90 thoughts on “Game 43: Scott Diamond versus the World”

1. The Twins rotation now feels like having five Les Strakers.

   1. I can live with five 1987, +2 rWAR Les Strakers.

      In 1987, the cumulative rWAR for the pitching staff was +11.3. The primary starters, Blyleven (+4.1), Viola (+7.8), Straker (+2.0), Smithson (-0.5) and Niekro (-1.1) contributed a cumulative +12.2 rWAR.

   2. K.A.!!! Where have you been?

   3. I think you mean "Less Strikers."

2. Matt Capps likes pancakes and so do I.

   Leslie Knope: Why would anybody ever eat anything besides breakfast food?
   Ron Swanson: People are idiots, Leslie.

   1. Nice. That's my new mantra.

   2. “We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third.”
      ― Leslie Knope

      1. Its kinda hard to beat brinner.

         httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88K5qw4uPhE

3. It's bring your dog to the ballpark night, so we're guaranteed to see puppies tonight!

4. I started a tumblr of my baseball cards in case anyone wants to look at old Dan Gladden cards while listening to him call this game.

5. Sale starting despite having a sore elbow. The White Sox have been the anti-Twins with regards to injuries over the last several years, but this seems like begging for an injury.

   1. I feel for these young kids who are under so much pressure not to say anything about their injuries.

6. looks like the Sox scored a run while the tornado sirens were sounding.

   There was an all out dust storm and about 60 mph winds that blew through town. The across the street neighbor lost a decent sized ash tree.

7. And thus begins one of those rare days where I watch the Twins feed. Ooh, Ron Coomer! This is so exciting!

8. Wow, look at that ugly bulldog. Had to be one of the Ligues, right?

   1. did it just bite an umpire or summat?

      1. Nah. In fact, now that you mention it, it did seem a lot more civilized than the Ligues.

9. Dick talking about converting Feliz, Sale, and Bard into starters. I wonder if he realizes they're being converted back into starters. Feliz started over half his games in the minors, ditto Bard for his first two years in the minors. Sale is the only one that it can be argued is actually being converted, even though the White Sox said he would be a starter when he came up as a reliever.

   1. There's no way in hell Dick knows any of that.

      1. This made me laugh.

10. I think Dick Bremer dislikes the O-Dog.

    1. Dudes with personalities scare Dick, methinks. The only thing I dislike about O'Dog is that I occasionally have long conversations about him where I think we're talking about 0-Cab. Ahem...

       1. 

11. I think Coomer might actually be a worse color commentator than Bert. Can't the Twins at least have replacement-type backups?

    1. WATCH

       Worst of All Twins Color Hacks.

    2. Yeah, I think he's much worse. He adds nothing, and isn't even occasionally funny when doing it. Bert at least gives some interesting insight about setup pitches on occasion.

    3. I dont mind Coomer. He is not the best, but he knows when to shut up unlike Roy Smalley.

       1. Smalley never shutting up means that he occasionally trips on something interesting, though.

          (Plus, does Coomer speak any less than Smalley? He seems pretty relentless for a color guy too)

       2. I would agree with spoons on both. Coomer talks non-stop about everything.

          1. Case in point: asks Walters a question and then talks over any possible answer.

             1. Is it possible that Walters is as dull as Coomer is annoying?

                This is a hell of a broadcast, right here.

12. Errors for everyone!

13. the answer to the tv trivia question is Tony LaRussa. he was the first AL Manager of the Year award in 1983. I dont know why I know that.

    1. I would have guessed, since it's the answer that makes me the angriest.

    2. Number of managers that have won the award with a losing record: 1. I wonder how closely the team's win improvement correlates with the manager winning the award.

       1. I went that way for a while, but then landed on a theory that it goes to the manager of the team that most exceeded preseason power rankings by the media, no matter how misguided.

14. PUSSY

15. That ended poorly.

16. yikes

17. I think that was my cue to go home.

    Please, let the regression to the mean stop right there.

18. Hah! Hah!

19. Pierzynski wasnt even close to 2B.

20. Coomer trying to defend Pierzynski's ability to touch second base* then sees the slide and explains how it's obviously an out.

    * That isn't the rule, but no one seems to realize that.

21. Tonight: Alaskan Amber. Still the easiest drinker of anything I like, with the possible exception of a couple of Hefes.

    1. I'm having a Copper Bell Lager Beer. 2.99 for a twelver at whole paycheck. I'm drinking on the cheap to offset the belgian beer extravaganza I had last night. I love that the folks at beer advocate write actual tasting notes for this kind of beer.

22. rally inning.

23. I have four warm cans of PBR on my floor. I could drink one for every Twins botched DP.

    1. I'm gagging thinking about that.

    2. PBR me ASAP.

       the Pabst people were way ahead of the times when it comes to texting shorthand.

    3. /*flashes back to Duluth, MN 1982*/

       1. I had a lot of black label beer in Dul-Youth.

          1. mmm, Black Stables.

24. Some real dogs in the stands tonight in Chicago.

    1. Same as usual, then?

       1. The attractiveness factor has risen dramatically!

25. Hints to get Gladden's signature on your baseball:

    1) Hey Dazz, I've played you on a video game.

    2) I live by your mom.

    1. a friend of mine told me that she used to frequent a summer lake cabin in northern Minnesota that ended up happening to be the neighbor cabin of the one Dazzle would use as his weekend, uh, female-companion getaway shack.

       1. I got me a car, it's as big as a whale and we're headin' on down
          To the Love Shack
          I got me a Chrysler, it seats about 20
          So come on and bring your jukebox money

       2. My mental picture of this cabin has it decorated with empty PBR cans and Homer Hankies- maybe a Harley-Davidson sign on the the wall.

          1. Harley parked next to the birch tree.

          2. maybe a Mankato Harley-Davidson sign on the the wall. FTFY

             1. I know just the guys to fine one.

                

                1. I hate that show with the intensity of a thousand white hot suns.

                   1. Is the part that you hate where they super-impose 1000 romans on the field of battle? Me too.

26. Mastrocelli major pasta nightmare.

27. oofta

28. Anthony John trying to get ejected by the second base ump.

29. Coomer suggesting Carroll's error was due to him getting confused about switching from short to second. Carroll has played 4040 innings at second and 1803 at short. Somehow, I doubt he was confused about switching back to his primary position.

30. Nice run support for Cubic Zirconium. Not.

31. Time to Sale him down the rivah!

32. The shine has really worn off the streetcar.

33. Six innings, five runs. With the way this season has gone, I'm actually pretty happy about how Diamond pitched.

    1. Only two earned!

       1. Ugh- I knew that at least one was unearned, but three? Not good defense.

34. Zoinks, scoob.

35. Coom-dog is not very good at being bert.

36. Span looks like a giant when compared to JC Superstar.

37. Dick still can't pronounce Guerrier properly.

38. Only 6 more sacrifices and we are right back in this.

    1. One touchdown and the Vikings take the lead.

       This is how you troll, right?

39. Well, that sucked.

40. What's the line on runs against Frankie tonight?

41. Fbomb - what a relief!

42. I wonder how Shaq would fix the Twins.

43. Dick commenting on Willingham hitting righties better than lefties. He has a .987 OPS against righties and a .957 OPS against lefties. It's basically the same!

    1. It's a little late, but:

       I think this can get quite a lot of use.

44. Got here an inning too soon.

45. It's over. Thank god.

46. Well, at least it was quick. Wait, was it quick, or was I just doing a lot of other stuff that distracted me?

47. No problem. Everybody has a bad night once in a while. We'll just have to settle for 134-28!

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