Article: Game Thread: Twins @ White Sox, 5/9 - 7:10pm CT

[DrNeau]

Thought that was gone off the bat

Me too. 1-2 count and Pelf floats a weak curve (didn't curve). We need to score more runs than this. My god.

Edited May 10, 2017 by DrNeau

[Squirrel]

 

No, sorry.

 

My jokes can't be topped.

I liked Jerr's answer better.

[Cap'n Piranha]

I'm adding that to my list along with:

 

If Man Evolved from Monkeys... Why are there still Monkeys?

Some of the monkeys hit the snooze too many times on their Hawk Harrelson clock?

[wsnydes]

Did I see correctly that Meyer was pitching for Anaheim tonight?

 

Sorry to interrupt the game thread with baseball.

[Aggies7]

Man, pelf is working that inside corner

[USAFChief]

 

Is your browser Netscape?

I have no idea why that's funny, but some smart people "liked" it, so I figured I should too.

[Aggies7]

This umpire is god awful

[Jerr]

 

I liked Jerr's answer better.

THAT makes two of us!!!!  

[USAFChief]

 

Me too. 1-2 count and Pelf floats a weak curve (didn't curve). We need to score more runs than this. My god.

It's been established that Mauer is not expected to be able to hit a 2 strike curve.

 

//ducks

[ashbury]

No worries. Big Pelf's got this.

[Jerr]

Come on Vargas!!!! Do something big!

[Riverbrian]

 

Man, pelf is working that inside corner

 

I don't remember him having that much backup on his fastball with us. 

[Aggies7]

Come on Vargas!!!! Do something big!

But he did already

[snepp]

Time to make the Sux bullpen ERA regress a bit.

[snepp]

 

 

But he did already

 

Big...er?

[DiscGolfer]

Pelfrey only 4 2/3 innings tonight, where have I seen that before

 

[Jerr]

 

But he did already

AGAIN AND NOW!!!!

[Oldgoat_MN]

 

You were at a Lazy Boy Furniture store.

The movie was called "Retail".

[Squirrel]

 

It's been established that Mauer is not expected to be able to hit a 2 strike curve.

 

//ducks

Especially since it's a ball and not a strike!

[snepp]

 

Pelfrey only 4 2/3 innings tonight, where have I seen that before

 

I don't know, when was the last time Gibson started a game?

[USAFChief]

 

I don't remember him having that much backup on his fastball with us. 

Good for you.

 

I've been trying to put the Pelfrey era out of my mind too.

[wsnydes]

I don't know, when was the last time Gibson started a game?

Today actually...

[ashbury]

 

No, sorry.

 

My jokes can't be stopped.

FTFY

[USAFChief]

 

FTFY

Good one.

 

Took you over an hour, but good one.

[wsnydes]

Good one.

 

Took you over an hour, but good one.

Sometimes the best things in life are worth waiting for...and then there's those times when you just end up waiting...

[ashbury]

Took you over an hour, but good one.

My reel-to-reel tape drive doesn't have the bandwidth of your 8-track.

[wsnydes]

My reel-to-reel tape drive doesn't have the bandwidth of your 8-track.

But what kind of food does it make?

[USAFChief]

What did the egg say to the boiling water?

[spinowner]

OK boys, let's make this one of those innings like we saw the other side of over the weekend.

[Riverbrian]

 

Thoughts?

 

1. Chicago – I have written about Chicago time and time again over the years, and I’m running out of ideas… but the Twins are back… so… I’ll give it another shot and write something else about Chicago. Here are some strange facts about Chicago: Many don’t know this but Chicago actually sprung out of DePaul University. Here is something else, to become famous worldwide, Chicago had to go to Los Angeles. Chicago began politically charged, experimental and edgy, eventually transforming into soft and laid back which made Chicago both worse and bigger at the same time. Chicago has a fascination with naming things numerically and there are a lot of horns in Chicago… If you compare Chicago to Boston and Kansas… Chicago is hornier.

 

2. Our Twins – There isn’t much to say when you have given up 28 runs in just two games. What you would like to say is, “Thank God that’s over”… but is it? All it took was a Teufel on Saturday and a Redfern on Sunday and we are staring at a Blyleven over two games. I used to like 11, 17 and 28.

 

3. The White Sox – The color of the Sox have changed from Red to White. Ladies and gentlemen… Welcome back to Target Field… Mike PEL-FREY!!! Mike could be exactly what we need and here’s why. K% is perhaps the biggest problem our hitters have. Our guys are pretty good but they would be even better if they could somehow lower that lofty K Rate. Here comes a pitcher… Mike Pelfrey who does not strike out anyone… He has 4 K’s total. What happens when you practically guarantee Sano and Buxton and Vargas contact? It’s going to be like throwing a truck load of Eucalyptus leaves into the Koala Cage.

 

4. Today’s Joe M Conversation

 

McCarthy: Hey Guys… look at this… Watermelons were on sale… I bought 30 of them and they are big ones.

 

Mauer: Awesome… I love Watermelon… I’ll get the baseball bat and open up some of them.

 

Maddon: 30 Watermelons? Why would you buy 30 watermelons?

 

McCarthy: They were a buck a piece.

 

Montana: You won’t fit them all in the fridge.

 

Mauer: OK… I got my bat… Let’s go to WORK… Put one down. (Pause) Ok put another one down.

 

Maddon: Why? What was wrong with the first one?

 

Mauer: I never swing at the first watermelon.

 

5. That’s why – Here’s a conversation that my Son and I had last night: “Dad… Why are you always living in the past?” Reply… “The housing was cheaper.”