I just got this message from "ThaReal_elm_n":
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryAeNSzanKY
Thome Watch continues. Younger and wussier players around him continue to wilt in the August heat, but the Masher keeps on keeping on. The Tiggers have pretty much pwned the Twins for the last year, having won 12 out of their last 13 against our boys.
pitching matchup:
F-Bomb (tRA+: 92, FIP: 4.53, xFIP: 4.41, fWAR: 0.8, 97:66 K:BB in 117 innings)
Rick Porcello (tRA+: 108, FIP: 3.92, xFIP: 4.00, fWAR: 1.9, 76:30 K:BB in 126 innings)
The 22-year old Porcello is having a solid season. Amongst the mortal starters on the Tiger staff, he leads the way in pRAA at +4.8 (Verlander is at +33.0, tied for 7th in the Majors; he's third in pitching rWAR). But the real strength of this club is the offense, which weighs in at +43.2 bRAA and is 5th in the A.L. in runs per game at 4.44 (Twins are 12th at 3.87 -- behind Oakland, for goodness sake). So, tell me again why they wanted _elm_n???
Porcello is a ground-ball inducing righty. The Twins have a lefty-heavy lineup, with no _elm_n and a questionable Cuddy.
Span is a late scratch. So, the first game without Delmon and we get -- drum roll please -- Trevor Plouffe in left field. This should be interesting.
1. Ben Revere, CF
2. Trevor Plouffe, LF
3. Joe Mauer, C
4. Justin Morneau, 1B
5. Jason Kubel,RF
6. Jim Thome, DH
7. Danny Valencia, 3B
8. Matt Tolbert, 2B
9. Tsuyoshi Nishioka, SS
that's one word for it. Perhaps not the word I was looking for.
About-the-same?
well, if you consider Span's offense equivalent to Tolbert's. [edited to do the Span/Tolbert conversion rather than the _elm_n/Tolbert one]
I was thinking experienced left-fielder, Delmon, compared to utterly lacking experience left-fielder Plouffe. About the same.
Mentioned in Gleeman's comments today: List of first round/supplemental picks and whether they've signed (and how much).
Get'r dun, BS. Levi Michael should cost about $1.1M, Harrison about $850K, and Boyd about $650K. Get'r dun.
The worst plate appearance ever.
"more than a full Pedroia away from home plate."
That earned a definite LOL. Particularly with the graphic.
Even while watching the gifs, I had to keep going back to that graphic to giggle at it.
ummmm..where was that all year?
he wasn't facing Twins pitching
Heh
Of course.
I'd been expecting that.
I spookied it this afternoon.
I told some other baseball fans I expected him to destroy the Twins pitching staff and suck against everyone else. My prediction is well on its way to fruition!
i pretty much did too. i just got home, fired up the mlb.tv, saw the score, and thought, no, really? so it did happen then, eh?
I don't have enough beer in the house for this.
aaaaand _elmOn homers off of F-Bomb. Of course he does.
Are you effing kidding me?
I'm hoping Delmon tears it up as he often does in August and September, the Tigers sign him to a 4-year deal, and we reap the benefits down the road
I think that would make it the best trade the Twins have had in years.
BTW, doc, how was dinner the other night?
meat, the pork was excellent.
I think I mentioned somewhere along the line that I probably under-did the hoisin, as I had 5+ lbs of pork. After defatting, I reduced the sauce by half, but it still wasn't the thickness I really was looking for. I removed the bones and big chunks of fat, returned the meat to the crock, added a couple ounces of chopped pepperoncini and a spritzing of roasted sesame oil, then poured the reduced sauce back over. Tay-stee. Two thumbs up from the family as well.
We had leftovers over baked potatoes the next night. Then leftovers in burritos another night. Plus I had leftovers for a couple lunches. Plus we had leftovers last night with yellow dal & rice.
*leftovers go a lot further when one of your kids doesn't eat meat. Just sayin'.*
Who is this kevin?
Kevin Gorg?
So the drama with my stuff continues. It was picked up from my Ames apartment on July 28th and was supposed to be delivered between August 2nd-12th. Then it was supposed to be here yesterday but never showed up. I found out this morning that my stuff has not even left Des Moines yet.
I'm thinking at this point that I need to hire another company to pick up my stuff from them and move it for me. Does anybody know a good company in the Minnesota/Iowa area that might be able to do this?
mebbe your stuff got claimed on waivers? you should see about working a trade for a sofa, bed, and a dining set to be named later.
but seriously, good luck. Have you tried calling the Better Business Bureau in Des Moines yet? What does your contract actually say about delivery? And did you pay with a credit card so that you can dispute the charges more easily?
A friend of mine had pretty much the exact same experience last summer.
I'm paying by credit card, but more than half will be charged to the Citadel. I might try calling the BBB at some point if they don't come through. I'm not sure my contract says anything in particular about the delivery date, but I was quote (multiple times) a delivery spread of the 2nd-12th.
So long, _elm_n.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm1474QU-Dc&feature=channel_video_title
We hardly knew ya.
7 errors for Revere. ouch
How did Peralta not get on base????
plouuuuuuufffe!
How the heck about that. Piranhas!
sweet swing from Morneau
Mountie!
Logging onto mlb.tv right as Delmon Young was batting was one of the most confusing things I've experienced...ever.
Seeing Young deal with Plouffe's double in LF...I almost want to tear up from happiness.
damn. WTP.
F-Bombed.
🙁
Gold. Glove.
odds on _elm_n getting that?
Which bounce?
The one off his head and over the fence.
Matt Tolbert: You can't stop him. You can only hope to contain him.
Matt Tolbert may be ready to play baseball in the middle of Janurary, but it doent mean he is going to be good at it
I dunno. He might be pretty good in the Mexican League.
now THAT was a screwball...can't blame Nishi for taking it
Revere almost had that one
Playing LF is easy.
Trevor Plouffe, you 2012 starting LFer
If this game helps cement his 4-year, $48 million deal with the Tigers, I hope he hits about eleventy-billion HRs and makes all of the defensive putouts the rest of the way tonight.
umm, that was supposed to be nested below.
say WHAAAAAAAA?
That was very un-Delmonlike.
_elm_n did not just do that.
It looked like he was in a full sprint there, not his standard tippy-toe gait. I bet that son of a bitch has been sandbagging for 3 years.
It was faster than usual, but still pathetic for a sprint.
Remember Tony Batista's first game with the Twins? He was awesome.
Gomez too.
Young & Gomez were both awesome in that first game, weren't they?
Gomez I know had a good game. Young was 2-4 with a run scored and a stolen base.
Delmon went 2-4 with a run scored
Hoey went 1.1 innings, striking out one. [redacted] was 2-4 with a double and two strikeouts. Clearly the Twins just need to continue trading for players.
Play them for one game, and then flip them? Hmm. You might be onto something here, Sean.
Like starting a travel agency for all those flights. Ka. Ching.
Of course he does. Nobody doubts his talent and he's only 25.
4-6-3-2 triple play in Milwaukee. Around the horn, rotated by 90 degrees.
that must of been a slow runner heading for home
Matt Kemp.
Link to video.
Dude. Now how's about a Tater, Jimbo?
Nice call there doc.
Oh yes!!!!
1 to go!
THEM TATERS BEEN MASHED!
JIMMERS!!!
Perfect timing. Just sat down!
I just missed the tater, but I'll savor
leftovershighlight video.Video on MLB.com.
a "Thome is My Homey" sign sighting. Sweet.
denied at the goal line.
Even though he was out, the attempt was pretty sweet. You're giving me a reason to still watch Twins!
Ben Revere could play for the Vikings
Ok, that's enough excitement for me. Carry on. I'm going home.
Nice to see Delmon found his D. I'm really glad it's on his cap.
Well, two runs score as soon as I log on. Maybe I need to leave...
Crap, Frankie.
Man, offense galore tonight.
I'm out for awhile. Gotta try out the new workout equipment.
This kind of offensive game makes me happy.
F-bomb, not so much.
The three-pitch strikeout to Mauer didn't do much for me, either.
Sounds like the Twins reached an agreement with one of their supplemental picks, Hudson Boyd. I was very excited by this pick as it seems really out of the box for the team.
Tigers pitcher seems to have misplaced the strikezone.
w00t!!!
600!
We like three-run homeruns, Bill Smith says.
What a day for our poll. So glad I decided to watch tonight
Congratulations to the Gentleman Slugger.
That's a lot of homers.
This is the first game I've seen in over a week. I picked a good one.
Oh man, I just missed it. Something somewhere told me to check on the game, and I got here just in time to see the congrats in the dugout.
Congrats to Big JI
JIM THOME. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
wow. congrats, big jim.
and Delmon got to watch it fall a couple feet behind him
Yeah, I didn't really think 3 hours ago that I would see number 600 sailing out over Delmon's head.
Tomei with the sweetness. Awesome. Congrats to Jim!
frackin' give-back crap
ozzie guillen's thoughts on the matter:
I love that it fell into the bullpen so he doesn't have to worry about getting it back.
it's already in his son's hands.
well that worked okay. Good throw, Alex.
heh. really, burnett?
Delmon almost took that one in the face.
Heh. That HBP opens so many questions as to what would've happened had Delmon charged the mound.
I'm hoping this is not the Cole Nelson we got in the _elm_n trade.
Continues the Twins' 2011 draft preference for players with two first names.
I missed inevitable live look-ins on ESPN for Thome so I could catch up with Breaking Bad. It seemed pretty fun.
watching a pop-fly drop in front of Delmon is fun
I agree.
You can say that again.
Remember when it was awful?
Yeah, me neither.
I refuse to believe that Matt Capps was born in 1983.
That can't be right.
Matthew Dicus Capps (born September 3, 1983 in Douglasville, Georgia)
WTF. I want an age check. No more fried chicken for me.
Until I see a birth certificate, I'm going to believe he was born in 1974 in Kenya.
Yup, I ran into that factoid a while back. It makes Capps just a little less than three years younger than my younger brother.
Capps is 18 months younger than me, and looks 18 years older.
He's a bit more than 18 months younger than me, but beer and a beard make me look a bit older than him.
At least Capps has 3 years on me, as well as about a buck, buck twenty
Killer timing for me tonight...between a call with the kids and a phone meeting with a possible agent, I missed both taters. Well, maybe I'll catch #700.
Good luck with that.
Workout was somewhat successful. I was still pretty sore from yesterday, and I'm not very strong to begin with, so the upper body workout was a little tough. I did 20 minutex of yoga to top it off. I popped my hip, which has been bothering me for awhile, so hopefully that helps things out a bit.
Just watched the Revere triple/out at home highlight. I'm guessing that inside-the-park is probably the only way Sweet Ben will ever get a home run.
And hopefully with two other guys on base so Bill Smith will really like him.
I see Nathan was paying attention whilst _elm_n was a Twin.
Would have been a great ending to the game if it had happened one out later. But I'll take it gladly.
I feel like a better ending would have been an UNO pop out with the bases loaded after Nathan walked Raburn on four pitches.
Does anyone have a graphic with 600 puppies on it?
I'm doubly glad the Twins could win tonight.
I feel like they won once DY was traded, but yeah, it's nice that they win the game Thome got his 600th in.
just gotta say, Delmon looks great in a Detroit uni
Heh, Baseball Tonight just butchered the "Thome notable home run" segment. They showed about 5 of em, and I think Berthiaum talked about two of them correctly while they were showing them.
1-0 without Delmon Young.
so, a pitchers' duel, eh? 😉
Okay, I know that Cole Nelson link was a dirty trick, but this must be shared.
ok, that's pretty awesome.