2012 Twins Game Log

2012 Game Logs: Game 18 Red Sox @ Twins

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Josh Beckett
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Nick Blac_burn

I figure I should try telling a story.

"Give me one of everything" he said as he slowly approached the St. Paul diner's dilapidated counter. Maggie, the aging waitress, laughed. "The usual, eh?" She was greeted by silence.

It had been 12 hours since he had induced himself into a food coma the night before. He had always used food as a coping mechanism and the previous night was no different. As he left work on Monday night he was accosted by his co-workers, his managers, and those who monitored his work.

"Do you have the internet, Maggie?" Before she could answer back Matt continued "I went home last night after stopping at Pizza Hut for unlimited medium pizzas for $10 each. After I finished I logged onto my America Online Account and went to the USA TODAY homepage. A home page is kind of like a newspaper on your computer, Maggie, and all I saw was how stupid I looked. There I was, right there for everyone to see. It was so embarrassing. Have you ever been on a newspaper, Maggie?

"Well, no, Matt. I am just a simple waitress from a small town"

"I knew you wouldn't understand" groaned Matt as Maggie walked away unsure of what to say-- again.

It was at that time that a slovenly cook clumsily walked from the kitchen with three plates of food.

"Dammit, Matt, you can't come in here every morning and make my waitress feel like garbage. I know what it feels like to be in the news. Oh, I know alright". Matt looked up from his slice of Key Lime Pie that Maggie had brought as an appetizer. "What the hell are you talking about?" Matt asked the cook.

"Your not from around here, are you?" said the cook. "I can tell just by looking at 'cha. You wouldn't know it but I used to be someone around here. Just one town over, I used to be somebody".

"Sure you were, pops" said the equally slobbish patron as he shoved the fresh fishsticks dipped into mustard in his mouth.

"You might not know me but we have a lot in common, Matt. If you aren't careful, this could be your future" he said as he waved his hands pointing to the sparsely populated diner. "I used to play baseball, too, Matt. Yessir, I know who you are. What, you don't think that we get the newspaper here? Get your head out of your rear end. Anyway, I used to be like you Matt. I was a pitcher, too. In fact, I even pitched at the end of games, just like you."

Matt interrupted "Gees, Joe, you look like crap. Texas sure has aged you."

"I am not Joe Nathan!" screamed the man as Maggie brought more plates of food out to Matt. "Look at the mirror. You are eating yourself into a gosh darn joke." Matt looked down into his plates, confused. "The year was 1986 and we had all the making of a fine young team. We had Kent and Kirby, Bruno and Gags. They were mostly kids but they were on the brink of something special. That was, until Frankie or Bert handed the ball off to me. After that, well, let's just say my back was on the front page of the newspaper a few times".

"Like the USA Today?"

"Yeah, Matt, even USA Today. Now go wash off your hands and get the hell out of here before your eat yourself right out of the big leagues, ya hear?"

"Yes sir" Matt replied.

And with that, Matt Capps walked as fast as he could to his car and drove to Target Field to begin training for that night's baseball game.

As he was leaving Maggie turned to the cook, who it turns out owned the diner, and screamed:

"Dammit, Ron, you just lost our best customer. He was putting my kid through college. He was single handily keeping our the restaurant afloat! We are going to have to close the doors here at Davis' Diner!"

Ron laughed and said "don't worry, Maggie, he will be back. He always comes back."

174 thoughts on “2012 Game Logs: Game 18 Red Sox @ Twins”

  1. THE MINNESOTA TWINS ARE GOING TO WIN THIS BASE BALL GAME!!!!

    There. I just thought it needed to be said.

  7. Counting that as a hit seems wrong. That should be an error on the ball or something.

  8. I was thinking earlier today that it would be nice if the Twins had a pitcher like Brad Radke again. This isn't really quite what I meant.

  22. I don't know who this clown is in the booth with Dick, but he's way too respectful of that pussy singles hitting catcher.

  29. I remember when Beckett used to be a good pitcher. Now I'm starting to think the Twins will be signing him to a one-year contract in a season or two.

    1. Or the FO will be really, really, happy to use him as the center piece for a trade involving Joe Mauer.

  30. Doumit, here's a useful hint. The pitcher just walked three batters in a row. Don't swing at the first pitch.

  31. Thanks, SBG, for reminding me it wasn't dicknbert tonight. I switched back from the NESN guys.

        2. I can't find the video, but I recall Pedro motioning up, down, left, right to the ump asking where he should put the ball for a strike. He didn't get run from that game.

  43. Dick: "Shoppach continues to punish Nick Blackburn."
    Me: "You could say that about anyone."

  48. I finished painting the exterior of my house tonight so I cracked open one of these to celebrate. If I'm still upright after I finish, I may fire off a torpedo.

    1. End of the painting? Excellent choice. Turns out they are making Brooklyn Lager in 12 packs now. Sure it is in cans but I own glasses.

      1. Here in Chicago cans instead of bottles is the new big thing in microbrewing.

        I don't like it.

      2. Yeah, the exterior is done. We're waiting to hear the results of the bid on our house, and what else there is to do to sell this mutha.

            1. SN Pale Ale became that for me in LA. Every convenience store had the same 15 terrible options, plus SN Pale.

              I got sorta sick of it, of course, but at least it was there.

              1. For this reason SN can be a little overrated. A good choice in a precarious beer situation however.

                1. I've never really been a SN fan, but the torpedo is a cut above their other offerings.*

                  *non bigfoot category.

  56. NESN guys inform me that David Ortiz and Justin Bieber have been having a long Twitter conversation. Ugh...I'm fighting the urge to see what the hell it could possibly be about.

  57. Blackburn just started this inning with the three true outcomes. That's got to be a rarity for him. And of course he does it in the wrong order.

  59. Maybe Twins fans will start figuring out the Twins' problems are not clutch hitting, execution or the bullpen.

  63. Oh good, another runner at third to strand. I'm out of here. Off to Trey's game. Hoping to see no-hitter No. 5. Maybe this time it will be the other team.

  70. I'm going to be bailing on this one soon- if the rain doesn't take care of it for me.

  71. I just checked in to see what condition my condition is in; not good, it appears.

  75. its frustrating to see teams come into Target Field and hit balls where the Twins hitter dont.

  80. Thank goodness Mrs Buffalo wasn't here to see JJ on the Twins brodcast.

      1. JJ Barea. I guess Rubio is at the game too and they keep flashing his mug up on the Jumbrotron

  83. 2 double for Willingham so far this game. He is now the team leader in doubles (6), HR (5), RBI (13) Runs scored (11), tied with Mauer in hits (21)

  90. FSN could never hire Tom Kelly full time. He points out the negatives in the local players.

      1. Don't get me wrong, not all of the time, or even most of the time. Just those times where they turn a routine double play into the most difficult thing in the world.

  95. Here's hoping all the days ahead
    Won't be as bitter as the ones behind you.
    Be an optimist instead,
    And somehow happiness will find you
    Forget what happened yesterday,
    I know that better things are on the way.

    httpv://youtu.be/-n0Fc_Ik7iw

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