I bought my yearly pack of baseball cards yesterday. I acquiesced to Lindsey and bought a pack from last year, just on the offhand chance that I'd get a Morneau as a Twin. I told her that the odds were ridiculously low.
So, of course I pulled a Morneau.
I also pulled this.
It's got to be a sign. Of what, I don't know. Maybe it's a sign that he'll get traded for an outfielder that will later be waived so that the Twins can keep a washed up infielder as a fourth outfielder. I'm assuming reality itself wpuld collapse at that point.
What I'm trying to say is that Florimon has a .080 average that seems unlikely to improve at all. I'm guessing it will go down further by year's end.
Nolasco on the mound. Speaking of dire predictions, I'm guessi g Nolasco finishes the yesr with a 9 ERA.
GO TWINS.
Hmm... I must do something wrong when I do these.
What is "these"?
When I make a game log. Does it not put it in the main grouping on the top of the page until it gets some comments?
In the six featured posts? The top row is pre-defined, so they can appear without any comments. The bottom three are the "hot" ones and require at least one comment to appear.
DOZIER!
Doziersy!
plenty of seats available at Target Field for this tilt.
E-1
What happened?
Suzuki tried a sac bunt, went right back to the pitcher. He tried to spin and throw Kubel out at third and the ball fell out of his glove.
Another walk for Aaron Hicks (rbi walk to boot!)
coming into the game, only batting .176, but now has 8 walks against 8 strikeouts.
just in time for TWINS BASEBALL!!!
BOOOOOT
and what a dumb play by Gordon allowing Dozier to get to second.
PAUER!!!
Well played Mauer.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Royals Baseball!
The First Baseman is a power hitter.
ABSOLUTE PAUER
And finally Dick Bremer can stop whining about all these home runs the Twins are hitting, but they are solo homers. Thank you Joseph.
yea, but rally killer.
I read in the paper that Kubel had a triple yesterday. What, huh?
The RFer had a ball bounce off the wall into his glove back out of his glove and Koobs kept running.
Nice inning for Nolasco.
No give-back runs? Who ARE these guys?
I'm thinking that Gibson and Nolasco don't know the rule about second innings.
I caught the gameday highlight of Dozier and when Dick said "His 4th HR on the season" my reaction was "Wait, what? Already? That seems high."
Tied for the AL lead as of right now.
Nolasco is a MACHINE!
back to pussy singles. Le sigh.
The TWINS ARE GONNA WIN THE PENNANT!
Oops. Jinxed it.
Boo birds? for Mauer or the call?
MLB Gameday opening ad ran like 2 minutes - maybe I got penalized for turning the ad on Mute.
I just got home and turned the game on. Is this a replay of yesterday?
Ground-hog day.
And a new single game high innings pitched for a Twins starter!
And there is much rejoicing!
yaaaaaaay
I'll be expecting the Twins bullpen arms to file a grievance with the MLBPA over not getting their normal work by the fifth inning.
Maybe if they were being paid hourly. Wait...can we pay our starters by the hour?
And make them even slower? No thanks.
I was just gonna say don't give the Yankmees and BoSux ideas.
can we pay our starters by the successful pitch? Successful pitch means no harm to The Win.
The Dude is a Gold Glover.
To be a Diamondbacks fan watching Kubel...
spooky?
My co-worker was so excited to see Kubel as a Twin again. I was almost positive that it was going to be a disaster.
It's still early, but the results have been the opposite of disastrous.
His dudeness only abides in Minny.
The Diamondbacks should have just signed, oh, I dont know, Hin/.
A 120 OPS+ in 2012. He was abiding pretty well when he was healthy.
Gulfed off of Tonkin.
Huh. That felt like the type of ball that Hicks should be able to catch.
I thought the same thing. It's a tough catch, but usually one he makes.
Puppies!
I'll admit, these are far more puppies than I expected this early.
This strategy of holding the Royals to a single run is working great. The Twins should try it more often.
If only the Twins could play the Royals every week.
Need it to be more than the Royals.
Twins now +2 in run differential.