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

[Aggies7]

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

 

http://i1.wp.com/dealsamongus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Clown-Selfie.gif.jpg

Female clowns give me the willies

[David HK]

Kep is having the rookie struggles, but man, he goes up there with the right idea- and he's executed the last couple of days at the plate.  That bunt yesterday, and now taking one up the middle, which is exactly what you do with the middle infield back and runner on 3rd.  

[jimbo92107]

I've been watching Plouffe for the past few games... I get the impression he's trying to showcase himself so he can get the hell out of Minnesota. I hope he lands with a good team. The man has paid his debt to society.

[USAFChief]

 

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

 

http://i1.wp.com/dealsamongus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Clown-Selfie.gif.jpg

That's a clown post, bro.

[Aggies7]

I wish the "everybody clap your hands" clip from the cha cha slide would go the way of so many other overused stadium anthems.

[jimbo92107]

I wonder if Buxton could use Suzuki's Axebat to straighten out his swing plane. Right now his swing comes through looking a little cockeyed. 

[jimbo92107]

Love these pitchers duels with the Phillies. I assume they're playoff bound, too...?

[LaBombo]

 

That's a clown post, bro.

Apologies to the phobic TD'ers.

 

 

[jimbo92107]

The Twins winning percentage today is .314. That's a really good batting average! ;-)

[David HK]

 

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

Yeh, sorry.  Lost my head there, thinking that anyone else on our whole team would be a less crappy choice.  

[jimbo92107]

Is there an antiviral med for Pipeline Fever? Seems like it's blazing through the Twins pitching staff this season. 

[David HK]

What's the over/under for runs Gibby gives up this inning?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Supposedly, ergonomics have invaded baseball bat manufacturing.

 

http://axebat.com

Yup, that looks like a deer foot...

 

I assume the barrel is still... round?

 

My initial fear when first i heard of it was that ithad something to do with the much advertised body wash stuff...

[LaBombo]

 

 

Love these pitchers duels with the Phillies. I assume they're playoff bound, too...?

Twins vs. Phillies 2016 is to baseball what Oxford vs. Cambridge is to crew

 

http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_a_o/0_around_edinburgh_-_union_canal_raft_race_2011_084959.jpg

[Craig Arko]

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

It could be worse.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

CBU...

 

101-101 in the 101th.

[LaBombo]

 

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

 

You hear me, Molly?!?

[David HK]

Hey!  A goose egg!  

 

Oh, no, here come those vapors again...

[USAFChief]

 

I wonder if Buxton could use Suzuki's Axebat to straighten out his swing plane. Right now his swing comes through looking a little cockeyed. 

http://www.collativelearning.com/PICS%20FOR%20WEBSITE/SHINING%20EXPANDED%202/jack%20chop%20first%20door.jpg

 

Worked for Nicholson.

[Blake]

 

Yup, that looks like a deer foot...

I assume the barrel is still... round?

My initial fear when first i heard of it was that ithad something to do with the much advertised body wash stuff...

Manscaping before the game starts? 

[Aggies7]

6 IP for a starter is gravy for us

[LaBombo]

 

What's the over/under for runs Gibby gives up this inning?

[Aggies7]

Wow what a play

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Twins vs. Phillies 2016 is to baseball what Oxford vs. Cambridge is to crew

 

http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_a_o/0_around_edinburgh_-_union_canal_raft_race_2011_084959.jpg

For some reason i thought Oxford Cambridge was amongst the biggest and most storied rivalries there is... Them being older than Harvard/Yale...

 

But i never been cross that particular pond...

 

Edit: spacethefinalfrontier...

[USAFChief]

 

6 IP for a starter is gravy for us

Hell, Anything with more IP than runs allowed is gravy.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Hell, Anything with more IP than runs allowed is gravy.

I hear gravy goes well on meats...

 

even chicken, perhaps?

[LaBombo]

 

For some reason i thought Oxford Cambridge was amongst the biggest and most storied rivalries there is... Them being older than Harvard/Yale...

But i never been cross that particular pond...

 

 

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03263/BOAT-RACE_3263806b.jpg

[S.]

 

Hell, Anything with more IP than runs allowed is gravy.

I think you just invented a new stat: Twins Quality Start (TQS)

[LaBombo]

 

Oh, no, here come those vapors again...

No worries. That whole 'going blind' thing is a myth. I hear.

 

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61SQrQCFkzL.gif

[sampleSizeOfOne]

 

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03263/BOAT-RACE_3263806b.jpg

Sorry.

 

Slow on the uptake.

 

Incidentally, the blades on the oars in the picture are called hatchets...