - great guy.
On the weekends we would take long drives around Colorado. No caffeine, no alcohol.
He put in a certain amount of time every month delivering food to Mormon families in need - said that Mormons wouldn't have their people on welfare. Interesting.
Well that was fun - Soccer moves into primary viewing position.
Duensing's getting me excited for Nebraska football season.
I would think realignment would have got you excited for Big Ten (12 teams) football??? The overall performance of the Twins as a whole being a very underwhelming distraction as we count down the days to football...
Yeah, in all seriousness I was already more excited for Husker season than I have been in years.
I am amused that so many of us appear to be Husker fans. I was weaned on back-to-back national titles under Bob Devaney.
My dad did his PhD there, so he raised me on a steady diet of Corn when I was younger, and, you know, that 94-97 stretch did a lot to cement it.
The Dread Pirate is a Husker fan too. As is mo chailí, but she's from the ass end of Nebraska, so she has an excuse.
Go, Sooners! (That's for my mom, by the way).
That's my cue. Turn this game around, fellas. Or drive it off the cliff.
Im not entirely clear on how wavier wire post deadline trades work. If we just go ahead and waive all the players who don't deserve an MLB paycheck (or the entire pitching staff) and any other team is silly enough to pick them up after they clear waivers do we get to demand some sort of compensation?
If a player is claimed on waivers, the Twins can just let the player be claimed (in which the claiming team also gets his contract), or arrange a trade, or pull the player back off waivers (in which case the player cannot be traded this season unless he passes through waivers again: and the second set of waivers are unrevokable).
If no one claims the player, the team can trade him freely or DFA him. If the player does not accept assignment, he is waived and the Twins owe him the rest of his contract. DFAing a player in a lost season makes little sense to me unless his contract is small.
I hope I remembered that all right.
I'm sticking around for trivia and then back to loading the car with Runner daughter's college crap belongings.
I forgot about the game until now. That doesn't happen when the Twins are any good.
Norm!
Terrorists, Sam. They're taking over my body and demanding beer.
Mrs. Runner watches Hot in Cleveland (or whatever it's called; it's basically a Designing Women / Golden Girls copy), and Wentz played an Amish guy named Yoder -- of course everyone called his name when he walked into the Amish watering hole.
Haha. The Milkmaid half-heartedly watches that sometimes, too. She didn't mention that to me, which surprises me a bit, since we both watch Cheers.
It's pretty impressive how "Norm!" endures even among people too young to have lived the original series.
We certainly use it at choir practice Thursday nights. Or "Norma!" if it's more appropriate.
Nishi doing MUCH better tonight. Or does it just appear that way when he's out there with Tolbert? Well, whatever.
Whatever gets Tolbert in the lineup is A-OK with me!@!1!!11
Well, with everyone giving up on the season, it's less competition for the trivia answer, apparently. Wonder what this one has a chance to win?
Hey, we've got something here!
Delmon's 32nd RBI, eh? I know it's a severely flawed stat, but the difference between last year and this year is still well-defined there.
Delmon with a dink and a dive on the throw home.
Vegan nacht tonite - Dal Makhani w/ naan.
Not a bad dish - black lentils, red kidney beans, chopped tomatoes, and mucho spicery:
ginger, garlic, green chilis, tumeric, cumin, coriander, garam masala, mellowed with cream.
Soaked the beans last night, then ramped them up in Le Creuset cassoulet tonite.
Onions and spices seared in coconut oil - nice twist, there.
The Family Runner went to T.G.I.Friday's for "linner" to celebrate getting rid of Runner daughter the last day before Runner daughter leaves for college. I may not need breakfast tomorrow AM as well.
end of an era, eh? best of luck with the transition!
not end of an era; end of the summer. it's her third year there.
NBB, you really, really, really need to start doing an occasional The Nation Has An Appetite post.
holy crap, Denard, meet the high strike call
whoa, pitch four was a ball?! there's gotta be something screwed up with Gameday
Yeah, it lists Mauer's batting average as .285 - must be a glitch.
Who is this clownshoes doing Robby's job tonight? He has a voice made for...nothing.
St. Elsewhere.
Well, that was exciting
The Twins have become background fare for me at this point. I'm bummed.
I've been building a lot of great baseball card trades during the games.
September callups can't come too soon.
Looks like I made the right choice to go to the matinee with The Boy. Cap'n 'Merica saved us from the Red Skull. Good, summer fun. A little rushed in spots (would have liked more buddy time with the Howling Commandos and more development of the budding relationship with Agent Carter), but good overall.
Ahhh, Tolbert.
Part of me wants to see Butters at SS.
funny, but I don't think it will enhance his spot in many fantasy leagues.
I'm more interested in the comedic possibilities.
That's gold, Jerry!
I don't plan on spending too much time here tonight but I just wanted to complain about summer beers being pulled off the shelves in favor of autumn/oktoberfest beers. It is f'n August! Come on!
I've got RSL Toronto on my i-phone and the Twins on the PC - also plan to keep an eye on the Braves game and try to catch Uggla's at bats. Love technology.
I just turned off the Twins on the radio. In the meantime, I'm finishing up a pointed letter to FTLT's congressman. I'll then walk to the corner and drop it in the mail box. What's technology?
Its Satan - best to just to keep a continued distance and ignorance from all of it.
The Devil is in the details.
Details like holding on to late inning one run leads?
LOL - Uggla already with a hit today - Twins full time on the PC.
Write your congressman.
@ Angry Buffalo beer fan
I'm pretty sure all of my congressmen have resigned amid sex scandals.
*ponders move to upstate NY for eventual run for office.
Interesting Utah centric Beer politics - all the republican congressmen and senators are Mormon - but also have financial interests in breweries and also view Beer as "big business" which as the Tea Partyesque politicians they are means Big Business gets what Big Business wants. Fly's in the face of many hard core and dry Mormon voters.
Worked with a Mormon chap on an assignment many years ago in Denver - great guy.
On the weekends we would take long drives around Colorado. No caffeine, no alcohol.
He put in a certain amount of time every month delivering food to Mormon families in need - said that Mormons wouldn't have their people on welfare. Interesting.
Well that was fun - Soccer moves into primary viewing position.
Duensing's getting me excited for Nebraska football season.
I would think realignment would have got you excited for Big Ten (12 teams) football??? The overall performance of the Twins as a whole being a very underwhelming distraction as we count down the days to football...
Yeah, in all seriousness I was already more excited for Husker season than I have been in years.
I am amused that so many of us appear to be Husker fans. I was weaned on back-to-back national titles under Bob Devaney.
Not me. I still celebrate the Bill Callahan era.
Huh. I coulda sworn you were a Joe Salem guy 😉
My dad did his PhD there, so he raised me on a steady diet of Corn when I was younger, and, you know, that 94-97 stretch did a lot to cement it.
The Dread Pirate is a Husker fan too. As is mo chailí, but she's from the ass end of Nebraska, so she has an excuse.
Go, Sooners! (That's for my mom, by the way).
That's my cue. Turn this game around, fellas. Or drive it off the cliff.
Im not entirely clear on how wavier wire post deadline trades work. If we just go ahead and waive all the players who don't deserve an MLB paycheck (or the entire pitching staff) and any other team is silly enough to pick them up after they clear waivers do we get to demand some sort of compensation?
If a player is claimed on waivers, the Twins can just let the player be claimed (in which the claiming team also gets his contract), or arrange a trade, or pull the player back off waivers (in which case the player cannot be traded this season unless he passes through waivers again: and the second set of waivers are unrevokable).
If no one claims the player, the team can trade him freely or DFA him. If the player does not accept assignment, he is waived and the Twins owe him the rest of his contract. DFAing a player in a lost season makes little sense to me unless his contract is small.
I hope I remembered that all right.
I'm sticking around for trivia and then back to loading the car with Runner daughter's college
crapbelongings.I forgot about the game until now. That doesn't happen when the Twins are any good.
Norm!
Terrorists, Sam. They're taking over my body and demanding beer.
Mrs. Runner watches Hot in Cleveland (or whatever it's called; it's basically a Designing Women / Golden Girls copy), and Wentz played an Amish guy named Yoder -- of course everyone called his name when he walked into the Amish watering hole.
Haha. The Milkmaid half-heartedly watches that sometimes, too. She didn't mention that to me, which surprises me a bit, since we both watch Cheers.
It's pretty impressive how "Norm!" endures even among people too young to have lived the original series.
We certainly use it at choir practice Thursday nights. Or "Norma!" if it's more appropriate.
Nishi doing MUCH better tonight. Or does it just appear that way when he's out there with Tolbert? Well, whatever.
Whatever gets Tolbert in the lineup is A-OK with me!@!1!!11
Well, with everyone giving up on the season, it's less competition for the trivia answer, apparently. Wonder what this one has a chance to win?
Hey, we've got something here!
Delmon's 32nd RBI, eh? I know it's a severely flawed stat, but the difference between last year and this year is still well-defined there.
Delmon with a dink and a dive on the throw home.
Vegan nacht tonite - Dal Makhani w/ naan.
Not a bad dish - black lentils, red kidney beans, chopped tomatoes, and mucho spicery:
ginger, garlic, green chilis, tumeric, cumin, coriander, garam masala, mellowed with cream.
Soaked the beans last night, then ramped them up in Le Creuset cassoulet tonite.
Onions and spices seared in coconut oil - nice twist, there.
The Family Runner went to T.G.I.Friday's for "linner" to celebrate
getting rid of Runner daughterthe last day before Runner daughter leaves for college. I may not need breakfast tomorrow AM as well.end of an era, eh? best of luck with the transition!
not end of an era; end of the summer. it's her third year there.
NBB, you really, really, really need to start doing an occasional The Nation Has An Appetite post.
holy crap, Denard, meet the high strike call
whoa, pitch four was a ball?! there's gotta be something screwed up with Gameday
Yeah, it lists Mauer's batting average as .285 - must be a glitch.
Who is this clownshoes doing Robby's job tonight? He has a voice made for...nothing.
St. Elsewhere.
Well, that was
excitingThe Twins have become background fare for me at this point. I'm bummed.
I've been building a lot of great baseball card trades during the games.
September callups can't come too soon.
Looks like I made the right choice to go to the matinee with The Boy. Cap'n 'Merica saved us from the Red Skull. Good, summer fun. A little rushed in spots (would have liked more buddy time with the Howling Commandos and more development of the budding relationship with Agent Carter), but good overall.