Game Thread: Twins @ Orioles, 8/31 @ 12:35pm CT

[Riverbrian]

Try him in the bullpen.

In Charlotte?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Everyone is so bored with the game... They have started to recycle past innings.

Ah, so if they score, it'll just be reruns.

[Winston Smith]

There's always next year, however, we seem to be recycling years.

[GCTF]

Give it a few more starts.  An 11.92 ERA might seems like buying low.

They're paying Trevor May the league minimum for his 11.92 ERA.

[Riverbrian]

Aaron Thompson looks like he should be playing bass for Eric Church.

[glunn]

Dear Minnesota Twins,

 

Comebacks are so much easier if you halt the other team from scoring. If you allow the other team to keep scoring. It'll be like chasing a moving target. I recommend halting that target and holding it in place.

 

Sincerely,

 

Riverbrian

Well, that actually worked.  Maybe Gardy is using a smartphone to follow today's game thread.

[Riverbrian]

Ah, so if they score, it'll just be reruns.

LOL... That might have topped Ash's earlier post.

 

Close but I gotta give it 2nd place.

 

It would have been 1st on other game threads.

[Riverbrian]

Well, that actually worked.  Maybe Gardy is using a smartphone to follow today's game thread.

I think Gardy still knows how to untangle a phone chord.

[USAFChief]

"Buck Sherwalter."

 

Drink.

[Riverbrian]

"Buck Sherwalter."

 

Drink.

I wonder if Buck Showalter ever coached a player named Walter.

 

I'm only asking for obvious reasons.

[Ben B]

"Buck Sherwalter."

 

Drink.

 

I caught a "Ryan Flattery" earlier. 

[Riverbrian]

I wonder if Buck Showalter ever coached a player named Walter.

I'm only asking for obvious reasons.

Buck: Hey Walter... Give me that bat.... Let me show you how to do it.

[Riverbrian]

I caught a "Ryan Flattery" earlier.

 

There is plenty of Ryan flattery on Twins Daily... Let me tell ya.

[Riverbrian]

There is plenty of Ryan flattery on Twins Daily... Let me tell ya.

That's like a Jack Benny joke without the timing.

[Riverbrian]

Ok... One big 9th... Here we go.

[Craig Arko]

There is plenty of Ryan flattery on Twins Daily... Let me tell ya.

Note the date.

[Riverbrian]

The Orioles have their Nolasco on the mound.

[Circus Boy]

Wait...  Wasn't Hardy up with the bases loaded before?

 

One of my favorite players growing up was Jim Northrup, the Tigers' centerfielder in the 1960s. He still has the record of two grand slams in the same inning. I remember marveling that he had more rbi in one inning than I had all season in Little League.

 

Just a memory.

[glunn]

Vargas needs to be more selective against a pitcher like this one.

[glunn]

Dozier could easily steal home right now with the lead that they are giving him.

[Riverbrian]

Vargas needs to be more selective against a pitcher like this one.

That's the very definition of youth.

 

That and nudity.

[glunn]

That's the very definition of youth.

 

That and nudity.

Like!  I am now out of official likes.

[Riverbrian]

Comeback was a little short.

[JB_Iowa]

Wasn't Hardy once a Twin?
 

Sigh ...

[Riverbrian]

Wasn't Hardy once a Twin?

 

Sigh ...

And Gomez before that.

 

Sigh ...

 

No doubt about it tho... The Orioles got better when they moved Jim Hoey.

[Craig Arko]

Wasn't Hardy once a Twin?

 

Sigh ...

No, Frank was about a year older than Joe.

[snepp]

"Buck Sherwalter."

 

Drink.

 

Like x10

[snepp]

One of my favorite players growing up was Jim Northrup, the Tigers' centerfielder in the 1960s. He still has the record of two grand slams in the same inning. I remember marveling that he had more rbi in one inning than I had all season in Little League.

 

Just a memory.

 

More RBI than I had in my high school "career".

[ashbury]

Fluorescent giraffe door knockers also may come in handy at times.

 

_{^{/ quickly checking google for results...}}

Hah!  Took a few hours, but now it's the #1 hit on Google if you search on Fluorescent giraffe door knockers

[ashbury]

Buck: Hey Walter... Give me that bat.... Let me show you how to do it.

My one brief moment of glory at the SABR Trivia Team Finals a couple of years ago was correctly identifying Buck solely by his eyebrows.