Game Thread: Twins @ Tigers, 4/8 @ 12:08pm CT

[Tibs]

 

After the last four years humor is all we have. I think we are all cried out!

 

There's no crying in baseball.

[Riverbrian]

It was rather unfair for the schedule maker to make the Twins lead off against the 2015 World Series Champions.

[teekz]

 

Get a job as a beer taster.

 

I'd rather be a brewer

[Riverbrian]

 

I'd rather be a brewer

 

Unless you are playing the Rockies

[ashbury]

I'd rather be a brewer

 

Why, are you slow and a bad fielder?

[Riverbrian]

Alright... To make sure I beat Grand Forks Traffic... My Extended Lunch is over.

 

Too bad I'm going to miss the amazing come back.

[TwinsCD]

I wish someone in the organization would tell me what they see in Ricky Nolasco.  If a dummy like me can tell he's terrible just based on what we saw in 1/2 the season last year, why am I still seeing him in a Twins uniform?

[ashbury]

I'm officially done with Schafer.

 

Trouble is, I'm also done with Hicks, unless/until sufficient time at AAA lets him polish some things up.

 

Rosario isn't ready. Buxton is even farther away at the moment. No other options are credible.

[amjgt]

It annoys me that we rarely start the season at home, but places like Chicago and Detroit get it all the time.

 

Right now it's 40 degrees in Detroit

 

45 in Minneapolis

[JeffReboulet]

Welp

[jorgenswest]

Schafer's reputation of being a poor defensive CF from Houston and Atlanta is on display today. His tools have won him an opening day start four times in his career. His performance is why he has been DFA'd twice.

[Mike Sixel]

Tim Stauffer, your low leverage long reliever......

[ashbury]

 

It annoys me that we rarely start the season at home, but places like Chicago and Detroit get it all the time.

 

Right now it's 40 degrees in Detroit

 

45 in Minneapolis

I think teams have a lot of say in the construction of the schedule, and the Twins likely request to avoid early season home games. At one time they also requested to avoid home games for Memorial Day, July 4, and Labor Day, on the principle attendance would be down due to family picnics and whatever, but maybe that has changed with time.

[Winston Smith]

Well I'm blaming this game on Joe West.

[teekz]

 

Why, are you slow and a bad fielder?

 

Pretty much.

[gocgo]

 

I wish someone in the organization would tell me what they see in Ricky Nolasco.  If a dummy like me can tell he's terrible just based on what we saw in 1/2 the season last year, why am I still seeing him in a Twins uniform?

They see a large contract that we signed for 3 more years of this.

[Hrbowski]

Neil Allen should start worrying about his job.

[curt1965]

My phone beeps every time there is a scoring play.......... You'd think there has been Wile E. Coyote sighting............

[gocgo]

Optimistically, I see us leaving Detroit being outscored 19-2...but I'm and optimist.

[ashbury]

Oh I just realized that Ricky is pitching the home opener...

 

There's no crying in baseball.

 

An interesting juxtaposition of posts.

[jimmer]

I went to the bar at lunch to watch a bit of the game,  I only got to see the half inning where Nolasco was forced out.  There was at least one play there turned in by our CF that turned a single into a triple. And I think I missed another OF misplay (or play that would have been made by a better OF). Anyone who is watching care to go over that half inning?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Circus Boy update:

 

9-0 Detroit. Top of the 6th.

 

Well, it's a new inning. Anything can happen.

[Kirby_waved_at_me]

There's the 1st extra base hit of the year for the Twins, for whatever that's worth...

[KirbyHawk75]

We cannot pitch, hit, or play defense.  Just so F-ing pathetic.  If we are going to suck I want us to suck with good young players.  Not with mediocre veterans like Stauffer, Schafer, Robinson, Hermann, Nunez, Boyer, Milone, and Duensing.  

 

What sad is a small market team has so much money invested in a horrible pitcher like Nolasco, a has been like Mauer, and a moronic PED user like Santana.  

 

 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

"Hail (Extra Base hit) Vargas."

 

Well, that's one wrong thing.

 

Schafer rakes the lead off double in the 6th.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

"Hail (Extra Base hit) Vargas."

 

Well, that's one wrong thing.

 

Schafer rakes the lead off double in the 6th.

And of course i don't mind being wrong. No worse than redundancy or double negatives. I just wish i were wrong sooner and more often.

[Kwak]

My G--! For a moment I thought I was in the Negativity Thread.

[Hrbowski]

Joe Mauer just popped out for the first time in a long time.

[Kirby_waved_at_me]

Thompson Time!

[woolywoolhouse]

So... moving Santana back to center for tomorrow's game? Or wait until Chicago this weekend?