Game Thread: Twins @ Rangers, 6/29 @ 2:05pm CT

[GCTF]

They fear Polancosie

[Riverbrian]

Does it make him toolsy by default?

 

The 5 Tool Parm

[sampleSizeOfOne]

The main thing that's keeping me watching this game is the hope that Polanco can get another hit or help make another double play. I will be bitter when he is sent down.

 

Is a 4 pitch walk okay?

 

I got no problems with it myself...

[Riverbrian]

Pick one

 

1. Gibson goes back out for the 8th

2. Gibson does not go back out for the 8th

3. I wish Pedro Hernandez was pitching for the Twins today.

4. Rally Monkey

 

I want one and two to happen. Just so I can say... I saw it.

[GCTF]

I want one and two to happen. Just so I can say... I saw it.

 

I'm having a hard time figuring out how that can happen so I'm just going to have another beer.

[glunn]

It seems to me that Dozier might play better if he got an occasional day off.

[GCTF]

Ben Rowen? Wasn't he a 3rd catcher for the Twins about ten years ago?

[LaBombo]

Skunk-y beer .... what a treat.

 

Guy across the dorm hall freshman year left a bottle of Bud in his room's south-facing window for six months, as a 'science experiment'. Being a forestry major, he had the common sense to open it outside the dorm the week before finals, in front of a small gathering of floor residents.

 

After we more or less had to restrain/revive him, the ChemE guy who placed a few drops on his tongue (also in the interest of science) offered his fledgling chemist opinion that the substance in the bottle was probably well on its way to becoming a low-tech chemical weapon.

 

The internet was still a few years away, but it's safe to say that if it had already arrived, none of us would have invented Facebook.

[GCTF]

Washy's doing some managin'.

[diehardtwinsfan]

I'm having a hard time figuring out how that can happen so I'm just going to have another beer.

 

It will make a lot more sense once you've had a few more.

[GCTF]

It will make a lot more sense once you've had a few more.

 

Well we'll see about that.

[GCTF]

Pick one

 

1. Gibson goes back out for the 8th

2. Gibson does not go back out for the 8th

3. I wish Pedro Hernandez was pitching for the Twins today.

4. Rally Monkey

 

Poll is closed. Votes will not be tabulated.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

It will make a lot more sense once you've had a few more.

 

Yup. All you need is another Gibson...

[glunn]

Poll is closed. Votes will not be tabulated.

 

I vote that Gibson has pitched very well today, and deserves a win.

[LaBombo]

It seems to me that Dozier might play better if he got an occasional day off.

Pffft. He already had his day off. And he'll sit around the whole All Star break, during which he will apparently rust like the Tin Man, since corrosion avoidance and Cal Ripken Disorder are the only two reasons that come to mind for keeping a middle infielder in the lineup every day of the season.

Edited June 29, 2014 by LaBombo

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Nice snag by Polanco to end the inning...

[GCTF]

Pick one

 

1. Gibson comes out for the 9th

2. Gibson does not come out for the 9th

3. I wish Mike Pelfrey was pitching for the Twins today.

4. Rally Monkey

 

Votes will not be tabulated.

[Puckett34]

Nice play Poloncosie

[GCTF]

I vote that Gibson has pitched very well today, and deserves a win.

 

Much better than his LAAoA experience.

[diehardtwinsfan]

good start Hammer

[ScrapTheNickname]

It seems to me that Dozier might play better if he got an occasional day off.

 

I have same feeling about Escobar. He looks taxed.

[Riverbrian]

Ben Rowen? Wasn't he a 3rd catcher for the Twins about ten years ago?

 

Nope... He's the guy with the boat on a gentle stream

[VATwinsFan]

Re: Polanco's youth. How many of you old timers remember the Calvin Griffith/Butch Wynegar ad in which Wynegar says he loves baseball so much he'd play for free?

 

Griffith's response was.......?

 

The answer is, "I really like this kid".

[LaBombo]

Morales picked a good time to get back on track.

[snepp]

I Was just thinking a DP would be nice.

 

That's because I put it there.

[snepp]

Schweeeeet.

[GCTF]

sa-weet

[Circus Boy]

I have same feeling about Escobar. He looks taxed.

 

I know this sounds harsh, but how in the world does anyone get tired playing baseball. It's fun, *{!?;*' it!

[diehardtwinsfan]

yay!

[diehardtwinsfan]

I know this sounds harsh, but how in the world does anyone get tired playing baseball. It's fun, *{!?;*' it!

 

Well, I'd imagine it has something to do with the fact that playing 162 games over the course of a few months will wear down most people...