Final stats.
Minor League Team Leaders: Elizabethton
Romy Jimenez missed almost a month, but he's making up for lost time.
Minor League Team Leaders: Beloit
I know there are a lot of slugging first basemen in the minors, but I'm starting to get fired up about Kennys Vargas.
Minor League Team Leaders: Fort Myers
Josmil Pinto has been moved up to New Britain.
Minor Details: Games of 8/27
Another good day for Wilkin Ramirez. A solid outing for Nick Blackburn. Another good day for Oswaldo Arcia. An outstanding game by Luke French. Linsanity for the Snappers. The E-Twins get ready for the playoffs.
WGOM Fitness: 8/28/2012 – I Want to Ride My Bicycle
When I was twelve years old we lived on a farm about four miles from town, and I wanted a new bicycle more than anything (except maybe Maureen McCormick, and I'll admit to having only a vague idea about what I wanted with her). Not another hand-me-down bike, mind you, but a brand new bike of my very own like I hadn't had since I was five and got one for Christmas and my grandpa taught me to ride it that very day. So I started saving my nickels and dimes and dreaming of a new bike. On our weekend stops at the sporting goods store I picked out the one I wanted, a white Columbia 10-speed road bike with black handlebar tape, saddle and trim, center-pull caliper brakes and Shimano derailleurs. I even remember exactly how much it cost - $179.99. After months of saving and scrounging and coming up short I began to despair that it would ever be mine.
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August 28, 2012: Rest
After six straight days in a department that I'm still not comfortable with and the harsh news of finding out I'll have a new manager soon because the old one slept with another employee at a company retreat (oops!), I finally have a day off. I could use this one.
Happy Birthday–August 28
Joe Yeager (1875)
Dode Paskert (1881)
Aaron Ward (1896)
Charlie Grimm (1898)
Paul Bowa (1918)
Tony Gonzalez (1936)
Tom Satriano (1940)
Lou Piniella (1943)
Mike Torrez (1946)
Ron Guidry (1950)
Joel Youngblood (1951)
Darren Lewis (1967)
Jay Witasick (1972)
Tom Shearn (1977)
Carlos Quentin (1982)
Paul Bowa is the father of Larry Bowa and the grandfather of Nick Johnson. He was a minor league infielder who reached as high as AAA, and later became a minor league manager in the St. Louis Cardinals' organization.
We would also like to wish a very happy birthday to bhiggum.
The Go! Team – The Power Is On
And now for something completely different.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtZAVBY2lAg
Jools, 2007
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Loading... 2012 Game 128: Mariners at Twins
First Pitch - 7:10 p.m. CDT
Television - FSN
Poor Liam Hendriks. Just his second game back in the show after spending most of the summer in Rochester and he's pitted against King Felix, who rolled a perfect game just a couple of weeks ago. Twelve strikes in a row, a Thanksgiving turkey. But Felix wasn't just the king for that one game this season, he's been pretty awesome throughout. In just his last 13 outings he's won eight and lost none while holding hitters to a .184 batting average. Yeah, the dude has the unique abilitiy to turn everyone he faces into something worse than Drew Butera or Danny Valencia with a bat in their hands. Hernandez has led something of a second half surge for the Mariners with team going 25-16 since the All-Star break. Hendriks is also going into tonight's game without much in the way of backup. The bullpen is pretty gassed after throwing a ton of innings in the Texas series. So I wouldn't expect much from the Twins' pitching staff tonight, and not much from the offense, either. If you need a reason to watch, we might see Joe Mauer break the franchise records for games caught if he crouches behind the plate tonight. I used to know who holds the record, but I Earl Battey'd the guy. That's got to be worth tuning in for one inning, anyway. Is it football season yet? Basketball? Hockey? Bueller? Anybody? Bueller?
Play ball!