114 thoughts on “Game ###: Twins vs. Red Sox”

  1. Sweet Drew is in the game. Catching, of course. Mauer evidently has some sort of need to not play for a day or something lame like that, though I don't really understand why that means the Twins have to give the Red Sox a free out.

    1. Mauer is not playing because he is swimming in his Scrooge McDuck brand MoneyVault

      1. I don't think diving into that vault is as easy as they made it look in the cartoon.

  2. 18/16 K/BB in 23 innings for dadudo? I don't think that ERA is going to stay that low for very long.

  3. I'm thinking the Red Sox may have made a bad decision in signing Crawford

    Year Age Tm WAR
    2002 20 TBD 0.9
    2003 21 TBD 2.0
    2004 22 TBD 4.6
    2005 23 TBD 4.1
    2006 24 TBD 4.2
    2007 25 TBD 3.7
    2008 26 TBR 2.3
    2009 27 TBR 4.7
    2010 28 TBR 6.6
    2011 29 BOS 0.0
    2012 30 BOS -0.2
    1. it wasnt a bad decision to go out and get him. it was a bad decision to give him a 7 yr 200bazillion dollar contract.

    1. Dozier and Valencia made a play without bobbling the ball...so yeah it was better.

  4. holy crap NBC is showing Mens Volleyball and rowing in its primetime coverage tonight

      1. Better than football.
        Still I wish this first week had more Bolt.

        (What _is_ going on in the track stadium this week? Table tennis?

    1. He's had several years to figure out "Broussard" and hasn't.

      He always said "Hasegawa" was his favorite name of any player, but he couldn't pronounce that either.

  5. Mrs. Buffalo has been asking for a vacation for the past couple of years. After putting it off and putting it off somehow I talked her into going to Twins games in Cleveland next Tuesday and Wednesday and calling it a vacation.

    Ha!

  6. Dazz is now telling me that Johnny Pesky hit 150 percent of his career HRs down the line at/around the "Pesky Pole". Hence the name.

  7. Today is the anniversary of the Big Train's debut start in the Majors. Which causes me to say: I miss Light Rail.

  8. did you know: Justin Morneau has 251 career doubles. Gary Gaetti his 252 while in a Twins uniform

  9. Ok, just another dominating performance by DeDuderino. Time for me to go home. I'll be thinking about a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale all the way home.

  10. Damn, I thought there was no game tonight. Thursday after a Wednesday day game, and spooky totally deeked me with the CoC title.

  11. Check out this pitch from O's prospect Dylan Bundy (starts at :45) .

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZBdPn9r1hc&feature=player_embedded

      1. That was beautiful.

        Booferdoodle - there's a term I hadn't thought about in 5 years despite creating it.

    1. It's also impressive that he threw four pitches in 54 seconds. That's working quickly.

    1. Most parks no longer have radar guns and just use PitchF/X now. The second to last pitch to Crawford was 97 mph and was preceded by four 96 mph pitches.

  12. Wow, this game flew by! I expected to have a least a few innings when I got back.

    1. just for fun, coming into tonights game
      JJ Hardy: .228/.276/.385/.661. OPS+ 79, 15 HRs

  13. I wish y'all would stop calling this a save. Booooooooooooooo. Saves are only earned by proven closers.

  14. Duderino is the new PJ Walters!
    Imagine this rotation for 2013: Diamond, Walters, Duderino, DeVries, and Liriano Baker Gibson Blackburn Hendriks.
    That would have to be the least-heralded rotation of Rookies and Sophomores ever: 4 non-prospects and Hendriks.

    1. I'm hoping Gibson will find a spot in there. I also wouldn't be surprised to see Pavano back on a one-year deal, depending on how his rehab goes. I'd like the Twins to offer Baker a minor league deal at least, as well.

  15. I listened to this one on the radio while working on my sister's house. We got all the kitchen drawers and cabinet doors re-hung and new handles, and 5 curtain rods hung around the first floor.

    I don't listen to many games on the radio, but holy crap is Dazzle bad. I like really like Cory though.

    1. While heading to Alabama Shakes, I heard Dazzle complaining about the Red Sox standards for retiring a uniform number. (1. Must have been a Red Sox for at least ten years; 2. Must been in the baseball HOF; 3. Must have retired with Red Sox.) I actually found myself agreeing with him for a change. Also, explain how Carlton Fisk and Johnny Pesky meet that criteria. If you're going to create bs criteria to show how great your organization and its history is, then you should actually bother to comply with your stupid criteria.

      1. Dazz said they signed Fisk to a one-day contract to get around that and that Pesky was the only exception the Red Sox had made. I don't know the veracity of those statements, but that's what they said on the radio.

          1. But that gets back to my point. Why create arbitrarily stupid standards to justify your great history if you're going to then neglect to follow the standards on 2 of your 7 retired numbers?

            Do Wade Boggs and Roger Clemens need to sign one-day Red Sox contracts now to suddenly get their numbers retired? Is Dwight Evans going to be completely ineligible because he spent one season with the Orioles (after the Red Sox released him! - not like he left by choice) and the rest of baseball doesn't appreciate that he was better than Jim Rice?

            It's just stupid.

            1. I should add that a quick search of newspaper archives confirms that Jim Rice (after he also was released by the Red Sox) negotiated with the Orioles, but couldn't reach a deal because he wanted a guaranteed contract. Thus, he only qualified because of his stubborness and the stupidity of HOF voters.

  16. Deduno dedit it! I'm supremely confident that if the Twins pitchers continue to allow zero runs, we'll win every game! We're still on track for 102-60!

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