84 thoughts on “Game 148: Twins at Royals”

1. Will this help or hurt (either team)???

   1. No

   2. I'd like to think that this will be one of the 4 wins needed to avoid the century mark...hope beyond hope.

2. Hovachart?

   1. Yup.

      1. okay then.

3. This Gamecast photo of Hovachart is pretty...umm, interesting? Does he really look like this?

4. I'm putting the O/U on Twins runs today at 1.

   1. Push

      1. Yeah, I wasn't willing to go to 0.5 with it.

         Well, if we're gonna win now, we'll need to make the over.

         1. By a lot.

5. KC Broadcast has a poll. Who has had the most disappointing season?

   Reds, Rockies, Twins, Giants.

   Emphasis mine.

6. HOVA

   1. I'm so glad I wasn't the only one whose mind was drawn there.

      1. Oh, don't worry. I've been known to throw up the roc a time or two.

   2. That was for under Rhu_Ru.

      1. lost me. I still prefer Ho shaver.

         1. I don't know if it's how yickit intended, but HOVA is one of Jay-Z's nicknames.

            1. who?

               1. The guy in the picture I linked to, Old Man 😉

                  1. 😛

               2. Yickit. You know, he was eschapp for a while??

7. Game over?

   1. Season over?

      1. Oh hell no. This season isn't over until we hit 100 losses.

         1. They'll still have 3 games left at that point.

            /pessimism

8. can't even get it to the pitcher?

9. That was almost a double for Benson.

10. SEND H...nevermind

11. We were pretty close to scoring there.

12. Cuddy breaks an 0/20 slump!

13. I have arrived. That means runs, right?

    1. 

14. Cuddyer is the greatest player in Twins history.

    1. Agreed.

       1. you guys are so past-oriented.

          1. Nope, I'm looking a hundred years into the future, and he's the best player in Twins history then, too.

15. My "Push" bet is looking pretty good right about now.

16. No under!

17. Dazz wants to have Hosmer's babies.

    1. That would be one ugly baby.

18. Hendriks is the youngest player to make a start for the Twins since F-Bomb in '05.

19. I suppose if nothing else, HOVA will get me a fantasy win. Now it's up to the Twins to keep it close enough for a Soria save.

20. Move Ploof to DH.

    1. I'm thinking that whole "take a nice hard look at Plouffe's future in the organization" thing is yielding pretty negative results at the moment.

       1. It ain't at shortstop, that's fer sure.

          1. With a .227 batting average and a strikeout every four at bats, I kind of doubt it's with the Twins, at all.

             1. 232/277/296 and 122 Ks in 777 PA sez he has a future as a manager.

             2. Good point.

21. I thought it was a night loss today. Oh, well. Get it over with early, I guess.

22. Goodbye 1990 and 1995, hello 1978.

    1. I'm thinking hello 1997.

       1. httpv://youtu.be/hz2L1v7Wkx8

          1. For some reason, we couldn't keep that CD on the shelves. We carried it the entire time I was in the company and we just kept selling it every time it came in.

       2. I dunno, they feel like the '62 Mets to me.

          1. If they weren't so lucky, they'd be 50-97 right now and careening toward 110 losses (that's what their third order winning percentage says). Today's result so far isn't helping that.

23. Tolbot now 0 for his last twenty.

    1. With Tolbot leading off, I thought this was our inning for sure.

24. You can't teach that kind of toughness.

    1. You also can't make me listen to any more of this game...

       1. Yeah, I'm outta here.

          1. bilateral ear weakness.

25. Be sure and burn the corpse of this one before you leave, fellas. Don't need the stench hanging around on an off-day.

    1. Might have to decapitate and stake it as well, just to make sure it doesn't come back.

26. Here comes Alex Burnett, who has been getting a lot more positive press than he deserves in the last month or so.

    1. Really? I've been missing that. He's like the Cuddiier of the bullpen?

       1. He's like Jesse Crain! He is a master at stranding inherited runners! He's someone the Twins are really counting on in the future!

          1. Is this a Richard Bremer schtick? That would explain why I'm out of the loop on it; I can't find many positive references to him on the Strib.

             1. I haven't seen it in print, but the booth idiots have indeed been praising him for getting the job done.

                1. http://www.twincities.com/twins/ci_18855377

                   1. "...he always appears [to talk to reporters]."

                      "...the ironman of Twins relievers."

                      I was right, the Cuddiier of the bullpen!

27. Bases loaded for MVP. I'm guessing weak grounder to second.

28. These clowns have 14 hits? Thank goodness for my current inability to tear myself away from Breaking Bad.

    1. I think Twins fans are going to be watching guys like Hosmer and Moustakas get 14 hits off their pitchers for quite a while to come.

       1. So you're saying I'll be fine if they just make three episodes of Breaking Bad to distract me from every game (four episodes for Yankee games).

          1. Its too bad there's still a handful of games left and you're nearly caught up.

             1. Yeah...three days ago I hadn't started the third season, and now I'm halfway through the second-to-latest episode.

                1. I'm on the second-to-uh-11th latest episode. Of season 1. Okay, so I just started. Thank you Netflix for adding it to the instant streaming list.

       2. I think Twins fans are going to be watching guys like Hosmer and Moustakas get 14 hits off their pitchers for quite a while to come.

          Luckily, it will probably be for the Yankmes before too long.

          Note that I didn't specify "good" luck.

29. No Rhu, so I will do it.

    SEND HIM!!!

30. If they can just load the bases for Juicy, we got a chance. He's automatic with the bases juiced, right?

31. Danny V, it's up to you.

    1. You cost us the game, Danny.

32. Boo.

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