36 thoughts on “September 30, 2016: 102 and (still) counting”

  1. With Kennys Vargas' home run the twins have now hit 196 home runs this season. I hope they can hit 4 or more against the Pale Hosers

    2. Twins HR Leaderboard

      Year HR Record R/G
      1963 225 91-70 4.76
      1964 221 79-83 4.52
      1986 196 71-91 4.57
      1987 196 85-77 4.85
      2016 196 5?-10? 4.45

        1. I'm hoping they get to 200 HR, simply because the idea of a 50-win team out-homering the World Champs who put the "Homer" in "Homer Dome" amuses the heck out of me.

      1. Ten players with ten or more home runs is already a post-relocation franchise record. The previous high water mark was nine players on the 2004 Twins (O Henry! Blanco, Cuddy, Leeeeew, i-i, Jacque, Koskie, Moreau, 0-for-ThRivas, & Stewart). Adding two more players would be something.

        1. So, I got curious about home run distribution across the roster on the teams above:

          Year HR 10+ 15+ 20+
          1963 225 8 6 4
          1964 221 8 6 6
          1986 196 7 5 5
          1987 196 7 5 4
          2016 196 10 3 2

          In addition to this year's team and the 2004 squad, six other Twins teams have had 8 or more players hit 10 or more home runs. The one that surprised me the most?

          'Uffda' SelectShow

  2. ONE WEEK WARNING

    I have a rugby match in Eagan on the 8th. SBG's been there, it's a good time. Y'all're all invited!

  3. Any genealogist-types out there have any recommendations for free software to make a genogram/family tree on a Mac? Everything I've found is either Windows only, or expensive, or both. I'm only really planning on using it once, so I'm not willing to shell out a bunch of cash to get it.

    1. I was planning on doing a genealogy post in a couple weeks while recovering from my hip replacement; unfortunately I don't know the Mac, but I'd also consider looking at web-based family tree DB options.

      I use Family Tree Maker, but the version I'm using is old, and the program was dropped and recently picked up by another company. Really, as long as it generates standard GEDCOM format, it will be (more or less) transportable.

      1. Now that I look at that word, I know for sure there's no chance I spelled it correctly the first time and it was autocorrected, so I'm kind of surprised it didn't get sent down a very, very wrong path anyway.

    3. I have access to Ancestry.com through my local library for free. It's browser based, with an iPad/iPhone app option.

    1. It's a good hing the Bible Belt exists y'all would have the dumbest booze laws in the country.

      If it helps, though, I'd be shocked if another brewer would be unwilling to fill those Fulton growlers.

      1. Excepting that they're usually an exchange? The folks down there at LTD or 612 or Indeed or Omni or whoever wouldn't want to be selling growlers with somebody else's logo on it.

        1. They might exchange, but in my experience the brewers would rather sell the beeer than worth about the container. There's also enough comraderie in the small brewery industry that few would get offended.

          1. California law requires a logo'd growler to be covered over (e.g., taped) to be filled elsewhere. Stoopid lawz.

      2. I think that's changing. If it's an exchange, the brewery has to store all of those growlers from other breweries and make an exchange with the other brewery somewhere down the line, assuming the other brewery will make the trade/exchange. There might be too many growler-filling breweries in the Twin Cities now to make that feasible. If it's a fill, there might be 30 people in line waiting for beer, while the tender fills up the growler, caps it and seals it.

  5. I didn't realize how much better the Braves have been of late. They're 10 games better than the Twins now and are 9-1 in their last 10. I bet the Tigers thought they had the schedule advantage for the final weekend in Atlanta, but I wouldn't want to be playing them now, especially when they've got no pressure on them at all.

  6. Good news: I got the pomegranate wheat out of the fermenter.

    Bad news (for mags): I kegged it because I'm lazy.

    Good news (for mags): I filled six bottles.

    Bad news: the bottles are cursed.

    Good news: it tastes a whole lot better after sitting for three weeks with the pomegranate juice than it did when I put it into secondary. I think it's going to be a winner.

      1. Uncarbonated, it is. It's got a real nice ester-y backbone to assert itself as a hefeweizen with a tart bite from the pomegranate juice. I was worried it would be too sweet because the hops I got were way underpowered for the amount I was using (always check the bag before buying), but I think the tartness covers that up.

  7. ESPN poll that showed up on my phone: Who is the Twins' MVP? Brian Dozier, Ervin Santana or Robbie Grossman? Which one of these is not like the other? How bad are the Twins to have a replacement-level player like Grossman even considered for team MVP? Or, conversely, how bad is it for the Twins to have big seasons from Dozier and Santana and still lose 102 (and counting)? Robbie Grossman? He doesn't even make the Top 12 in rWAR on the Twins' B-Ref page. He's not even in the Top 12 of position players for the Twins.

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