145 thoughts on “2012 Game 96: Win One For Twayn”

1. Mauer, Doumit, Butera are all in the lineup.

2. SEND HIM!!! (and get picked off)

3. Spantastic bunt.

4. Okay guys, let's get a few home and shut Hawk up a bit tonight.

5. If Span and Revere were to switch bases, double steal for sure.

6. Mauer content to just stand in the batter's box.

7. Mauer walk. Hawk getting antsy.

8. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIRQf0S3oD0

   1. Break dancing in a storm trooper suit is not as easy as it looks.

9. this is going to be awesome.

   1. rats

10. also, I was so caught up in razzing spoons about not posting a game log last night that I completely forgot to post one for tonight. My bad, Twayn.

11. sh!tf***k.

12. Knock in this second one and that DP doesn't hurt so much.

13. Sox Squawkers describing Morneau's time off as leave to address "family problems...family troubles." What? Read the press guide info, guys.

    1. I suppose it's all about how you look at having another kid.

       1. They never said that both of them are the parents.

14. Ugh.

15. That didn't go the way I planned it.

16. oh, one of THESE games, eh?

17. *sigh*

    And the walks.

18. NICE!!!!

19. yeah frack.

20. Le sigh.

21. that was not so nice

22. Provus with "bandbox" -- everyone drink up!

23. Why do I suddenly feel like James Caan getting the losing game ball in Brian's Song?

24. Is that the first time the hit-and-run has worked for the Twins? Ever? Seems like it.

25. What up, dudes?

    1. wrong F-Bomb pitching tonight

       1. He looked pretty good there. 🙂

26. Twins baseball!

27. TWINS BASEBALL!!

28. Twins Baseball!

29. TWINS BASEBALL!!!

30. Span channeling his inner Delmon there.

31. I'm going for a little walk with Mrs. Twayn. Be back in 10 or so.

    1. Take your time, Twayn. Take your time.

32. You don't suppose Plouffe will miss 6 days and then go on the DL, do you? Wow, that never happens

33. Joe getting the edges. Good for him.

34. Booooooo. Put the bat on the ball!

35. cheese Louise

36. give back, in spades

37. Liriano not exactly improving his trade value.

38. Fartsicles.

39. Parkman with another donger.

40. early bedtime is looking good right now

41. Darn it. This is the first game I've been able to sit down and watch in a few weeks. I think I should check out.

    1. The Twins lost games without you. They can lose with you, too.

       1. That is true. I was really hoping my night would include about a dozen FBomb Ks. Not a dozen FBomb bombs.

42. If I were done working, I'd be going home. But I am tired of this game.

43. Liriano is playing himself right into a Twins uniform next season.

44. Goodnight.

45. I've seen this movie before.

    1. Ive seen that movie too

46. these home runs are no doubters

    1. F'n bombed.

       1. 

47. On the bright side, the Sox have not (yet) hit seven doubles in this inning.

48. AJ stinks. Can't even hit a donger off of Liriano.

49. What is the over under on relievers to close out the game?

    1. This seems like a classic mop up spot. Instead, though, we are putting out a two out lefty specialist.

       1. Dazz arguing that Floyd sucks bad enough that this game is not out of reach. Hence, the Dunce tourniquet.

          1. Huh. I suppose that is a reasonable argument. I don't agree with it but it's not delusional.

             1. Welll.....

50. What the heck happened? It was 3-2, I went outside to collect the dog doo-doo and I come back in and it's 7-2. This is stinking worse than the dog doo-doo.

    1. Comiskey Park can not contain these awesome Liriano pitches

51. got a good shot at the trivia question tonight; found the answer quickly, plus, you know, hardly anyone left listening to this stinker of a game.

52. so many double plays...yuck

53. The White Sox have a good chance at the DP record.

    1. Not without a fight.

       

       1. Ew.

          (Just to be safe, I administered a dose of penicillin to my monitor.)

          1. I should have put on safe search before googling that. Yuck.

             1. I took this as a challenge.

                I really shouldn't have.

       2. That. Is. Uncalled. For.

          1. So uncalled for that there no longer is a link. Thanks, Hitman (I think).

       3. my name is kelly.

       4. OMG. I leave you guys for one day...

          1. .... to break the dp record?

             1. *taps nose*

54. Dear Twins, hit the ball in the air. It will carry.

    Signed,

    Hitman.

55. SEND HIM!!!

    (why not?)

56. ahhh, those are the Whites Sox I remember

57. Revere sends himself!

58. Do we have an RBI yet?

59. More of that sort of White Sox baseball please.

60. Twins baseball™

61. Even hitting Apple Juice didn't make me happy.

62. White Sox baseball looks a lot like Tiger baseball and vaguely like Twins baseball.

63. I dislike the White Sox so much that if Carlos Gomez were traded to them I would root against him.

    1. I dislike them so much that if the other 29 teams were contracted and they just played against local VFW clubs, I'd start following football instead.

       1. And what would be wrong with rooting for the local VFW clubs?

64. Four-pitch walk to Butters? That is Blassian.

65. This comeback is going to be awesome.

66. Sure, they will come back now that I'm leaving for home.

    Also, writing up personnel documents is the most Awesome Thing Ever.

67. To anyone listening to the radio broadcast: Has Dazzle had anything to say about Ichiro!?

    1. He's been laying off since mentioning the trade details early on. He did mention a potential uni # issue, though.

68. SEND HIM!!!

69. the Twins are trying to bunt for a home run tonight

70. These bids on the Twins auction are getting out of control.

    1. They haven't changed much in the last few updates.

       1. $1500 for grounds crew?!?!?!

          1. Okay, except for that one now. The broadcast one has been stuck at $3000 for a while.

             1. $3,000!!!!

          2. It's at $1100. The Broadcast Experience is up to $3200 now.

71. Don't be a double play...don't be a double play...don't be a double play...

    1. Jinxed.

    2. WHY did you even MENTION that?!

72. Twins can only tie the GIDP record now.

    1. The 9 inning record that is...

       1. And overall record.

          Rk	Date	Tm	Opp	Rslt	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	SH	SF	ROE	GDP	SB	CS	WPA	RE24	aLI	LOB	#
          1	1969-05-04	SFG	HOU	L 1-3	34	29	1	9	1	0	0	1	4	0	4	0	1	0	1	7	0	0	-0.455	-2.996	1.531	6	13
          2	2012-05-06	BAL	BOS	W 9-6	69	59	9	15	4	0	4	9	10	0	15	0	0	0	1	6	2	1	-0.450	0.004	1.783	9	12
          3	2011-04-15	NYY	TEX	L 3-5	35	31	3	9	1	0	1	3	4	0	3	0	0	0	1	6	0	0	-0.316	-1.964	1.137	5	12
          4	2009-08-07	CLE	CHW	W 6-2	37	33	6	11	1	1	2	5	3	0	5	1	0	0	2	6	1	0	0.241	0.880	.585	4	9
          5	2009-04-30	TOR	KCR	L 6-8	38	32	6	11	1	0	2	6	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	-0.080	1.268	.951	5	9
          6	2009-04-21	KCR	CLE	L 7-8	40	34	7	13	3	0	1	7	4	0	5	1	0	1	1	6	1	0	-0.100	2.358	1.131	6	12
          7	2004-08-21	NYM	SFG	W 11-9	56	45	11	17	7	0	1	8	7	1	5	1	3	0	1	6	0	0	1.002	4.704	1.919	9	20
          8	2003-06-17 (1)	TBD	NYY	W 11-2	44	38	11	18	4	0	3	11	4	0	4	1	0	1	1	6	2	0	0.322	6.197	.625	6	10
          9	2003-05-17	PHI	HOU	W 9-4	42	30	9	10	2	0	2	8	9	1	2	2	0	1	1	6	1	0	0.469	4.197	1.122	6	13
          10	1997-06-05	SDP	COL	L 7-9	49	44	7	18	4	0	1	7	4	0	3	0	1	0	0	6	2	0	-0.026	0.107	1.984	9	16
          11	1996-04-16	DET	TOR	W 13-8	47	38	13	18	4	0	5	13	9	2	3	0	0	0	0	6	1	0	0.607	7.629	.504	7	9
          12	1994-06-16	PIT	STL	W 7-5	46	35	7	13	2	0	1	7	7	0	4	2	0	2	0	6	0	0	0.543	1.934	1.236	9	15
          13	1990-07-18	BOS	MIN	W 5-4	36	33	5	14	3	1	1	5	2	0	1	0	1	0	2	6	0	0	0.235	0.937	1.237	7	9
          14	1989-04-27	BOS	CHW	L 1-3	63	50	1	8	0	0	0	1	12	3	6	0	1	0	1	6	0	0	-1.436	-7.251	2.224	14	12
          15	1988-05-08	MON	HOU	L 2-7	35	29	2	8	1	0	0	1	6	0	4	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	-0.177	-2.017	.965	6	12
          16	1984-05-08	MIL	CHW	L 6-7	94	80	6	20	2	0	1	5	11	1	16	0	3	0	0	6	2	4	-1.620	-6.975	2.102	13	14
          17	1984-04-13	BOS	DET	L 9-13	42	35	9	14	2	0	2	8	5	0	7	2	0	0	0	6	0	0	-0.072	4.328	.952	6	13
          18	1977-08-29 (1)	TOR	MIN	L 6-7	43	36	6	15	1	1	0	6	4	1	5	0	2	1	0	6	0	0	0.101	0.989	1.416	7	12
          19	1975-04-29	CLE	NYY	W 3-1	40	31	3	9	0	1	0	3	6	0	2	1	1	0	2	6	0	0	-0.008	-1.267	.883	10	11
          20	1972-05-06	BAL	KCR	L 1-9	34	32	1	11	0	0	1	1	2	0	6	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	-0.057	-2.580	.137	6	14
          21	1966-05-01 (1)	BOS	CAL	L 1-6	33	31	1	10	0	0	1	1	1	0	5	1	0	0	0	6	0	0	-0.292	-3.330	.928	5	14
          22	1948-08-05	WSH	CLE	L 0-3	32	27	0	6	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	6	0	0	-0.524	-4.652	1.274	5	12
          23	1947-09-01 (2)	WSH	PHA	W 7-4	45	39	7	17	3	1	0	6	4	0	1	0	2	0	0	6	0	0	0.000	0.000		11	10
          24	1935-04-21	NYG	PHI	T 4-4	44	41	4	17	2	0	1	4	2	0	4	0	1	0		6	0	0	0.000	0.000		10	10

    2. I think the AL record for nine innings is still six done by the Twins sometime in the '80s.

       1. The Twins record is five, done now nine times.

          1. It looks like the game I was thinking about was this one.

       2. Found it.

    3. you're neglecting the game-tying rally.

73. Josh Willingham has not had a good game at the plate

    1. Package Willingham, Capps, Span, Duensing, Pavano, Liriano, and Morneau for Kershaw and Kemp. DO IT BILL SMITHZ!!!!!!

       1. you forgot to put it as Liriano/Butera

          1. Can't trade Butera. Need three catchers.

             1. Kemp can probably catch.

             2. I think the Twins have 52 catchers in the minors they can call up.

74. Parkman is a lousy runner.

75. For old times sake:

    

    1. One of my favorite bits...
       

76. DOUGHNUTS FOR ALL!

77. MOTHER!

78. you know what is good on a hot dog? barbecue sauce.

    1. Ew.

    2. incorrect. factually incorrect.

79. Nice AB Laddie.

80. this would be a good time to PH Parmelee for Butera

    1. sweet

81. Twins with a chance to break their GIDP record!

82. the Twins are not very RISPy tonight.

83. $4300 for the Broadcast Experience! Do people really want to spend time with Dick'n'Someone that much?

    1. Someone who needs to launder a lot of money?

    2. I wonder if you have to sit in on the production meeting or stay around for the postgame game

    3. I'd rather go to Twins fantasy camp for that much dough.

       1. I know the guy that won the auction last year. $4300 is nothing to him.

          1. that would be nice.

84. Someone tell Span he doesn't need to play this good because the Yankees already got their outfielder.

85. What an enjoyable game to watch.

86. It's a good thing the Twins have Drew Butera to catch Liriano; otherwise he might not have pitched very well. We'll just have to settle for 106-56!

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