Article: Game Thread: Twins v Mariners, 7/30 @ 7:10pm CT

[ashbury]

I can't read Moose and Squirrel together without a June Foray bad Russian accent sliding into it. 

FTFY.

 

_{^{/ she's apparently still around, at age 97. Hope she's doing well.}}

[jimbo92107]

See that swing by Jorge Polanco? Much better hands than Danny Santana. Punches his hands through the zone almost the way Rosario does, not quite as much outward snap as Eddie, but a nice, flat drive. With that swing, Polanco will get a lot of hits. The barrel stays in the zone really well.

 

Santana's got a quicker, more sudden swing, but his barrel pulls off the line of the ball far too soon, so he doesn't barrel it up as much as Rosario, and not as much as I predict Polanco will, either.

Edited July 31, 2015 by jimbo92107

[Riverbrian]

 

Buxton, Hicks, Rosario. I can live with that.

 

I'm liking this thought to...I'd love that OF but after thinking about it... With Mauer at 1B... we really need some pop outside of Sano. 

 

DH is going to have to be a big hitter. 

[Mike Sixel]

Twins up. By four.......still too close for May to come in?

[Mike Sixel]

I'm liking this thought to...I'd love that OF but after thinking about it... With Mauer at 1B... we really need some pop outside of Sano. 

 

DH is going to have to be a big hitter.

 

Escobar? Nunez? Hermann? Fryer?

[Riverbrian]

 

I bitch about lack of trades as much as anyone but doesn't mean I don't respect the GM in charge of the Twins, I just wish for once he would say F it were swinging big on a Cespedis and going for it.

 

I see enough potential in this team with a few tweaks that they could hang with the big boys. There is always August but it would be nice to add bullpen help or a thumper now. Twins have a few sharks to hang in the deep end of the pool they just need a few more or one really large one.

 

I agree with you 92%

 

However... Not at least addressing this bullpen would be concerning to me. They don't cost much and can be had for prospect #20. 

[Riverbrian]

 

Escobar? Nunez? Hermann? Fryer?

 

Maybe a little bigger. Just a tish bigger.

[ashbury]

No. He'd be blocked by Mauer...

That'un needs more Likes than it is getting.

[Jerr]

Geesh!!!!!!!!

[Craig Arko]

Hey, Dick knows rudimentary anatomy. Bet he has kids, too.

[Mike Sixel]

I may need to rethink my appreciation of Hughes as a lock for good part of the future.......

[Riverbrian]

 

Geesh!!!!!!!!

 

The game thread has become a Canary in a coalmine. I have a delay with my MLB Package. So when I read a Geesh or something... I know something not good is about to happen. 

[howeda7]

Since we won't buy, can we still sell 'high' on Hughes?

[jimbo92107]

Mlb.com needs to buy a new washing machine, or whatever they're using to push their junk over the net.

[ashbury]

Actually, there are recipes for grilling it

1. Slice one watermelon
2. Put the slices on the grill
3. Take them off the grill after a while
4. Eat

I think I got that recipe from Gibby, a while back.

[Craig Arko]

Mlb.com needs to buy a new washing machine, or whatever they're using to push their junk over the net.

I'd rather not see MLB's junk, thank you.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

This is one of those games where the offensive watch word is something equivalent to "pedal to the metal"

 

 

[Riverbrian]

 

 

1. Slice one watermelon
2. Put the slices on the grill
3. Take them off the grill after a while
4. Eat

 

 

If I had to cook watermelon... I'd end up with Watermelon Grease all over the kitchen floor. 

[Mike Sixel]

You forgot....soak in vodka.

[Jerr]

 

The game thread has become a Canary in a coalmine. I have a delay with my MLB Package. So when I read a Geesh or something... I know something not good is about to happen. 

So, I can be the Riverbrian update, when I'm here with a GEESH  

[sampleSizeOfOne]

 

 

1. Slice one watermelon
2. Put the slices on the grill
3. Take them off the grill after a while
4. Eat

 

I was thinking step 4 is pretty non-specific...

[Winston Smith]

First manager that takes out his starter wins, wait that would mean our bullpen, never mind.

[Craig Arko]

Hicks now batting .301.

[Mike Sixel]

Hicks now batting .301.

Inconceivable

[Riverbrian]

 

So, I can be the Riverbrian update, when I'm here with a GEESH  

 

I've always wanted my own update... Like Circus Boy has. 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Oh yeah!

 

Nice hit, Hicks!

 

(with Riverbrian delay)

[Craig Arko]

Tony Romo WTF?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

 

 

Inconceivable

 

"I'm going to do him left handed. It is the only way i can be satisfied. If i use my right, over too quickly."

[spinowner]

 

Hicks now batting .301.

At the beginning of this season I'd have been happy with .260 on July 30.

[USAFChief]

I'm to the point where I won't complain if they have Mauer sacrifice bunt.