Game Thread: Twins @ Toronto Blue Jays 8-27 12:07 PM CT

[LaBombo]

 

Those things are not mutually exclusive.

Beat me to it, but I'll add that neither the possibility of an afternoon of right-handed Mauer or crazy 70charger is necessarily a bad thing either.

[ashbury]

while surrounded by a collection of stiffs and kids.

Those things were not mutually exclusive.

[USAFChief]

 

Can someone replay that inning for me and tell how many runs they would have scored if that idiotic sac bunt attempt by Escobar had succeeded? TIA.

Fewer.  But they would be worth more, having been scored the "right" way.

[HitInAPinch]

 

 

Can someone replay that inning for me and tell how many runs they would have scored if that idiotic sac bunt attempt by Escobar had succeeded? TIA.

IDK,  I'm pretty happy with a 4 run inning and a 5-0 lead.   Especially with Erv on the moung.

[ashbury]

Neil Allen just said (OK, on tape) that Santana gets after it. If I wasn't on the Fire Allen bandwagon before, I am now.

[GCTF]

 

IDK,  I'm pretty happy with a 4 run inning and a 5-0 lead.   Especially with Erv on the moung.

I give up. What's a moung?

[spinowner]

So, I was thinking about blue jays (the bird). It's a good-looking bird but it has an obnoxious call and it's an obnoxious bird. Pushes other birds around like it owns nature and a messy eater. Does that carry over to the team that is its namesake and the fans thereof? An opinion on this matter from any qualified observer (for example a resident of a large city in southern Manitoba) would be interesting to read.

[GCTF]

 

Neil Allen just said (OK, on tape) that Santana gets after it. If I wasn't on the Fire Allen bandwagon before, I am now.

Did Neil play with Gardy on the Mets at the same time? May explain things.

[LaBombo]

 

So, I was thinking about blue jays (the bird). It's a good-looking bird but it has an obnoxious call and it's an obnoxious bird. Pushes other birds around like it owns nature and a messy eater. Does that carry over to the team that is its namesake and the fans thereof?

 

Are you sure you've got the right team?

 

http://www.informetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Blue-Jays-Rangers-brawl.jpg

[Willihammer]

 

Did Neil play with Gardy on the Mets at the same time? May explain things.

Yep. '81-83.

[GCTF]

 

So, I was thinking about blue jays (the bird). It's a good-looking bird but it has an obnoxious call and it's an obnoxious bird. Pushes other birds around like it owns nature and a messy eater. Does that carry over to the team that is its namesake and the fans thereof? An opinion on this matter from any qualified observer (for example a resident of a large city in southern Manitoba) would be interesting to read.

More of a Tranna fan thing than a Blue Jay fan thing. Though I don't live in a large city so my opinion may not be valid.

[GCTF]

 

Did Neil play with Gardy on the Mets at the same time? May explain things.

Lulz, looked it up. They did.

 

ninja'd by the hammer.

[operation mindcrime]

Mlbtr reports Ervin has cleared waivers! With how he's been pitching I wonder what we could get for him?

I made an error it was the Pioneer Press that reported it!

[LaBombo]

 

 

I give up. What's a moung?

A commune of Khmer villages in the Battambang Province of Cambodia. He means that Ervin's stuff is so hard to pick up that it might as well be coming at them from Southeast Asia.

 

Bam. That just happened. You're welcome.

[USAFChief]

Slightly off topic:  The Mavericks will be at the Rialto in downtown Tucson next Saturday.  So will Mrs Chief and her date.

 

Even better:  There's still a chance she takes me!!

[Willihammer]

Did the Jays broadcast just have an outage or was it just me?

[USAFChief]

 

I made an error it was the Pioneer Press that reported it!

These are the kind of mental errors we've seen way too much of in recent years.  

[HitInAPinch]

 

I made an error it was the Pioneer Press that reported it!

not so sure I'd want to see Erv traded.

[spinowner]

 

More of a Tranna fan thing than a Blue Jay fan thing. Though I don't live in a large city so my opinion may not be valid.

Al Shaver always used to say Tronno.

[spinowner]

 

Slightly off topic:  The Mavericks will be at the Rialto in downtown Tucson next Saturday.  So will Mrs Chief and her date.

 

Even better:  There's still a chance she takes me!!

There goes my heart...

[LaBombo]

 

I made an error it was the Pioneer Press that reported it!

As opposed to if it had been the Strib, in which case your mistake would have been reading it in the first place.

[Platoon]

Dozier's season had gradually gone from worrisome to excellent, but with the rest of the team settling back into its 90 loss form, he reminds me more and more of the mid-90's Knoblauch, a perennial All Star whose best years were wasted while surrounded by a collection of stiffs and kids.

Well all except the perennial all star part!

[ashbury]

So, I was thinking about blue jays (the bird). It's a good-looking bird but it has an obnoxious call and it's an obnoxious bird. Pushes other birds around like it owns nature and a messy eater. Does that carry over to the team that is its namesake and the fans thereof? An opinion on this matter from any qualified observer (for example a resident of a large city in southern Manitoba) would be interesting to read.

Blue Jays as a baseball team nickname has some history, I'm sure because it connotes the feistiness you described. The Phillies tried to adopt the name 1943-8.

[70charger]

 

Those things are not mutually exclusive.

My imaginary friend tells me that you may be right.

[LaBombo]

 

 

Did the Jays broadcast just have an outage or was it just me?

There was an outrage earlier over the non-reversal of the 'safe' call on Plouffe...

[USAFChief]

 

There goes my heart...

All you ever do is bring me down.

[spinowner]

 

Blue Jays as a baseball team nickname has some history, I'm sure because it connotes the feistiness you described. The Phillies tried to adopt the name 1943-8.

Interesting sidebar. Love quirky tidbits like that.

[Platoon]

Slightly off topic:  The Mavericks will be at the Rialto in downtown Tucson next Saturday.  So will Mrs Chief and her date.

 

Even better:  There's still a chance she takes me!!

I did not know she was from Texas, nor an NBA fan? You wanna go get a beer while they go to the game?

[LaBombo]

 

 

Well all except the perennial all star part!

Everybody gotta send somebody...

 

http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/1469/1469-79Fr.jpg

 

 

[GCTF]

 

A commune of Khmer villages in the Battambang Province of Cambodia. He means that Ervin's stuff is so hard to pick up that it might as well be coming at them from Southeast Asia.

 

Bam. That just happened. You're welcome.

Come for the baseball banter, stay for the geography lesson.