35 thoughts on “April 4, 2016: Come dancing”

1. (Twins) Opening Day, and the Co'C is about basketball?

   1. people sleep in and don't schedule a CoC, they get what I give 'em. And that's Calvin and Hobbes dancing.

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   2. Fixed that by adding a poll to the post.

      1. Also fixed it by adding a new banner

2. My prediction for 2016 is that there will be a couple of players and a couple of teams who get ridiculously hot or cold in the first couple of weeks and everyone will make way too much out of it.

   1. I predict I will pick those people up in fantasy baseball, but too late to gain any marginal rewards, then release them only to have their play rebound to productive levels, and they will become important fixtures on someone else's roster for the remainder of the season.
      Also, sun in the east, birds migrating, and so forth.

   2. *checks standings*
      THE ROYALS ARE RUNNING AWAY WITH THE AL CENTRAL!

      1. More importantly, the Cardinals are in last place. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

   3. My prediction is Nolasco and Arcia will piss me off many times this season.

   4. My prediction is Twins starting pitchers will routinely hit a wall in the 6th inning in April and Twins management will be scratching their heads wondering why this happens.

      1. Hopefully Bert Blyleven and Jack Morris will have an opinion about it.

         There really isn't a good reason to let the other team have a third crack at a Twins starter very often this year, turn it over to the bullpen.

         1. That would mean never going past 5 innings. The bullpen isn't that good and the starters aren't that bad.

   5. My not so obvious prediction is that Rosario will have a "sophomore slump" and be demoted to AAA and left field will be some combination of Danny Santana, Oswaldo Arcia and Max Kepler. How patient the Twins are with Rosario will determine if the Twins decide to bring up Kepler to replace him right away.

   6. Also, fans and media alike will complain about Sano's defense despite metrics showing it is as good or better than Hunter's was (which was still bad).

3. Did I wear my "TC" polo to work today? Absolutely. And those throwback baby-blue undies? That may have been a coincidence.

   1. I totally spaced wearing either my Mauer or Sano shirt today.

   2. I am wearing the Twins shirt my wonderful friends at the wgom gave me a couple of years ago.

   3. I have the Twins flag hanging off the garage flagpole

   4. Suit and tie, but we had a funeral. For a boy whose father writes about baseball. There's a certain poetry in that, really. That's baseball for ya.

      In other news, Emerson's favorite team was the Cubs, so expect them to end the drought.

4. Trey's Astros won 16-3 Friday night. Josh started in right field and struck out in his only at-bat. The game was shortened to 4 innings due to the mercy rule. Junior's Mariners had their first game Saturday and lost 14-7. This is a Juniors-level Little League team (13-14 year olds) playing on the big field. Junior was the starting pitcher and gave up 8 runs, 5 of them earned, in 3+ innings (he gave up an infield single to the leadoff batter in the 4th and was pulled because he reached his pitch limit). He only allowed two well-hit balls and had little help from his defense. He walked two and struck out none. He also was 0-for-2 with a walk and an RBI groundout.

5. Congrats to Uncle Walt in winning the WGOM NCAA Bracket.

   1. Thanks, free. Total luck. Did the fantasy folks see that the number one bracket in all of Yahoo's Fantasy PickEm didn't pick a winner in the championship game? Whoops! Cream rising to the top!

6. My shift starts at 2 today. It's the first shift I've had at this store with a 2pm start date and that's five minutes before the game starts. I swear, my store is trolling me.

   1. Trolling you would be putting the Yankees game on.

   2. No worries. Sounds like it will at least be delayed by rain for several hours or postponed till tomorrow.

7. Around Christmas I bought an Anova immersion circulator, and with my severe lack of time I haven't got to use it. I ended up making dinner for friends Friday and Saturday with it; sirloin steak on Friday and fried chicken sandwiches on Saturday. It makes everything so simple, and all I can think about is what I want to cook next in it.

   1. I'd be interested in one, but there's no way around massive amounts of plastic packaging, right?

      1. Yeah, you need to seal stuff in plastic. I've been using freezer bags instead of a vacuum sealer, so you could wash and reuse those, I guess?

8. Holy cow, the last fifteen seconds of that basketball game were something else.

   1. Amazing game. Unbelievable ending.

9. Bryce Harper wearing a "Make Baseball Fun Again" hat. Love it, so much. pic.twitter.com/zESqRjO0qN

   — Mr. Schäfer (@misterschafer) April 5, 2016

   1. I hope that hat is for sale.

      1. It is.

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