145 thoughts on “2011 Game Logs: Game 135 Twins @ White Sox”

1. Awesome (but turn your camera the right way, you half-bakef bastard!).

2. In the one game in the Twins organization that matters, New Britain leads 6-0 in the second inning. Dick would love this game. Brian Dozier led off with a bunt single and scored on a sac fly. In the second, Chris Cates had a bases-loaded bunt single for the second run before Dozier hit a grand slam.

   1. I love that, but I'm not sure Dick would. Those are bunt hits. He loves the bunt outs.

      1. Well, I think the second one was an attempted out but turned into a hit. Two more sac flies in the second make it 8-0, so they've had three productive outs so far (out of six).

         1. Oh, snap. Dick would love that game.

      2. the important thing is that the bunts were the keys to the innings.

         1. Exactly.

3. speaking of Smokesnax, I had the most delicious venison slim jims whilst in the Fatherland recently. I'm not sure who made them (out of the Mama Bambi harvested by one of my family members this year) -- presumably someone in the Grand Rapids area, but possibly in the Cities. If anyone is interested, I could make inquiries.

   They also made a mighty fine venison summer sausage.

4. If I had ordered Joe Mauer at a restaurant and this is what they brought I would have sent it back.

   1. Heh.

5. Butch proclaimed this season a "bust" tonight, but I see he's got the Twins shirt on to watch the game.

   1. Everything else is in the dryer?

      1. That means they're clean though.

      2. Die. Hard.

6. Dick's knowledge of music is pretty hilarious

   1. What did he say?

      I'd imagine his 8-track collection contains several Pat Boone titles.

      1. Oh, he assumed that Australian for baseball had never heard the doobie brothers, country or western.

         1. Aussies only listen to BeeGees, ACDC and Men At Work. Everyone knows that.

            1. Anyone done Vegemite?

               1. I had some last summer in London. Not really my favorite taste experience.

7. Tyler Flowers? Apparently AJ is a p*ssy too.

   1. AJ is more of a dick.

      1. heh.

8. This should have been under today's birthdays, but I just found this out. Happy 92nd to Kitty Wells!

9. Check out that range on the Aussie!!!!

   *whatevs*

10. Time for a Kuby Smack.

11. YES!!!

    I claim that as a call.

12. kubes luvs the sux.

13. KUBEL WITH THE EARL WEAVER SPECIAL!

14. Kind of a spooky job there by Dick.

15. Kubel'd.

16. Dude

17. Wait, is that three games worth of runs?

    1. 4.

    2. Yeah, yesterday's, today's, and tomorrow's runs are taken care of.

18. Who's on third?

    1. An Aussie mailbox, apparently.

19. sworesucks.

20. Scheiss. I stayed one batter too long.

21. frackin' give-back crap

22. Give back runs

23. Oh, good, an opposing homer by a batting Jeremy.

    Baseball is dumb.

    1. Oh, good, an opposing homer by a batting Jeremy.

       Baseball is dumb. twins suck.

       1. I stand by mine. This is RUINING MY SPORT DAMMIT

          Why yes, I'm four SN Pales deep. Why do you ask?

24. Danny V would have had that one, just sayin.

    1. Good play by the manager.

       1. 

          1. d'oh

             1. di-d'oh

                1. Well played, Mauer Painter.

                   1. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9119PNWy90&feature=player_embedded

    2. d'oh

25. Dick, Nishioka hasn't been a base-stealer this year because he hasn't been on base.

26. How will Mauer hit into a double play now???

27. Sweet.

28. Mmm, there's leadership for you.

29. #classiccuddy

30. The bane of Minnesota schoolchildren with a gapper!

    1. The bane of the Minnesota schoolchildren
       Oh, that's a good one. We'll have to abbreviate for brevity's sake.

       1. TB/MS?

          1. I was just going to go with the standard of TBOMSC, not grammatically correct

             1. I liked 'The Bane', but we've already had one.

31. Sorry about the White Sox homer. I left right after Kubel's homer and came back just in time for Mauer's double. I'll be sure to not leave again.

    1. No worries. I'm blaming it on Juicy's range.

32. If this turns into a battle of the bullpens, Twins are -16.5 pRAA on the season (despite Perkins' +13.3), ChiSox are +25.7 (led by Jesse's +8.8). So basically, ours sucks and theirs is good.

    I'd like our guys not to get thrown out at second base trying to stretch singles.

33. Dick n Bert were just praising Beckham for putting his foot in front of the bag, but I always thought that you couldn't block the bag without possession of the ball on a non-force out play?

    1. Coming in late, but I'm pretty sure you are right. I was safe after a rundown in softball once on that very call. The guy who blocked me from third base was very irate with the ump.

34. sheesh. Give. Back. Run(s?).

35. This is not looking good.

36. Bench Cuddyer.

    1. On second thought, I think that's on Nishi.

37. Natch.

    1. When u going to be in Minnesota?

       1. Taco Daze in Scandia.

          1. When is that? We'll schedule a get together then and if you can make it, great.

             1. Sat, Sept 10th. Nation is welcome to come up to do the 5- or 10-K. Taco feed around noon. Parade around 2:30-3:00. I host a barbecue at the house around 5:30-6:00 later - you Cats are all welcome - let me know if you would like to join us.

38. was that on cuddy or nishi?

    1. I think Nishi was late to the base.

       1. Nope, on Cuddy.

       2. on another note, was the play cuddy should have made?

          1. I think so. He was getting the lead runner.

             1. ahh, nevermind, i thought the bases were loaded for some reason.

                1. They were, but I don't think they were getting the runner at home.

                   1. I think Cuddy would have had Pauly at home. But whatev...

       3. It looked to me like Nishi was late. I only saw the front angle, but it didn't look like that bad of a throw. At least should have been caught even if the out wasn't recorded.

39. cheeze Louise

40. Holy balls.

41. Heh - Twins squawkers playing Aussie muzsak.

42. i hate this team.

43. Spookied the HBP RBI.

    This team just sucks...

44. wheel wheel

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    wheel wheel

45. Doin' the little things.

46. iced.

47. Dead Flowers.

    1. Roses on the grave of the 2011 Twins?

       1. Pansies. 😉

          1. Makes sense seeing as how they are so plentiful.

             1. Like a full Gardenhire.
                

48. I should have figured the last out wouldn't be coming without a run.

49. Just saw the other Dazzle header. Nice. Looks like he's marking his territory--Bert style.

50. this game season is going about as well as Famished Pete's day:
    

    1. Not fun for the little guy.

    2. Funny. I love the mad face.

51. [fart noises]

52. On the bright side, Ms Buffalo did get me another one of these. So one for aging and one for tonight.

    1. Clicking on the link will only make me more envious. I live in the nations largest miller light market.

       1. I suppose living in the largest American Labatts market isn't so bad then.

    2. This beer has the such a nice sweet chocolate finish. Wow. Terrific.

53. So Kubel is expected to catch pop-ups almost in the infield dirt now?

    1. Dazzle was not pleased.

       1. He's usually so mellow about these sorts of things.

54. This Royal Caribbean movie is going to be awesome.

55. Evening.

    1. It is at that, sir.

56. Dick keeps calling De Aza "Piazza".

    1. So does Dizz.

       1. Pizz.

57. Wait Repko pinch-hits for Tosoni, I thought they were the same person.

    1. Same results anyway.

       1. I have this sneaking suspicion that the Twins have like nine total players, but the worst one plays the part of all the terrible and interchangeable white futility guys.

58. PTBNL hasn't looked half bad.

59. Juicy isn't doing much to get himself out of the doghouse.

    1. His defense suddenly looks a lot better. Hughes had a brutal game. Should have had three errors. 0-for-3 with a walk and a strikeout.

60. I think Nishi and I have the same approach against MLB-caliber pitching.

    1. To be fair to myself, my left-handed swing looks a little bit better.

       1. Yeah, but neither one of you can handle a heater like Dick Allen.

          1. I can handle a heater just fine, thankyouverymuch.

             1. Heh heh.

                *cough*

61. [rally cap .jpg]

62. In all honesty, that might be the worst third strike call I have ever seen. Wow. I guess the umps were tired of playing in the rain.

    1. It was really rotten. A fitting end to a frustrating game.

       1. Rotten?

          1. Oh bollocks, that's awesome.

63. Time to see what those zany ABQ meth-cookers are up to this week...

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       Hank KILLS IT this week.

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          That's some mighty fine police work, Hank.

64. So, let me get this straight. The Twins twice got three-run leads and managed to the preserve the lead through all of one out in both instances? Just awful.

    1. At least it was an all new way for the 2011 Twins to lose.

       1. I don't know about new. It was nice to actually have a lead to blow. At least in April and May you could usually just blame the bullpen and/or defense. Not that the offense was good, but it seemed like we had a lot of leads that were squandered. Lately, the Twins have just had their asses handed to them.

65. I guess we've gone from piranhas to pariahs.

66. 6-21 in August. Holy God.

67. Nick nelson tweeted that he thinks Span is away because he's upset with team. It's been a fine year.

    1. see the first sentence.

    2. He's away from the team because the stress is aggravating his symptoms. Watching this team play is giving me migraines.

       1. This team is so bad, they've even broke socal's spirit. That's bad.

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