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

[Riverbrian]

Today... I saw a guy with... I'm not sure the exact terminology... But I saw a guy with the highest "gauge" holes in his ears.

 

Big freeking holes in his ear... You could toss ping pong balls through them from distance.

 

I couldn't help but wonder why?

[Riverbrian]

Vargas is fun!!!

[USAFChief]

Is that all ya got, Vargas?

[John Kelsey]

Aaaaaaandd it just landed

[Riverbrian]

Aaaaaaandd it just landed

And... And... The ball scared the crap out of someone in Arden Hills

[DarrenVahtra]

i don't know why you don't start hicks in right, schaffer in center, and arcia in left.  it seems like you're playing 3 players out of position.

 

[big dog]

Where's Hawk? Did he go out for a scotch and soda and never come back?

Good point.  He sounded like he had a bad cold or something- his voice sounded shot.  Maybe he decided the rain delay was a good reason to go downstairs for a while.  I knew I was enjoying this telecast more all of a sudden- big Twins hits, and Steve Stone.  It's all good.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Vargas is fun!!!

Made me think of an Ogdan Nash poem.

 

The conclusion would be that Vargas is a swozzler, if i remember the poem a-right.

[big dog]

Today... I saw a guy with... I'm not sure the exact terminology... But I saw a guy with the highest "gauge" holes in his ears.

 

Big freeking holes in his ear... You could toss ping pong balls through them from distance.

 

I couldn't help but wonder why?

You mean, why toss ping pong balls through them?  I say, why not?

[LaBombo]

Random airport story: Looking up at monitors to find my flight gate.  Sensed that

someone was looking at me in addition to monitors   Turned and faced a young man in a leather jacket. 
"Can I help you?"  Not in the A-hole way, instead like when you want to help someone.

 

"Trying to get to XXX".

 

Off the cuff:  "Your flight is not leaving from this terminal. You need to go this way."

 

Gestures. Smiles and nods exchanged. Anyway, got him on the right flight.

 

Brendan Shanahan.

 

Him, not me...

[DarrenVahtra]

did he inappropriately suspend/fail to suspend anyone?

[Danchat]

 

"Can I help you?"  Not in the A-hole way, instead like when you want to help someone.

 

I wasn't aware that there was an "a-hole" way of asking to help someone.

[ashbury]

Pressly struck out the side.  Too often, the phrase is used when a pitcher gives up a two-run homer but scattered three strikeouts elsewhere in the inning.  Not the case here; three up, thirteen pitches, three down.

[ashbury]

I wasn't aware that there was an "a-hole" way of asking to help someone.

Perhaps I can show you the way.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

I wasn't aware that there was an "a-hole" way of asking to help someone.

now you are.

 

Also, Vargas.

[ScrapTheNickname]

Good point.  He sounded like he had a bad cold or something- his voice sounded shot.  Maybe he decided the rain delay was a good reason to go downstairs for a while.  I knew I was enjoying this telecast more all of a sudden- big Twins hits, and Steve Stone.  It's all good.

Stone seems to pay more attention to the Twins than he does the White Sox. I like it.

[Riverbrian]

Random airport story: Looking up at monitors to find my flight gate. Sensed that

someone was looking at me in addition to monitors Turned and faced a young man in a leather jacket.

"Can I help you?" Not in the A-hole way, instead like when you want to help someone.

 

"Trying to get to XXX".

 

Off the cuff: "Your flight is not leaving from this terminal. You need to go this way."

 

Gestures. Smiles and nods exchanged. Anyway, got him on the right flight.

 

Brendan Shanahan.

 

Him, not me...

I have a bunch of stories but this is one of my favorites. I think I've told it before but oh well.

 

I was watching a high school baseball tourney in East Grand Forks. My nephew was playing for Thief River Falls and they were playing Fergus Falls. I was sitting on the top row of portable metal bleachers down the right field line and it was very very windy. The bathrooms and concession stand are situated behind the RF fence so people were always walking behind these portable bleachers.

 

A big gust of wind came up and blew my hat off and I jumped off the bleachers to get it back and a guy walking past grabbed my hat and was trying to throw it back to me but the wind caught it again and it went even further away.

 

The guy actually kinda ran after my hat and this time... He handed it to me. The jokester that I am... I said... "You'll never make the majors leagues with an arm like that".

 

The guy kinda chuckled and continued on his way.

 

Now the interesting part.... I had no idea who the guy was when I said that... But it turns out... It was Dave Goltz. He was watching his son... Who was playing for Fergus Falls.

 

He probably thought... I knew who he was when I made that joke... And I was just amazed at the random coincidence of making that joke toward someone who actually pitched in he major leagues without knowing he was in the major leagues.

[stringer bell]

Back from some errands.  Hey, May might equal the number of Twins' victories for the Vanimal.  I'm tuning in to mlb.com so that I can see Vargas' most recent bomb.

[D. Hocking]

I wasn't aware that there was an "a-hole" way of asking to help someone.

This guy has some a-hole tendencieshttp://www.shirtofun.com/image/cache/data/Gods-busy_rect-500x500.jpg:

[Riverbrian]

I wasn't aware that there was an "a-hole" way of asking to help someone.

Oh yeah... There is...

 

I hear it when I get caught looking at a lady in a low cut dress.

 

That and... "Hello... I'm up here".

[big dog]

I have a bunch of stories but this is one of my favorites. I think I've told it before but oh well.

 

I was watching a high school baseball tourney in East Grand Forks. My nephew was playing for Thief River Falls and they were playing Fergus Falls. I was sitting on the top row of portable metal bleachers down the right field line and it was very very windy. The bathrooms and concession stand are situated behind the RF fence so people were always walking behind these portable bleachers.

 

A big gust of wind came up and blew my hat off and I jumped off the bleachers to get it back and a guy walking past grabbed my hat and was trying to throw it back to me but the wind caught it again and it went even further away.

 

The guy actually kinda ran after my hat and this time... He handed it to me. The jokester that I am... I said... "You'll never make the majors leagues with an arm like that".

 

The guy kinda chuckled and continued on his way.

 

Now the interesting part.... I had no idea who the guy was when I said that... But it turns out... It was Dave Goltz. He was watching his son... Who was playing for Fergus Falls.

 

He probably thought... I knew who he was when I made that joke... And I was just amazed at the random coincidence of making that joke toward someone who actually pitched in he major leagues without knowing he was in the major leagues.

Throw in the fact that you made the joke in East Grand Forks, and it reduces the probability quite a bit lower, too.  Goltz was from Pelican Rapids or somewhere out there, right?

[ScrapTheNickname]

I have a bunch of stories but this is one of my favorites. I think I've told it before but oh well.

 

I was watching a high school baseball tourney in East Grand Forks. My nephew was playing for Thief River Falls and they were playing Fergus Falls. I was sitting on the top row of portable metal bleachers down the right field line and it was very very windy. The bathrooms and concession stand are situated behind the RF fence so people were always walking behind these portable bleachers.

 

A big gust of wind came up and blew my hat off and I jumped off the bleachers to get it back and a guy walking past grabbed my hat and was trying to throw it back to me but the wind caught it again and it went even further away.

 

The guy actually kinda ran after my hat and this time... He handed it to me. The jokester that I am... I said... "You'll never make the majors leagues with an arm like that".

 

The guy kinda chuckled and continued on his way.

 

Now the interesting part.... I had no idea who the guy was when I said that... But it turns out... It was Dave Goltz. He was watching his son... Who was playing for Fergus Falls.

 

He probably thought... I knew who he was when I made that joke... And I was just amazed at the random coincidence of making that joke toward someone who actually pitched in he major leagues without knowing he was in the major leagues.

Great, great story.

 

I have one that doesn't involve a major leaguer, but it's set in Fergus Falls and there is wind involved.

 

I hit two homeruns in one inning when I was playing JC ball for Crookston. Two homeruns in one inning. That very rarely happens to anyone, at any level. So it sounds pretty freaking spectacular. But it was because the wind was blowing like 50 mph, straight out to center field, and I wasn't the only one hitting the ball around. It was mostly funny because I wasn't capable, actually, of hitting any homeruns at all.

[ScrapTheNickname]

Brian,

 

Your Dave Goltz story beats mine by six, but wind and Fergus Falls made me do it.

[Riverbrian]

Throw in the fact that you made the joke in East Grand Forks, and it reduces the probability quite a bit lower, too.  Goltz was from Pelican Rapids or somewhere out there, right?

Yeah... The Vegas odds of that happening in that location have to be about the same as the odds of winning the lottery while being struck by lightning while dating Kathy Ireland.

[DarrenVahtra]

nice to see the kids getting a lot of ab's tonight

[ashbury]

nice to see the kids getting a lot of ab's tonight

That happens when they get 17 hits.

[ScrapTheNickname]

Rothsay. I had to look it up.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Brian,

 

Your Dave Goltz story beats mine by six, but wind and Fergus Falls made me do it.

That's ok, I had you at +10.5

[Riverbrian]

Brian,

 

Your Dave Goltz story beats mine by six, but wind and Fergus Falls made me do it.

All stories are good stories. Stories are triumphs of the human experience and should be celebrated.

 

Stories are what separate us from Water Buffalo.

 

I will always stop and take time to listen to a story.

[D. Hocking]

Yeah... The Vegas odds of that happening in that location have to be about the same as the odds of winning the lottery while being struck by lightning while dating Kathy Ireland.

Or Tommy Milone being the Twins starter in game 1 of the 2015 World Series (while dating Kathy Ireland - due to her being on the rebound from RB).