Article: Game Thread: Twins@Orioles 4/4 2:05P

[amjgt]

 

That's quite the critique of Sano's defense that you have Buxton listed as RF as well.

 

2/3 of the OF is covered by Byron Buxton, the rest is covered by Eddie Rosario.

 

I think that's how that goes

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

I just am not yet tethered to the game thread continuously, even if it seems that way sometimes...

Should we start a tetherball game thread for you?

[DiscGolfer]

 

Damn ... was hoping for a little leeway to get to the dmv and back before game time. Better quit my dawdling!

game time? or by the end of the game?  Hope you're in line already.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Tetherball game thread comments:

 

"Wow, the USAF Chief really got smacked in the head with that one"

 

"The damn thing is on a rope and goes in circles, how did he not see it??"

[USAFChief]

 

Working on the west coast for the first time......really hard to do the time translations in my head.

Ya lazy bum...What'd ya do all those years before you started working?

 

 

[DiscGolfer]

 

Tetherball game thread comments:

"Wow, the USAF Chief really got smacked in the head with that one"

"The damn thing is on a rope and goes in circles, how did he not see it??"

ouch!! my hand got caught in the rope

[Vanimal46]

 

Tetherball game thread comments:

"Wow, the USAF Chief really got smacked in the head with that one"

"The damn thing is on a rope and goes in circles, how did he not see it??"

http://i.lvme.me/8oi5qch.jpg

[USAFChief]

 

Tetherball game thread comments:

"Wow, the USAF Chief really got smacked in the head with that one"

"The damn thing is on a rope and goes in circles, how did he not see it??"

I laugh at today's tetherball head smacks. 

 

Back in my day, we couldn't afford no fancy schmancy fake leather tetherballs.  We used rocks.   And we LIKED it!  Now THAT forced you to learn to keep your head up reeeaaaalll quick, friends.  Real quick.  

 

 

[wxman91]

Looks like the rain may start about 30 min in or so. Not too heavy, but they may stop it.

[Pardon My Dinger]

It's gonna rain all right. Big Mig will see to that. 

[diehardtwinsfan]

I blame PEDs for the rain.

[Vanimal46]

Delaying opening day is like delaying Christmas morning... You can't do this weather gods!!!

[DiscGolfer]

Why are they playing "loser" in the background during the twins lineup intro

[blindeke]

 

For the 6th time in 7 years, MLB starts the Twins on the road. 

 

Funny... Detroit never has had a problem getting opening day games at home, and their average high temperature, in early April, is 2 degrees COLDER than Minneapolis.

 

yeah but it's snowing a bit right now!

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Looks like the rain may start about 30 min in or so. Not too heavy, but they may stop it.

yah you'd think if they were postponing, they would have done it by now, instead of waiting to get everyone to the park and then telling them to go home?

 

Maybe the game will end sometime around 10 tonight so I can catch the end

[amjgt]

 

yeah but it's snowing a bit right now!

 

MLB must have the premium subscription to Farmers Almanac

[DiscGolfer]

 

I laugh at today's tetherball head smacks. 

 

Back in my day, we couldn't afford no fancy schmancy fake leather tetherballs.  We used rocks.   And we LIKED it!  Now THAT forced you to learn to keep your head up reeeaaaalll quick, friends.  Real quick.  

If you can dodge a rock you can dodge a ball

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

First Twins home run in 2016: Go!

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

I take Byung Ho Park!

[Pardon My Dinger]

 

First Twins home run in 2016: Go!

Dozier with a lead-off lift-off. 

[70charger]

Sano hits the very first of very many.

[Foghorn Leghorn]

 

First Twins home run in 2016: Go!

Sano

[Sir_Eugene11]

 

First Twins home run in 2016: Go!

Plouffe

[James]

 

First Twins home run in 2016: Go!

Mauer.

 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

I laugh at today's tetherball head smacks.

 

Back in my day, we couldn't afford no fancy schmancy fake leather tetherballs. We used rocks. And we LIKED it! Now THAT forced you to learn to keep your head down reeeaaaalll quick, friends. Real quick.

ftfy...

 

But yeah, the version i grew up with was a foam ball roughly tennisball sized in a netting. Didn't hurt so much, but took better eye/hand coordination than the more common version.

[USAFChief]

 

First Twins home run in 2016: Go!

Kepler, in July.

 

 

[D. Hocking]

Damn - I missed the original post about predicting the first  a home run - so as I read some of the later posts, I thought the game had started and at first thought they were actual home runs.

 

Reading comprehension is not always my strong suit -- although that might not matter for game threads and might even be a blessing not to fully understand all of the posts.

[Jgcarew]

Glad the river thawed..

[SweetOne69]

 

For the 6th time in 7 years, MLB starts the Twins on the road. 

 

Funny... Detroit never has had a problem getting opening day games at home, and their average high temperature, in early April, is 2 degrees COLDER than Minneapolis.

 

I believe that the Twins request to start the season on the road.  The try to push the home opener back as far as possible hoping for warmer weather.  Of course it really is moot as MLB tries to get every teams home opener completed within the first 7-10 days of the season anyway.

[scottz]

 

that depends ... define 'win.'

I think "win" is subjective. For some, it may mean that the Twins are credited with a win at the end of the game. For others, it may mean that the team is in full and good health at the end of the game. For others, it may mean that Ricky Nolasco got lost on the way to the ballpark.

 

Me? I consider it a win when there are at least 3 Circus Boy updates in one game thread.