Game Thread, Twins @ White Sox, 9/13 @ 1:10 pm CT

[formerly33]

Sunday 9/13, 1:10 PM CT at U.S. Cellular Field

TV: FS-N; Radio: Go 93-3, TIBN, BOB FM

 

 

Weather:

 

Sunny, with a high near 70. West wind 5 to 10 mph. Now that's the kind of weather I like ... not that I'm in Chicago ... but the weather up here is pretty similar. Unfortunately, Chicago and St. Paul alike are going to warm up again. Oh well ... can't rush the seasons. I'll simply have to wait.

 

 

Lineups:

 

TWINS (73-68):

1. Hicks  CF

2. Dozier 2B

3. Mauer 1B

4. Sano   DH

5. Plouffe 3B

6. Hunter  RF

7. Rosario LF

8. Suzuki   C

9. Escobar SS

 

Kyle Gibson, RHP (9-10, 3.87 ERA)

 

WHITE SOX (67-73):

 

1. Eaton  CF

2. Saladino SS

3. Abreu   DH

4. Laroche 1B

5. Thmpson RF

6. Shuck     LF

7. Olt        3B

8. Flowers C

9. Johnson 2B

 

Chris Sale, LHP (12-8, 3.31 ERA)

 

 

Alright ... I need to think of five things for you to think about ... let me see ....

 

1. Chicago -- There are two things that Chicago has over Minnesota: hockey and hotdogs. When it comes to hockey ... well, that's just a regrettable fact that only time can change. However, when it comes to hotdogs and ketchup (or, better phrased, hotdogs and NO ketchup), Minnesota will never learn to do it the Chicagoan way. We just don't seem to be progressive enough to change that. In my most humble opinion, Chicagoans know the real (and only) way to eat a hotdog. But nobody seems to want to hear this ... must be a pride issue or something. (Alright ... I kid ... but seriously, ketchup on a dog is absurd.)

 

2. Speaking of Chicago, the Bears are playing this afternoon as we Vikings fans patiently await Monday night. Obviously I’m not a Bears fan, but … well, go Bears! You know why.

 

3. White Sox -- I always wonder why the Sux call themselves the White Sox but wear black sox instead. Maybe it’s in honor of the 1919 World Series … who knows? The South Siders pride themselves in being more knowledgeable of their team’s history than the inhabitants of the North Side. Or maybe it’s their never ending desire to do everything wrong. Like I said, who really knows?

 

4. Gibson vs. Sale -- If these were the only two pitchers in the AL, Sale would win the Cy Young award by a landslide. Luckily that’s not the case, and we don’t have to worry about one of those bloody South Siders taking that award this year, but the fact remains that if the World Series was decided by voting and the only contenders were the Twins and the Sox, we would win by a landslide. At least one would hope. And again, luckily that is not the case. But the point is that it doesn't really matter who's got the better players or who's got the better teams because of fluky games. Yesterday was a fluky game ... the Twins should have been able to win it. Let's hope for another fluky game today, because Sale should be able to win it.

 

Sigh ... that was supposed to make sense, but it doesn't really. I just feel really dumb this morning ... so tired. Anyway ...

 

5. Nothing -- I know that I'm supposed to talk about the game at hand for the first four and then something else for the fifth, but my mind is drawing a blank (per usual), and I can't for the life of me think of anything worth talking about. Hotdogs ... Black Sox ... it's all the same. I'm glad this season is almost over ... I know we're technically still in the race, but I wrote the Twins off after the Yanks swept us last month, and though I had fun during the Royals series, for instance, I just don't see us making it. Oh well ... it was fun while it lasted. But I can't help but be a little sad about the playoffs thing. Oh well ... exit baseball, enter music. I'm going to the SPCO concert at the new Ordway with Hrb and a few other family members this afternoon. I took one look at the program and decided that I was going to that concert. To the rest of my family who had to miss out because I got dibs on the ticket before they had a chance ... sorry, but not sorry.

[twinsnorth49]

Ketchup has no business anywhere near anything, and why do I feel like taking Valium?

[Halsey Hall]

Ho hum, another Sunday afternoon game during my usual golf time on Sundays.  I'll go golfing, and probably come back here to see 19 pages of off the wall stuff and a few comments on weather I saw whatever Ploof just did.  Hopefully the Sux pitch to Sano today, not walk him to get to so and so. 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Ketchup has no business anywhere near anything, and why do I feel like taking Valium?

Do they serve it on hotdogs? Interesting...

 

Been a while since i've treated myself, but peanutbutter is pretty good on 'em. Gets runny when warmed, which is a weird texture change.

 

Mind you, i'm not subtle as to often note interplay of flavors often. Peanutbutter being good is one of those invariants or absolutes in a logic sense. Like a Rosario assist.

[TwinsCD]

#2 -- I am a Bears fan and I have zero hope for this Packers game.

 

#5 -- 1 game out...not dead yet.  Keep the faith!!

[USAFChief]

Hot dog should be grilled, placed in a freshly baked bun (from an actual bakery, not the grocery store crap), and lightly drizzled with ketchup.

 

 

 

All the rest just mutes the taste of the hotdog.

 

I will tolerate no discussion on this issue.

[stringer bell]

Lineup notes: Zuke starts again behind the plate. Hunter in right with Buxton on the bench. Rosario had two hits against Sale last time and gets the start in left.

[twinsnorth49]

 

Hot dog should be grilled, placed in a freshly baked bun (from an actual bakery, not the grocery store crap), and lightly drizzled with ketchup.



All the rest just mutes the taste of the hotdog.

I will tolerate no discussion on this issue.

I am disappoint.

[twinsnorth49]

I'm glad the Jays are beating up on the Yankees and providing an opportunity for the Twins to potentially overtake them but this whole "Blue Jay Fever" crap up here is reaching intolerable levels, barf.

[spinowner]

 

I'm glad the Jays are beating up on the Yankees and providing an opportunity for the Twins to potentially overtake them but this whole "Blue Jay Fever" crap up here is reaching intolerable levels, barf.

Just out of curiosity what's the approximate Blue Jays fans to Twins fans ratio in southern Manitoba?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

I will tolerate no discussion on this issue.

"This conversation

is over"

 

my head.

 

I bet there are some die hard fanatics who argue that the Daug Haute (coloquially known as a hotdog) is a travisty, and should be abolished.

 

DH rule is so decisive, is it not?

 

(I'm just glad no one has called PETA on me for my abuses of peanutbutter)

 

Always33, good job on clarifying the contentious issues...

[twinsnorth49]

Just out of curiosity what's the approximate Blue Jays fans to Twins fans ratio in southern Manitoba?

That's a good question and I've often wondered that myself. The Jays being such a big ban wagon team definitely gets the casual fan, the exposure to the team is significant so that is natural. I believe the more regular and diehard baseball fans here are more often than not Twins fans, I see an awful lot of Twins gear worn in this city and they are the team of choice apparel wise in the stores, behind the Boston and New York fashionistas and the Jays.

 

In either case way more people I know and have met have attended Twins games vs Blue Jays games, the difference in proximity is huge. I always find it a bit short sighted that the travel companies here market Jays games in the Twin Cities almost exclusively to Jays fans. I'd be willing to bet they could fill some buses with Twins fans with the right deal.

[USAFChief]

Feels like a game they gotta find a way to win.

[Blake]

 

Hot dog should be grilled, placed in a freshly baked bun (from an actual bakery, not the grocery store crap), and lightly drizzled with ketchup.



All the rest just mutes the taste of the hotdog.

I will tolerate no discussion on this issue.

Heretics are usually shunned, so, you will probably avoid any discussion about the proper garnishment of hot dogs.

[USAFChief]

I got some bad news recently.  My shrink diagnosed me with kleptomania.

 

I'm dealing with it ok though.  When it gets bad, I just take something for it.

[USAFChief]

Hell of an AB for a 40 yr old.

[stringer bell]

Just what Dr. Molitor ordered.

[USAFChief]

There ya go, Gibby.  Handed a 4 spot before you throw a pitch.  Bring it home.

[DaveW]

Good start! Up to the pitching now

[DaveW]

Hell of an AB for a 40 yr old.

hunter heating up again, good timing!

[AlwaysinModeration]

Hunter 7 foul balls, 10th pitch, 3-run homer. After Sano RBI single. Twins 4-0, continue to own Sale. CBU.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Hell of an AB for a 40 yr old.

How old is that in hotdog years?

 

...cuts the mustard...

 

... something he could ketchup to...

[Blake]

Hot dogs and baseball aren't really weird enough for a game thread.

 

Unless, of course, the discussion revolves around putting weird and strange substances on a hot dog.

 

Like ketchup.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

If you happen to boil a hotdog (and those of us (oh look a bird) easily distracted and don't like char) the secret to keeping it from bursting?

 

Stick a fork in it.

[USAFChief]

 

How old is that in hotdog years?

...cuts the mustard...

... something he could ketchup to...

I relish these kinds of plays on words.

[Blake]

On a more serious note, I wonder how tough it is to pitch with a 4 run lead in the first, knowing that may be all the run support one gets.

[stringer bell]

No more Jamie Hersch. Huh.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Sano bring Eaton to his knees with that hit...

[sampleSizeOfOne]

I relish these kinds of plays on words.

Aye, i guess there bad. Which is why i didn't put the effort to set them into a full sentence.

 

If i made more, even with your encouragement, i'd be juvenile, which is less good, perhaps worse.

 

I just know i'll end up a brat... (worst)

 

Not this is to condemn meant...

[Blake]

 

On a more serious note, I wonder how tough it is to pitch with a 4 run lead in the first, knowing that may be all the run support one gets.

Never mind.