Game Thread: Twins@Giants 5/25 3:05PM

[Riverbrian]

Game-time forecast: Sunny. Winds blowing out to right field at 10-15 m.p.h. Temperature near 70.

 

If you draw a line up and you reach the sky. You probably are not using Paper.

 

Chitown will draw that lineup... Right Here.

 

Twins:

SP, Nolasco

 

Dozier 2B

Mauer 1B

Plouffe 3B

Suzuki C

Nunez LF

Parmelee RF

Escobar SS

Santana CF

Nolasco P

 

(oy!)

 

Giants:

SP, Bumgarner

 

Blanco CF

Pence RF

Posey C

Sandoval 3B

Morse 1B

Colvin LF

Crawford SS

Hicks 2B

Bumgarner P

 

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Things to Think About:

 

1. The Rubber band -- Holy Cow... This Rubber Band thing is starting to become a thing. The Twins just seem to snap back to .500 and it doesn't seem to matter which direction they pressure the rubber band. It looks like it is tattered and torn yet it seems to hold firm. The Twins are 23-23 so the Rubber band is at rest. After today's game it will only feel slight pressure. How long will it hold? I don't know but I'd like to see it hang tight until July.

 

2. Madison Bumgarner -- Madison was named after Eau Claire Wisconsin but his parents didn't want to make it obvious so they disguised it a little. He grew up in North Carolina and led his team to a state championship... which led to a 1st round selection... 10th overall... in the 2007 draft. It didn't take long for him... He threw his first pitch in the majors in 2009 just two years out of High School. It seems like he has been in the majors forever but the truth is... He's only 16 years old. Twins hitters need to focus on two pitches. A mid to low 90's fastball and a slider that he throws a lot. He'll also mix in a change and curve just to piss you off because you were concentrating on his fastball and slider.

 

3. Offense -- The Twins are 2-2 in this national league road trip. Yet it really hasn't been the offense... has it. The Twins bats have cooled considerably and when you consider that Parmelee is holding down the clean up spot. It really isn't that surprising. That is not a knock on Parmelee but more of a knock on everyone else... Including TC Bear.

 

4. Rochester -- Willingham and Arcia return tomorrow so we can think those two specifically tomorrow. Today... It's time to think about who is making a trip to Rochester to make room for them after the game. Mainly because it will be a longer flight for them. I think we can all agree that Herrmann is one... Who is the 2nd??? It's gotta be between Parmelee, Colabello Santana and Nunez. I believe we risk losing Parmelee if we send him down. I don't know about the rest... The decision should be interesting.

 

5. Sunscreen -- Osmosis Skincare has developed a product... Drinkable Sunscreen. Yep... For those of you that are tired of gooping up and spreading it all over your body and then picking up a beer only to have it slide out of your greasy hands. You can now drink your sunscreen. It sounds like an interesting invention but with it... I wonder what my wife will do when the family goes outside for an extended time. It has always been her that calls us back to the car because we started moving into the sun totally exposed to the certain death before us. We stand there while she puts sun screen over all of us. We spin around when she asks... We put our arms up when she asks and we don't move forward until we ask her... Are we done? She gives the go ahead and the vacation begins.

[jokin]

If Cola was sticking around, wouldn't he be playing today against Bumgarner? As Hawk might say...."He gone"

 

And probably for the best, Cola can find his stroke back where he found such great success as the IL MVP, he could be back when Willngham is moved.

[Squirrel]

That 'oy!' was mine, not Bri's. Was my comment on the Twins lineup.

[Joe A. Preusser]

Didn't know a team was allowed to play with 3 SS and 2 1B.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Game-time forecast: Sunny. Winds blowing out to right field at 10-15 m.p.h. Temperature near 70.

 

If you draw a line up and you reach the sky. You probably are not using Paper.

 

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Things to Think About:

 

1. The Rubber band -- Holy Cow...

 

3. Offense -- .... Including TC Bear.

 

5. Sunscreen -- Osmosis Skincare has developed a product... Drinkable Sunscreen. Yep... For those of you that are tired of gooping up and spreading it all over your body and then picking up a beer only to have it slide out of your greasy hands. You can now drink your sunscreen. It sounds like an interesting invention but with it... I wonder what my wife will do when the family goes outside for an extended time. It has always been her that calls us back to the car because we started moving into the sun totally exposed to the certain death before us. We stand there while she puts sun screen over all of us. We spin around when she asks... We put our arms up when she asks and we don't move forward until we ask her... Are we done? She gives the go ahead and the vacation begins.

 

0. Perhaps it is Harold's purple crayon?

 

1. Have we considered the possibility that, rather than broken, the rubber band just gets stretched? Or is that makin' a simple theory too complex?

 

3. What hasn't TC been doing? Does he travel with the team?

 

5. That is pretty cool. Depending on the local of the vacation, it may still require a similar ritual with bug spray? And i'll be surprised when they make drinkable bug repellent.

 

Anyway, almost time for the game...

[snepp]

Depending on the local of the vacation, it may still require a similar ritual with bug spray? And i'll be surprised when they make drinkable bug repellent.

 

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41qAIVKsJDL.jpg

 

 

Of course it'll also repel everyone else around you.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41qAIVKsJDL.jpg

 

 

Of course it'll also repel everyone else around you.

 

Does it really work?

 

And my experience is that it won't repel others who also drank it. Which might be nice on a vacation...

[snepp]

Does it really work?

 

If you consume enough of it to sweat it out of your pores, sure.

[snepp]

Another flyball "hit" to an infielder.

[LaBombo]

That power surge with the move from catcher to first is taking its time kicking in...

[JB_Iowa]

Well, this can't be good.

[LaBombo]

Can't wait for Willingham to return to the lineup. He fields that ball cleanly after it drops 15 feet in front of him...

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Well the Twins get out of the first inning when Right Fielder Parmelee ranges into shallow center field to catch a short fly for the third out.

[snepp]

Former Twin "Sal" Butera behind the plate for Beckett's no-hitter.

 

 

 

Looks like Dickbert has been rubbing off on the rest of the FSN staff.

[GCTF]

Former Twin "Sal" Butera behind the plate for Beckett's no-hitter.

 

 

 

Looks like Dickbert has been rubbing off on the rest of the FSN staff.

 

It's only a matter of time until Bert calls him Buttgarner.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Drinking game every time RF Parmelee calls of CF Santana to make a catch in center

[GCTF]

Another thrilling pitcher at bat. They don't have to play in any more NL parks after this, I hope.

[snepp]

It's only a matter of time until Bert calls him Buttgarner.

 

And then...

 

[video=youtube_share;c84V486jzYY]http://youtu.be/c84V486jzYY

[jokin]

Another thrilling pitcher at bat. They don't have to play in any more NL parks after this, I hope.

 

Except the Milwaukee mausoleum?

[snepp]

Drinking game every time RF Parmelee calls of CF Santana to make a catch in center

 

Maybe they should just put Parmelee in center to start with.

 

 

*shudder*

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Escobar!

 

(well, only a single, but that's better than everything so far)

[GCTF]

And then...

 

Assgarner?

[Danchat]

While most the Twins are failing at the plate, Eduardo Escobar somehow is on fire. Does he have enough PAs to be on the batting average leaderboard?

[snepp]

More good baserunning there.

[jokin]

Drinking game every time RF Parmelee calls of CF Santana to make a catch in center

 

Nahhh.....Just some "Veteran leadership" among all the Infielders in the OF.

[GCTF]

Can't they just make him stay in the dugout and move on to the next batter instead of wasting thirty seconds of my life?

[GCTF]

Maybe they should just put Parmelee in center to start with.

 

 

*shudder*

 

Cuddles says hi.

[snepp]

Does he have enough PAs to be on the batting average leaderboard?

 

Not even close at this point, he's 40-some PA's short right now.

[snepp]

Where's an error or wild pitch when you need one?

[GCTF]

I'm gonna go all Dankind on Mauer soon.