Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–May 2

Eddie Collins (1887)
Bing Crosby (1904)
Joe Falls (1928)
Eddie Bressoud (1932)
Gates Brown (1939)
Clay Carroll (1941)
Keith Moreland (1954)
Dr. A (1956)
Felix Jose (1965)
Paul Emmel (1968)
Jerrod Saltalamacchia (1986)
Neftali Feliz (1988)

Entertainer Bing Crosby was part-owner and a vice president of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1947 into the 1960s.

It appears that no players with connections to the Minnesota Twins were born on this day.  However, it is the birthday of my brother, who is the head of the Mining and Minerals Department at Virginia Tech.  Happy Birthday, Dr. A!

2012 Twins Game Log

2012 Game Logs: Game 23 Twins @ LAaAAAAAAaAa

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Mrs. Buffalo is currently watching Cupcake Wars. How many different ways can you possibly make cupcakes? Let's take a look, I see 8 of them:

1:Trout- This dude only has 5 career home runs. That is only 1 more than Drew Butera. What a cupcake.
2:Callaspo -Career slugging percentage? .384 For a frame of reference, Tom Prince, in his two seasons with the Twins, had a .371 slugging percentage.
3:Pujols - A .265 OBP this season? You know who can beat that? Chris Heintz and his career mark of .268
4:Hunter- This guy is a bozo. I am not even going to bother looking at his numbers.
5:Trumbo- A career .294 OBP for the LAAA slugger. You know who can beat that, besides most people? How about Dave Engle with a career .316 mark.
6:Kendrick- The second baseman has a 87 OPS+ this season. This looks suspiciously like Tim Laudner's career mark of 84.
7:Wells- The only thing worse that Veron Wells this season? Vernon Wells last season. His numbers compare unfavorably to Pat Borders' season with the Twins.
8:Aybar- This season with the Angels Aybar has one stolen base. This is exactly as many as Jeff Reed had in his career with the Twins. Dude was a catcher. What a cupcake this Aybar is!
9:Iannetta- This guy is actually having a hell of a season.

LAAAAA is hitting like a bunch of back up catchers. What a joke.

Cup of Coffee

May 1, 2012: The Cusp

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The verbal commitment was made yesterday, but today we should be finding out that the Milkmaid's getting a promotion that will nearly double her salary and take us to Tennessee, West Virginia, Washington, Hawai'i or Chicago. I don't care where we go - we'll be out of debt in no time and will finally be free to live our lives.

Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–May 1

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Frank Foreman (1863)
George McQuillan (1885)
Victor Starfin (1916)
Johnny Berardino (1917)
Al Zarilla (1919)
Von Joshua (1948)
Rudy Meoli (1951)
Roy Lee Jackson (1954)
Charlie O'Brien (1960)
Jose Lind (1964)
Armando Reynoso (1966)

Born in Russia, Victor Starfin was Japanese baseball’s first 300-game winner.

Infielder Johnny Berardino played in the major leagues for eleven years and appeared in 912 games, but is best known as Dr. Steve Hardy on General Hospital, a role he played from 1963-1996.

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2012 Twins Game Recaps

Game 22 Recap: Minnesota Twins 3, LAAAAAAAAAAA Angels 4

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half-bakef game notes:

  • blackburn had a quality start (you can take that for what it's worth)
  • II didn't care
  • casilla was strangely effective
  • valencia too (though less so)
  • morneau left the game injured (wrist)
  • burton still isn't a scrub
  • close, but not close enough-ish
  • i dropped lidge and picked up downs.  uhh, score...

UPDATE: aww, nuts.

Remodeled basement. Same half-baked taste.