Kevin Correia vs. Travis Blackley
I find myself wanting to see a game today, but I'll catch maybe an hour before I have to run to work. At least I'll see one or maybe two of Alex Presley's at-bats!
The Twins have to go 15-13 now to avoid the 90-loss plateau, so I'm thinking that ship is sailing pretty quick here. We'll have to hitch our postseason hopes on Morneau or something, or at least get into the AL playoff races (the NL, barring some major comebacks, looks to have its five teams pretty well set).
I'm watching Mountie play against the Cardinals and they're down 5-0 in the 3rd. He must feel like he never left Minnesota!
More likely, since he seems to really love Minnesota, he just wanted to bring a little piece with him.
Now we're down to just M&.
For now it's just &.
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(recently went to the Samuel Morse museum in Poughkeepsie, NY)
Elvis has entered the building!!
SEND HIM!!!!!
TWINS BASEBALL!!!!
Mastro...shave the mullet and you will get back your baseball sense.
Im mean, that was just an AWFUL send by Vavra.
Ullgeresque
(unless Mastrioanni blew through a stop sign)
WGOM Anagram fun:
Jurickson Profar == Junior Scarf Pork
I recently made some of that. A little smoke would have helped.
Tejas infielders struggling with those leather things.
this has gotta be the poorest lineup the Twins have trotted since since Sept 27 2011
At least today's lineup has Dozier (never would have thought it after last year's SS debacle), Willingham (DH is his best defensive position) and Pinto (heir apparent! Move Mauer to third!!!). S
Hindsight is 20/20, I guess. That was a decent-looking, young outfield that I would have thought had a good chance at being major pieces for at least a couple years. Oops.
Plouffe is the only one listed still getting every-day starts anywhere(I think), and we all know how borderline he is.
Saw Plouffe several years back at New Britain hit 4 for 5 and thot he'd do well.
I'm not saying he's terrible, but his glove at third is. I wish he'd been a corner outfielder for the last couple seasons instead of trotting Doumit and the AAAA-guys out there game after game.
maybe a more compareable lineup is this one from Sept 25 2005
I still miss
Henry BlancoTerry Tiffee.Pretty much any Mauerless lineup the Twins run out there is going to look like that. Might as well put the young guys out there and see what we see.
there hasnt been to many lineup over the years where either Mauer or Morneau (and farther back Hunter) were not penciled in.
Morneau and Mauer missed a ton of time in 2010.
buth not really at the same time
2010 batting orders
also Cuddyer, Thome, Kubel were still on the team. There were some bad lineups, but not the awfulness what what today's looked like (how the hell did the Twins win this one?!)
Adduci first Bigs swing makes purchase. That has to feel good.
Ranger sqwaukers are glad we don't have both Pinto and Punto.
Presley, Pressly is bad enough
For so many reasons.
obligatory Correia HR
Solo home runs don't hurt you.
If the next Ranger drives the ball I might find something else to do. The Twins are on a very short leash for me today.
K for Hodar.
I'm giving a 50/50 chance Maestro gets thrown out on the base paths.
So close!
Mastrioanni is trying to steal 20 bases this month.
Il maestro. Base hit scores...
French connection, there.
Nice pass by Plouffe.
Flashback to the idyllic days when Gameday had silence between innings...
/* hits mute button */
adblock?
Pinto patience == Twins double.
Not Punto!
Pinto > Punto.
Holy Bearnaise, Batman!
With Pressly and Presley on the team, too bad Punto isn't around to pair up with Pinto.
Ribeyes for everyone!
The Twins have scored three runs in the same inning. We need to check and see if the rules allow this.
I checked. Those last two runs have been invalidated.
Twice in one series!
He's being taken out after those two hits?
Nephtali - isn't that one of the 12 tribes?
I certainly hope that Terry Ryan is smart enough not to be influenced by the fact that Alex Presley has a good series in AAA when Ryan happened to be there.
I'm not sure why Cory and Dazzle seem to think "Shibuya" is such an odd name.
Шибуя
How is it that Blackley could pitch without sleeves with such extensive tattoos on his pitching arm?
Zumaya had to wear sleeves.
Went to Austin, Tejas last year - everyone - not kidding you - had one arm fully covered in TATs. Felt naked.
Austin is hardly Tejas.
In my opinion, playing Plouffe or Herrmann at first base would be a waste of an opportunity.
Inning ending GIDP on an UNO! --> I'd nearly forgotten what it felt like to turn one, not hit into one
Are you guys ready for 8-run 8th? It will be followed up by 9-run 9th and 10-run 10th.
Not sure I'm prepared for the 20-run bottom of the ninth for the Rangers.
I'm stuffed up and my throat is sore, so a Cup-O-Noodles is the only thing that sounds good right now, but it keeps fogging up my glasses. Sure, they're only reading glasses and I could easily manage without them, but man nothing going right today (game excepted)
TWINS BASEBALL!!!!
Man, that was awesome.
Again, solo home runs don't hurt you.
I hate that guy.
Bah. It had to be Poopzynski. At least that was a solo shot.
Burton is just grooving stuff in there, isn't he?
That's a tough way to try to turn a double play, but it sure would've been a nice one to get.
Notpunto strikes again!
Hmm..that seemed like another candidate for the infield fly rule.
That was dumb.
Perkmatic. Winning a series away against a playoff team is actually pretty good.
Second time in the last 12 games.
World champs, baby!
Clearly, Mauer and Morneau had been holding this team back. Now that those two bums are out of the lineup, there's no stopping us! We're still on track for 86-76!