Game Thread: Twins vs. Phillies, 7:05 pm CT, Wednesday 6/22/2016

[sampleSizeOfOne]

How not to write a game thread intro...

 

1. Proof is in the reading:

 

But what proof? > 100 is inflammable, so i am told.

A little floats while too much capasizes. As a close approximation, i am a teatotaller, so i wouldn't know. I just like old Jackie Chan movies...

But no one will follow if you don't make sense. QED

 

10. Numbers are important. Especially in comparing things particularly if they are very fine, of course.

 

11. Context.

 

Millenium hand and shrimp!

 

100. Take your time. Haste makes waste. It is not like someone is trying to double your game thread up...

 

101. Bring it home.

 

The baseball is round. And you score if you end where you begin. Change is complicated.

 

Phillies

Adam Morgan (L)

 

1. Odubel Herrera (L) CF

2. Andres Blanco (S) 2B

3. Maikel Franco ( R) 3B

4. Ryan Howard (L) DH

5. Tommy Joseph ( R) 1B

6. Cameron Rupp ( R) C

7. Cody Asche (L) LF

8. Freddy Galvis (S) SS

9. Peter Bourjos ( R) RF

 

Twins

Kyle Gibson ( R)

 

1. Eduardo Nunez ( R) 3B

2. Joe Mauer (L) 1B

3. Robbie Grossman (S) LF

4. Brian Dozier ( R) 2B

5. Trevor Plouffe ( R) DH

6. Eduardo Escobar (S) SS

7. Max Kepler (L) RF

8. Kurt Suzuki ( R) C

9. Byron Buxton ( R) CF

 

Conditions: Outside.

 

Gametime Forecast: 79°F • Light Rain • 62% PoP

[sampleSizeOfOne]

I made it through yesterday's thread just in time to see we needed something for today.

 

Alas, i am mosying to a rehearsal, which gets out shortly after the game starts. Hopefully i'll be a participant of the thread...

 

See ya soon.

[HitInAPinch]

Proof??  You've been on Twins Daily long enough to know better   ;-)

 

[Blake]

I wonder if we're looking at another 4 hour pitchers duel tonight?

[Craig Arko]

Jackie Chan? Drunken Master 1 & 2.

 

100 Proof is 50% alcohol by volume, so it will most certainly burn.

 

And yes, change is complicated.

 

Oh, remember to practice your bunting at rehearsal.

[ashbury]

101. Bring it home.

 

The baseball is round.

All your Base₂ are belong to us.

[Circus Boy]

 

I wonder if we're looking at another 4 hour pitchers duel tonight?

 

Official time was 3:24. A breeze.

[HitInAPinch]

 

I wonder if we're looking at another 4 hour pitchers duel tonight?

Sad to say, Adam Morgan's stats look very Twin-ish. 

[AlwaysinModeration]

I feel like this binary game thread list is deeper than I realize.

[USAFChief]

Special thanks to Samplesizeofone for picking up today's game thread on short notice.

 

Much appreciated!!

 

Now back to your regularly scheduled hijinks.

 

And with that, I see we're in a rain delay.  Hijinks will have to wait.

[mickeymental]

i hope the rain keeps up! (so it doesn't come down ...)

[Blake]

 

Special thanks to Samplesizeofone for picking up today's game thread on short notice.

 

Much appreciated!!

 

Now back to your regularly scheduled hijinks.

 

And with that, I see we're in a rain delay.  Hijinks will have to wait.

Rain Delay? As in Mike Pelfrey pitching to Brendan Harris?

[ashbury]

Hijinks will have to wait.

"Darling it's better, Down where it's wetter, Take it from me."

[HitInAPinch]

 

i hope the rain keeps up! (so it doesn't come down ...)

Are your really old if you remember this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtBGG49T50E

 

 

[HitInAPinch]

Suzuki is famous.  He's on the front page of axebat.com.  Well, it's a copy of a twitter post..

 

http://axebat.com/

[spinowner]

 

Are your really old if you remember this?

 

https://youtu.be/KtBGG49T50E

Love it!!!!! I remember CCO used to play this when rain coincided with Twins baseball.

And yes, it does mean you are really old if you remember it.

[Platoon]

So if I were to use an axe bat and join the Twins? (First off I would have to have been released by every team in MLB, sign a MiLB contract, and be moved to the bigs two days later, and have a hopeless future). I got that part covered. Anyway, assuming that using a normal bat, I would never hit a fair ball in my career, would I hit about .060 with the axe? And if so, and I battled my tail off, would I have a long and secure career in Mpls?

[dgwills]

Are they going to play this thing? This game looks like it could solve the age old question of who wins, the easily stoppable force vs. the effortlessly movable object.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2016_06_22_phimlb_minmlb_1#game=2016_06_22_phimlb_minmlb_1,game_state=Pregame

 

[spinowner]

Maybe we'll have a sunshower during the early part of the game. Or, as Brian Dozier would say (because he is from Mississippi), "The devil is beating his wife."

[David HK]

 

I made it through yesterday's thread just in time to see we needed something for today.

Alas, i am mosying to a rehearsal, which gets out shortly after the game starts. Hopefully i'll be a participant of the thread...

See ya soon.

is the rehearsal for a tuba concert?  Cuz that would ROCK!

[spinowner]

Dang! I passed my 2,000th post without making a self-aggrandizing celebration out of it!

[Aggies7]

Phillies commentators just said that Ryan Howard has "a couple of hits in June"....that would be acceptable up to like June 5

[David HK]

 

Are your really old if you remember this?

 

https://youtu.be/KtBGG49T50E

Oh, Em Gee--  my little sis and I used to rock out to that one, back in the day.   What a treat to jog the memory!  (Now I need a nap...)

[LaBombo]

 

Dang! I passed my 2,000th post without making a self-aggrandizing celebration out of it!

Just have to celebrate

http://www.patriki.com/sf/photos/2010theaterguide.jpg

instead.

[Aggies7]

Look at these guys hitting

[David HK]

Oh, there's a game on---

 

And, we're... AHEAD?  In the FIRST?  And the pitcher threw a goose egg in the top o' the inning?

 

.... I do declare, I feel the vapors a-coming on.  It's gettin' rather sultry in here, I feel as though I may swoon....  Oh, Mr. Culpepper, be a dear, and bring me my smellin' salts!!

[USAFChief]

 

Dang! I passed my 2,000th post without making a self-aggrandizing celebration out of it!

The rest of us will chime in, and not aggrandize right along with you.

 

[mikecgrimes]

Balls 50 feet from the catcher you swung and rather then hustle or even trot to first you want to count on a bad call from the ump!!!

[David HK]

So-- this is what greeted me when leaving work a couple daze ago--  I wondered what that "Real Feel" thing was- it's a combo of humidity, sun intensity, wind, etc-  And then I had to look up what 48 C meant in F terms = 118.

Yikes.

 

[S.]

 

be a dear, and bring me my smellin' salts!!