There was a lot going on at the Maimi game last night. At least in the video it looked like the Marlin's play in the Hooters of the MLB. Whatever, let's get this one today. GO TWINS!
Lineups:
Twins
Miami
It's four days until the Milkmaid's birthday. I spent the last two weeks wracking my brain to remember what she subtly asked for a month or two ago, and last night, it came to me. This one's gonna come together, dudes.
Topsy Hartsel (1874)
Babe Herman (1903)
Debs Garms (1907)
Willard Brown (1915)
Howie Pollet (1921)
Bill Robinson (1943)
Dave Rosello (1950)
Mike Myers (1963)
Rodney Myers (1969)
Derek Jeter (1974)
Jason Kendall (1974)
Outfielder Willard Brown was a star for the Kansas City Monarchs from 1935-1948. He played briefly for the St. Louis Browns in 1947.
There do not appear to be any players with connections to the Minnesota Twins born on this day.
This probably says more about my level of intouchness with pop music, but when I realized it was Pharrell singing on “Get Lucky” my first thought was “Wow, where the hell has he been?”
yeah, i thought mags was talking about perry farrell. my intouchness level is well below 9000.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOB20o7DxnY
1986
at least i know 5+ year old internet memes. also, i thought this was robin thicke.
EDIT: oh shit, that's his dad?
(2 votes, average: 7.50 out of 10)
Loading... Correia (6-4, 3.87 ERA) vs. Fernandez (4-4, 3.05 ERA)
For the second time this year, the Twins get to play the Marlins in a two game set. Somehow, they lost one of those games last time (and looking it up its because Pelfrey was pitching during that particularly fun time of the year), so I should probably refrain from too much confidence. That said, I'm on a little Tuesday win-streak on days when I actually remember to do my game log, and I full expect to continue that here tonight.
The Marlins are the lowest scoring team in the league, and its not even close. I'm not convinced they'll score 500 runs this year. Somehow, though, they actually aren't last in the league in run scoring differential because Houston still has a team in which a move to the AL has done no good. That's a good thing for Correia, who, not being a mind reader so I can only assume, will be looking to continue his surprisingly/un-surprisingly year of decent pitching while we spend the rest of the week talking about Kyle Gibson.
For this week's travels, I'll be in Charlotte, NC. Or, I wanted to be in Charlotte, but was forced by the person I am traveling with to stay in Shelby, NC, about an hour from Charlotte and likely containing less beer. It'll be interesting to see if the Bobcats to Hornets changover will be starting this week, or if the city has to wait until its official.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcF8Aos4XDA
Ain't no love because you aren't around. RIP Bobby, we'll miss you.
(6 votes, average: 9.17 out of 10)Loading... Release Date: 1984
Platforms: Pretty much all of them
Developer: First Star Software
Boulder Dash is a classic arcade game in the vein of Lode Runner. Going around collecting diamonds, you must dig up rocks while running away before they fall on top of you, hoping they fall on enemies. When that happens--diamonds!! The levels get progressively more difficult as you go along. Thankfully, you usually don't have to get all available diamonds on each level, so you can pick and choose strategy. There are other obstacles that will pull your hair out (expanding walls!), but if I remember correctly, some versions of the game had unlimited lives so you could experiment until you passed each level.
It's not that great of a game, but it brings back a wave of nostalgia for me, sitting in front of the IBM XT with a huge joystick and endless patience, mastering a game I can't bother with for more than fifteen minutes today.
Whatcha playing?
Joe Kuhel (1906)
Don Demeter (1935)
Dick Drago (1945)
Clay Kirby (1948)
Bob Shirley (1954)
Alejandro Pena (1959)
Mike Stanley (1963)
Aaron Sele (1970)
Michael Tucker (1971)
Carlos Delgado (1972)
Aramis Ramirez (1978)
Paul Maholm (1982)
First baseman Joe Kuhel played for the franchise for several years while it was in Washington, and later managed the team there. However, there do not appear to be any players with connections to the Minnesota Twins born on this day.
The NHL has followed the NBA's act; though it was just six games, they made the most of them as the Blackhawks scored twice in the last 76 seconds last night to win the Cup. Will the MLB follow suit and keep the ball rolling in a few months? They'd better.
In a spot-start, Pedro Hernandez gets his third win of the season and helps prevent an Indians sweep. The offense racked up 5 runs on 12 hits.
The Twins are now 34-38, 5-5 in their past 10 games. They are 7 games behind the AL Central-leading Detroit Tigers and 1.5 games behind third place KC.
Not to steal Jeff A's thunder, but the bigger news from yesterday is that Hernandez was optioned back to Rochester and Kyle Gibson was recalled. He is scheduled to make his MLB debut against the Royals on Saturday...apparently, the future is now!
From the Twins website:
Gibson made 15 starts for the Rochester Red Wings this season, going 7-5 with a 3.01 ERA, 79 strikeouts and 28 walks in 92 2/3 innings.
