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

[Aggies7]

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.

My post was 90% frustrated sarcasm

[formerly33]

 

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.

We probably did.

 

/ Yes, millennials are perfectly capable of taking jabs at their generation. 

[Mr. Brooks]

My post was 90% frustrated sarcasm

In general I was speaking to more than one post or even one day.

It's been all year. I mean someone yesterday wanted Sano sent back to AAA. It's crazy.

[LaBombo]

 

 

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

 

Like French military uniforms,   Suzuki batting 6th or higher is a universally recognized sign of surrender.

[Aggies7]

In general I was speaking to more than one post or even one day.

It's been all year. I mean someone yesterday wanted Sano sent back to AAA. It's crazy.

I just accidentally broke my favorite Pilsner beer drinking glass. Serves me right for stealing it from a bar. It's been a rough night for me.

[LaBombo]

 

 

My post was 90% frustrated sarcasm

 

The other 10 percent being outraged indifference,  I'm guessing.

[USAFChief]

 

Berrios has had 3 starts.
 
This kid is going to be a star,  

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

...

[Aggies7]

The other 10 percent being outraged indifference,  I'm guessing.

Blind rage brought on by a months worth of baseball frustration.

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

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.

Right on.

[LaBombo]

 

I just accidentally broke my favorite Pilsner beer drinking glass.

 

My old man's a TV repairman,  he's got this ultimate set of tools.   I can fix it!

 

[USAFChief]

In play, run(s) please.

[LaBombo]

 

...

 

Don't tell me,   let me guess.    Morse code for 'eye roll emoji' ?

[Aggies7]

In play, run(s) please.

I remember when game day was my only option to follow the game. I also remember having to refresh the twins home page to see the line score.

[Aggies7]

Hahaha hot mic on Suzuki!!!!

[Hrbowski]

Just finished my 2017/2018 draft post and checked on the game for the first time. Plouffe doesn't look hurt.

[DaveW]

Berrios looked pretty decent overall tonight, the flashes are certainly there. Might take a year or two for him to "live" up to his potential, but thats ok when you are talking about a guy who is making his major league debut like 5 or 6 years quicker than Gibson and a lot of other SP do. The future is bright for him (if he can stay healthy)

 

Gausmas looked solid as well, he is one of those guys I really wanted the Twins to make a run at last year/this offseason when the Orioles were a bit down on him and they could have gotten him for a decent price tag. Archie Bradley and Trevor Bauer are two similar pitchers I would look to acquire as well.

[Platoon]

I've been pretty unimpressed with Berrios.  I thought he threw harder than this.

He does, but they don't allow it on the big club!

[Aggies7]

Let's all have a moment of thought about how far we've come in following the twins: (from April 1998)

[LaBombo]

 

I remember when game day was my only option to follow the game. I also remember having to refresh the twins home page to see the line score.

 

I remember waiting for the pterodactyl to overfly the town square and drop a small granite tablet with a 'W' or an 'L' on it 4 hours after the game was over.

 

Edit:   And yes,   you're right,  whoever was about to post it:   being hit in the head by falling chunks of granite explains a lot about 'crazy old LaBombo'.

[Aggies7]

I remember when waiting for the pterodactyl to overfly the town square and drop a small granite tablet with a 'W' or an 'L' on it 4 hours after the game was over.

Never forget

[David HK]

Man, the heat just keeps on coming out of the O's pen.  95 upstairs, whew... 

Where are our guys like this?

[DaveW]

In games that actually probably matter: Capitals have come back from 3-0, it's 3-2 now and they have a 5-3 PP with 8 minutes left. Great game to watch.

[Aggies7]

Son of a bee sting

[Aggies7]

You know your team lacks meaningful history when they bring up a grand slam in a game from 34 years ago that the twins ended up losing easily, not once but twice.

[David HK]

 

In games that actually probably matter: Capitals have come back from 3-0, it's 3-2 now and they have a 5-3 PP with 8 minutes left. Great game to watch.

They're like the last team I even casually like in the Nhl playoffs.  

[USAFChief]

A hit on an 0--2 pitch to start the 8th.

 

Chief disapproves.

[Aggies7]

A hit on an 0--2 pitch to start the 8th.

 

Chief disapproves.

I have a sneaking suspicion about that occurrence.

[DaveW]

3-3 Caps, still with 1 minute left on power play.

[David HK]

Heh... and just as Dave W brings it up, Caps score, and still on PPlay

[Hrbowski]

I wish the Braves would win.