165 thoughts on “2012 Game Logs: Game 73 Bad Guys @ Good Guys”

  1. Is Hendricks due? The anagram machine says:

    Clanked him, sir
    He's rancid milk
    Medical shrink
    Red China Milk
    I'm a clerk's hind

    As you can see, none have positive connotations.

    1. The Doublor is always at his best when leading off the inning. He frustrates me sometimes with less than two outs.

  2. Evening everyone, just got in from mowing the lawn, or as they say in Nebraska, cutting the grass.

  3. FYI I haven't checked to see if there are any Thursday games the next few weeks, but if there are then someone will have to take over on the recaps for me.

  4. Ugh. I went over to MLB.com just to check standings, and got another headline to add to the "I wouldn't hate him so much if it weren't for the sportswriters" file:

    On 38th birthday, Jeter reflects

  5. Span must play like a real old-school guy, because his Similarity Scores (yes, always taken with big grains of salt) are mostly names I don't recognize - and colorful ones at that:

    Goody Rosen
    Kiddo Davis
    Homer Summa
    Happy Felsch
    Jigger Statz
    Buttercup Dickerson
    Elmer Valo
    Taylor Douthit
    Tillie Walker
    Johnnie Grubb
    etc.

      1. Actually, I was looking at his page because I don't recall him getting picked off first base much this year and wanted to see if the stats backed me up. Of course, I got sidetracked and never even looked at the PO #s.

    1. Ah, if they only had beer cans that turned blue when cold enuf to drink.

  6. Before today, Revere had nine strikeouts in 171 PAs. That PA/SO (19) rate leads the league, just ahead of Pierre's 18.8.

    1. Next is Jeff Keppinger at 17.8, then Carlos Lee at 16.1, and then Juan Rivera at 13.7.

      (Note: minimum of 100 PAs.)

            1. They show OBP in a batter's first PA of the game, but drop it after that. Obviously, knowing the series stats is more important.

  7. Does anyone (except the Rockies) think a starter going 5.2 innings is a "great" start? They love their strawman.

  8. Shouldn't, at some point, they have bothered to inform all the viewers HOW TO ATTEND the SABR conference?

        1. Sorry to hear that. I'm missing the actual "conference" but plan to partaking in the evening festivities.

    1. I'm guessing the nerd in the booth got nervous and forgot to plug the one thing he was supposed to plug. Good old nerds.

      I assume they'll mention it after the break...?

  9. Lastly, SABR is SOOOOOOOOOO much more than statistics. The two times I went to the convention, I would guess only about 25% of the presentations I attended were stats-focused. It's much more history. Looking at the schedule of presentations for this weekend, it looks like only 2 of 16 presentations on the first day are stats-focused.

  10. SABR guy in with Provous right now- I'm waiting eagerly for Dazzle to chime in.

  11. Does that idiot kid even know he has a cup gummed onto his hat?

      1. My first thought was upon reading was "Hey, no one did that to me." My next thought was "Oh, I forgot there are other pirates."

        Seriously.

  12. Morny hits like .800/.850/2.00 against righties, so he's gonna jack one, amiright?

  13. I see Jeff Gray still has zero losses this year. Maybe he will be the Twins all star?!?

  14. I don't know if you guys know this yet but the Minnesota Twins are going to win this baseball game.

  15. If the Twins can score three runs this inning, then Willingham can win it in extras (the only way it is possible for him to come up as the winning run).

  16. Remember that time the Twins won because Rios randomly threw a ball into the dugout? That was hilarious.

    1. Cool.

      I met Tony Oliva in a Dome suite hosted by a technology vendor several years back. Had the FIL along as well. Same night I snuck into the CCO booth and got Herb Carneal to sign my scorecard.

  17. The Twins dropped to 16-12 in one-run games. That's pretty scary how good their record is in one-run games. A lot of that is because of a good bullpen, but that's a lot of luck going your way as well. Hopefully, they start playing better so they don't have to count on luck, because that can turn on you pretty quick.

  18. A loss, but several positives. Liam Hendriks pitched well. Tyler Robertson showed he'll win Rookie of the Year. The Twins battled back well in the ninth. We'll just have to settle for 119-43!

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