Game Thread: Twins vs. Tigers, 9/21/16 @ 7:10pm CST

[LaBombo]

I've tried to avoid using this phrase before, but I don't know what else is left.

 

The Twins have descended into self-parody.

 

 

And that's without seeing the wildpitchout due to walking down to the mailbox.

[Mike Sixel]

Yup, just 1-2 players away.....

[Kwak]

Maybe Tonkin should have just chucked that 3-0 pitch to the backstop like Light?

[LaBombo]

Dick cheerfully pointing out that in addition to cementing a loss, the big inning ensures that FRod will be available to shut down the Twins tonight in the incredibly unlikely event that they're able to keep it close in the late innings.

[gocgo]

I had to step away after the first wild pitch...I came back and they were still batting.  OK, anyone who thinks Tonkin is good isn't watching.  I know he throws hard and there are times he looks like he belongs in the majors, but his fast ball is soooooo straight.  He is very hitable when hitters sit on his fastball.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

I like how Martinez got in the throwing path between Centeno and the pitcher on that, and then slowly hustled out of the way when it was too late in a 'my bad' sort of way.  As if it wasn't intentional.

I noticed that too. It was very gentlemanly of Tonkin to let Maybin sprint across the plate before Tonkin resumed his sprint to the plate for the throw.

[gocgo]

If I'm Molly in the post game presser, I don't know if I can keep it together.  How do you look Pat Light and Michael Tonkin in the eye and not have your head explode?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

I am missing an exciting game, it would seem...

[gocgo]

 

Dick cheerfully pointing out that in addition to cementing a loss, the big inning ensures that FRod will be available to shut down the Twins in the incredibly unlikely event that they're able to keep it close in the late innings.

Very astute of Dick...has Gladden let any F-bombs fly today?  Gotta figure the 5 second delay has come in rather useful this year.

[LaBombo]

The "crowd" shots were appalling. There's no other word for it. You see more people in the stands in the 1 am. ESPN 6 rebroadcast of Tulsa St. at Maine Maritime Academy.

[jimmer]

 

The "crowd" shots were appalling. There's no other word for it. You see more people in the stands in the 1 am. ESPN 6 rebroadcast of Tulsa St. at Maine Maritime Academy.

Well, it's an unscheduled day game.  People working, people at school.  Pat Dean was starting.  I probably wouldn't have come back for today's game either.

 

The ones who didn't come back today were spared the embarrassment of the 9th inning.  

 

At this point, I don't know why anyone would bother showing up anymore, to be quite honest. And it hurts to say that.

[wavedog]

OK, it was 3-2 going to the top of the 9th and I had to get on a conference call for work - I come back and it is 9-2 ballgame.  This team is unbelievably horrid and unwatchable.  Can't execute basic plays - don't they have some pride?    

[Pardon My Dinger]

 

The "crowd" shots were appalling. There's no other word for it. You see more people in the stands in the 1 am. ESPN 6 rebroadcast of Tulsa St. at Maine Maritime Academy.

Go Mariners!

[wavedog]

Instead of "let's play two" for us it's "let's lose two" - any chance of rain tonight? 

[LaBombo]

 

Instead of "let's play two" for us it's "let's lose two" - any chance of rain tonight? 

30%, or about half the probability of the Twins getting blown out if it's played.

 

Conversely, the chance of rain is 90% if Dozier homers or the Twins take a lead before it goes into the books.

 

 

Edit: I see the Twins have pre-jinxed tonight's contest by declaring it "Dozier Goes Deep" night, apparently because 'Brian Dozier Voodoo Doll' night, while functionally equivalent in terms of preventing a home run, would have been a PR nightmare.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

3 and a half".

5 and quarter".

8" even.

 

Get with the pogrom.

Doh.

 

What i said to mean was 3 and half floppies aren't floppy.

 

Guess i was a little short.

 

In so many ways...

 

Sorry about that.

 

Memories... Whatcha gonna do?

 

Anyhowsers, there is another game coming up soon, right?

[LaBombo]

Hey, less than two hours until game time!

 

Twins baseball, your "Please, sir, may I have another" leader...

 

[GCTF]

 

Go Mariners!

I'll kill myself if Tulsa St. wins!

[GCTF]