October baseball! Looks like today's game would be a good opportunity to visit the wild rice soup concessions.
33 thoughts on “Game 162: (Delayed) Kitties @ Twins”
I guess rain in Minneapolis means I really should mow my carpet of fallen leaves this afternoon.
Colón didn't give up the ball after that first out, so the entire infield pantomimed throwing it around the horn. Hilarious.
We always did that in softball - good to see the big boys don't grow up
His name is Buzz Aldrin, Dick. Don't make him punch you so you remember.
Mauer now needs 14 hits for 2000. It probably won't happen today--that would be a record.
Apparently Marney Gellner is doing play-by-play of FSN this inning. And as, Provus, put it , "Bert Blyleven is doing--whatever Bert Blyleven does."
She is doing play by play. She can't be any worse than Dick Bremer!
This polite mocking of Andrew Romine would come off better if Dick hadn't crapped all over the Tigers for three innings yesterday. Also, if playing people wildly out of position is so horrific, why didn't Dick speak up during all those Sanó right field games?
Or the times people like Jason Bartlett were put in the outfield.
Or Jason Renyt Tyner at DH.
I'd be fine with more Marney in the booth.
Alex Presley owns the Twins
.353/.400..431/.831 career slash line before this game.
Score some runs for Bartolo!
SEND HIM!!!
and a 150 foot single scores two. woo wooooo!
Dick claims this has been "by far Dozier's best season."
I know we all want to block out the 2016 season, but come on.
According to rWAR, it's not even his second best season.
CASTRO!
A nice moment for Colon.
Especially getting to walk by his old teammate, Omar Vizquel. Very cool.
Isn't everyone an old teammate of his by now?
Colon's 80 IP was 4th most on the team this season. Crazy, yet seems right for this team.
Kudos to the sound guy for busting out "Joy and Pain" by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock during the pitching change as it starts raining.
GIMENEZ!
that ball was literally right down the middle.
Moya, proven closer.
Thirty years ago another Twins team with a nucleus of exciting young players and a rotation a couple horses short of formidable finished the regular season with a 85-77 record.
Just saying.
And nothing to be embarrassed about going to the postseason with that record this year; 5 games better than the next best teams, and the same record as the Rockies on the NL side.*
*and two games up on the Cardinals 😉
Absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about. They take five teams. The Twins proved that they are one of the five best teams in the league.
(The Rockies have 87 wins.)
I'm on vacation
I'm totally impressed that the emoji is italicized.
I guess rain in Minneapolis means I really should mow my carpet of fallen leaves this afternoon.
Colón didn't give up the ball after that first out, so the entire infield pantomimed throwing it around the horn. Hilarious.
We always did that in softball - good to see the big boys don't grow up
His name is Buzz Aldrin, Dick. Don't make him punch you so you remember.
Mauer now needs 14 hits for 2000. It probably won't happen today--that would be a record.
Apparently Marney Gellner is doing play-by-play of FSN this inning. And as, Provus, put it , "Bert Blyleven is doing--whatever Bert Blyleven does."
She is doing play by play. She can't be any worse than Dick Bremer!
This polite mocking of Andrew Romine would come off better if Dick hadn't crapped all over the Tigers for three innings yesterday. Also, if playing people wildly out of position is so horrific, why didn't Dick speak up during all those Sanó right field games?
Or the times people like Jason Bartlett were put in the outfield.
Or Jason Renyt Tyner at DH.
I'd be fine with more Marney in the booth.
Alex Presley owns the Twins
.353/.400..431/.831 career slash line before this game.
Score some runs for Bartolo!
SEND HIM!!!
and a 150 foot single scores two. woo wooooo!
Dick claims this has been "by far Dozier's best season."
I know we all want to block out the 2016 season, but come on.
According to rWAR, it's not even his second best season.
CASTRO!
A nice moment for Colon.
Especially getting to walk by his old teammate, Omar Vizquel. Very cool.
Isn't everyone an old teammate of his by now?
Colon's 80 IP was 4th most on the team this season. Crazy, yet seems right for this team.
Kudos to the sound guy for busting out "Joy and Pain" by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock during the pitching change as it starts raining.
GIMENEZ!
that ball was literally right down the middle.
Moya, proven closer.
Thirty years ago another Twins team with a nucleus of exciting young players and a rotation a couple horses short of formidable finished the regular season with a 85-77 record.
Just saying.
And nothing to be embarrassed about going to the postseason with that record this year; 5 games better than the next best teams, and the same record as the Rockies on the NL side.*
*and two games up on the Cardinals 😉
Absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about. They take five teams. The Twins proved that they are one of the five best teams in the league.
(The Rockies have 87 wins.)
I'm on vacation
I'm totally impressed that the emoji is italicized.