metal-lover bait. engineer bait. i wonder if anyone around here fits that description...
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBIBf86DYLI
(2 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10)
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I had a pretty nice game log all ready to go today, but we won't be using it because it's on my laptop. I'm writing this on my backup PC, which I built about the same time that Gardy took over as manager of the Twins. It's slow. Painfully slow. Matt LeCroy slow. Sloths laugh at things this slow. But it's all I've got until I can eradicate the apparent malware that has basically bricked my laptop.
The Twins open a 4-game series tonight against the team we all love to hate. The Yankees send 41-year-old Andy Pettitte to the mound. We know what he can do. He's beat the Twins in his last seven starts against the hometown nine. The Twins counter with Scott Diamond, who has struggled in has past few starts while posting a 1-3 record since June 2nd. But for once it actually feels like the Twins match up pretty well with the banged-up Bombers sans ARod and the Cap'n. We'll see.
Play ball!
Both teams hit some homeruns...and doubles - 22 hits between 'em. In the end, the Royals did just enough against Twins pitching to eek out a "W".
Positive note - after going a very long stretch of the season without a HR, Mountie has doubled his HR total in the last 10 games to 4. Trader Clete now has 3 on the year...le sigh.
In other news and to much less fanfare - the NHL held it's draft. Colorado selected 17-year-old center Nathan MacKinnon with the first overall pick.
More on what the Wild did below.
a win puts the Twins in 3rd place.
happy birthday, Pete.
2010
EDIT: and also to the long suffering milkmaid!
(2 votes, average: 8.50 out of 10)Loading... It took a lot longer than many of us thought it should have, but.
Ladies* and gentlemen, I give you...
Kyle Gibson.
(cue thunderous applause and hopefully more than a strikeout every other inning)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgxU-VxKs7M
The Queens have just released a new Album that's garnering a lot of critical acclaim. I haven't listened the whole way through, but I dig the title track.
(4 votes, average: 7.75 out of 10)Loading... James Shields
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Phillip DeWayne Walters
Hopefully, Walters can record more than two outs before hitting the wall.
I thought I'd keep this here instead of clogging the CoC or game log. Here's the leaderboard:
If you'd like to help me keep everything updated, which I can assure you will be very much appreciated, the link is here. Simply go to the "HitQuery" sheet at the bottom and change the "N" to a "Y" when someone on the list gets a hit. The spreadsheet will take care of the rest and the above scoreboard will auto-update.
June 28, 2013
Mood: Tired 😐
Music: Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
I had a dream last night that I was pitching for the Twins at Target Field. It was a beautiful sunny day and there was a huge crowd cheering for the first pitch and I was up on the mound and the batter was standing in the box and the umpire was shouting “Play Ball” and the ball was in my glove and then the ball was in my hand my hand and then… I just couldn’t throw the ball. I knew I had to throw the ball, and I wanted to throw the ball, and I was staring at the ball in my hand thinking “I need to throw you” but I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t throw a pitch. Everybody was waiting for me to start the game and the crowd was getting impatient, and I could hear them muttering “Why can’t he throw the ball, what’s wrong with him” and I was getting more and more frustrated. Then I saw Coach Gardenhire start to walk out of the dugout towards me and I knew I had to throw a pitch right then, throw it Now! Okay, just throw it Now! Come on! What’s wrong with you just throw it now! But it was too late, Coach Gardenhire was coming and I couldn’t do a thing. And then I woke up.
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