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

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Pretty sure I just heard Dick say this about the 7th place AL catcher by WAR (>150 AB's): "With his recent hot streak, we have to talk about All Star consideration for Kurt Suzuki".

 

My fist and face just can't harm each other enough to get that sentence out of my head...

 

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Can never go wrong with a fight club ref. Well hardly ever.

 

"You choose your own level of involvement."

[LaBombo]

Does anyone else have the vague suspicion that we'll never hear another freakin' word about the #$@^ axe handle bat the minute Suzuki goes into a 3 for 31 slide?

 

[Aggies7]

Buxton getting on base an awful lot lately

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Suzuki mashing with his ax handled bat

I never read the hype about this. Is there more to it than paying attention to the wood grain?

[Aggies7]

I never read the hype about this. Is there more to it than paying attention to the wood grain?

The Phillies color commentator is befuddled by the amount of bats players can use today. Something about former ball players that must make them hate any new trend or fad

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CBU.

 

regarding yesterday big picture... 7?

 

Today, tied 10-10 after 100 innings.

[LaBombo]

Watching the offense struggle to give and re-give GIbson the lead is like watching Steve Carrell strain against the mass of the plus sized lady while dancing in Get Smart

 

 

 

[Aggies7]

Oh boy did Gibson get away with one there

[Aggies7]

Stop being a defensive liability please, max.

[David HK]

Ah, cripe---

 

Cue the Corgis, Bombo.

[Aggies7]

Gibson continuing to fall behind batters

[Aggies7]

Things are falling apart.

[Aggies7]

The THIRD hit in June for Howard.

[David HK]

Holy Moley, that pitch to Howard could not have been more down the pipe.  Gibby is awfully lucky that sucker didn't take his head clean off.

[Blake]

 

Does anyone else have the vague suspicion that we'll never hear another freakin' word about the #$@^ axe handle bat the minute Suzuki goes into a 3 for 31 slide?

 

Well, in a season of misery wrapped in dismal and surrounded by incompetence, you gotta find a bright spot somewhere. And if the bright spots are few and far between then they're going to get repeated.

[LaBombo]

 

Ah, cripe---

 

Cue the Corgis, Bombo.

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[Aggies7]

Holy Moley, that pitch to Howard could not have been more down the pipe.  Gibby is awfully lucky that sucker didn't take his head clean off.

He's gotten away with several of those mistakes tonight. Twins pitchers never met a corner of the plate that they liked

[S.]

 

Does anyone else have the vague suspicion that we'll never hear another freakin' word about the #$@^ axe handle bat the minute Suzuki goes into a 3 for 31 slide?

We can all just pray that we've traded him before then?

[LaBombo]

 

 

Well, in a season of misery wrapped in dismal and surrounded by incompetence, you gotta find a bright spot somewhere. And if the bright spots are few and far between then they're going to get repeated.

I completely agree but somehow still have the utterly unsupportable yet completely unshakable belief that the more Dick talks about it the sooner the Suzuki magic will end.

[Aggies7]

Phillies may have caught a break there

[Aggies7]

Escobar simply raking. And the defense this series continues to unimpress

[Blake]

 

I completely agree but somehow still have the utterly unsupportable yet completely unshakable belief that the more Dick talks about it the sooner the Suzuki magic will end.

Hopefully, Suzuki, Plouffe and Grossman are on the trading block and Suzuki will be gone before the magic wears off.

[glunn]

Kepler owes us a good at bat here.

[Aggies7]

Tied up!

 

What a bizarre, pitching absent series

[David HK]

I do NOT want to see Gibby back out there after this.

 

You hear me, Molly?!?

[Blake]

 

I never read the hype about this. Is there more to it than paying attention to the wood grain?

Supposedly, ergonomics have invaded baseball bat manufacturing. 

 

http://axebat.com

[Aggies7]

The Phillies pitching coach looks like carter pewterschmidt from family guy

[LaBombo]

Wow. A team made up of the best Twins and Phillies could STILL lose a hundred games.

 

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[Aggies7]

I do NOT want to see Gibby back out there after this.

 

You hear me, Molly?!?

At this point, our bullpen is probably worse

[S.]

 

I do NOT want to see Gibby back out there after this.

 

You hear me, Molly?!?

Unfortunately, I doubt you want to see any of our relievers out there either. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.