Very sad news yesterday that Laurie Lindeen of Zuzu's Petals died unexpectedly. Laurie started the beloved and pioneering Minneapolis band Zuzu's Petals in the late 80's that led the way to other women-led bands. Laurie was a great writer, mentor to other bands, and was beloved in the Minneapolis music community. She will be missed.
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Loading... Twins wrapped up a nice 6 wins out of 9 games road trip and are back at Target field for a three game series against the Detroit Tigers. After a good start, the Tigers have dropped down to what we all thought they'd be: improved but still a sub .500 team. Twins now six games back of the Guardians but will need to take care of business this week as Cleveland plays the White Sox.
Simeon Woods Richardson on the mound for the Twins as he continues to pitch quite well and help all forget about Louie Varland as a starter. Tarik Skubal for the Tigers and he's been lights out this year with a WHIP under 1.0, 9 wins, and nearly 10.5 SO per 9 innings pitched. He's only 27 and setting up to be the Tigers ace for while.
Weather looks iffy so let's hope they get this game in.
First pitch at 6:40p
Are we still doing game logs? I'll keep doing my Tuesday until instructed to stop.
Twins pull into Phoenix tonight against the defending NL Champion Arizona Diamondbacks. D-backs a bit disappointing this year, although they are still viable for a Wildcard spot. Twins need to keep with their winning ways if they want to keep pace for the Guardians so should be a fun series. Well except for the excessive heat that is as it is slated to be 105 at first pitch today and 110 on Wednesday and Thursday. Fun! (yes I know they play indoors).
Joe Ryan on the mound and looking to build on a decent season. Brandon Pfaandt on for the Arizona and he's been middling so hopefully Twins literal hot bats will translate into hit.
First Pitch at 8:40.
No better way to go out than one of my favorite bands covering one of my favorite bands.
(1 votes, average: 9.00 out of 10)Loading... Great song. Deer tick captures it.
(4 votes, average: 8.75 out of 10)Loading... Guided By Voices Bee Thousand is 30 years old today! I wrote about a long time ago at the WGOM and you can access that here.
Classic Album Review: Guided By Voices — Bee Thousand (1994)
Anyway, I'm still a GBV geek all thanks to this album. So a question for the group, is there a single album, song, concert, etc., that you can look back on and say, "yup, that was the moment I became a fan of this band.
Cool weird version of this classic.
(2 votes, average: 8.50 out of 10)Loading... I love this version of Sweet Child. I think it captures the sentiment of the lyrics much better than the GnR version.
(3 votes, average: 7.00 out of 10)Loading... This blew people’s minds when it came out and either you loved it or hated it. Everyone talked about this SNL performance in school the next week.
(5 votes, average: 8.60 out of 10)Loading... Tampa Bay Rays come into town and for once are just kind of scuffling along at 4 games under .500. With Yankees and Orioles having monster seasons and the rest of that division pretty competitive, probably no playoffs in sight. Will be interesting to see what the Rays do at the trade deadline (#evergreen). Twins on one of their upswings but this one finally has helped them make inroads within the division as they are only 0.5 game behind the Royals and 5.5 behind Guardians.
Aaron Civale for the Rays, and while a one strike out per inning guy, he's been fairly mediocre this year. Basically he's been a 5-inning, 6-hit guy all season and the Rays have lost the last five games he has started. Pablo Lopez for the Twins and I think mid-June is a good time to start that typical second hand Pablo Lopez surge.
As of 8:15 this morning, not sure if this game gets in as the forecast is for thunderstorms starting right around 5:00p.
Schedule first pitch at 6:40
