A brilliant game by Pat Dean. Adam Brett Walker II hits his IXth home run. A bad inning costs the Miracle. We're still waiting for the Kernels to use Trevor Hildenberger and Michael Theofanopoulos in the same game.
Monthly Archives: May 2015
May 12, 2015: Harvey Birdman
Hulu put up a lot of Adult Swim stuff, and it's amusing me. Makes me miss college, too.
Happy Birthday–May 12
Chicken Wolf (1862)
Lave Cross (1866)
Jumping Joe Dugan (1897)
Hank Borowy (1916)
Ed Runge (1918)
Yogi Berra (1925)
Felipe Alou (1935)
Ted Kubiak (1942)
Vic Albury (1947)
Bob Heise (1947)
Joe Nolan (1951)
Lou Whitaker (1957)
Kevin Bass (1959)
Willie Lozado (1959)
Mark Clark (1968)
Wes Helms (1976)
Felipe Lopez (1980)
Evan Meek (1983)
Ed Runge was an American League umpire from 1954-1970. His son Paul and his grandson Brian have also been major league umpires.
Infielder Willie Lozado was drafted by Minnesota in the third round of the January Secondary draft in 1978, but did not sign.
We would also like to wish a very happy birthday to MagUidhir’s sister.
Players of the Week
Our weekly honors.
Game 32: Native Indigenous Persons 8, Dual Siblings 2
It was so nice of the Twins to make it easy to stop watching this one early so we could spend more time with our families. Happy Mother's Day, moms!
Trevor May was bad. Danny Salazar was very good. That's about all you need to know about this one.
It was also nice of the Twins to win the first two games of this series. I don't like the Twins to lose any game, but I also realize no team is going to win every game (despite JeffA's brightest hopes) and so I try to look at the season series by series to get a better idea of how a team is doing. So I always very much want to win each series, so it makes it nice when the Twins have the series wrapped up before the finale.
It also was nice of the Twins to put all of their sucking into one game. If you play poorly in one aspect of the game, you're probably going to lose. If you're not going to hit, you might as well be bad at pitching and defense as well and get it all over with in one game. That would be efficiently sucking. Of course, you don't want this to be a consistent thing. Then it just becomes the last four seasons.
Hot Chocolate – You Sexy Thing
Today we mark the passing of Errol Brown. Godspeed, you sexy thing.
1976
Honestly, I tried very hard to find an actual live cut that wasn't this song, but every performance I found was only "live", so, here we are...
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Half-Baked Hall: 1930-1933
Babe Ruth retired in 1935, so you're going to have to wait to argue about his candidacy. For now you'll have to settle for these scrubs.
Final Ballot
Miller Huggins
Joe Tinker
New Batters
Dave Bancroft
Lu Blue
Eddie Collins
Harry Heilmann
Edd Roush
Wally Schang
George Sisler
Cy Williams
New Pitchers
Grover Cleveland "Pete" Alexander
Red Faber
Jack Quinn
Eppa Rixey
Eddie Rommel
Ballots Released: About Tuesday, May 19
Ballots Due: Tuesday, May 26
Minor Details: Games of May 10
Twins affiliates average 8.5 runs in a split. Adam Brett Walker II hits his eighth homer. Miguel Sano gets over the Mendoza line.
May 11, 2015: MOM
I missed you yesterday! Pepper and such, thanks for all you do!
Happy Birthday–May 11
Charlie Gehringer (1903)
Rip Sewell (1907)
Eddie Chiles (1910)
Jack Lang (1921)
Nestor Chylak (1922)
Milt Pappas (1939)
Frank Quilici (1939)
Jerry Martin (1949)
Dane Iorg (1950)
Mark Huismann (1958)
Walt Terrell (1958)
Trent Hubbard (1964)
Bobby Witt (1964)
Kerry Ligtenberg (1971)
Francisco Cordero (1975)
Eddie Chiles was the owner of the Texas Rangers from 1980-1989.
Jack Lang was a long-time sportswriter in New York and was the secretary-treasurer of the Baseball Writers Association of America from 1966-1988.
Nestor Chylak was an American League umpire from 1954-1978.
This is also the birthday of Twins’ farmhand Miguel Sano (1993).