2011 Twins Game Logs

2011 Game 137: Twins at Angels

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Pavano v Weaver Tyler Chatwood.

The Twins have a one game lead over the Royals for last place of the annual worst division. At 57-79, they are just three losses from guaranteeing a losing year. Averaging each entry for the poll, I get ~70 wins as the expected number. That means they'll win 13 out of their final 26 games. Nope, not happening. Extrapolating their current record out nets them 10 wins, which means a top five draft pick next year. Here's to a strong draft class next year and loose purse strings. It may be our only hope.

118 thoughts on “2011 Game 137: Twins at Angels”

    1. Yeah, I have to represent here too.

      I may have represented in person if I had a little more cash at the moment, and less of a screenwriting deadline.

  6. Dick is now going on about "how useless home runs can really be".

    These guys must be drinking on Minnesota time.

    3. Not mine! Kind of irritating to have MLBN, NFLN, five ESPN channels, but not the regional Fox Sports. WTF?

  10. It appears people on twitter are blaming Joe Mauer for having an yeast infection upper respiratory infection. I think tonight I will play a game where you have to guess if the line is a tweet/strib comment or something I made up. I hope everyone appreciates my hard work in sifting through these so you don't have to.

    1. if you make up enough of them, they will overlap with teh Stoopid twit tweets. so you can skip the reading part.

      2. To be honest, I am not finding any totally awful misspellings or grammatical errors on the strib story. This game might be over before it starts.

    1. My roommates' dog - who spends all his time with me, which I assume is related to the fact that his owners do nothing but bicker - won't back up from my face when I'm drinking beer.

  14. I guess now we have some Hope*

    (Click to embiggen)

    (Hope Solo on Dancing With The Stars via Sportress of Blogitude)

    *Why yes, that was quite forced. But I just found this and really felt like it was something that needed to be shared to bring happiness to the world.

  16. The Birds of War are getting ready to kick off on ESPN2.

    I've also seen the ÜSMNT being used now that Jürgen Klinsmann is manager, which I also approve of. I love me some umlauts.

      1. Maybe we should try to make it an hour with nothing but comments about how awesome and underrated Jeter is.

          1. I'd be willing to be he has moved onto a more underrated actress. You know, humility and all.

    1. I treated him unfairly for years, and now when I finally get to liking him the media starts nonstop Cuddyer fellatio. I'm trying to separate the media from my feelings entirely, but damn, they speak loudly.

      1. It goes to show that anyone can get out of the doghouse and become one of Gardy's Guys if they can 1) figure out how to hang around long enough and 2) wait for the preceding media mouthpiece (in this case, the FOTF) to depart first.

    2. I find that the Twins TV crew has been overhyping Ben Revere, not Michael Cuddyer lately. Last night was about the 10th game in a row that Dick said something to the effect (paraphrasing) 'From Puckett to Torii to Span and now Revere, the Twins have had this chain of great CFers'
      Im thought to myself that Revere has not even played a full Major League season and cant get an extra base hit and is basically Juan Pierre lite, but with a little better defense.....Dick stop bragging up Revere!!!!

  21. I'm liking the more attacking style Herr Klinsmann is having the lads play. I've seen more decent chances in the first 30 minutes here than in 4 or 5 Bradley-coached games combined it seems.

  22. Dick said "and they are going to run on Torii Hunter's arm" in a way that sounded to condescending towards the Twins. When does this guy retire?

    1. considering Incmikowski doesn't get fired for flirting with underage girls on live television, I'd say 2032

  23. Holy cr@p. I go away to finish cooking and to eat dinner, and a vague impression of competence breaks out!

      1. I see that perhaps I should have stayed away. Carl's trying to make a game out of this, or at least to garner a SOC.

  24. 0-0 at the half. The US let up a bit towards the end there, but if they start the second half like they started the first, they'll get their goal.

  25. the booth guys talking about whether Luke Hughes has ever caught. Naturally, Butera was hitting at the plate.

    1. My five seconds of Internet research tells me they are wearing throwback uniforms for every Friday home game as "Flashback Fridays", since this is the Angels' 50th anniversary season.

  35. Rodney at 6.61 BB/9 coming into tonight. That is just UNbelievable for a major-league reliever. Particularly since he's only averaging 7.47 K/9.

  38. Not a good second half for the US. It looks like consistency is still a problem as it was under Bradley, and Klinsmann will have to try to correct that.

    1. Gotta put the ball in the net. Those missed chances in the first came back to haunt.

      Friendlies only count against the meaningless FIFA rankings.

  44. Where did that come from? Twins have now scored 41 runs in last six games after scoring five runs in the six games before that. This is a crazy game. Good way to start a new month, though.

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