Game Thread: White Sox@Twins 9/3 7:10PM

[Riverbrian]

I'm terrified he's going to play well enough to convince the Twins he's the starting left fielder in 2015, at which point we get a repeat of thinking SS was filled going into 2014.

Not me... TC Bear is all that scares me. I often think he's just acting friendly but eventually his natural instincts will take over and someone is going to get mauled.

[Riverbrian]

49 years ......

Yep... You're the Jinx

[Squirrel]

Final 6-2. Zack Jones gave up a run in the 9th but got the final out with a strike out.

[LaBombo]

ARam reminds me of Gagne.  At the plate and in the field..

[big dog]

You know, sometimes living in a small town is a bit of a challenge (too much gossip, no restaurants, etc., etc.) but sometimes it is just amazing.

 

Found out tonight that the local lawn mower/snowmobile dealer's family is donating a brand new $6,000 Clipper riding mower for our Swimming Pool Auction.

 

We're now close to 150 items -- the generosity of people in this town is just amazing.  And when they bid, they don't expect a "bargain" for a benefit.  In fact most items go for more than face value.

If I win the bidding for the swimming pool in the auction, will someone deliver and install it, or do I have to pick it up?

[ashbury]

Danks ERA by inning (career, 2014)

 

1st:  4.03, 5.00

2nd: 4.09, 8.00

Different than the norm.  A talk at this year's SABR convention reminded us that league-wide the first inning is the biggest scoring inning (and the noteworthy thing, not pertinent here, is that most of the home advantage is found in this first inning).  It's not hard to imagine why: managers get to choose their lineups after all, and only in the first are you guaranteed to get what you wanted.  Second inning, by the same logic, I believe has the lowest scoring or close to it.  So it would be strange for any pitcher to not benefit from pitching to the lower part of the order.  I'll have to go with Small Sample Size to explain this year's numbers for him, and not part of a larger pattern.

[Riverbrian]

A Ram reminds me of Gagne.

I never thought of it that way.

[ScrapTheNickname]

We like what he's doing, but don't trust him to continue.

All I know is I look forward to his at bats. That's a good sign. (Also don't trust him, of course.)

[ashbury]

I agree.

 

And I was putting the meatloaf in the oven.

 

No, really.

Like a bat out of hell, I presume?

 

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[Riverbrian]

49 years ......

Since Birth I assume?

[big dog]

Not me... TC Bear is all that scares me. I often think he's just acting friendly but eventually his natural instincts will take over and someone is going to get mauled.

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[JB_Iowa]

If I win the bidding for the swimming pool in the auction, will someone deliver and install it, or do I have to pick it up?

 

You get to move here and go every day in the summer .... surrounded by all the kids.

[JB_Iowa]

Since Birth I assume?

 

No ... since 1965

[Riverbrian]

Like a bat out of hell, I presume?

 

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I went there but with a different approach and got better answers then what I was fishing for.

[big dog]

You get to move here and go every day in the summer .... surrounded by all the kids.

Thanks.  Maybe I'll just bid low early and try to get more people engaged...

[stringer bell]

In terms of productive outs, are there any worse guys to be hitting with a runner on second and none out than Dozier and Mauer?

[Squirrel]

I have a John Danks story. Actually, is more a story about my neighbor. She sat next to him on a plane on a trip a year or two ago. She found out everything about him ... and his fiancée ... that he was a pitcher for the White Sox, what his plans are after baseball, what his fiancee's name was and what she did, where/when they were getting married and so on and so forth. So when I asked her who it was she said she didn't know because she didn't want to be too nosy and ask him his name. She finds out EVERYTHING but, but asking him his name was too nosy. But he seemed like a very nice guy from what she said.

[LaBombo]

Not me... TC Bear is all that scares me. I often think he's just acting friendly but eventually his natural instincts will take over and someone is going to get mauled.

Probably.  And?

[JB_Iowa]

I have a John Danks story. Actually, is more a story about my neighbor. She sat next to him on a plane on a trip a year or two ago. She found out everything about him ... and his fiancée ... that he was a pitcher for the White Sox, what his plans are after baseball, what his fiancee's name was and what she did, where/when they were getting married and so on and so forth. So when I asked her who it was she said she didn't know because she didn't want to be too nosy and ask him his name. She finds out EVERYTHING but, but asking him his name was too nosy. But he seemed like a very nice guy from what she said.

 

I had an aunt who would ask anybody anything, anyplace ... but she would have found out his whole family tree, too.

 

So how did she figure out who it was?

[ashbury]

Since Birth I assume?

Gleam in her daddy's eye, even.

[Riverbrian]

Like a bat out of hell, I presume?

 

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Ash??? Don't tell me you missed the two out of three meat loafs ain't bad bit.

[GCTF]

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[JB_Iowa]

Since it gon rain ... I am gon...

 

Make em win.

[stringer bell]

I haven't been watching, have we noticed anything substandard about Pinto's catching?

[ashbury]

I seem to remember hearing the raindrops on FSNO microphones in previous games too.  Seems pretty amateurish.

[Riverbrian]

I haven't been watching, have we noticed anything substandard about Pinto's catching?

He called a pitch that Viciedo put into the upper deck.

[ashbury]

Ash??? Don't tell me you missed the two out of three meat loafs ain't bad bit.

Not a Meatloaf guy, apparently.  I went with the one reference I knew.  He had others?

[ashbury]

I had an aunt who would ask anybody anything, anyplace ... but she would have found out his whole family tree, too.

 

Small world.  I sat next to her on my flight home from SABR.

[ashbury]

He called a pitch that Viciedo put into the upper deck.

Did he call for the wild pitch too?

[Richie the Rally Goat]

I had no idea.

They've never mentioned this simple fact on TV (when I've been watching).

 

Also, I don't live in MN, and haven't for some years. So I've never been inside (or outside) the new park, which I would have called Puckett Park by the way.

 

you wouldn't know it by visiting. Very very different parks by feel. My favorite feature of Target Field, is actually facing the pitchers mound in my seat without twisting awkwardly and craning my neck