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2015 Game 24: Sux @ Twins

Nolasco returns! Lucky for him, he's facing off against the worst offense in the league, so... I'm expecting good things from him. We're adjusting our criteria for "good things", given that it's Nolasco, so I'm thinking he labors through 104 pitvhes in five and a third innings, gives up 3 runs and everyone agrees that it could have been a lot worse.

Noesi takes the hill for the White Sox. He gives up lots of home runs, but that's not exactly a tool in our bag, unless Arcia or vargas gets ahold of one, so... key in on the fact that he doesn't strike many out and that he has a tendency to walk folk? Man, he's not a very good pitcher, is he.

Go Twins!

Game 17: Twins @ Mariners

The good news is that we don't have to watch our favorite team take on Felix Hernandez any more in this series.

Trevor May (1-1 4.76 ERA, 3.04 FIP)
vs.
James Paxton (0-1 8.40 ERA, 4.64 FIP)

I should really do xFIP, but I'm about to go run some errands, and I can't be arsed to do anything other than a quick bbref lookup. It looks like this Paxton fellow has been almost as good as Hughes at keeping the ball on the correct side of the outfield fence. I'd expect that to change.

On that note: the Twins as a team have 8 home runs. Nelson Cruz has 9.

Game 115: The Arrival

M'AIDEZ!! (to oblige DW)

Well, he's here. I'm trying to keep my expectations reasonably low, but this is more about what it all represents.

The Twins post-2011 have sucked. Tonight represents the possibility that they might not suck forever. Even if May only ends up being the third or fourth best starter on the staff of the future, maybe we'll have the type of team that has a fairly decent starter in the third or fourth spot. We can hope, right?

In the mean time, he's only got to make a start against the best team in baseball. No pressure!

Starflyer 59 – No New Kinda Story

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-d63s6ImM4

We'll close out with another old favorite. Starflyer 59 started out as a straight up shoegaze band in 1993, but they they've morphed album by album from a sort of dream pop band to more of a "normal" indie pop/rock act. The lead singer, Jason martin, is the only constant within the band, with other members usually only staying for an album or two..

This song catches them in their middle, more dreamy phase.

Thanks for watching this week!

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