Gotta believe a whole lot of people will be cheering for Not The Yankees tonight. I've got the East Coast time zone working against me, plus a really long (but scenic) drive tomorrow to Lancaster, PA, so I may not be around for the end of it 🙁
Yes, I am wearing a Twins shirt (2014 AS Game) here. I've seen no NY gear yet today
You guys still do game logs here? Was thinking about stopping by tonight.
Most surprising is that Sanó isn't even on the bench. I did not expect him to be starting but assumed he would be on the bench at least.
I guess they didn't see anything that suggested Sanó's swing was ready for pinch-hitting duty. (I certainly didn't, either.) Given his inability to play the field, I guess this makes the most sense. I hope he's getting plenty of live BP for later rounds.
Even if he can't go, the threat of him on the bench seems more valuable than Pressly/Duffey/Gee all backing up Belisle/Hildy/Busenitz/Berrios as right-handers in the bullpen. The 87 and 91 Twins got through an entire postseason with fewer pitchers than the Twins are dressing tonight.
Are you saying Pressly, Duffey, & Gee need to get off Gary Wayne's lawn?
Just because he has a 10-man bullpen I'm hoping Molitor doesn't think he has to use them all.
I would probably have put him on the bench, in case they need a 3 run homer in the late innings, but with how he looked in the limited action when he came back, I can't exactly fault them.
11 pitchers, though? Is this going to be a 15 inning affair, or is Molly going to try to switch pitchers mid at bat again?
I recently watched the 1991 ALCS, and Kelly/Gaston made at least three pitching changes mid at-bat. I think it used to be more common, especially if a manager or catcher saw something he didn't like. There were fewer pitching changes overall, so I'm sure it wasn't even that annoying.
I'm not gonna lie, I don't love the Twins' chances if they need Buddy Boshers or Tyler Duffey to pitch in a one game playoff in Yankee Stadium.
Even given how Sano looked, there's always the chance he'll get a hanger or something. I'd rather have Sano than an eleventh pitcher. If the eleventh pitcher gets in the game, either we're looking at a lot of extra innings or we're in big trouble.
Sano as an unused decoy is better than an 11th pitcher.
Also Mejia over Moya seems a little questionable.
As a September call-up, was Moya eligible? I don't know how all that works.
Looks like the rules have changed. All players on the 40-man by 01 September are eligible for the postseason, but teams have to pick their 25-man before the playoff series.
Yeah, it used to be you had to be on the 25-man on September 1 to be eligible for the postseason, but teams would so routinely work around it by manipulation the DL, that they just gave up and changed the rules. IIRC, K-Rod was a September call-up but got on the postseason roster for the Angels by being an "injury replacement" for someone.
I don't know how all that works.
I'm in the same boat. I thought I knew once, but then changes were made that confounded me anyways. And since the advent of the second Wildcard/Play-in game, I haven't even tried.
What's going on around here lately? The Painter and ubelmann stopped by yesterday, and today we hear from FTLT and Geoff? Who's going to come out of the woodwork next!?
Hmm, well, tonight's game has GOSO potential, so...
The spicy takes that the Twins beating the Yankees would somehow ruin the playoffs make me want the Twins to win this Wild Card game so freaking badly.
I'm endlessly thankful that I don't read whatever blog or site you must be reading. I love this little bubble, yessiree
Imagine if the Twins beat the Red Sox & Dodgers, too. A whole year of baseball wasted!
One way to prevent this would have been to not expand the playoffs. But ca$h grab.
ESPN's Dominique Foxworth believes "most Americans are only tangentially interested in baseball." And of course, he can't name any Twins players and wants to see Aaron Judge in more than one game. So not only are the guys at Highly Questionable not only favoring the Yankees, they are openly rooting for them (minus Le Batard's dad, who believes Colon vs. Judge would be epic).
Super Bowl 2003: Shania Twain; divorced Mutt Lange in 2008, no new albums for 15 years.
Super Bowl 2004: Janet Jackson (in part); brother Michael died 2009.
Super Bowl 2005: Paul McCartney; sponsored by Ameriquest (died 2007)
Super Bowl 2006: Rolling Stones (all still alive)
Super Bowl 2007: Prince (Died 2016)
Super Bowl 2008: Tom Petty (Died 2017)
Super Bowl 2009: Bruce Springsteen
Super Bowl 2010: The Who
Super Bowl 2011: Black Eyed Peas
Super Bowl 2012: Madonna
Super Bowl 2013: Beyoncé
Super Bowl 2014: Bruno Mars
Super Bowl 2015: Katy Perry
Super Bowl 2016: Coldplay
Super Bowl 2017: Lady Gaga
Super Bowl 2018: Usher (apparently)
McCartney died in '07? I thought he kicked it back in 1966.
I think Keef qualifies more as "undead" than "alive."
Bite your tongue, mate. Keith has now lived longer than the life expectancy of men in 9 American states. Amazing.
I understand Trueblood's pick for the winner of the AL Wild Card game, but rooting for it? No way, man.
I haven't read today's yet, but Trueblood has so much trouble with extra playoff teams. I think he'd prefer one AL team and one NL team, if really pressed.
They really should just merge the two leagues and extend to 180 games. Best record wins, done.
The Manchester Yankees, Manchester Red Sox and Chelsea Dodgers would approve.
If you actually were going to do something that radical, and were interested in determining the best team with the highest possible confidence, I think you could do better. As an example, you could do something like a Swiss-system tournament.
First round of the season: play each team in your group 3 times at home and 3 times away and establish Elo rankings for all the teams in the league.
Seed teams into 5 new groups of 6 teams each based on the results of the first round--now the groups are ranked rather than regional.
Second round of the season: Play each team in your group 3 times at home and 3 times away.
Using updated Elo rankings, relegate the bottom 3 teams in each group to the next-lower group and promote the top 3 teams in each group to the next-higher group.
3rd through 5th round of the season--repeat promotion/relegation procedure.
At the end of the season, the team with the highest Elo rating is the champion.
The drawback of this from an entertainment standpoint is that you could wind up playing someone 30 times in a season, but if the point is to determine the very best team, this is an advantage because you would be getting the most data from teams that are most-closely matched. Basically, why bother having Houston and Cleveland play the White Sox when they could be playing each other?
Other drawbacks:
- Only 150 games, not as much revenue as a 162-game schedule
- Good luck selling tickets in the bottom three groups of the league
- Difficult to set a long-term schedule
- Finishing last in the first group eliminates you from getting first overall--you could maybe compensate by switching from 5 stages to 10 stages and dealing with some imbalance in home/away
- Complicated to explain, purists will hate it
Despite the drawbacks, it'd be much better than an elimination tournament for determining the best team in the league.
I kind of love it, but America would reject the hell out of it.
Truth be told, I don't love it for baseball. My preference would be for something like we had in the early 90s where each team had the same schedule as everyone else in their division and we had more limited playoffs.
But I think for sports where you can't play as many games, a Swiss-system style of tournament could be pretty good. For instance, in college football, it would allow you to narrow down to the best teams more quickly and while the "bracket" would be kind of complicated, you wouldn't have to introduce black box algorithms that no fans understand. Plus point spread would become irrelevant, which I think is a good goal for college football.
It's fascinating.
I think the best reason against it is probably what the Padre said below. We like the current system "because it's interesting and fun."
There are winter leagues that take the top teams and play them in a round-robin tournament rather than setting up elimination series. I'd love to see that, but it has roughly zero chance of happening.
I have taken him to task for this so. many. times.
He isn't even a traditionalist (he wants DH in the NL), he just loves the regular season so much. He has been coming around, privately at least, to acknowledging that the truly great teams tend to win in the playoffs too.
Nobody says the playoff system is necessarily the fairest way to determine a champion. We do it because it's interesting and fun, not because it's fair.
I don't know that I would really say "nobody." There is clearly a school of thought out there that you truly learn the most about a team (or person) when you put them in a pressure-packed situation. For that school of thought, I believe they really think playoffs are more indicative of true talent than a long season.
In the Best Case Scenario department, Sour Cream's allergy turned out to be freaking anchovies. A small amount was cooked into the beef stroganoff the night she had the reaction, which the Milkmaid remembered while getting her checked out. So we aren't losing meat at the table, we're not losing the cats and it's nothing airborne.
If you have to be allergic to something, I guess that's one of the better things to be allergic to. Glad it wasn't any worse.
I love anchovies, but I can also do without them. So, not too bad.
She had them exactly once, so she doesn't feel like she's missing out too much. She was devastated when she thought it was a meat allergy.
B-b-bu-but Caesar's salad!
Good news, Leche.
Watch out for Caesar salad dressings and Worcestershire sauce.
Yep, we're all over that. It has to be a late-blooming allergy, because it doesn't seem possible to me that Sour Cream hadn't had Caesar dressing before.
Could be that some Caesar dressings these days don't actually use anchovies.
Most store bought will not have actual anchovies
if they contain Worcestershire sauce, they probably do, but in minute amounts and fermented. I dunno what relationship there would be between fermented anchovy and an allergy to the fish, however.
because this thread is really about caesar's salad.
Good news, I reckon. Glad to hear!
Good news!
What are you throwing on the grill to celebrate?
Good question. Surprise birthday meal for me when I get home (almost certainly Indian, if the Milkmaid knows me as well as I think she does).
Surprise! It's wild rice and venison!
Ah, venison.
Had some chili with venison stew meat on Sunday. It's often derided for being gamey, but in its element, it is extremely good.
I had venison just once. I don't know if it wasn't in its element, or I just wasn't in mine.
I gave up what little hunting I did long ago but little brother is a bow hunter, so I get occasional venison steak or sausage or burger. The tastiest wild game I can recall having was a stew I made with elk round steak that our neighbors gave us. Lean as can be, and not much different in texture than beef. Also, lightly breaded (floured, really) dove breasts pan fried in butter and garlic.
Venison tenderloin slices, fried in butter. My first exposure, in h.s. Mmmmm.
Venison bourguignon, with pearl onions. Fabuloso.
No, you guys, it was a joke! You know, like Indian, like, Nativ... oh, nevermind.
J Geils was pretty prescient
Ah, yes. I remember that song from the Doctor Demento show.
Wow! That's a great escape.
Only about as bad as a rhubarb allergy (which was the other option at first, IIRC).
Just gotta avoid the caesar salad.
You didn't know Santana's been pitching in the big leagues for 34 years?
Sounds like the Braves weren't the only team with some recruiting violations.
It was something of a topic around here. I think socal riffed on it a few times.
just the name part. who lands on ervin?
That there is a fine question. It wouldn't be on my own shortlist of a couple thousand.
The Twins have never lost a playoff game in Yankee Stadium started by a pitcher born with the name Johan Santana.
I think back at the old basement I made a joke about him on one of the "Mugshot Purgatory" entries on the Angels.
I always looked up middle names &c.
I didn't know he had picked "Ervin" though.
Twins batting practice is live streaming on twinsbaseball.com
Or maybe not? It says live, but looks like a video loop.
Came home to pick the meat off a rotisserie chicken for a soup. Recalled the scene in major league when Jake solves the problem of Cerrano wanting to sacrifice a whole chicken.
Let's hope the baseball gods are appeased with your offering.
Was in Minny this last weekend - did the 5K on Saturday, but Sunday was at the smoker all day in Scandia whilst NBBW ran the Twin Cities Marathon in the rain (she finished at 3:57, not bad).
Cooking for 17 souls, I couldn't find a big enough piece of brisket, so got two 5-6lb'ers (had a whole chicken on the lower shelf, and part of the second brisket as both wouldn't fit on top). Using maths, I figured to start up the smoker at 8 bells with coffee, start cutting the ends around 1:30, then serving the brisket around 6. Used Alder woodchips for the smoke-meme.
Here is the recipe for the Kansas City Style-Burnt Ends, and here is the Sauce. The vinegar is kinda stinky when cooking it down but its works out well.
this LTE deserves some attention. Well done, Bo.
I wish I had a smoker. My weber kettle can handle one whole brisket (I know, because I did one back in the day), but not ideally. That said, OMG, brisket.
Thanks, Doc! I liked your snake approach to keeping even temps.
In Scandia, my smoker is propane, so the key thing is keeping it at 220F which means you can't lolligag or run to town for paprika. I was fussing with the temps thru-out the day - had to bring the smoker in to the edge of the garage when it started raining.
You know what I lovehatelovehate (I dunno) ... about baseball ... about baseball? ... fucking 6 months of active investment in a team/on a team for a one game playoff contest that mattered that started so amazing and was "done" after 6 innings.
#pitching
This is why I voted for "missing the second Wild Card" in that poll. It's not that I don't want them to be successful; it's that I'm sick and tired of being a first-round bye for the Yankmes and I knew they didn't have the roster depth to make it a fair contest.
Late in the game I kept hearing radio ads saying "This is what we waited seven years for!" No, it wasn't. I'm not so entitled as to think they should win the World Series every year (then I'd be a Yankmes fan), but this performance, against that specific team, was not worth waiting for during a pretty lousy seven years.
silver lining/diamond in the rough/grasping at straws?
Deciding run was a well-hit single by last year's purportedly generational Yankme-savior.
No matter the preferred MLB/national narrative, trueyankee Judge's HR did not provide the backbreaking run... (though it turns out, it was already decided).
Today, I'm dying knowing we've got to wait at least an entire year before the Twins are in a playoff game again. I had forgotten just how that energy felt, and I really wanted it to keep going.
I knew they didn't have the roster depth to make it a fair contest.
Maybe yes, maybe no, but guys like Busenitz and Rogers didn't give up the first seven runs. We had exactly the two guys out there that we we would've wanted in a do or die, and they gave up seven runs in four innings.
We wanted Santana starting that game, he just wasn't any good. I liked Berrios coming into the game to try to stretch it out a bit, he just wasn't any good. We got beat, but it wasn't really because of bullpen depth.
Berríos at least got strikeouts. Four in three innings is pretty good. Unfortunately, that was 80% of the Twins total. The Yankees meanwhile got 13.
Don't forget to make your predictions (spoons)!
Donesies
Gotta believe a whole lot of people will be cheering for Not The Yankees tonight. I've got the East Coast time zone working against me, plus a really long (but scenic) drive tomorrow to Lancaster, PA, so I may not be around for the end of it 🙁
Yes, I am wearing a Twins shirt (2014 AS Game) here. I've seen no NY gear yet today
You guys still do game logs here? Was thinking about stopping by tonight.
Indeed. Stick around, homeslice.
And make a prediction!
Since it's Tuesday I've already got a game log in the hopper.
Aw, dude, we were just in Buffalo a few days ago
My sister-in-law's cousin is #70 dancing (poorly) here.
And apparently he told his family today that his move is called the Awkward Penguin.
Twins roster for tonight:
Most surprising is that Sanó isn't even on the bench. I did not expect him to be starting but assumed he would be on the bench at least.
I guess they didn't see anything that suggested Sanó's swing was ready for pinch-hitting duty. (I certainly didn't, either.) Given his inability to play the field, I guess this makes the most sense. I hope he's getting plenty of live BP for later rounds.
Even if he can't go, the threat of him on the bench seems more valuable than Pressly/Duffey/Gee all backing up Belisle/Hildy/Busenitz/Berrios as right-handers in the bullpen. The 87 and 91 Twins got through an entire postseason with fewer pitchers than the Twins are dressing tonight.
Are you saying Pressly, Duffey, & Gee need to get off Gary Wayne's lawn?
Just because he has a 10-man bullpen I'm hoping Molitor doesn't think he has to use them all.
I would probably have put him on the bench, in case they need a 3 run homer in the late innings, but with how he looked in the limited action when he came back, I can't exactly fault them.
11 pitchers, though? Is this going to be a 15 inning affair, or is Molly going to try to switch pitchers mid at bat again?
I recently watched the 1991 ALCS, and Kelly/Gaston made at least three pitching changes mid at-bat. I think it used to be more common, especially if a manager or catcher saw something he didn't like. There were fewer pitching changes overall, so I'm sure it wasn't even that annoying.
I'm not gonna lie, I don't love the Twins' chances if they need Buddy Boshers or Tyler Duffey to pitch in a one game playoff in Yankee Stadium.
Even given how Sano looked, there's always the chance he'll get a hanger or something. I'd rather have Sano than an eleventh pitcher. If the eleventh pitcher gets in the game, either we're looking at a lot of extra innings or we're in big trouble.
Sano as an unused decoy is better than an 11th pitcher.
Also Mejia over Moya seems a little questionable.
As a September call-up, was Moya eligible? I don't know how all that works.
Looks like the rules have changed. All players on the 40-man by 01 September are eligible for the postseason, but teams have to pick their 25-man before the playoff series.
Yeah, it used to be you had to be on the 25-man on September 1 to be eligible for the postseason, but teams would so routinely work around it by manipulation the DL, that they just gave up and changed the rules. IIRC, K-Rod was a September call-up but got on the postseason roster for the Angels by being an "injury replacement" for someone.
I don't know how all that works.
I'm in the same boat. I thought I knew once, but then changes were made that confounded me anyways. And since the advent of the second Wildcard/Play-in game, I haven't even tried.
What's going on around here lately? The Painter and ubelmann stopped by yesterday, and today we hear from FTLT and Geoff? Who's going to come out of the woodwork next!?
Hmm, well, tonight's game has GOSO potential, so...
Who's going to come out of the woodwork next!?
Awww man, you explained hj's joke.
I never actually put that together. Huh.
I missed it too. GOSO became so much bigger than the guy who said it.
I saw
at a game last season.
Didn't he pop in here earlier this year? Or was that last year?
Last year.
The spicy takes that the Twins beating the Yankees would somehow ruin the playoffs make me want the Twins to win this Wild Card game so freaking badly.
I'm endlessly thankful that I don't read whatever blog or site you must be reading. I love this little bubble, yessiree
Imagine if the Twins beat the Red Sox & Dodgers, too. A whole year of baseball wasted!
One way to prevent this would have been to not expand the playoffs. But ca$h grab.
ESPN's Dominique Foxworth believes "most Americans are only tangentially interested in baseball." And of course, he can't name any Twins players and wants to see Aaron Judge in more than one game. So not only are the guys at Highly Questionable not only favoring the Yankees, they are openly rooting for them (minus Le Batard's dad, who believes Colon vs. Judge would be epic).
Super Bowl 2003: Shania Twain; divorced Mutt Lange in 2008, no new albums for 15 years.
Super Bowl 2004: Janet Jackson (in part); brother Michael died 2009.
Super Bowl 2005: Paul McCartney; sponsored by Ameriquest (died 2007)
Super Bowl 2006: Rolling Stones (all still alive)
Super Bowl 2007: Prince (Died 2016)
Super Bowl 2008: Tom Petty (Died 2017)
Super Bowl 2009: Bruce Springsteen
Super Bowl 2010: The Who
Super Bowl 2011: Black Eyed Peas
Super Bowl 2012: Madonna
Super Bowl 2013: Beyoncé
Super Bowl 2014: Bruno Mars
Super Bowl 2015: Katy Perry
Super Bowl 2016: Coldplay
Super Bowl 2017: Lady Gaga
Super Bowl 2018: Usher (apparently)
McCartney died in '07? I thought he kicked it back in 1966.
I think Keef qualifies more as "undead" than "alive."
Bite your tongue, mate. Keith has now lived longer than the life expectancy of men in 9 American states. Amazing.
I understand Trueblood's pick for the winner of the AL Wild Card game, but rooting for it? No way, man.
I haven't read today's yet, but Trueblood has so much trouble with extra playoff teams. I think he'd prefer one AL team and one NL team, if really pressed.
They really should just merge the two leagues and extend to 180 games. Best record wins, done.
The Manchester Yankees, Manchester Red Sox and Chelsea Dodgers would approve.
If you actually were going to do something that radical, and were interested in determining the best team with the highest possible confidence, I think you could do better. As an example, you could do something like a Swiss-system tournament.
Divide the league into 5 groups of 6 teams each.
NE: NYY, NYM, BOS, TOR, PHI, CIN
SE: TBR, MIA, ATL, WSN, BAL, PIT
MW: CHW, CHC, CLE, DET, MIL, MIN
SW: HOU, ARI, COL, TEX, STL, KCR
W: SEA, SDP, OAK, SFG, LAD, LAA
First round of the season: play each team in your group 3 times at home and 3 times away and establish Elo rankings for all the teams in the league.
Seed teams into 5 new groups of 6 teams each based on the results of the first round--now the groups are ranked rather than regional.
Second round of the season: Play each team in your group 3 times at home and 3 times away.
Using updated Elo rankings, relegate the bottom 3 teams in each group to the next-lower group and promote the top 3 teams in each group to the next-higher group.
3rd through 5th round of the season--repeat promotion/relegation procedure.
At the end of the season, the team with the highest Elo rating is the champion.
The drawback of this from an entertainment standpoint is that you could wind up playing someone 30 times in a season, but if the point is to determine the very best team, this is an advantage because you would be getting the most data from teams that are most-closely matched. Basically, why bother having Houston and Cleveland play the White Sox when they could be playing each other?
Other drawbacks:
- Only 150 games, not as much revenue as a 162-game schedule
- Good luck selling tickets in the bottom three groups of the league
- Difficult to set a long-term schedule
- Finishing last in the first group eliminates you from getting first overall--you could maybe compensate by switching from 5 stages to 10 stages and dealing with some imbalance in home/away
- Complicated to explain, purists will hate it
Despite the drawbacks, it'd be much better than an elimination tournament for determining the best team in the league.
I kind of love it, but America would reject the hell out of it.
Truth be told, I don't love it for baseball. My preference would be for something like we had in the early 90s where each team had the same schedule as everyone else in their division and we had more limited playoffs.
But I think for sports where you can't play as many games, a Swiss-system style of tournament could be pretty good. For instance, in college football, it would allow you to narrow down to the best teams more quickly and while the "bracket" would be kind of complicated, you wouldn't have to introduce black box algorithms that no fans understand. Plus point spread would become irrelevant, which I think is a good goal for college football.
It's fascinating.
I think the best reason against it is probably what the Padre said below. We like the current system "because it's interesting and fun."
There are winter leagues that take the top teams and play them in a round-robin tournament rather than setting up elimination series. I'd love to see that, but it has roughly zero chance of happening.
I have taken him to task for this so. many. times.
He isn't even a traditionalist (he wants DH in the NL), he just loves the regular season so much. He has been coming around, privately at least, to acknowledging that the truly great teams tend to win in the playoffs too.
Nobody says the playoff system is necessarily the fairest way to determine a champion. We do it because it's interesting and fun, not because it's fair.
I don't know that I would really say "nobody." There is clearly a school of thought out there that you truly learn the most about a team (or person) when you put them in a pressure-packed situation. For that school of thought, I believe they really think playoffs are more indicative of true talent than a long season.
In the Best Case Scenario department, Sour Cream's allergy turned out to be freaking anchovies. A small amount was cooked into the beef stroganoff the night she had the reaction, which the Milkmaid remembered while getting her checked out. So we aren't losing meat at the table, we're not losing the cats and it's nothing airborne.
If you have to be allergic to something, I guess that's one of the better things to be allergic to. Glad it wasn't any worse.
I love anchovies, but I can also do without them. So, not too bad.
She had them exactly once, so she doesn't feel like she's missing out too much. She was devastated when she thought it was a meat allergy.
B-b-bu-but Caesar's salad!
Good news, Leche.
Watch out for Caesar salad dressings and Worcestershire sauce.
Yep, we're all over that. It has to be a late-blooming allergy, because it doesn't seem possible to me that Sour Cream hadn't had Caesar dressing before.
Could be that some Caesar dressings these days don't actually use anchovies.
Most store bought will not have actual anchovies
if they contain Worcestershire sauce, they probably do, but in minute amounts and fermented. I dunno what relationship there would be between fermented anchovy and an allergy to the fish, however.
store-bought dressings reviewed.
because this thread is really about caesar's salad.
Good news, I reckon. Glad to hear!
Good news!
What are you throwing on the grill to celebrate?
Good question. Surprise birthday meal for me when I get home (almost certainly Indian, if the Milkmaid knows me as well as I think she does).
Surprise! It's wild rice and venison!
Ah, venison.
Had some chili with venison stew meat on Sunday. It's often derided for being gamey, but in its element, it is extremely good.
I had venison just once. I don't know if it wasn't in its element, or I just wasn't in mine.
I gave up what little hunting I did long ago but little brother is a bow hunter, so I get occasional venison steak or sausage or burger. The tastiest wild game I can recall having was a stew I made with elk round steak that our neighbors gave us. Lean as can be, and not much different in texture than beef. Also, lightly breaded (floured, really) dove breasts pan fried in butter and garlic.
Venison tenderloin slices, fried in butter. My first exposure, in h.s. Mmmmm.
Venison bourguignon, with pearl onions. Fabuloso.
No, you guys, it was a joke! You know, like Indian, like, Nativ... oh, nevermind.
J Geils was pretty prescient
Ah, yes. I remember that song from the Doctor Demento show.
Wow! That's a great escape.
Only about as bad as a rhubarb allergy (which was the other option at first, IIRC).
Just gotta avoid the caesar salad.
how did i not know this!?
You didn't know Santana's been pitching in the big leagues for 34 years?
Sounds like the Braves weren't the only team with some recruiting violations.
It was something of a topic around here. I think socal riffed on it a few times.
just the name part. who lands on ervin?
That there is a fine question. It wouldn't be on my own shortlist of a couple thousand.
The Twins have never lost a playoff game in Yankee Stadium started by a pitcher born with the name Johan Santana.
I think back at the old basement I made a joke about him on one of the "Mugshot Purgatory" entries on the Angels.
I always looked up middle names &c.
I didn't know he had picked "Ervin" though.
Twins batting practice is live streaming on twinsbaseball.com
Or maybe not? It says live, but looks like a video loop.
Came home to pick the meat off a rotisserie chicken for a soup. Recalled the scene in major league when Jake solves the problem of Cerrano wanting to sacrifice a whole chicken.
Let's hope the baseball gods are appeased with your offering.
Was in Minny this last weekend - did the 5K on Saturday, but Sunday was at the smoker all day in Scandia whilst NBBW ran the Twin Cities Marathon in the rain (she finished at 3:57, not bad).
Cooking for 17 souls, I couldn't find a big enough piece of brisket, so got two 5-6lb'ers (had a whole chicken on the lower shelf, and part of the second brisket as both wouldn't fit on top). Using maths, I figured to start up the smoker at 8 bells with coffee, start cutting the ends around 1:30, then serving the brisket around 6. Used Alder woodchips for the smoke-meme.
Here is the recipe for the Kansas City Style-Burnt Ends, and here is the Sauce. The vinegar is kinda stinky when cooking it down but its works out well.
this LTE deserves some attention. Well done, Bo.
I wish I had a smoker. My weber kettle can handle one whole brisket (I know, because I did one back in the day), but not ideally. That said, OMG, brisket.
Thanks, Doc! I liked your snake approach to keeping even temps.
In Scandia, my smoker is propane, so the key thing is keeping it at 220F which means you can't lolligag or run to town for paprika. I was fussing with the temps thru-out the day - had to bring the smoker in to the edge of the garage when it started raining.
You know what I
lovehatelovehate(I dunno) ... about baseball ... about baseball? ... fucking 6 months of active investment in a team/on a team for a one game playoff contest that mattered that started so amazing and was "done" after 6 innings.#pitching
This is why I voted for "missing the second Wild Card" in that poll. It's not that I don't want them to be successful; it's that I'm sick and tired of being a first-round bye for the Yankmes and I knew they didn't have the roster depth to make it a fair contest.
Late in the game I kept hearing radio ads saying "This is what we waited seven years for!" No, it wasn't. I'm not so entitled as to think they should win the World Series every year (then I'd be a Yankmes fan), but this performance, against that specific team, was not worth waiting for during a pretty lousy seven years.
silver lining/diamond in the rough/grasping at straws?
Deciding run was a well-hit single by last year's purportedly generational Yankme-savior.
No matter the preferred MLB/national narrative, trueyankee Judge's HR did not provide the backbreaking run... (though it turns out, it was already decided).
Today, I'm dying knowing we've got to wait at least an entire year before the Twins are in a playoff game again. I had forgotten just how that energy felt, and I really wanted it to keep going.
Maybe yes, maybe no, but guys like Busenitz and Rogers didn't give up the first seven runs. We had exactly the two guys out there that we we would've wanted in a do or die, and they gave up seven runs in four innings.
We wanted Santana starting that game, he just wasn't any good. I liked Berrios coming into the game to try to stretch it out a bit, he just wasn't any good. We got beat, but it wasn't really because of bullpen depth.
Berríos at least got strikeouts. Four in three innings is pretty good. Unfortunately, that was 80% of the Twins total. The Yankees meanwhile got 13.
pretty cool article. guessing BP will have more of the same.