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.
Mauer is not playing because he is swimming in his Scrooge McDuck brand MoneyVault
I don't think diving into that vault is as easy as they made it look in the cartoon.
It would be much more interesting if the diving were done in pairs.
18/16 K/BB in 23 innings for dadudo? I don't think that ERA is going to stay that low for very long.
18/18 ratio now!
Just one more to get that ratio under 1!
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
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.
I'm thinking TBD may have made a bad decision in changing to TBR.
I think that's yet to be determined.
No one's going to give that some props?
Here, have some props.
I don't know if it was a bad decision. I do know it's worked out badly.
Dudo up to 22 pitches already...
That ball was hit very hawd--according to the Boston announcer.
That inning was a little better than the first.
Dozier and Valencia made a play without bobbling the ball...so yeah it was better.
on the board!
SuperSpan!
hitting streak extended!
Two if by sea!
eight by freight?
holy crap NBC is showing Mens Volleyball and rowing in its primetime coverage tonight
It is a mystery to me why people watch the Olympics*
Non-track and field, that is.
Picking scabs leads to bleeding.
Better than football.
Still I wish this first week had more Bolt.
(What _is_ going on in the track stadium this week? Table tennis?
I like rowing, but I'm weird.
If I'm correct, Morneau would easily pass waivers and could be traded later?
are there any playoff contenders that need a 1stbase dude?
I think he would pass easily.
Time to hit up the treadmill. I'll be back in a few innings.
Bert Blyleven cant pronounce 'Deduno'. Whats so hard about that name?
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.
He's too caught up trying to do California math on his fingers and toes.
But Blijleven just rolls off his tongue...
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!
Wow. She's been to Cleveland before, right? She knows the rivers burn, right?
I think Boston's radar gun is a bit hot. Perkins clocked at 97 mph
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.
what does FSN use?
Probably PitchF/X. The speeds on Gameday seem to match what FSN is reporting.
I think Bert just said 'Dedomit'
Hi everybody.
Wow, this game flew by! I expected to have a least a few innings when I got back.
Pinch running--is there any time it's a good idea?
The Maestro really earned his paycheck tonight, didn't he?
he gets to play the field since Doumit was in LF
Touche!
When it works.
So you want to play the backwards rationalizing game, eh?
Dozier has now out-homered the Twins 2011 shortstops.
Somebody had to do it.
That was easy.
just for fun, coming into tonights game
JJ Hardy: .228/.276/.385/.661. OPS+ 79, 15 HRs
Perkins going for a two-inning save!
Like those exist.
Occasional Bert is far more entertaining.
Last two-plus inning save: Craig Breslow with a three-inning "effective" save.
🙁 Breslow
I concur 🙁
I see that Breslow's now a Bosok.
(Sean Henn is now in Korea.)
Boooo!
Puppies!
Holy crap! Two hits for the BoSox.
Nice job...pitching?! + Dozier.
I wish y'all would stop calling this a save. Booooooooooooooo. Saves are only earned by proven closers.
2-inning saves on 2-saver teams are the new ineffeciency.
Adrian Gonzlez went 2-3. The rest of the team went 0-26
Duderino is the new PJ Walters!
Imagine this rotation for 2013: Diamond, Walters, Duderino, DeVries, and LirianoBakerGibsonBlackburn Hendriks.
That would have to be the least-heralded rotation of Rookies and Sophomores ever: 4 non-prospects and Hendriks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If Dazzle said it, it must be right!
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.
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.
I think they will change the rules after Boggs and Clemens are dead.
I think they should unretire #42. That would actually kind of fit their history anyway.
"Like".
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!
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.
Mauer is not playing because he is swimming in his Scrooge McDuck brand MoneyVault
I don't think diving into that vault is as easy as they made it look in the cartoon.
It would be much more interesting if the diving were done in pairs.
18/16 K/BB in 23 innings for dadudo? I don't think that ERA is going to stay that low for very long.
18/18 ratio now!
Just one more to get that ratio under 1!
I'm thinking the Red Sox may have made a bad decision in signing Crawford
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.
I'm thinking TBD may have made a bad decision in changing to TBR.
I think that's yet to be determined.
No one's going to give that some props?
Here, have some props.
I don't know if it was a bad decision. I do know it's worked out badly.
Dudo up to 22 pitches already...
That ball was hit very hawd--according to the Boston announcer.
That inning was a little better than the first.
Dozier and Valencia made a play without bobbling the ball...so yeah it was better.
on the board!
SuperSpan!
hitting streak extended!
Two if by sea!
eight by freight?
holy crap NBC is showing Mens Volleyball and rowing in its primetime coverage tonight
It is a mystery to me why people watch the Olympics*
Non-track and field, that is.
Picking scabs leads to bleeding.
Better than football.
Still I wish this first week had more Bolt.
(What _is_ going on in the track stadium this week? Table tennis?
I like rowing, but I'm weird.
If I'm correct, Morneau would easily pass waivers and could be traded later?
are there any playoff contenders that need a 1stbase dude?
I think he would pass easily.
Time to hit up the treadmill. I'll be back in a few innings.
Bert Blyleven cant pronounce 'Deduno'. Whats so hard about that name?
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.
He's too caught up trying to do California math on his fingers and toes.
But Blijleven just rolls off his tongue...
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!
Wow. She's been to Cleveland before, right? She knows the rivers burn, right?
You betcha.
I miss great lakes.
oh, dude. You gotta go to Bier Markt (and Great Lakes) while you are in Cleveland. Trust me on this.
sample bier markt lineup:
great lakes beer dungeon:
All those Ξ's in there really throw me off.
I read "Blux Moon", "Hoxgaardxn", &c.
Dude, you're my hero now.
Gameday very helpfully just told me that Deduderino may be running out of gas.
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.
I'm shocked, shocked that dazzL doesn't doesn't get maths.
I may have exaggerated a bit.
Doumit!!!!
Today is the anniversary of the Big Train's debut start in the Majors. Which causes me to say: I miss Light Rail.
Dido.
did you know: Justin Morneau has 251 career doubles. Gary Gaetti his 252 while in a Twins uniform
is Butera Deduno's caddy since Liriano is gone?
Donut!
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.
Deduno abides
Gameday Scout just told me that Lester may prefer going after Butera instead of facing Span. Huh.
Damn, I thought there was no game tonight. Thursday after a Wednesday day game, and spooky totally deeked me with the CoC title.
Should I add a <blink> to the schedule?
Heh, sorry. They don't all refer to the Twins!
Check out this pitch from O's prospect Dylan Bundy (starts at :45) .
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZBdPn9r1hc&feature=player_embedded
Bundoodle doesn't have the same ring as a Booferdoodle.
That was beautiful.
Booferdoodle - there's a term I hadn't thought about in 5 years despite creating it.
oh my.
Jeebus, that pitch made me fall flat on my back.
It's also impressive that he threw four pitches in 54 seconds. That's working quickly.
I look forward to the first female MLB player next year.
That is tremendous!
That's delicious.
I think Boston's radar gun is a bit hot. Perkins clocked at 97 mph
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.
what does FSN use?
Probably PitchF/X. The speeds on Gameday seem to match what FSN is reporting.
I think Bert just said 'Dedomit'
Hi everybody.
Wow, this game flew by! I expected to have a least a few innings when I got back.
Pinch running--is there any time it's a good idea?
The Maestro really earned his paycheck tonight, didn't he?
he gets to play the field since Doumit was in LF
Touche!
When it works.
So you want to play the backwards rationalizing game, eh?
I started early.
You win this round!
bulldozed
Holy--what was that!?
Dozier with the boso?
Dozier has now out-homered the Twins 2011 shortstops.
Somebody had to do it.
That was easy.
just for fun, coming into tonights game
JJ Hardy: .228/.276/.385/.661. OPS+ 79, 15 HRs
Perkins going for a two-inning save!
Like those exist.
Occasional Bert is far more entertaining.
Last two-plus inning save: Craig Breslow with a three-inning "effective" save.
🙁 Breslow
I concur 🙁
I see that Breslow's now a Bosok.
(Sean Henn is now in Korea.)
Boooo!
Puppies!
Holy crap! Two hits for the BoSox.
Nice job...pitching?! + Dozier.
I wish y'all would stop calling this a save. Booooooooooooooo. Saves are only earned by proven closers.
2-inning saves on 2-saver teams are the new ineffeciency.
Adrian Gonzlez went 2-3. The rest of the team went 0-26
Duderino is the new PJ Walters!
Imagine this rotation for 2013: Diamond, Walters, Duderino, DeVries, and
LirianoBakerGibsonBlackburnHendriks.That would have to be the least-heralded rotation of Rookies and Sophomores ever: 4 non-prospects and Hendriks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If Dazzle said it, it must be right!
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.
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.
I think they will change the rules after Boggs and Clemens are dead.
I think they should unretire #42. That would actually kind of fit their history anyway.
"Like".
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!