So my sister and her vegetarian husband stayed with us for Christmas and left a package of tofu. I hate to waste anything, but have never prepared a tofu dish. I made this, served over basmati rice. It was awesome.
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December 5, 2014: Let’s see who the Twins pick up today…
December 2, 2014: Offseason moves, the Twins way
All I've heard about is the manager and coaches, improvements to Target Field and a hint about interest in Justin Masterson at some point in the past few weeks.... I'm happy they addressed the opening at the helm, but I'm interested in what they add on-field.
September 2, 2014: State Fair & Labor Day…
...have Come and Gone. Does that mean the summer's over for you? What else is coming faster than you'd expected?
2014: Game 136 – Minnesota at Baltimore
Tough game last night. Best outcome today would be to win the game and avoid the sweep.
Starting Pitchers
Nolasco (5-9, 5.62 ERA)
-v-
Chen (13-4, 3.76 ERA)
Lineups:
1. D. Santana, CF
2. B. Dozier, 2B
3. J. Mauer, DH
4. K. Vargas, 1B
5. T. Plouffe, 3B
6. C. Parmelee, RF
7. E. Nunez, SS
8. E. Fryer, C
9. J. Schafer, LF
1. N. Markakis, RF
2. D. Lough, LF
3. A. Jones, CF
4. N. Cruz, DH
5. C. Davis, 1B
6. J. Hardy, SS
7. J. Paredes, 3B
8. R. Flaherty, 2B
9. C. Joseph, C
FMD – Is It Friday? It is, isn’t it?
AMR's out doing his dissertation on the history of the phrase, "Risk Is Opportunity" so I guess I'll throw out a placeholder.
Post your ten here.
2014 Game 122: Royals at Twins
Guthrie v. Milone
Tommy's looking for his first win in a Twins uniform against a Jeremy*
Lineups:
| 1. | N. Aoki, RF | D. Santana, SS |
| 2. | O. Infante, 2B | B. Dozier, 2B |
| 3. | S. Perez, C | J. Mauer, 1B |
| 4. | B. Butler, 1B | K. Vargas, DH |
| 5. | A. Gordon, LF | O. Arcia, RF |
| 6. | J. Willingham, DH | K. Suzuki, C |
| 7. | M. Moustakas, 3B | C. Parmelee, LF |
| 8. | A. Escobar, SS | E. Escobar, 3B |
| 9. | J. Dyson, CF | J. Schafer, CF |
*Is he the original Jeremy? I can't recall...
2014 – Game 116: Twins at Athletics
I won't talk about May here ... things can only improve for him, right?
As for today's game, I wouldn't mind avoiding the sweep, but that's about all the energy I've got to invest at this point.
Hughes (11-8, 4.01 ERA, 98 ERA+, 2.68 FIP, 1.246 WHIP) v. Hammel (9-9, 3.70 ERA, 104 ERA+, 3.78 FIP, 1.203 WHIP)*
*2014 combined stats: Cubs & A's
Following yesterday's game, the Twins did what most (all?) of us thought they should be doing at this point in another lost season by trading veteran pitcher Kevin Correia to the Los Angeles Dodgers for cash or a player to be named later. There was some brief discussion of it here yesterday. Comments were pretty matter of fact. Between insufficient run support and about average stuff, Correia provided about as was expected. Even so, according to sean:
Correia had a 1.6 rWAR last season and a -0.0 rWAR this season. FanGraphs rates them 1.4 fWAR and 0.9 fWAR respectively. The Dodgers are paying the final $1.5 million, so that's 1.6 rWAR and 2.3 fWAR for $8.5 million. That's $5.3 million / rWAR and $3.7 million / fWAR. He did everything the Twins expected, plus some.
That's kind of a nice way to sum up that FA signing...they got what was expected, plus some.
2014 Game 110: Minnesota Twins at Chicago White Sox
Gibson (9-8, 3.94 ERA) v. Quintana (6-7, 3.15 ERA)
| 1. | D. Santana, CF | A. Eaton, CF |
| 2. | B. Dozier, 2B | G. Beckham, 2B |
| 3. | T. Plouffe, 3B | J. Abreu, DH |
| 4. | J. Willingham, LF | C. Gillaspie, 3B |
| 5. | K. Vargas, DH | A. Ramirez, SS |
| 6. | C. Colabello, 1B | P. Konerko, 1B |
| 7. | O. Arcia, RF | D. Viciedo, RF |
| 8. | E. Fryer, C | A. De Aza, LF |
| 9. | E. Nunez, SS | T. Flowers, C |
Game 104: White Sox at Twins
Visitor brooms? I hope not.
Scott Carroll
v.
Yohan Pino
A win would be great. Crooked numbers would be good. A run would be nice. I'm hoping for the first, but expecting the second or third.