From what I know the Twins just broke a losing streak, so it must be time for the winning streak to begin!
Korea v Anibal
Go Twins!
95 thoughts on “Game 125: Twins in Motor Kittie City”
Spring training road game lineup today. No Mauer and no Willingham. Morneau DHing.
Batting averages for the lineup range from .218 (Colabello and Florimon) to .269 (Morneau!). Yuck.
Edit: Wilkin is at .279! Trending upwards!
Picked up a bomber of New Belgium's Transatlantique Kriek to enjoy this evening after supper. Judging by the Twins' starting lineup tonight, I might need to chase it with something stronger. Looks like there's a pretty large discrepancy between the rankings on RateBeer and BeerAdvocate, so I'm curious where I'll come down on it.
There are multiple BARs? How can we trust this stat?
Maybe I've softened in my old age, but I've even finding BA scores to be less and less useful due to what seems to be score deflation as craft beers gets more and more popular.
These days I basically use the ratings as a rough gauge of whether it's worth my time/money, particularly with bombers that cost as much as a sixer.
I'm on my own for dinner tonight, so I picked up some Leinenkugel Oktoberfest to have with my steak, salad and hash browns.
We (kernel and me) were on our own for dinner tonight - leftovers! Leftover frozen veggies. Leftover penne with red sauce and 'Italian' venison sausage. Leftover Amstel Light.* Leftover wedding cake for "muh-prise".**
*entertaining non-craft beer drinkers last weekend.
**what my daughter calls any treat: 2-year-old speak for desert/surprise.
Sweet corn omelets with sausage patties and slices of honeydew, plus an Alaskan Summer. (Not a bad pairing, actually.) Just starting the Kriek now.
I've taken it easy lately, but I have some Hop Notch in the queue. I mean, on My List.
Trying to remember if it was you, Milkman, who was raving about Surly Cynic. Picked some up at Four Firkins when I was in Minneapolis last; holy cow.
I enjoy the Cynic. Nice for Summer.
It probably was.
Justin Morneau: Greatest Twin Ev--Tonight.
I'd give him last night, too.
Hell, I'll give him the whole month!
Ichiro only 256 hits behind Rose now.
Sort of.
Bremer and Coomer endorsing the "sort of" part.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Ichiro. He'll get number 3,000 in another couple of years on top of all of his hits in Japan. That's phenomenal.
Wilkin Ramirez on pace for a natural cycle!
How come we can get all kinds of bases empty two-out hits, but can't buy one with RISP.
Huh. I thought Martinez had himself a donger there.
V-Mart? More like V-Fart!
Oh snap!
Coomer, pitching down does not result in strikeouts; it results in walks and groundballs.
Nice play by Flowerman.
Bert on vacation for a few weeks. I hope we get a lot of TK in the booth when the boys come home.
Bert probably off eating beans.
Interesting choice for the putout by Plouffe!.
Did Cabrera just do what I thought he did?
What did you thought he did?
I thought he made a good defensive play and made it look easy.
In fairness though, it probably only looked so easy because he was moving so slowly.
El Caballo really dropped the ball on that one.
Chick vs. Anabel
So: Ace vs. Ace.
Can't believe this didn't get the mlb.com ACE/OFF treatment.
I saw my brother over the weekend and he gave me a big package of venison beer sticks. Not quite as good as the deer sausage he gave me last fall, but still plenty tasty.
Just turned on the TV. Dozier!
Just pulled up the gameday. Dozier!
Ribeye!
Insurmountable!
SEND HIM!!!
Oops, too late!
Why is Herrmann inn Rright Field and Doumit catching?
The whole "Trading Butters" plan comes back to bite GMTR in the buttocks.
That is a very good question. Maybe Gardy doesn't anticipate any balls coming to Doumit behind the plate.
Chick may not be all that, but he can get it over the plate.
So much for my theory.
i don't know why i never thought to check if mlb.tv's radio audio feed is synced up with the video feed. it is. awesome.
Are you streaming them in different browsers?
PS3.
Fewer than 90 pitches, Dick. Fewer.
[not here]
Looks like it's about time to pull the plug on Correia.
When I'm right, I'm right.
Hey! It looks like the Royals are off choking their postseason chances against the Sox.
God anything but that.
Yeah, like we didn't all see that coming.
Cabrera's hit on intent balls before.
Careful, Chick!
Pitch 1 looked close enough for Cabrera to hit into CF.
(One Gameday*)
Pitch 3 nearly broke Gameday*.
*Classic
There is no way that the stick figure batting on Gameday is a likeness of Fielder.
TWINS BASEBALL!!!!!!
TWINS BASEBALL!!
...
D'oh-mitt.
I blame Herrmann.
Rivas was clearly to blame.
OMG
This has been a very stupid half inning.
Passed ball on strike 3?
Nevermind...Gameday caught up.
The Twins 2013 season in a nutshell.
Why does the boxscore only show two earned runs but no error?
Casilla was charged with the error.
Dammit Casilla!
Fortunately, he's an Oriole.
He's stalking me.
Oh good Coom talking about what a great clubhouse guy ii is.
I shot a 63 on a par 36 tonight.
looks like me and the Twins have something in common
You're both dyslexic?
maybe we should golf sometime.
That'd be my best score ever.
Oh, good. Rick Anderson from 25 years ago went forward in time so that he could bring himself in to pitch.
Yeah, this Tonkin kid looks like a bona fide Twins pitcher.
I'm disappointed that we are not (yet) calling him The Resolution.
I really, really fucking hate this Tigers team.
That's it for me. Hopefully, Gardy's fired in the morning.
the GOSO is genius.
In theory, I'm still watching this game. In reality I have 3 other monitors going all of which are more interesting at this point.
And mercifully the game expired of natural causes.
``I’ve said he’s one of the toughest players I’ve ever managed, (and) in big situations he gets tougher,” manager Jim Leyland said (of ii). “He knows how to grind out a tough at-bat against a good pitcher, and I think that’s one of his biggest assets. That’s why he’s been so successful for a long time.''
ii OPS on the season: .803
ii with RISP: .733
ii with RISP & 2 outs: .621
ii in High Leverage situations: .554
ii in Late & Close situations: .458
I see a pattern in the stats, but not the way Leyland talks about.
Clearly, we need a rule change so that you only have to get two outs per inning. If that was the case, it would be a scoreless tie and the Twins would still be playing. I assume the Pohlads are on the phone with their good friend Bud Selig even as I type this. Until that rule change becomes retroactive, though, we'll just have to settle for 92-70!
Spring training road game lineup today. No Mauer and no Willingham. Morneau DHing.
Batting averages for the lineup range from .218 (Colabello and Florimon) to .269 (Morneau!). Yuck.
Edit: Wilkin is at .279! Trending upwards!
Picked up a bomber of New Belgium's Transatlantique Kriek to enjoy this evening after supper. Judging by the Twins' starting lineup tonight, I might need to chase it with something stronger. Looks like there's a pretty large discrepancy between the rankings on RateBeer and BeerAdvocate, so I'm curious where I'll come down on it.
There are multiple BARs? How can we trust this stat?
Maybe I've softened in my old age, but I've even finding BA scores to be less and less useful due to what seems to be score deflation as craft beers gets more and more popular.
These days I basically use the ratings as a rough gauge of whether it's worth my time/money, particularly with bombers that cost as much as a sixer.
I'm on my own for dinner tonight, so I picked up some Leinenkugel Oktoberfest to have with my steak, salad and hash browns.
We (kernel and me) were on our own for dinner tonight - leftovers! Leftover frozen veggies. Leftover penne with red sauce and 'Italian' venison sausage. Leftover Amstel Light.* Leftover wedding cake for "muh-prise".**
*entertaining non-craft beer drinkers last weekend.
**what my daughter calls any treat: 2-year-old speak for desert/surprise.
Sweet corn omelets with sausage patties and slices of honeydew, plus an Alaskan Summer. (Not a bad pairing, actually.) Just starting the Kriek now.
I've taken it easy lately, but I have some Hop Notch in the queue. I mean, on My List.
Trying to remember if it was you, Milkman, who was raving about Surly Cynic. Picked some up at Four Firkins when I was in Minneapolis last; holy cow.
I enjoy the Cynic. Nice for Summer.
It probably was.
Justin Morneau: Greatest Twin Ev--Tonight.
I'd give him last night, too.
Hell, I'll give him the whole month!
Ichiro only 256 hits behind Rose now.
Sort of.
Bremer and Coomer endorsing the "sort of" part.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Ichiro. He'll get number 3,000 in another couple of years on top of all of his hits in Japan. That's phenomenal.
Wilkin Ramirez on pace for a natural cycle!
How come we can get all kinds of bases empty two-out hits, but can't buy one with RISP.
Huh. I thought Martinez had himself a donger there.
V-Mart? More like V-Fart!
Oh snap!
Coomer, pitching down does not result in strikeouts; it results in walks and groundballs.
Nice play by Flowerman.
Bert on vacation for a few weeks. I hope we get a lot of TK in the booth when the boys come home.
Bert probably off eating beans.
Interesting choice for the putout by Plouffe!.
Did Cabrera just do what I thought he did?
What did you thought he did?
I thought he made a good defensive play and made it look easy.
In fairness though, it probably only looked so easy because he was moving so slowly.
El Caballo really dropped the ball on that one.
Chick vs. Anabel
So: Ace vs. Ace.
Can't believe this didn't get the mlb.com ACE/OFF treatment.
I saw my brother over the weekend and he gave me a big package of venison beer sticks. Not quite as good as the deer sausage he gave me last fall, but still plenty tasty.
Just turned on the TV. Dozier!
Just pulled up the gameday. Dozier!
Ribeye!
Insurmountable!
SEND HIM!!!
Oops, too late!
Why is Herrmann inn Rright Field and Doumit catching?
The whole "Trading Butters" plan comes back to bite GMTR in the buttocks.
That is a very good question. Maybe Gardy doesn't anticipate any balls coming to Doumit behind the plate.
Chick may not be all that, but he can get it over the plate.
So much for my theory.
i don't know why i never thought to check if mlb.tv's radio audio feed is synced up with the video feed. it is. awesome.
Are you streaming them in different browsers?
PS3.
Fewer than 90 pitches, Dick. Fewer.
[not here]
Looks like it's about time to pull the plug on Correia.
When I'm right, I'm right.
Hey! It looks like the Royals are off choking their postseason chances against the Sox.
God anything but that.
Yeah, like we didn't all see that coming.
Cabrera's hit on intent balls before.
Careful, Chick!
Pitch 1 looked close enough for Cabrera to hit into CF.
(One Gameday*)
Pitch 3 nearly broke Gameday*.
*Classic
There is no way that the stick figure batting on Gameday is a likeness of Fielder.
TWINS BASEBALL!!!!!!
TWINS BASEBALL!!
...
D'oh-mitt.
I blame Herrmann.
Rivas was clearly to blame.
OMG
This has been a very stupid half inning.
Passed ball on strike 3?
Nevermind...Gameday caught up.
The Twins 2013 season in a nutshell.
Why does the boxscore only show two earned runs but no error?
Casilla was charged with the error.
Dammit Casilla!
Fortunately, he's an Oriole.
He's stalking me.
Oh good Coom talking about what a great clubhouse guy ii is.
I shot a 63 on a par 36 tonight.
looks like me and the Twins have something in common
You're both dyslexic?
maybe we should golf sometime.
That'd be my best score ever.
Oh, good. Rick Anderson from 25 years ago went forward in time so that he could bring himself in to pitch.
He's gotten a lot shorter in the past 25 years.
I'm out.
Hiit hiim iin hiis riibs!
Tonkin wears #59
name the last Twins player to wear #59
Yeah, this Tonkin kid looks like a bona fide Twins pitcher.
I'm disappointed that we are not (yet) calling him The Resolution.
I really, really fucking hate this Tigers team.
That's it for me. Hopefully, Gardy's fired in the morning.
the GOSO is genius.
In theory, I'm still watching this game. In reality I have 3 other monitors going all of which are more interesting at this point.
And mercifully the game expired of natural causes.
ii OPS on the season: .803
ii with RISP: .733
ii with RISP & 2 outs: .621
ii in High Leverage situations: .554
ii in Late & Close situations: .458
I see a pattern in the stats, but not the way Leyland talks about.
Clearly, we need a rule change so that you only have to get two outs per inning. If that was the case, it would be a scoreless tie and the Twins would still be playing. I assume the Pohlads are on the phone with their good friend Bud Selig even as I type this. Until that rule change becomes retroactive, though, we'll just have to settle for 92-70!