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Game Thread, Tigers @ Twins, 9/15 @ 7:10 pm CT

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David HK Cedar Rapids Kernels

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Last night I sat down feeling rather satisfied at a local bar with a micro brew in hand next to a few friends.  The Twins were leading 7-0 in the 8th, the Vikings were about to start their season.  After 3.5 quarters of excruciating bad football from the men in purple, a handful of beers and a few off hand comments that would make a hooker blush, the future for the Vikes seemed bleak.....to say the least in my mind.  After sleeping on it, I thought of another team who stumbled......and that's being nice.....out of the gate this season.  

 

The Twins as we all know, limped out of the gate one their way to a 1-6 start being outscored 45-16 and 3 of those losses coming from today's opponent.  The Detroit Tigers.  I went back just to see how the TD community was talking of the team in those days.  I took out the author for these comments.

 

 

 

Quote: "IS THERE REASON FOR HOPE ANY REASON"

Nope.  None at all.

 

Quote: Well, there is always next year.

 

I wanted to post more, but apparently there is a quote limit per post. These are all from the first week.  The 1-6 start. Hope gone.  Let's fast forward 5 months.  After losing 8 of the first 10 games against the once mighty Tigers, the Twins have now won 4 in a row, including last night's 7-1 win, where Gibby pitched a gem.

 

 

The Twins sit 10 games up on the Tigers, who have the worst run differential in the American League.  While the Twins were losing 90 games for 4 straight seasons, the Tigers were inning division titles, all 4 of them in fact.  My how quickly things can change in sports.  I almost found a board of Tigers comments to see the confidence after trouncing our Twins that first week. Times have changed.  But things have changed. The Tigers aged, and they aged fast.  Miggy missed a big chunk of this season.  Price and Soria are gone.

 

Let's talk about tonight's game.

 

1) The Twins sit one game back of the Texas Rangers.  The Rangers are just 1/2 gave behind the Houston Astros for the AL West division lead.  The Astros and Rangers play tonight.  An Astros win and a Twins win means the Twins will sit tied for the WC lead.  If the Rangers and the Twins win, the Twins will sit just 1/2 behind the Astros.  Things are tight.

 

2) Phil Hughes makes his return to the rotation.  After being pounded for 7 runs in just 3 innings in his last start over a month ago, Hughes was put on the disable with inflammation in his lower back.  While he has had his struggles against the kitties this year (11 earned runs in 16 innings (6.19 ERA) in 3 starts), Hughes has been good at home (8-2 with a 3.91 ERA).  He is expected to be held to 75-80 pitches tonight.  The bullpen will be important tonight.

 

3) Wtih 3 hits yesterday, Joe Mauer brought his streak of reaching base safely to 34 games.  The last time Mauer didn't reach base, was the finishing pounding the Twins took on the 3 game sweep against the Blue Jays on August 6th.  Since that time the Twins are 21-14.

 

4) Back the Vikings.  See Vikings fans, things can turn out OK after the team forgets the season starts.  If only they could borrow Bux and Sano........

 

5) I really wanted this to be my 1000th post, but I blew my load on the game thread last night. Sigh....but....it brings me to my next topic.

 

5) Loon Tune's.  During last night's game thread I made a comment about a stadium full of Loon Tunes when the Twins load the bases.  This needs to become a thing.  I want Loon Tunes.  For those of you who missed last night's game thread. This is a Loon Tune.  It screams Minnesota.

 

http://www.loon.org/assets/products/Loon-Tune.jpg

I want every fan young and old tugging on those strings creating the call of the Loon.  Surely it would add some excitement to Target Field.  It might even bring in the loons!

 

Detroit Tigers (65-78) at Minnesota Twins (75-68) — 7:10 PM CT

 

Forecast: A partly cloudy night with a game time temp of 79 degrees with a 15% chance of rain with a breeze blowing 18 MPH to the SSE.

 

Detroit Lineup:

 

Gose CF
Kinsler 2B
Cabrera 1B
J. Martinez RF
V. Martinez DH
Castellanos 3B
Collins LF
McCann C
Romine SS

 

Simon P

 

Twins Lineup:

 

Aaron Hicks RF
Brian Dozier 2B
Joseph Mauer 1B
Miguel Sano DH
Trevor Plouffe 3B
Eduardo Rosario LF
Eduardo Escobear SS
Kurt Suzuki C
Byron Buxton CF

 

Phillip Hughes P

 

GO TWINS!

The 'Rally Loon?'  Beats the heck out of that monkey.  I like it.....

I can hear the loon call echoing thru the stands in the 7th, down a run.  If that wouldn't inspire the boys, it sure would freak the opposition, who'd be looking up, not wanting to get dumped on....

Squirrel GOAT

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I believe this is already Torii's favorite to play during the Twins Dance Post-Victory Dance Parties.  Hopefully he will be playing it tonight.

Heh ... I love the part ... 'Here kitty kitty kitty kitty here kitty kitty kitty kitty here puss puss puss ...'

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The 'Rally Loon?'  Beats the heck out of that monkey.  I like it.....

I can hear the loon call echoing thru the stands in the 7th, down a run.  If that wouldn't inspire the boys, it sure would freak the opposition, who'd be looking up, not wanting to get dumped on....

Gotta get Bark on it ... and to have Katherine Hepburn doing the loon call under it :)

David HK Cedar Rapids Kernels

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Gotta get Bark on it ... and to have Katherine Hepburn doing the loon call under it :)

Bwwaaaa- ha- haaaaaa!  

Argh, wish I didn't have to work--  maybe I"ll quit just so's I can see it when it comes up!

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That catch by Hicks saved a run that Torii wouldn't have saved.  No chance that Hunter catches that.  I love watching this young outfield play.

Riverbrian Cooperstown

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I went and read a bit of the Vikings Journal Game thread last night and this morning.  It is probably my imagination, but their game thread might have had a higher percentages of posts/comments that were game related.  I did not see the occasional off-topic post that you sometimes find here.

 

Nice job with the thread start and your delving into the TD archives.

 

Give them some time to find their stride. The Posters... Not the Vikings...

 

God No... Not the Vikings. 

Riverbrian Cooperstown

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It is kinda nice all the 'woe is me' stuff is moving over to the Vikings forum.

I'm going to regret that, aren't I?

 

Yep... As the Jinx Police... I must issue you a citation. 

Riverbrian Cooperstown

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Any more tiger based music out there? I'm sure we have not exhausted the available material...

 

I'll avoid the obvious Eye of the Tiger and pull out a Jefferson. 

 

 

 

Riverbrian Cooperstown

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It's a fair cop. (in contrast to a circus cop or a mime cop)

Now how do i get a "sigh"tation?

 

That's the tough part... Bark is working on the citations and until they are finished... I can only verbally issue them and the judges have been tossing them out as inadmissible. 

Riverbrian Cooperstown

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In other MLB Action.

 

It has been much publicized... the Mets are going to rest Harvey. But Maybe they should think about letting DeGrom take a short break. He's become very hittable recently.

 

6 runs against him tonight.  

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