Article: Game Thread: Twins @ Mariners, 5/27 @ 9:10pm CT

[Squirrel]

Well, the excitement reached a fever pitch when it was floated that he may have been traded, but alas he only hurt his knee, not sure doing what yet, I think he might have slipped on some gum.

 

Anyhoo, the air came out of the balloon pretty fast.

 

Hurt his knee, hmm. In other words, he's never being traded. :/

[twinsnorth49]

 

Could be worse.

 

True, outcomes remain similar though.

[nicksaviking]

Speaking of horror films, did you know that when Jack Nicholson says, "Here's Johnny!" in 'The Shining,' that was completely improvised?

Which is mostly extrodinary when considering Kubrick's extreme attention to detail and his OCD level of demand for perfection.

 

Much like this team's attitude toward defense.

[twinsnorth49]

 

Has Ryan Pressley been wrestling with a greased pig? The man is filthy!

It's planting season.

[Squirrel]

Glad this pitcher wasn't the starter.

[LaBombo]

 

What happened to Plouffe?

 

Not sure if referring to mild knee sprain tonight,  or...

 

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12089630/images/1284526412078.jpg

 

...  .658 OPS this season.

Edited May 28, 2016 by LaBombo

[jimbo92107]

Bring out Pressley again! It's only a 5-run lead!!

[LaBombo]

 

Taking acid is conducive to improvisation.

 

And Kubrick directed.   It's hard to imagine him saying 'Hey,  that's a little too trippy for the kind of movies I make,  Jack'.

[twinsnorth49]

Did Bremer just call Miley "pedestrian" while opposite a photo of Phil Hughes?

[LaBombo]

 

Did Bremer just call Miley "pedestrian" while opposite a photo of Phil Hughes?

 

The poor man is in shock.  He's gotten to call more good plays for the Twins in this game than in the previous games this month combined.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Poverty, honoured sir. Poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkenness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary - never - no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right too, forasmuch as in beggary I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself. Hence the pothouse! (Fills glass, empties it, and pauses.)

 

Bonus points to whoever gets the reference.

Nirvana lyrics?

[Squirrel]

Okay, just get him.

[Squirrel]

Woooo!

[Squirrel]

WINNAH!!!

[PopRiveter]

Brunansky did a much better job tonight!

[twinsnorth49]

[CampQ]

FTFY

You forgot Modest Mouse

[LaBombo]

 

Nirvana lyrics?

 

Yup.   Dostoevsky was the drummer after Chad Channing.   But then he committed a crime.    There was punishment.   Dan Peters took over.

Edited May 28, 2016 by LaBombo

[jimbo92107]

Congratulations to Pat Dean. Nice pitching. This should really be a morale boost to all the hard-working pitchers in AAA. Even if you don't have the most amazing stuff, you have a chance to make it if you really know how to pitch. Dean was spotting the ball around the zone, changing speeds, avoiding patterns, doing all the things a pitcher needs to do if he doesn't have overwhelming stuff. 

 

Next big question: If Hughes and Nolasco look bad again, is it time to start Taylor Rogers? Rogers is supposed to be better than Dean, if the prospect list means anything (just barely). Maybe it's time to let the veteran AAA guys start replacing the worn out, over-priced veterans. 

[Blake]

Hopefully, we won't go back to our regularly scheduled Twins tomorrow.

[Danchat]

The Twins are reporting that Plouffe has a MCL sprain. 

 

That's going to send him to the DL, right? Knowing the Twins, they'll probably play Nunez at 3B instead of Sano. If Plouffe does hit the DL, I'd like to see Beresford come up as a bench player (but they'd have to open a spot on the 40 man for him).

[USAFChief]

Frasier > Mary Tyler Moore??

 

You can NOT be serious!

[Pardon My Dinger]

Frasier > Mary Tyler Moore??

 

You can NOT be serious!

You, sir have insulted my sensibilities. I challenge you to a duel!

[stringer bell]

OK, speaking of marginal players, I understand the love for Beresford, but he is at best a utility guy. On a team that thought it had a chance, he wouldn't be worth losing a 40-man spot to give him a shot in the majors. The Twins have 12 wins on Memorial Day weekend, so the scenario is different and maybe it is a chance to reward Beresford with some big league pay and meal money.

 

Robby Grossman is interesting to me. How many left handed throwing switch hitters are there? I can think of a couple, but not many.

[twinsnorth49]

 

You, sir have insulted my sensibilities. I challenge you to a duel!

Go back to bed.

[twinsnorth49]

 

Frasier > Mary Tyler Moore??

You can NOT be serious!

Ted Knight=no contest

[David HK]

Those lions on the game thread photo are the saddest lions I've ever seen.  But if the herald a win, I can look at them all season.  

 

As long as they like chicken, and not me.

 

Good job today, boys.  Haven't perused the game thread, but I'm sure there was some fine snark to be found along the way.  

 

[CampQ]

Also Husker Du and the Replacements are way better than any two Seattle music acts. I am not discluding Hendrix.

[SwainZag]

I read zero of this thread btw.  All I have to say is......Pat Dean just beat and out-pitched King Felix, and Mauer homered.  I gotta go to bed.  

[David HK]

 

Really wish I was alive when 80's pop was bursting on the scene. There's no decade that's come close to that kind of sound since. 

True that, young man.  In the thousands itunes on my mac, there is hardly anything from beyond the very early 90s.   That's when everything went digital, and disposable.  

 

Like who, 20 years from now, is going to play a Bieber tune at their anniversary dance?  Who is going to remember any, or even who he was?  (Cant' happen soon enough).