2012 Twins Game Log

2012 Game 141: Indians at Twins

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First Pitch - 7:10 pm
Television - FSN

Last game of a four-game series with the Tribe. Masterson vs. Deduno on the mound. Very busy at work and my back is so damn sore from cutting wood I can barely walk, so I'm phoning this one in. The medical staff says it's not bad enough to put me on the disabled list and I should just rest it for a few days. I'm sure they know what they're doing.

Play ball!

105 thoughts on “2012 Game 141: Indians at Twins”

    1. 5 more words... i've got what i think are nice descriptors i could cut, but they add what little flavor the story has.

        1. one lesson i'm still trying to learn is tempering the scope of a story into the size of the challenge. paring a good, but long idea to its bones never seems to end well.

          1. That was one thing I was terrible at in Turbo.

            Quick! Come up with a concept! Make it a good one!
            Okay, that one's pretty good, go with that!
            Okay...that one's actually going to require four hours and three thousand words...
            You have ten minutes left.

            1. i can think of 4 stories from turbo off the top of my head that abruptly ended for those reasons.

        2. I really liked my story when it was 285 words. Now that it's 200, it has a completely different tone. Oh well.

          1. I think trimming 1/3rd has helped me focus the story. I did notice a pretty glaring inconsistency, which retooling has helped me out length-wise.

  12. radio trivia:

    how managers did the Twins have the 15 seasons prior to TK?

    I'm gonna say 4: Gardner, Ray Miller, ??, Mauch, Quilici

    [ed: uhh, I was not a math major -- I meant 5]

  16. good for Andy Murray. between the tennis and the Twins and MNF, my remote is getting a workout tonight.

  27. I would be okay with Florimon being the starting shortstop next year. I'm sure he'll start off terribly and get sent down to AAA after about a month, but I think it's worth a shot.

    2. Florimon has a .675 OPS in the minors for his career. Dozier has a .779 OPS in the minors. Both are 25 and Florimon has 1,300+ more PAs as a pro than Dozier.

    1. Well, we can sign Diamond, Deduno and DeVries for a song for next year and there's 35 million coming off the books. That could buy a couple of pretty good starting pitchers. Pavano will be gone and I don't expect they'll pick up Baker's option. You've got Hendricks and a couple of other arms you could stash in Rochester as DL fill-ins. With the right moves by TR, a new training staff and a little luck this team could be a playoff contender again next year.

        1. Lohse has to be on the NL Cy Young short list, no? 14-2 with a 2.89. Yea, he's doing it with mirrors (3.59 FIP, 4.11 xFIP, 3.0 fWAR). But still, contract year performance.

  47. This was a fun game. My buddy and I used our trainer friend's tickets, which ended up being in the Legend's Club. But I didn't have nearly as much fun as the girl who was sitting next to me. She was a very knowledgeable Twins fan and a huge Deduno supporter. She got really drunk and became extremely chatty. And handsy. And her boyfriend was doing nothing to discourage her. It got slightly awkward in the late innings. But a great game nonetheless.

  48. Deduno dedoes it again! Florimon wins the starting shortstop job! We're tied for fourth place! Next year, World Series! For this year, we're still on track for 80-82.

    1. Still not eliminated from the Wild Card or Division, and their actual e#s stay the same.
      Twins could be eliminated from the WC tonight by losing to the Royals or if the As beat the Angels.
      Twins' divisional actual e# now matches their nominal e#. It is 5 and is now reduced by each Sox win; last night's win was cooked into the formula.

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