Game Thread: Twins vs Orioles, 5/10/16 @ 7:10 PM CT

[LaBombo]

 

 

What's next for Jose Berrios?

 

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[David HK]

This Gausman kid, holy moley, he's good.  He is painting down low tonight.  Unless Parise comes off the bench and scores a couple goals, we're already toast.

[Aggies7]

I want to hop aboard a plane and punch Santana right in the head when he squares to bunt.

 

And when he Ks

[USAFChief]

 

That braves-twins series is going to be fun.

The movable object v. the resistable force.

 

 

[Aggies7]

The movable object v. the resistable force.

Is that the next best chance of winning a game?

[USAFChief]

 

I want to hop aboard a plane and punch Santana right in the head when he squares to bunt.

And when he Ks

Once a week or so?  OK.

 

Once a game?  No.  

[Aggies7]

Once a week or so?  OK.

 

Once a game?  No.

 

They'll never see it coming!

[Aggies7]

joe Mauer and Fernando Abad are the only two players who haven't been disasters. Literally the only two.

[LaBombo]

 

That braves-twins series is going to be fun.

 

Commemorative postcards suitable for framing already at the print shop waiting for Twins promo dept.  to pick up.

 

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[Aggies7]

Another sub 6 inning outing for the stud pitching prospect.

[David HK]

Had to step away for a bit-  did it get worse yet?

 

[USAFChief]

I went to the course late today, hoping to get a quick nine in before the game started.  When I got there, the starter told me to hustle over to the first tee, there was a single just about to tee off, and I could join him.

 

He looked perturbed to see me wander up, thinking I'd just slow him down.  Well, I can play a little, and I offered to play him a match for 10 bucks a hole.  He thought it'd be easy money, and quickly took the bet.  Turns out I was a bit too smart for my own good...he could play a bit too.  

 

We traded a couple holes, and got to the ninth tee all square.  I knocked my tee shot down the middle, not as far as him, but very playable.  He put his tee shot into the right rough, with a tall tree right in his way.  He really had no choice but to knock it out into the fairway, and play from there.  He was just about to do that, when I wandered up and looked down my nose at him.  "Playing safe, junior??  Well, I s'pose that's the smart play.  Gotta say, though, when I was your age I'd have knocked it right over that tree."

 

He looked at me, pulled out another club, and took aim at the green.  Hit a great shot, too, but it hit the top of the tree, and doinked directly right, out of bounds.

 

Match over.

 

I looked at him and said,'"Of course, when I was your age, that tree was three feet tall."

[USAFChief]

 

joe Mauer and Fernando Abad are the only two players who haven't been disasters. Literally the only two.

Park.  Nunez.  Nolasco.  

 

I'm probably missing some.

 

Not disasters.  

[Aggies7]

I know it probably wouldn't have mattered, but after this series, the twins will have played 14 games against the Orioles, white sox and nationals. Almost half their games. Although we haven't done all that well against bad teams, either.

[Pardon My Dinger]

Park. Nunez. Nolasco.

 

I'm probably missing some.

 

Not disasters.

Literally not disasters.

[Aggies7]

Park. Nunez. Nolasco.

 

I'm probably missing some.

 

Not disasters.

 

True, I might put them into the half-disaster category.

Edit: I only lumped Nunez in there because he's had some big errors on the base paths and in the field.

[Aggies7]

Whoa, a double play!

[David HK]

 

Hicks is coming alive for the yankees it seems

I checked in to that game, to see how he was doing, just in time to see Castro get clipped by a Herrera pitch-  ouch-o-rama----

 

[David HK]

Heh.... and the guys I was ripping on come through.

[spinowner]

Putting Dozier and Plouffe 3 and 4 in the batting order. Genius.

[USAFChief]

I literally was going to post "Plouffe goes yard here."

 

Damn, missed my shot.

[luckylager]

Babe PLOUFFE!!!!!

[amjgt]

Nice job guys, we really inspired Brian and Trevor in yesterday's game thread.

[Platoon]

Geez, I picked a heck of a time to join the game thread.

 

ick.

I was kind of hoping ups would ask what a castrati was, so I wouldn't have to.

[Puckett34]

Plouffe!!

[Mr. Brooks]

Berrios has had 3 starts.

While the final lines haven't been the best, he's had stretches where he looks in control, and clearly can already miss more bats than any other pitcher in our rotation.

This kid is going to be a star, where did this demand for instant gratification come from?

I used to think we had smarter baseball fans than this.

[Dozier's Glorious Hair]

 

I literally was going to post "Plouffe goes yard here."

 

Damn, missed my shot.

 

It counts. You just have to think it and it counts.

[stringer bell]

Sano, Park, Arcia 0-8, 5 Ks. Maybe they should be hitting 7-8-9.

[Reider]

Plouffe with a 2-run HR. Anyone hungry? I have a lot of eggs to clean up off of my face.

 

Murphy's law is kicking my butt today.

 

Keep it up Twins, let's get that W!

[LaBombo]

 

Babe PLOUFFE!!!!!

 

They found a Baby Plouffe bar in the town pool one summer when I was in grade school.   Dang thing was shut down for a week.

 

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