Blackburn versus Peavy
Lineups:
Twins
- SPANTATIC
- Silver Smith
- Chairman
- THOR
- The Mountie
- Zac Brown
- Dozier's tough I'm going with Helmet Hair or Billy Ray Cyrus
- Laddie
- Old Balls
Pale Hose
- Bad Person
- Awful Friend
- Person you don't want to see at IHOP
- Pauli Pocket
- Someone else
- That dude who annoys you from across the room
- He chews on your pen when he borrows it
- Cuba
- Boo
Go Twins!
oh geez, not Blackburn.
Batting practice for the Whities today.
It's like you wrote this using a refrigerator magnet poetry kit, yickit. I approve.
Bases loaded. Nobody out. Run scoring GIDP. Twins Baseball.
Well, managed to screw that up.
Adam Dunn = a blind squirrel
After watching span take all three outs this inning i wonder what the record for consecutive put outs is by one player?
Hey, Blac_burn's sinker is going to start working any pitch now. Any pitch. Now.
It seems to be working for the hitters.
Ooh, a one-run lead with Blackie on the mound? I can't believe he made it through one inning without giving the Sox some runs back.
I know today's Cub Foods Hot Streak player! As such, my only real hope for the game today is for Mauer to get a hit.
Provus says "strike three called, Casilla thought that was ball four."
I immediately think "Angel Hernandez must be working home plate today."
Of course he is.
Please, Angel, throw Konerko out.
Big strike zone today.
The Angel zone.
I f-ing hate Nick Blackburn.
They should literally just leave him in Chicago. Just don't bring him back to Minneapolis. Let him figure it out from there. Just leave him.
I have no feelings towards him whatsoever. Numbness is better than having to hate him for however much longer the Twins will keep trotting him out there for batting practice.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs3lQVyZPVg
I haven't made any predictions in a while. I predict that Dozier will jack a large donger today!
As long as it's his own donger that's okay.
Well, Aaron Hicks is 5-5 today in New Britain with two doubles and a homer. At least the Twins have that going for them.
I get to watch the Twins at home on my lunch break for the first time ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!1! Living two blocks from the store does come in handy.
I would have preferred Twins hits to Beckham hits, but meh, it's still baseball on my break.
You know, never mind. Baseball on my break sucks.
Head in the game, Doumit.
I don't know why I bother sometimes.
I've got a spooky feeling Rios is going to jack a donger here.
There are lots of things a big league ballplayer needs to be able to do that I can't do, but I can almost always count to three correctly.
Oh holy shit.
Cal Ripken's mom kidnapped, released unharmed. Wowza.
At least the Olympics start soon, right?
Women's soccer is on NBC Sports right now. Brazil is up 3-0 on Cameroon. USA beat France 4-2 earlier.
My response.
yeah, i can't wait to watch olympic baseball!
Meh, call me when the World Baseball Classic is on!
Do any baseball players look like this?
Joe Mauer..... Never mind.
Ila Borders?
In related news, Eri Yoshida is having her best year as a pro this year.
She's 3-3 in 6 starts with a 5.10 ERA. 1.8 k/9, 4.2 BB/9 (both career bests).
You can go for the glamor, but I will go for an Abby Wambach header in the clutch.
header in the clutch? Ouch.
I still wish they had it. I got to watch Terry Tiffee light it up in China.
Take a few minutes to field a work phone call, and suddenly the Sox have a four-spot. *forehead smack*
PLEASE, can we get more than 1 run from this? I rarely ask for much.
Dick agrees with you.
Dick really isn't into this game.
He's not the only one.
I thought this thread was the CoC!
Absolute Boo.
He's one of a few who are getting paid to care about it.
I'm pretty sure I just heard Dazzle call the pitch that Doumit struck out on a "doo doo ball." I'm fairly certain that's every pitch Blac_burn throws.
I appreciated that phrase.
There was a doo doo ball right there.
The Twins lack of clutchiness is being exposed.
Well...damn.
cr@p, I was hoping to see Carroll up with another clutch opportunity. seems like he only gets his hits with RISP
One factor Dazzle and Cory didn't mention that helped Peavy get out of the inning is that the bottom of the Twins order stinks.
Have you guys ever noticed that the Twins are terrible and I hate them and they have stupid ugly faces?
Hee hee hee.
YES!
Okay, let's try to avoid sweeping generalities, shall we. "...ever noticed almost all the Twins..."
Dick noting that "ground ball pitcher" Blackburn has no ground ball outs so far this game.
Blackburn is not a major league pitcher.
Blackburn needs to be off this team. He's horrible. Good god.
Lofty optimism--met with thudding failure.
TWINS BASEBALL!
Apparently, the Twins misread the schedule and thought today was the off day.
Gardy read "give-away game" instead of "get away game" when he penciled in Blackie.
Dazzle, the way things are going, I really don't think Blackburn's pitch count is likely to matter.
They should leave him out there for 400 pitches if it means we don't have to watch him pitch any more this season.
Blackburn stinking in the game tonight
Take your broken arm and learn to pitch
All your life
We are only waiting for the moment to say goodbye
I think I'd end it
"...we are only waiting for the moment to be free (of you)"
That's even worse than I imagined.
If you want to see worse, just look at his 2012 numbers. Even really horrible teams don't keep guys with these stats around long.
Blackburn's OBA is .327. That means everyone is pretty much Joe Mauer against Blackburn.
OBA (or OBP) or BA? A .327 OBP seems really low for Blackburn, right around league average.
Opposing batting average.
hivemind.
That makes a lot more sense. And actually, it would be a slight improvement if he turned everyone into Joe Mauer.
Looking at the Twins' pitching stats was scary. I'm not going back there for awhile.
Made me laugh...you know, one of those nervous sort-of awkward laughs.
I'm going to assume he means "Opposing Batting Average"
Does this concussion blabber by dick and cool dog hold any water? I'm inclined to guess not, but I'm not an expert.
Viciedo having a great day out in left field.
North Korea's national anthem is really boring...yeah I'm watching women's Olympics soccer North Korea vs. Colombia instead of the Twins.
And why wouldn't you. Blackburn is pitching.
London Olympics screw-up of the day: A South Korean flag was displayed on the jumbotron as a backdrop for the North Korean roster, causing the game to be delayed after the North Korean team stormed off back to the clubhouse for 45 minutes.
ha!
Geez, I hope the Olympic Officials double checked their Kazakhstan National Anthem recording.
If these runs hastens Blackburn's exit, then bring 'em on!
It gets to the point when Blackbum is pitching, all I can do is laugh.
So when is BP over and when is the game gonna start?
I hope this isn't the day we finally get that eight-run inning, because it probably wouldn't be enough.
I really don't think I want to hear about the "Dan Gladden sprinkler".
I believe that rather than listen to Dazzle talk about "team chemistry", I'm going to give up on this game and find something else to do. I'm sure I'll regret that when the Twins come back and win, but oh well.
get home from work and see this 8-2 score 🙁 I hate when the Twins lose to the Pale Hosers
Oh I see Burton and Perkins were available today. Good thing Gardy didn't burn them up putting out the fires started by the terrible relievers last night.
Boy, next year when they look for any highlights from this season to use during their radio bumpers, it'll have to include plays like where the Twins batter grounds out but avoids a DP.
"And Span scores on a 6-4-3 double play!"
After getting swept by the White Sox, there's nowhere to go but up. We'll just have to settle for 104-58!