DAY GAME ALERT!!!!
Going for the SWEEEEEEEEEEEEP!
Scott Diamond vs. John Danks
I would say that one of the best parts about Baseball is the draft. Specifically the fact that it's not held until the middle of next year and the players won't make an impact for years down the line. When watching a bad Timberwolves or Vikings team it's easy to root for a loss to get better draft position. With a bad Twins team I can still always hope for a win. Especially against the White Sox.
SWEEEEEEEEEEP!!!
It'll be nice to have a game on in the background while I do some writing on this article. Final draft is due later today.
Oswaldoooooooo!
The White Sux Suck at defense.
Their pitching does, too.
Kill-dozer!
Just saw the video of Arcia's homer. So, those flagpoles are his now, right? Or will they always belong to Thome?
Thome's a gentleman. He'll be willing to share them.
The White Sox have that field so messed up that nobody can play on it now.
Clete!?!?!?!?
CLETE!
Clete'd!
ESCOBAR!
Clete? Huh, how about that.
Ok, now this is just getting silly.
If you had Clete Thomas and Eduardo Escobar hitting back-to-back home runs today, you just cashed in big time.
Danks is trying to give everybody a homer. Has there ever been a game where all the starters had a HR?
According to play index, there are only 2 games with >=9 HR in one game - BAL-TOR 1987 and CIN-PHI 1999.
In the Toronto game, Whitt had 3, Mulliniks and Bell both had 2, and McGriff and Moseby had one each (one more HR was hit of the bench by Ducey)
In the Cincinnati game, six starters had a HR, and two men off the bench did. The only non-pitching starters w/o a HR were Larkin and Sean Casey.
Of course that leaves 7 or 8 HR games where each was hit by a different player as a possibility.
Was at the card shop during lunch today (owner had the Twins game on for me), and he was opening the new Topps series 2 at the time and pulled a Scott Diamond autograph card. Another fine addition to the collection
Move back the fences in this bandbox.
The ballboy is Pat Neshak's little bro!
Is it time for Diamond to meet up with "the Wall".
So, is this wall a physical thing, or not? Because I swear I practically heard him hit it.
and hit it hard
Hey now, Scout just told me he has plenty left in the tank.
Enough left in the tank to really smash into the wall, instead of coasting into it.
Either that, or someone put sugar in there.
Mr. Diamond, meet Mr. Wall.
holy cats, hurricane force winds blowing out today?
Was the wind blowing in for that fly ball? Gameday says it just missed clearing the wall.
Its been showing that a lot today.
The wind is blowing so hard people can't even field ground balls.
I thought maybe the White Sox defense hit the wall.
A roof would really help that I think.
This Mauer kid might be all right.
No ribbies today.
He batted with the bases empty in every single at bat, but point taken. Overpaid!
He could have 4 ribbies with those plate appearances if he wasn't such a pansy singles hitter!!1!
Sometimes I like Uno. Like right now.
Mountie is screwing up Perks SO. They'll need to bring Duensing in to CSO.
It's SOC (Save Opportunity Created). They need to bring Duensing in to SOC.
Burton might be available as well.
Burton looks to be doing the job.
Yeah, I'm not liking where this is going.
Looks like Jared is on it- no EGO for him.
One run will score. Two runs will score.
I think this strategy of scoring runs in more than just the first couple of innings is a better way to go about things.
Good grief, how many outs are we going to make Burton get?
THE GAME THAT WOULD NOT END
This isn't all Burton's fault, but I don't understand why Perkins isn't in the game now.
Had them all the way.
Just like they drew it up.
How is it that Swarzak get a Hold, yet Fien comes and and retires everyone he faces and he gets no Hold?
I think to be a hold, it has to be a possible save situation when you enter the game.
you are correct sir
Oh, so there's BHO (Blown Hold Opportunity) as well??
even though they both suck, with the twins sucking slightly less, i still love sweeping the white sox.
Twins on pace for 77 wins. They are 15-9 since ending 10-game losing streak.
SWEEEEEEEEP!!!!
You gotta have some skills to be a Twins ball boy.
watching the replay, I loved Danks reaction when he gave up the Escobar HR. looks like he wanted to rip his glove off his hand and stomp on it
Dazzle said he threw it.
Keep those brooms out, boys, we're gonna need 'em! We're still on track for 126-36!