Article: Game Thread: Twins v Royals, 5/23 @ 7:10pm CT

[David HK]

 

You forgot the platypus. Platypuses (platypie?) are important for post 4,000.

It's supposed to be "Platypussy."  Coming soon, to theatres this summer.

 

 

[LaBombo]

If a flock of crows can be a 'murder',   maybe we could make the collective noun for the platypus an 'aggravated assault'.    I mean,   come on,   if there's a bunch of the little weirdos ganging up then it's got to mean they're up to no good.

 

 

Edited May 24, 2016 by LaBombo

[operation mindcrime]

So May can't get through an inning without giving up a run as well.

[David HK]

 

If a flock of crows can be a 'murder',   maybe we could make the collective noun for the platypus an 'aggravated assault'.    I mean,   come on,   if there's a bunch of the little weirdos ganging up then it's got to mean they're up to no good.

Hmmm, interesting point.  

 

I suppose we could call the 2016 Twinks a "Murder of Baseball."

[LaBombo]

 

This is where we need Tim Laudner catching.

 

He'd call for the same pitch in the same location. 

 

And it's basically a coin flip between a ball and a strike for the umpire when the batter takes a pitch,   because there's no way he's seeing around Laudner's enormous 5 gallon bucket head.

Edited May 24, 2016 by LaBombo

[Rigby]

 

And it's basically a coin flip between a ball and a strike for the umpire when the batter takes a pitch,  because there's no way he's seeing around Laudner's enormous 5 gallon bucket head.

Surely he was an only child.

[operation mindcrime]

May owes Santana a steak for that one!

[jimmer]

he didn't catch it.

[Riverbrian]

That was a great... Catch... Umm... Trap. 

[operation mindcrime]

anyone listening to Jack, Bert and Anthony right now? Slamming the team, pretty much, AND OF COURSE, Bert and Jack comparing their complete games to pitchers nowadays and they question why our guys can't have a ton of complete games too.

 

And, haha, Bert just said Ervin Santana, Nolasco and Hughes could be pitchers like Jack and Bert. Guys you can be counted on to stop losing streaks and such. Stopper type pitchers.

Good God! Fire them all.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Actually an athletic play of Santana to turn his glove down at the last moment to keep it from skipping past him (or bouncing awkwardly)

[LaBombo]

 

Surely he was an only child.

 

Yup,   either that or his mom was big enough to get it on with the Jolly Green Giant.  

Edited May 24, 2016 by LaBombo

[LaBombo]

 

That was a great... Catch... Umm... Trap. 

 

Yeah.    Didn't look right even at full speed on TV.   Dick is disadvantaged by either his vantage point from one of the best seats in the house,   or as one of the hardest-working professional optimists in baseball.

Edited May 24, 2016 by LaBombo

[Platoon]

It was a helluva an effort

[DaveW]

Why was May brought in to the 3rd inning? Does this team actually have anything that resembles a plan?

[Platoon]

I am catching up on TiVo, did anyone else catch Berts comments on the fight participants?

[Platoon]

Why was May brought in to the 3rd inning? Does this team actually have anything that resembles a plan?

Yes but it cannot be revealed until they win there 15th game. Early July?

[LaBombo]

 

May owes Santana a steak for that one!

 

He still does, even after Umpire Ackbar made his ruling...

 

 

Anybody who'd lay out for a fly ball during another drubbing in the middle of this season-long sewage plant system failure deserves a free meal at the very least.

Edited May 24, 2016 by LaBombo

[Mr. Brooks]

Why was May brought in to the 3rd inning? Does this team actually have anything that resembles a plan?

I'm clinging to the hope that he's being stretched to go back to the rotation.

Not that it's likely, but it's really all I have to cling to.

[operation mindcrime]

Omfg a 1,2,3 inning!

[Riverbrian]

 

Why was May brought in to the 3rd inning? Does this team actually have anything that resembles a plan?

 

Trying to find a safe landing spot for someone he isn't trusting right now. Kinda Like the Salt Flats for your teenager to practice driving. 

[LaBombo]

 

I'm clinging to the hope that he's being stretched to go back to the rotation.
Not that it's likely, but it's really all I have to cling to.

 

I thought that too for a second,  and then I just poked myself in the eye,  because that's just as useful as wishing this organization would wise up,   and half as painful.

[Blake]

I caught the video of Allen talking to May.

 

I'm imagining the conversation went something like this:

 

Allen: What the bleepity bleep bleep was that?

 

May: What?

 

Allen; Because you bleeping bleep bleep bleepity aren't bleeping bleep bleep getting the job done, you're bleeping bleep going down, son.

 

May: Huh?

 

Allen: You're bleepity bleeping bleep bet your bleepity you're gone to bleeping AAA tomorrow. 

[Mr. Brooks]

Trying to find a safe landing spot for someone he isn't trusting right now. Kinda Like the Salt Flats for your teenager to practice driving.

The excuse for keeping May in the bullpen was that he's too valuable there to move back to the rotation.

If he no longer has value in the pen he should be moved back into the rotation.

[wavedog]

Kudos to Rogers for not giving up a run in an inning! Let's celebrate the small victories.

[Rigby]

 

Trying to find a safe landing spot for someone he isn't trusting right now. Kinda Like the Salt Flats for your teenager to practice driving. 

Wonder how Craig Breedlove's slider looks now... we know he has the #1.

[Blake]

Here's to small victories!

[Riverbrian]

 

The excuse for keeping May in the bullpen was that he's too valuable there to move back to the rotation.
If he no longer has value in the pen he should be moved back into the rotation.

 

It's decent logic... Other than... you know... May pitching really bad at this moment. 

[formerly33]

 

Why was May brought in to the 3rd inning? Does this team actually have anything that resembles a plan?

Nah ... Paul Molitor breezed by this morning and removed any shred of faith I may have formerly held in him.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EnfcZXC_bHI/TdKPzJLr2DI/AAAAAAAAATQ/Yn5BXqOKMCI/s1600/flying%2Bby%2Bthe%2Bseat%2Bof%2Bhis%2Bpants.gif

[operation mindcrime]

When Dick read tonight's trivia question Bert should've replied, who cares!