2012 Twins Game Log

2012 Game 20: Kansas City Royals at Minnesota Twins

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Everett Teaford
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Carl Pavano

Everett Teaford is making a spot start for Danny Duffy. He recently transitioned from a starter to a reliever in the minors and while it helped, he does turn 28 next year. Today, he's doing a Swarzak. Except Swarzak is a bad starter in the majors and Teaford was a bad starter in the minors. The Twins have a chance!

237 thoughts on “2012 Game 20: Kansas City Royals at Minnesota Twins”

  1. its a cold windy night. the away team is bad. the home team is stinkin it up. will there be 25,000 people at this game?

  2. I just arrived at my company's suite. Whenever they direct you through the legends club, it's a good start to the night.

    2. Because you naturally give up an out after the other team walks the leadoff batter.

  10. Wow. KC booth starts in on bilateral leg weakness.

    Citing "blogs and rumors", we are informed that apparently there were those who thought it was actually Parkinson's or Lou Gehrig's Disease. You know, because bilateral leg weakness isn't a thing.

    1. 21 GDP for the Twins
      heading into the game, KC and Toronto hit 21 GDB's, and the Twins 20. Baltimore was next at 17

  17. Both teams are hitting the ball solidly/have no pitching. This could be a wild one.

  34. Royals announcers talking about the possibility of a cycle for Joe. We know he has a 0% chance of a HR.

    On the other hand, he has like a 10,000,000% chance of a pussy single!

  44. Roy Smalley talk a lot. But I enjoy it when he is talking about hitting mechanics.

      1. It was said he was slow to get into position for the throw. Also, his pitch framing is pretty bad.

        1. Pitch framing really seems like something that isn't really a thing that should matter. But I haven't measured it one way or the other.

          1. I read a good article on it somewhere- except for the article specifically mentioned Doumit as being one of the worst pitch framers in the big leagues.

      1. Arrived in great shape.

        I'm drinking Deschutes Obsidian Stout right now, as I'm waiting for my cheapbeer to cool. I'm having an internal battle about what to try tonight. Your Stout, to compare to this? The barleywine after a palate cleanser? The Black IPA because Black IPA is awesome? Just the Ambergeddon so I can save yours for...Sunday or Monday night, probably?

        1. My recommendation would be the stout, but with the caveat that it may not compare to the Obsidian because I'm just not all that great at making stouts.

            1. The judges of the competition were not so kind with their assessment of that beer. It may be the one style where I am modest with my recipe formulation abilities.

              Now that black IPA, on the other hand, I promise to remake and send you a bottle. It deserves a pint-sized review.

  51. Trevor Plouffe's walk up music: 'When the Levee Breaks' by Led Zeppelin. I approve

        1. It's hard to believe though. That ball went all the way to the wall and Revere is faaaaaaaaaaaast.

  60. The Royals have five runs on seven base runners? Only six credited to Pavano (1 error). That's anti-Twins baseball.

    1. Also, that's some really efficient pitching with 6.1 innings and five runs using only 83 pitches.

    2. didnt look like he was hurt.
      That part of the lineup was killing Pavano all night. I think Gardy didnt want a 3 run home run or something.

      1. The Twins have about twice as many pitchers as they need, so I guess Gardy's just going with "smoke 'em if you've got 'em."

  73. remember the time when Mijares called out Joe Mauer for calling the wrong pitches?

  75. All snark aside, the producers can tell what they've got when TK or Smalley is filling in for Bert, right? I mean, even if they recognize that Bert's too popular to make a change, they know, right?

    1. In the event that you really, really believe there have to be two people in the booth (which I don't buy), I like the idea of keeping the PBP announcer constant (though not constantly Dick) and rotating through 4-6 different color commentators, maybe one per three-game series or something. Each person only has so much to say and after a while their nuggets of wisdom are going to get old. Even Bert has something to add every now and then, it's just that he's done so many games, we've probably already heard it a few thousand times by now.

    1. Royals announcers trying to argue that was a catch, but it sure looks like that ball was in the grass.

  85. Okay, cheaps, I call bullshit. Your Stout doesn't have the body of Obsidian, and perhaps that's the reason it was treated poorly in the competition, but this is a pretty damned fine Stout, and as drinkable as anything I've had in the genre.

    2. That one is actually different than the stout bS had. The competition that the one you have was supposed to be entered into was canceled this year while a weird law in WI got taken care of. But thank you, it did turn out pretty good. I'm just really hard on myself with my stouts.

  87. As long as we're calling that last play a catch, we may as well call that a home run.

  91. Evening everyone, just got back from dinner with the car club. Did I miss anything.

  93. Evidently anything within 3 hours of KC is in mlbs blackout area. Luckily (?) we can get the Royals feed here on FSN.

  100. I can't think of any reasonable solution, but I wish pitching changes in the middle of an inning weren't allowed.

    1. Isn't that annoying? On the day off yesterday I watched Rashomon for the first time since college and did some deep, gritty screenwriting work all because the Twins weren't distracting me. Sigh.

      1. Baseball and women are the bane of my creative existence.

        Also spider solitaire.

              1. Yeah. I never had a gaming system (except for a game boy, and even then I only had like 2 games), until I bought a second-hand N64 for my sophomore year of college. Ocarina of Time was the first Zelda game I played.

          1. And it's worth infinitely more than a goal, because you're watching baseball instead of hockey/soccer.

    1. Hey, if they're gonna give you an out, take it.

      And if they're gonna bat Ben Revere, they're gonna give you an out.

  110. This Royals' announcer reminds me of the main character's neighbor in Office Space.

      1. I'm saying I've seen Spooky take better swings at alien space crafts while drunk.

        Also, yes.

  113. That half-inning was quicker than Spooky responding to a new turbo survivor challenge.

  115. Brian Cashman is an ass. If Pineda never had an MRI before coming to the Yankees, how on earth would the Mariners know he was damaged goods?

    Guess what? Pitchers get injured. Early and often. You rolled the dice and it's not looking so good for you right now. Maybe use some of your money to figure out which players are injured and which players aren't.

    1. i think cashman might be the victim of some selective quoting and suggestive writing, but there's only an 85% chance of that.

  118. I'm thinking it might be better for my sanity if I don't watch any more games this weekend. Frown. Sigh. Groan.

    About to start the homestand 1-3, and it very well could've been 3-1.

  124. The fact that they can't even beat the frickin Royals is just sad and makes me just completely uninterested.

    2. Behind the team with the 12-game losing streak. While it's still April.

      Ask my office mates, I've predicted a KCR sweep.
      Not that I'm happy about it, but damnit one of the two teams better not completely suck this season.

      1. and it a noon time FOX 'national' game!!!! (but the forecast calls for cold and rain)

        1. A rainout might be the best thing for my sanity.
          Also, the umps from tonight suck. It's not often I'll blame the umps for a loss, but between the trap/double play and the unbelievably wide strike zone in the ninth inning, I'm blaming the umps for this one.

  129. I'm so glad I chose to watch a movie with the family than listen to this crap. Bad luck, bad umpiring and bad pitching is a really bad combination. Of course, for the fourth time in five games, the main storyline for every writer that covers the Twins will be the lack of clutch hitting no matter how many runs they score.

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