Article: Game Thread: Twins v Yankees, 6/16 @ 7:10pm CT

[HitInAPinch]

 

Did you know that Thing was actually the hand of Ted Cassidy...the dude who played Lurch?

So, Lurch was playing with himself?

[Blake]

 

Thank you....

After living in MN for so many years, I laugh when people complain about the cold here. A cold night during the winter is 28 f. (roughly -2 Celsius for those who use those weird metric units, not that there's anything wrong with that..)

 

I see people bundled up in winter coats suitable for the frozen north. Meanwhile, I'm wearing a sweatshirt. (yeah, I've become a cold weather wimp, relatively speaking)

[Squirrel]

I want to see Nunez open with a bunt.

[jimmer]

 

Thank you....

I'd be happy to consistently live with the temp in mid 70s.  Even better the 60s.

[operation mindcrime]

Agreed. It is mid-June. Give me 85+ or give me death!

Give me central air or give me death!

[jimmer]

 

After living in MN for so many years, I laugh when people complain about the cold here. A cold night during the winter is 28 f. (roughly -2 Celsius for those who use those weird metric units, not that there's anything wrong with that..)

 

I see people bundled up in winter coats suitable for the frozen north. Meanwhile, I'm wearing a sweatshirt. (yeah, I've become a cold weather wimp, relatively speaking)

I moved a bit West last summer. Not all the way to California or anything, but still. This past 'winter' I never wore anything more than a hoodie.  I got cold once, and that was from standing outside waiting to gain access to the flightline for 1/2 hour or so...so I put on my knit cap and light gloves and was fine.

[Squirrel]

 

Give me central air or give me death!

When it hits the mid 80s or is extremely humid, I turn on the AC. Otherwise it's the open windows. I didn't have or used AC until I moved to Chicago 16 yrs ago. I don't like 'fake air' blowing on me.

[operation mindcrime]

It's nice to see a clean inning!

[SydneyTwinsFan]

It's winter here in Sydney. One night last week got down to 9C (48F). Damn near had to go dig out a scarf!

[operation mindcrime]

It's winter here in Sydney. One night last week got down to 9C (48F). Damn near had to go dig out a scarf!

What do the White Pointers do during winter?

[SydneyTwinsFan]

Great AB Plouffe

[Bark's Lounge]

 

Give me central air or give me death!

I banish you to Bangkok, Thailand in the year 1885.

[SydneyTwinsFan]

 

What do the White Pointers do during winter?

Eat more surfers, fewer tourists. Even in winter the ocean temp is still 17-18C

[operation mindcrime]

I banish you to Bangkok, Thailand in the year 1885.

I'd rather go to Phuket Town!

[jimbo92107]

Alex Rodriguez looked fat, slow and old, chugging into second base like a worn out diesel. Out by a mile.

 

Good.

[Squirrel]

 

Alex Rodriguez looked fat, slow and old, chugging into second base like a worn out diesel. Out by a mile.

 

Good.

There was probably a point in his career that he makes it into second. Some of us older folks aren't always good at acknowledging our aging ways.

[Bark's Lounge]

 

I'd rather go to Phuket Town!

No beaches for you!

[David HK]

 

When it hits the mid 80s or is extremely humid, I turn on the AC. Otherwise it's the open windows. I didn't have or used AC until I moved to Chicago 16 yrs ago. I don't like 'fake air' blowing on me.

Ya, sure, you betcha.  We were like Garrison Keillor's family.  Never had an AC unit growing up- and my sis and I would find some reason to go to the neighbor's, whose kids we didn't really like, to bask in the coolness of their one window unit.  And in the car, my dad would tell us we had "4-60" air con:  4 windows down, 60 Mph.

 

Here in sultry, sweltering SE Asia, AC is a necessity.  It's always just perplexing, though, and so utterly wasteful, that thing that I'll never understand as long as I live, and I'm sure you'll all concur-  why in the H, do they have to make every single air conditioned space as freaking arctic-cold as possible?  It's a shock to the system-  and why you see HK ladies on a blisteringly hot day carrying their sweaters and shawls around, because as soon as they go into a building, it's a freezer.

 

Today, for example, 8:30 AM right now, and, let's see--  oh, heck, it's only 30, with 85% humidity.  Pretty good start to the day.  And then, of course, the usual monsoon around lunchtime...  (that's 84 for you imperialist Western running dogs). 

 

 

[operation mindcrime]

Eat more surfers, fewer tourists. Even in winter the ocean temp is still 17-18C

17-18C is that because of the metric system?

[Squirrel]

 

Ya, sure, you betcha.  We were like Garrison Keillor's family.  Never had an AC unit growing up- and my sis and I would find some reason to go to the neighbor's, whose kids we didn't really like, to bask in the coolness of their one window unit.  And in the car, my dad would tell us we had "4-60" air con:  4 windows down, 60 Mph.

 

Here in sultry, sweltering SE Asia, AC is a necessity.  It's always just perplexing, though, and so utterly wasteful, that thing that I'll never understand as long as I live, and I'm sure you'll all concur-  why in the H, do they have to make every single air conditioned space as freaking arctic-cold as possible?  It's a shock to the system-  and why you see HK ladies on a blisteringly hot day carrying their sweaters and shawls around, because as soon as they go into a building, it's a freezer.

 

Today, for example, 8:30 AM right now, and, let's see--  oh, heck, it's only 30, with 85% humidity.  Pretty good start to the day.  And then, of course, the usual monsoon around lunchtime...  (that's 84 for you imperialist Western running dogs). 

It's like that in Florida, too. You can't go out to dinner without a sweater or shawl or something. Just ... too cold.

[Bark's Lounge]

I live in St. Paul.

 

In the winter it is hard to drag your ass out of bed, go out into that nasty cold weather, warm the car up, go back inside, go back out out, deal with awful drivers if it is snowing. Zero Degrees hurts in a bad way.

 

In the summer, I spring out of bed, do my thing, run out to my car all gleeful, go to work with a fantastic disposition. When my work is done for the day, I get into my car and it is 110 degrees… that hurts in a good way.

[David HK]

On the good side of things, got a call last night from my HK agent fella- so today I'm feigning sickly from work, and going to shoot a short walk-on role with Scarlett J, in her Ghost in the Shell movie!

 

Shhhhhhhh...... don't rat me out!  It's a secret!

 

[Craig Arko]

Neither extreme, hot or cold, is as easy to handle as they used to be. Blech.

[jimmer]

For awhile, the record heat for one day in Saudi and the record heat for one day in Iraq was during the time frame I was in each one of them. That's not the case any more.  Qatar, however, I was there during it's hottest day ever.

 

And I've been in colds as low as -60s wind chill (in the -30s with around 20 MPH windl) as well.  In fact, my first winter in North Dakota, after growing up in California and having spent the previous 5 years in Panama, was when I first experienced that.  I had been in North Dakota for a whopping two weeks when that happened.

Edited June 17, 2016 by jimmer

[SydneyTwinsFan]

At what point does Plouffe and his putrid .258 OBP get dumped from the clean up spot? Or the line up altogether?

[alarp33]

As bad as Buxton was for the first 3 weeks, and as meh he's been in the 2 weeks since the recall.... He'll have a higher OPS than Plouffe if he gets a hit next at bat

[David HK]

 

For awhile, the record heat for one day in Saudi and the record heat for one day in Iraq was during the time frame I was in each one of them. That's not the case any more.  Qatar, however, I was there during it's hottest day ever.

 

And I've been in colds as low as -60s wind chill as well.  My first winter in North Dakota, after growing up in California and having spent the previous 5 years in Panama.  I had been in North Dakota for a whopping two weeks when that happened.

Hee hee!  Were you at GFAB, or Minot?  They're both equally as witch's-teat cold, but at least one had some cool bars.  It always used to perplex me, at UND, that every single cat I met from the Base was always from Biloxi, or Pensacola.  Used to wonder if they did that on purpose.

[David HK]

 

At what point does Plouffe and his putrid .258 OBP get dumped from the clean up spot? Or the line up altogether?

As soon as Sano's comes back, or Molly doesn't.

[jimmer]

 

Hee hee!  Were you at GFAB, or Minot?  They're both equally as witch's-teat cold, but at least one had some cool bars.  It always used to perplex me, at UND, that every single cat I met from the Base was always from Biloxi, or Pensacola.  Used to wonder if they did that on purpose.

Minot

[SydneyTwinsFan]

 

Gotta love that tough heart of the order with Dozier (.232), Plouffe (.232 and 2 SOs) and Park (.208).  Without Mauer, this does not resemble a Major League lineup. Is it just me or is this kind of embarrassing?

Agreed. Any word on Sano's hammy? He can't come back quickly enough.