45 thoughts on “24 25 Sept. 2015 – Rugby”

          1. I have no idea what you're talking about. I totally didn't recategorize and reschedule this after yesterday.

          2. Mag's didn't create this to be a Co'C (he had it uncategorized), and SBG took the initiative to promote it. What the heck, it created discussion, and because why not?

  3. I won't venture down the comment section primrose path, but a silver lining of last nights game (as noted in the game log):

    It’s a skill Joe Mauer has always valued practically above all else — getting on base. So it only makes sense that the Twins’ all-time leader in on-base percentage should also own the franchise’s longest on-base streak.
    - Phil Miller

    1. I can't believe how livid I still am about Gibson's (lack of) performance last night. Hope can be a hard thing to kill once it takes hold.

        1. That's basically the spirit of my LTE, the timing really sucked, not that I hate Gibson because he has cooties this week. When we needed his best we didn't get it, but I realize that's not necessarily under any pitchers' control on any given day. And it doesn't escape me that our own offense was AWOL most of the game.

      3. I really don't get mad at players over poor performance unless I have legitimate reason to believe they weren't trying in the game or weren't making the effort to prepare for the game, which I don't think is the case at all here. And really, the 6 runs came on three hits, two of them home runs that might have been the two shortest home runs at TF this year. The leadoff homer was opposite field, down the line and barely cleared the fence. I think the worst thing he did was walk Ramirez, who's hitting .214 or close to it. Then Lindor hit a ground ball to the opposite field after a long battle. He got a hard comebacker that he wasn't able to grab cleanly, so instead of a double play, only a groundout that move the runners up. Then a two-out single that might have broken the guy's bat. I didn't see the second homer, but it went only 11 feet farther than the leadoff home run. I'm not saying Gibson was good, just that with some better luck, he might have been able to keep the Twins in the game and stayed in longer. I also think Molitor had a quicker hook because of the expanded roster.

        1. I really don't get mad at players over poor performance

          I always try to remember that players are in the top fraction of a fraction of a percent of their profession, infinitely better at what they do than I could ever hope to be. For me to judge them feels wrong, because everyone has good days and bad. Mine just aren't on national TV.

          1. I have played sports, but never really got to a varsity (high school) level in anything but golf. I've seen professionals play sports. I know that they are on another level. I know that it took hours upon hours upon years upon years for them to get there.

            I think there is this nonsensical bias that tends to hit people who were pretty good at sports in high school. (Not saying this happens to all such people!) If they were pretty good at a sport, worked pretty hard, in high school I think they can convince themselves that they did the same work as these pros. That the only real difference between them and the pro athlete (at that age) was God-gifted talents. Basically the pro athlete should feel such extreme gratitude at all times for the gifts bestowed on them.

            And so this is why my dad, a great athlete in his younger years, tells me Joe Mauer is bored and just not trying very hard rather than that age and brain injuries are catching up with him. This is why the guy on my softball team is complaining that Perkins has been sucky of late rather than recognizing he is trying to play at the elitist of levels with an injury.

            I'll also admit that the only time I've ever even entertained such thinking is about golf. When I was playing several times a week, I thought to myself that if this was a _job_, well, maybe I could have a chance. Then I went and watched the driving range at a PGA event and pulled my head out of my ___.

          1. Hit Tracker says it was hit 388 feet and would've been out in 29 of the 30 parks. Having not seen the dinger in question, the data leads me to believe that it was far from a cheapie.

      4. I blame Suzuki just as much. They were jumping ALL OVER Gibson's first pitch -- he should have been out to the mound right away and they should have altered their game plan.

          1. The thing is, we still don't have very good stats to show who's a good defensive catcher and who isn't. So when we see a catcher who can't hit, we assume he must be great at defense because, well, there must be some reason he's in the lineup. I've never been able to see Suzuki as a great defensive catcher, but I can't prove he isn't one, either.

        2. Also, it felt like Bruno had the guys being a little too patient. Anderson had 23/28 first-pitch strikes - lots of flat, get-me-over fastballs that were taken.
          On the other hand, the Indians were aggressive in the batters box: run-scoring hits were on the first, second or third pitch* they saw, and the first three pitches in the third inning resulted in three hits and three earned runs.

          *Kipnis flipped his opposite field homer out on the third pitch of the game.

  4. Which of the food courts are we meeting at for lunch? The one by the AG's tower or the other one? Not too far behind here yet, so 12:45 to 1 will be good for arrival.

        1. But not the top of the broken ones. Well, you could wait there too as you would be hard to miss unless you climbed the fence.

  5. It's Vegas baby! Upgraded to a Penthouse Suite and won $200 in blackjack.

    Oops just informed by management that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

    1. Wait, the Wolves signed Professor Andre Miller? Awesome. I hope he can teach Rubio and Jones a few lessons.

          1. If Rubio still can’t knock down that open jumper in crunchtime, can the team avoid the temptation of going with the steady hand of Andre Miller?

            That is something that shouldn't even be joked about.

  8. On my way to the car I found first one penny and then, by my car, another. The years: 1987 and 2002! It's a sign.

Comments are closed.