You'll never guess what the Twins did last night!
Oh, wait...yes...well, they almost...
Okay, yeah, they did.
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And now, this week's View from the Ballpark:
Remember, no embiggening.
13 thoughts on “2011 Game 134: White Sox 3, Twins 0”
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I recognize the building...
Five minutes, Mags? I'm letting you down.
You're just unlucky that's one of my favorite buildings in the world.
Did you know the Soviet space program used the elevators in that building to simulate weightlessness for the first group of cosmonauts?
I did not. That's fascinating.
Yup, they let the elevators free-fall from the top floors, and had a big cushion at the bottom of the shaft to arrest the fall. Because of the relatively brief fall, the cosmonauts only got a few seconds of weightlessness, compared to the several minutes experienced by American astronauts who flew parabolas in modified cargo jets. As a result, there were significant fears in the Soviet space program about what sustained weightlessness would do to the bodies and minds of their cosmonauts.
I would pay good rubles to see video of those training exercises.
Me too. I think this is one of my most favorite random facts, ever.
i would rather pay good rubles to partake in a few trips on a vomit comet.
FiOS decided I didn't need to see much of this game. I DVR the games so I can skip between pitches and between innings (and big innings by opponents) and the schedule on the screen said this was one of the two games in HD. I turned on the game and it was a different game, so I turned to the channel with the standard def game just in time to see Diamond come in in the 8th. Not that I missed much. Good to see Slowey's line, which looks even better after Gardy's criticism of the infield defense. Surprisingly, he had more ground balls than fly balls allowed (11-9) and even more grounders than Buehrle, who had a 9-9 ratio.
It's still Slowey's fault.
He confused his defense with all the grounders.
It's good to see that Gardy is keeping himself busy.