2012 Twins Game Log

2012 Game 135: Land of Sky-Blue Water at City of Native Garlic

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Television - FSN
First Pitch - 6:10pm CDT

Happy Labor Day, citizens. I hope you've been enjoying your day of leisure; it was hard earned by those who came before us. I hope you're having a cold beer with friends or spending some quality time with family or both. Maybe taking in a ball game. And somewhere along the way, if you haven't done so already, perhaps pausing for just a moment to think about the rivers of sweat and the the mountains of toil and the generational expanses of endeavor and industry as wide as the prairies that it took to build this nation. And maybe, if you are so inclined, hoping for better days to come for everyone looking to earn an honest day's pay for an honest day's work but finding the doors of opportunity thrown shut in their faces.

Today the Twins start a three-game set against the team we love to hate. Sam Deduno is on the mound for the good guys, Hector Santiago takes the hill for the White Sox. The Sox are battling the Detroit Tigers for the AL Central title. The Twins are struggling to climb out of the division cellar. What the heck, there's just a month left of Twins baseball this year. We might as well stock up on what's left. Winter comes early in these parts and hangs on like a fat and stubborn tick. Best to enjoy every day of baseball summer has left to offer, there will be precious little autumn ball for the Twins this year.

I find myself feeling a bit poetic for some reason, but in the spirit of the holiday I'm just going to take it easy and toast the work of others who have better saluted in verse the homes of today's natively eponymous contestants:

Do your golden fields of wheat and corn
Still shimmer in the early morn
Waving to the clouds as they drift by
Do moose and bear still rule the earth
In the Red River Valley of my birth
Do the Northern Lights still dance across your sky
Does the North Star still guide you
Do your farmers still provide you
With the way of life that we all learned to share
Do they still follow the Golden Rule
And dress up each week for Sunday School
Do your families still give thanks for living there
from Minnesota Blue
by Cordell Keith Haugen

Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse
and strong and cunning.
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set
vivid against the little soft cities;
Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the
wilderness,
Bareheaded,
Shoveling,
Wrecking,
Planning,
Building, breaking, rebuilding...
from Chicago
by Carl Sandburg

Play ball!

60 thoughts on “2012 Game 135: Land of Sky-Blue Water at City of Native Garlic”

  15. It took me about an hour longer to get my knife back together than it should have. One the plus side, it's been degunked and relubed and is opening and folding like a charm.

  19. Took a stab at the radio trivia, and whiffed on my first guess again tonight. Q: Which Twin has the most hits against the B!tch Sox in a season, and what year?

    First guess:

    Spoiler SelectShow

    so then I went with

    Spoiler SelectShow

  29. I like Plouffe, but he is (still) not a good defensive third baseman. I know he's relatively new to the position (149 games in his professional career over five seasons), so maybe there's some hope he'll become passable with familiarity.

  31. Parmelee moves from right field to first base. Encouraging to see him stay in the close game until the end. It seems Gardy has gotten him into every game since his call-up.

  34. I'm not listening, but a single followed by a single + an 2-base error.
    First baserunner scores from first, but it's an earned run?
    It's the difference between Fien having an ERA of 1.42 and 0.95

  35. Ugh, guys. I was sick the last couple of days, and although I'm pretty sure I'm over it now, I'm also pretty sure I'm sick from being sick or something. My voice is shot and this headache won't go away. I don't really have a point - I'm just complaining.

  37. White Sox fan singing "Jamie's Cryin'" to heckle Carroll. That's...unconventional. Especially considering he jacked a donger for the first time in four years.

  42. Bright side:
    O's win, Rays beat Yankees.
    O's are one GB, second wild-card Rays are 2.5 back.
    The AL playoffs still could be Rays, Os, As, Rangers, Sox.
    That would be great.

  43. The E-Twins win the championship! The Snappers go to the playoffs! Oh, and we'll just have to settle for 82-80!

    1. I guess I can take that tradeoff.

      Twins Divisional E# went down to 9.
      Twins Wild Card E# went down to 7.
      Think the Twins need to focus on the division this year.

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