59 thoughts on “June 16, 2012: Corked!”

    1. If the lake is unswimmable, I can't imagine running across it would be much easier.
      Beer time now?

    1. So Weiters is Mauer with Pauer and defense? Twins shoulda drafted Prior and just waited for Weiters.

      1. Funny, BBRef has Wieters' best comp as Kurt Suzuki.

        For those keeping track at home, this is Wieters' age 26 season, anyone remember what Joe did during his age 26 season?

    2. If Mauer and Butera are #5 and #6 respectively, Imagine what would happen if Matt LeCroy caught for Carl Pavano?

          1. Washington Post once posed the great metaphysical question: what would happen if Matt LeCroy tried to steal a base off of Matt LeCroy?

  4. Ugh, Ikea designed products make the Chrysler Pacifica look like a f&@$ing engineering marvel. Europeans, ammiright?

  5. It's 8:15 a.m., and 82 degrees. Heading for 108 degrees today according to the forecast. I think I will be hiding at home.

  6. Home Runs
    1. Dunn (CHW) 23
    2. Hamilton (TEX) 22
    3. Granderson (NYY) 20
    4. Bautista (TOR) 19
    5. Jones (BAL) 18
    6. Encarnacion (TOR) 17
    7. Ortiz (BOS) 15
    Reddick (OAK) 15
    9. Plouffe (MIN) 14
    Trumbo (LAA) 14

    1. (Minimum 9 HRs)

      HR/PA:
      1. Plouffe! .089
      2. Dunn .083
      Hamilton .083
      4. Granderson .070
      5. Bautista .068

      HR/AB
      1. Dunn .103
      2. Plouffe! .096
      3. Hamilton .094
      4. Bautista .082
      5. Granderson .080

      Pitches/HR
      1. Hamilton 41.3
      2. Plouffe! 42.9
      3. Dunn 54.0
      4. Jones 57.9
      5. Trumbo 60.2

      Even though its for the Sox, I'm really happy to see that Dunn isn't. Seems like he might have comeback player of the year wrapped up already.

      1. Hi, I'm new here.
        Thought I should warn folks that I just picked up Plouffe in my fantasy league, so that should pretty much end any significant production on his part.

        1. Sounds foreboding, like we should've left before Zee German got here.

          Welcome, btw. Kick off the shoes, stay a while, don't look in the basement.

            1. Saw the pigeon business...funny coincidence, we've been trying to eliminate them from the warehouse at work. Finally were able to trap a few, but can't find anyone interested in doing away with them. Bit of a gap in my planning.

              1. Welcome, Deutsches Zed. Good to have you on board. We are small, but we're über alles.

              2. Glad to hear you got that far. And around to signing up. I don't think I can handle another pigeon here though.

              4. Welcome Herr German (as long as you're not pro-Tommy Herr - no one should be pro-Tommy Herr).

              5. Ooh! Do we have our first new regular since Can of Corn/bhiggum?

                I've noticed you lurking (I'm not stalking you, I swear) like a lot of folks did around here at first. I'm glad you seem to feel at home.

        3. Oh, and I'll attest that this guy kills baseball players with his pick-ups faster than anyone else ever could. Serious damage awaits. Once upon a time, he picked up a young pitcher named Roy Hobbs.

              1. Had some maturity issues, however. When he got Close, he started seeing red. Took him years to pull it back together.

    2. Plouffe with the bases empty: .293/.370/.793
      Plouffe with men on base: .172/.232/.297
      Plouffe since Valencia was sent down May 9: .282/.315/.718

      2. And to think I wanted him to be batting cleanup yesterday (never spoke it).
        Gardy should bat him leadoff. That's one guaranteed bases-empty plate appearance every game!

      3. Noticed I had no auto or game-used cards of Plouffe! in my collection, so I went casually browsing for him on The Bay. Should have looked a couple weeks ago.

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