The post formerly known as 'Daniel California."
Valencia ftw.
Forgot to schedule this guy. I'm pretty sure Liam is pitching for the Twins. Does Shields pitch for the Angels tonight? Find out soon.
What happens when Burt and Gardy are both gone this weekend in Seattle? Is that a thing? What happens when butters gets his chance? Tune in.
Go Twins!
Weaver is pitching for the LAAAAAAAAs. I predict at least 2 Twins' wins tonight!
Hendriks' mug shot looks like a caricature.
I liked the original working title for the gamelog better.
I picked Mauer for BTS so that weak groundout is my fault.
please get a victory tonight
Begging for pity wins is sooo sad.
its come down to this :/
please get a run tonight
Yeah, that's much less pathetic.
Even asking for a hit was too much.
Ooh, Plouffe at third? At least he has some experience in the minors.
Gees. Doumit looks lost behind the plate. I think that dude's best days are behind him.
Crazy game in Atlanta. Phillies led 6-0, then the Braves took an 8-6 lead, then the Phillies led 12-8 and now the Braves have just taken a 13-12 lead. Still one inning left.
Carlos Ruiz has 7 rbi in that game, also Carlos Beltran for the Cardinals has 7rbi. crazy
Ruiz is trying to get me out of the cellar in WGOM ball.
It could happen!
But I thought you controlled two teams???
I am the Sarah Phillips of fantasy baseball.
Is it so much to ask that we're not losing in the first inning???
yes. yes it is.
Oh, look. The other team scored first. This seems familiar somehow. Are they seriously going to pitch to ii?
I might be losing my mind because I was in the sun all day, but I swear I just heard Robbie Inc just say 'Twinned Cities'
After that happy talk on Morneau's injury by Dick and Roy, I have to tell you that I heard an orthopedic surgeon on KSTP talking about it tonight and he said that Morneau's not going to be ready and he should be placed on the DL.
Stunning, I know.
Twins baseball!
That's almost like a hit!
hey, whatever works
At least the Twins didn't strike out four times that inning. Tiny victories!
rats. I thought Span was going to catch that
Me too.
Hardest hit ball he's seen this year? Have you closed your eyes during every home run the Twins gave up?
Is it so much to ask that the other team doesn't score every @#%@ing inning?
yes. yes it is.
Liam Hendricks and the 7.83 ERAperince.
Are you 9.93ERAperienced? Well I aaaAAAaamammmmmm.
Has anybody noticed that Hendriks looks kinda like Kubel? He pitches kinda like Kubel, too.
double play would be awesome
You called it.
Remember that time the Twins weren't losing by 3 runs to the Angels in the early innings? Ya, me neither.
They always say "If you're gonna be a good Twins fan, you have to have a short memory."
This seems oddly familiar.
nice that I'm not staying up late tonight
again
Wow that was a weak throw to first.
DAMAGE CONTROL!!!
That's kinda like a win, right?
And once again the Twins give up at least three runs. Not a bad total, but you would think that you would be able to keep a team down for one game just once in a month.
In fairness, this is only the second day of the month.
I'm talking about a month's time, not a calendar month. The season is essentially a month old and the Twins have yet to hold a team to less than three runs.
I don't think it's going to be a stretch to get that 4th run to keep the streak alive.
that really is an amazing streak of sucktitude
Thomas struck out!?
Ooh, Trader Klete is playing? Over/under on strikeouts for Weaver tonight is at 15.
Well, we know he'll get at least two more.
I've learned to stop expecting big things from Clete. In fact, I've learned to stop expecting things. Period. From him.
Oh, I've kome to expekt one thing from him.
You might say he's komikally bad.
Clete is putting up one hell of a stat line. If the Twins had a real bench, I'd say they should just DFA him after that at-bat.
Can Drew Butera play the outfield?
he appeared twice in the PF while he was in Rochester
I'd prefer Luke Hughes instead. Wait...oh yeah.
These Twins half innings are way too short for my taste.
So. Methinks my estimate of 86 wins was a wee bit high.
Sheesh, that stupid picture comparison on Pujols again? Do we get to see it before every plate appearance?
I was just about to type the same thing. Pujols is obviously not hitting well, so please use more than two still pictures to illustrate why.
Another f'ing run for the Angels. At some point even a bad team doesn't play as dreadfully as the Twins have been, right?
The Royals beg to differ. As do the Orioles that started 0-21.
Next week the topic will be "Albert Pujols would have been a Hall of Famer had he retired before the season. Is he still one now!?!?!!!!!?"
Don't think the ump has anything to do with the score, but that 3-0 count should have been 1-2 to Morales.
Wow Morales hit that a long way.
Gameday is stuck. It keeps showing the same score each game.
No Roy, you don't always have to throw a pitch over the plate that allows hitters to put the ball in play. That's one of the big problems.
"This is what happens when you fall behind in the count."
Also this is what happens when you're not a very good pitcher and throw meat over the heart of the plate.
24 games into the year, and I'm already turning the game off in frustration 3 innings in. Bad sign.
Did the Blue Jays give up a HR today? The Twins want that sole #1 position!
ii needs to be plunked.
Turns out having two starters and six long relievers doesn't work.
Why don't we just promote all of our AAA pitchers and demote all of our major league pitchers. They couldn't do worse.
I haven't looked at the AAA roster, who would be the first starter called up?
Hendricks probably isn't long for the MLB roster.
Scott Diamond?
Cole DeVries probably.
Who cares? All of them must be better.
Kan't be worse.
Sorry, Trader Klete must be rubbing off on me.
I don't think you're allowed to use that letter when referring to our pitchers. They pitch to contact.
Solid and hugely efficient power-transferring contact. Sigh.
Le sigh.
I just noticed Gameday lists Howie Kendrick as "Howard". Is that because of the mustache?
Oops, image didn't link like I thought it would
They're Shitty
The Twins really need Willie Mays Hayes right now.
Or Willie Mays Aikens...
The fans at least deserve Harry Doyle.
i hear willie mays aikens has a jump in his step.
I hustled down that chalky line and beat your throw.
Nail a batting glove up on your wall.
Standing in the way of a line drive is the first good use of a Twins pitcher all season.
The NBA playoffs are really helping me to maintain my positivity about the 2012 Twins.
Gasol looks a little doughy.
Hard candy is for the basketball players and basketball player's friends.
The Twins should have drafted OJ Mayo.
They did!
I'm no expert, but unless Liriano is pitching you do need hits to score runs, right?
Not happy with the scoring line tonight. What is 8 factorial? And will that raise the team's ERA?
Time to plunk!
That's what you get for not plunking him.
Should've plunked Kendrick too.
Nice work, Burnett. Get all the ugly out this game.
Slowest no-hitter ever.
The worst part about getting no hit would be people misguidedly believing that hitting is the problem for this team. It is a problem, sure, but not the problem.
The problem of course being the fact that the Twins one decent starter got injured before the start of the season.
Hell, he was injured two years ago and finally needed to get surgery.
The Twins know that you play until your arm falls off like Brad Radke!
Or Dave Dravecky.
And defense isn't the problem either!
A fitting end to this game is Weaver doesn't allow another batter to reach so the only thing keeping him from a perfect game is a passed ball on a strikeout. Has that ever happened?
According to The Repository, no. And Brendan Ryan had a chance!
I posted something half an hour ago from my phone - or so I thought, as I don't see it here. What I said was that I had not seen the score or looked at the box score yet, but based on the comments on this thread I was not optimistic.
Well, now I am home and looking at the box score and it's even worse than I had dreaded. At least last year I could blame injuries for the suckitude.
LOL at Clete running towards first on that pop up into the third base stands. Dude just wants to make contact so badly.
It was a close encounter.
HE DID IT. HE DIDN'T STRIKE OUT!
Viktory!
Dammit, that keeps happening!
I want the Twins to start bunting.
With this lineup, I consider that to be a very reasonable strategy.
Clete Thomas!!!!
Oh please, you can bunt whenever you want.
That seemed like a pretty high called third strike.
And wide first strike(s).
Going with the no hitter in progress strike zone moving forward.
I'm glad to see things haven't gotten better since I left.
Go read the love story I wrote about you on the other site. It will make you feel better.
it was tender and inspiring.
That's some hot sh!t right there!
You captured the... ah, essence of it perfectly.
I'm currently in negotiations with CK to market said essence.
It's going to be called CK Two.
Hey, we're only on our fifth pitcher! We've got a couple more that we could use yet tonight!
I am going to try some rally sleep. Hopefully this helps the Twins get some hits. Or at least one. One would be fine.
It's sad when predicting an 8-run inning still leaves us with a deficit.
That pitch was grooved. No-hitter should have ended right there.
Clete Thomas will end this no-hitter.
Or not.
Casilla did.
Well, we knew Klete wouldn't do it.
Roy, a pitch out of the strike zone that the batter lays off of is not a good pitch.
An easy 1-2-3 inning for Capps.
Damn. Carroll crushed that ball.
Looks like the zone is big enough to drive a truck through at this point.
I don't care if Morneau's wrist is broken, have him pinch hit for Casilla to end this humiliation...
Just Casilla left? Yeah, that's an out.
That was a nice try by Casilla, but not good enough.
Yeah, this is going to be a long season.
I am sooo sorry that I tuned in for the last two outs.
Bleh, at least the Twins won't get no-hit tomorrow.
Also Casilla hit that as long as he can hit a ball.
Jesus, Casilla crushed that too. I say asterisk.
Just when you thought the season had already reached its nadir...
They've broken through a psychological floor.
That's the first step to hitting rock bottom. Hopefully, there's some pitching down there.
Meanwhile, I see free falling.
I was more upset about last night's offensive performance. I'd rather be no-hit by Jered Weaver than three-hit by Jerome Williams.
When you think about it, neither of those things are as bad as getting 15-hit by Hendriks et al. and getting 123ed by Capps. The Twins are the real winners here.
BTW, we have yet to score since Carroll was moved from the second spot in the order.
Our bench tonight consisted of Drew Butera.
That has to be the worst bench in the history of the game.
Better than being the worst starting catcher in the history of the game.
On the bright side, no GIDPs and only two LOBs!
I laughed.
The Twins only have so many hits to give. They're saving them up for when it will do them some actual good. They're investing in their future. They're just in a down cycle now, but just wait until three weeks from now. This team will be loaded for bear!!
So, we're still on track for 144-18!
I'm starting to think 6-156.
I wonder if evil socal (you can tell because he's got a goatee) is with me?
Actually, I've always had a goatee.
you ARE the evil socal!!!
I went to bed thinking to myself that Weaver had not hit stuff.