Game Thread: Rays@Twins 7/20 1:10PM

[diehardtwinsfan]

4-1 already. Back to chores I guess. At least something good will come out of today.

[JB_Iowa]

I blame RB ....

 

he just had to say something good about Correia.

[glunn]

4-1 already. Back to chores I guess. At least something good will come out of today.

 

A higher draft pick? A different manager?

[Guest USAFChief]

Isn't watching twins baseball fun?

Judging by recent game threads...no. No, it's not.

[Guest]

It's a good thing Pinto and his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad receiving hasn't been catching the starters during this series or who knows what could have happened!!

[JB_Iowa]

• Mike Berardino ‏@MikeBerardino 2m
  Aaron Hicks just hit a go-ahead grand slam in the top of the 7th for @RockCats, his 3rd homer at that level this year.
   
   
  My cheery news for the afternoon.
   
   
  

[Guest USAFChief]

I lose just a tiny bit more hope for Arcia pretty much every day.

[ashbury]

I blame RB ....

 

he just had to say something good about Correia.

 

Hey, don't forget the jinx I put on him. I called him mediocre.

[ashbury]

• Mike Berardino ‏@MikeBerardino 2m
  Aaron Hicks just hit a go-ahead grand slam in the top of the 7th for @RockCats, his 3rd homer at that level this year.
   
   
  My cheery news for the afternoon.
  

 

You have to take into account the level he is playing at. At AAA it would only be a 3-run shot, and in the majors a run-scoring double.

[ashbury]

A higher draft pick? A different manager?

 

I don't want any more high draft picks. Look what harm they are causing Houston.

[Guest USAFChief]

Hey, don't forget the jinx I put on him. I called him mediocre.

We're all guilty, on occasion, of viewing Twins players through rose colored glasses.

[TheDean]

Judging by recent game threads...no. No, it's not.

 

I think I just saw a few tumbleweeds roll through here.

[ashbury]

I'm no Deduno backer, but that was a pretty curveball for strike 3. (Immediately after a 59-footer.)

[ashbury]

"Deduno strikes out the side and leaves two men in scoring position." Pretty good summary of Deduno's style by our PBP guy.

[ashbury]

I think I just saw a few tumbleweeds roll through here.

 

Smile when you say that, pardner.

[Guest USAFChief]

I think I just saw a few tumbleweeds roll through here.

Those were my jokes.

[ashbury]

Those were my jokes.

 

Oh, give me hits, lots of hits under starry skies above

Don't call me out

Let me run through the bases of the ballparks that I love

Don't call me out

 

Let me try for an extra base in the evenin' breeze

And listen to the cheers of the crowd if you please

Send me off to Rochester but I ask you please

Don't call me out

 

/ tumbleweeds and such, you know

[Guest USAFChief]

Did my ears decieve me, or did Dick just vaguely intimate he wasn't thrilled with the idea of a sacrifice bunt?

 

EDIT: deceive.

 

"i before e, except after c, and when pronounced as an a, as in neighbour*, and weigh."

 

*You know who you are.

[Guest USAFChief]

Happy birthday Alice!

[glunn]

I don't want any more high draft picks. Look what harm they are causing Houston.

 

Another Buxton could be nice.

[ashbury]

"i before e, except after c, and when pronounced as an a, as in neighbour*, and weigh."

 

*You know who you are.

 

"... except for my weird foreign neighbor Sheila."

 

Also, if Einstein was so smart, how did he get the i-before-e rule wrong *twice*?

[Winston Smith]

"... except for my weird foreign neighbor Sheila."

 

Also, if Einstein was so smart, how did he get the i-before-e rule wrong *twice*?

 

He was from a parallel universe where that's the norm and where the Twins are still in contention.

[Guest USAFChief]

whoops.

[ashbury]

whoops.

 

And Plouffe still only ends up on third. This is a station-to-station team.

[Guest USAFChief]

And Plouffe still only ends up on third. This is a station-to-station team.

Just waiting for the inevitable WP.

[glunn]

Arcia seems to have a weakness for fastballs that are outside and high. And the Rays seem to be exploiting that weakness a lot.

[Guest USAFChief]

Arcia seems to have a weakness for anything and everything, everywhere, all the time. And the Rays seem to be exploiting that weakness a lot.

ftfy.

[ashbury]

Every player on the Twins 40-man roster seems to have committed unspeakable crimes in past lives and is now suffering their karmic punishment. And the Rays seem to be exploiting that weakness a lot.

 

ftfy.

 

ftfy.

[ashbury]

Just waiting for the inevitable WP.

 

Clearly all part of the cunning plan.

[Guest USAFChief]

Clearly all part of the cunning plan.

Works like a charm...once every third month or so.