Game Thread: Twins vs. Angels, 7/5/17 @ 7:10 PM Central

[ashbury]

Good gracious sano should have hit that one to duluth

I'd settle for Hudson. That would be a fair ball.

[David HK]

 

Lefties are batting .367 with an OPS over .900 against the Angels pitcher....so Mauer sits.

Hm.  Lefty Mauer might have found a way to advance Bux that inning, or maybe even get him in.

 

But, it's OK, he needs a break.  After all, it's logical with a night game following a day game.  

 

Oh, wait......

[Aggies7]

I'd settle for Hudson. That would be a fair ball.

I don't know much (MN) geography, except that Duluth is north

[LaBombo]

 

 

With Buxton on base, and Richard Pitino visiting the booth, Danny asked if speed is also important in basketball.

 

The fluid conversational grace of a man with a mouthful of bees. That's why they pay him the big money:

 

 

 

"So the ideal basketball participant would be rapid, like... say, the bowels of an incontinent person?"

 

[Aggies7]

Lol when they tried to make sano a RF

[jimmer]

I wish we had rotation problems like the Astros.

 

Our announcers talk as if our problems with the rotation is similar to the Astros 'problems' with their rotation.

[Aggies7]

Thanks fox, for showing 10 seconds of meatheads cheering for the fwins

[yarnivek1972]

Slight possibility that those fans who appeared on the broadcast a moment ago are intoxicated.

[jimmer]

okay fellow Twins fans.  I'm out.  Enjoy the game and, as always, GO TWINS!

[Craig Arko]

Blissfully technical difficulties interrupt Dick and Jack.

[PDX Twin]

 

Blissfully technical difficulties interrupt Dick and Jack.

 

Maybe they cut away because of Dick and Jack's difficulties...

[Blake]

Is it me or does Pujols run like he's attached to a boat anchor? I've watched that man "run" a couple of times and it looks painful, to be honest.

[PDX Twin]

So Santiago to the DL according to reports. I wonder who gets a chance now???

[Blake]

 

Blissfully technical difficulties interrupt Dick and Jack.

I like Morris, but only in small doses. A couple of series and I'm ready for a fresh voice.

[PDX Twin]

 

Is it me or does Pujols run like he's attached to a boat anchor? I've watched that man "run" a couple of times and it looks painful, to be honest.

 

The Anti-Buxton!

[David HK]

 

Your introduction made me think about how one chooses a team for which to cheer when there is no obvious geographical or other tie. I faced this ten years ago when I first (got cable and) started following English football. As I reflected on my decision, I realized that I was looking for the most Twins-like team in a lot of ways. More ways than I had initially reckoned: five years of downward spiral in the table followed by inevitable relegation!

 

Yet, somehow, once that random allegiance has been formed, I can't give it up. My wife asks me why I keep rooting for them in the second division when I can't even watch them on TV any more. It must be some combination of Minnesota-bred loyalty and Minnesota-bred stubbornness. I pointed out to her that she shouldn't complain; she's had a few losing seasons over the years but I'm still married to her!

When I first came to the East, English football was all that was on sports-wise, for the one English language channel I could get.  Luckily, I happened across a website that was a primer for Premier League teams for baseball fans, equating each team with an MLB team of similar attributes.  Man U was the Yankees, of course, and I think Chelsea was the Red Sox, but a little farther down the list was Everton=Minnesota Twins.  

 

As I recall, the reasoning was they were always fielding good teams, always contending and playing tough, but never quite cracking the top echelon.  But the best part was- they were doing it with home-grown talent, who then got expensive and went away to the richer clubs. And besides, how easy is it to root for a team whose long-time sponsor is a Thai beer?  Oh, and I almost forgot- their long-time goalie was Tim Howard, the USA national goalie for years.

 

For the life of me, I've never been able to track down that website since, but I've been rooting for the Toffees ever since.  And hey--- seems they've got a lot of good young guys coming into their own, and now they're dealing for a stud or two to put them over the top... Hmmmm....  sounds vaguely familiar.

[ashbury]

A few blessed minutes of silence during the power outage. Too bad it took the video feed with it.,

[PDX Twin]

 

When I first came to the East, English football was all that was on sports-wise, for the one English language channel I could get.  Luckily, I happened across a website that was a primer for Premier League teams for baseball fans, equating each team with an MLB team of similar attributes.  Man U was the Yankees, of course, and I think Chelsea was the Red Sox, but a little farther down the list was Everton=Minnesota Twins.  

 

 

Everton would have been my second choice. I didn't much like David Moyes, though.

[70charger]

 

Your introduction made me think about how one chooses a team for which to cheer when there is no obvious geographical or other tie. I faced this ten years ago when I first (got cable and) started following English football. As I reflected on my decision, I realized that I was looking for the most Twins-like team in a lot of ways. More ways than I had initially reckoned: five years of downward spiral in the table followed by inevitable relegation!

 

Yet, somehow, once that random allegiance has been formed, I can't give it up. My wife asks me why I keep rooting for them in the second division when I can't even watch them on TV any more. It must be some combination of Minnesota-bred loyalty and Minnesota-bred stubbornness. I pointed out to her that she shouldn't complain; she's had a few losing seasons over the years but I'm still married to her!

 

I'm not surprised, since I thought of the same kind of thing. I considered putting something about that in there, but I was already quite wordy.

 

Also, I never got into English soccer, but when I moved to Istanbul a few years ago, I wanted to pick a Turkish soccer team. Turns out it's almost more of a political choice than a geographic or sporting one. Soccer in Turkey is nuts, man.

 

 

[yarnivek1972]

A few blessed minutes of silence during the power outage. Too bad it took the video feed with it.,

Baseballus interruptus.

 

Probably a squirrel at a substation.

[70charger]

Oh, and I'm also pretty much obligated to like Brighton & Hove Albion, after my brother's adoption of the team when he was in Sussex. But they've done quite well recently.

[LaBombo]

 

Everton would have been my second choice. I didn't much like David Moyes, though.

 

http://www.frodolivesin.us/ejw/a5d26eb0.jpg

 

West Ham United were infuriated by this post

[PDX Twin]

 

Oh, and I'm also pretty much obligated to like Brighton & Hove Albion, after my brother's adoption of the team when he was in Sussex. But they've done quite well recently.

 

Promoted to the PL for next season. Would have won the second division had not Villa drawn level late in the final match.

[Aggies7]

BRUTAL night for sano at the plate. He's had three pitches, by my count, that he absolutely should have obliterated.

[70charger]

Show me the FoxTrax on that strike three.

[Aggies7]

Oh, and I'm also pretty much obligated to like Brighton & Hove Albion, after my brother's adoption of the team when he was in Sussex. But they've done quite well recently.

I randomly picked Swindon town FC as my English soccer team. They just got relegated to league 2. I know how to pick em

[ashbury]

Baseballus interruptus.

The chief cause of Little Leaguers?

[Aggies7]

Show me the FoxTrax on that strike three.

3 strikeouts in 3 ABs for sano.

[David HK]

 

Oh, and I'm also pretty much obligated to like Brighton & Hove Albion, after my brother's adoption of the team when he was in Sussex. But they've done quite well recently.

I like them, too, because my best mate is from there.  We met teaching at a school in Guangzhou-  he grew up in Brighton, and played "Bah-sket-bawl."  He was quite good, too.  I'm a Yank who (still- against nature, lack of both size and speed, and professional medical advice) plays rugby.  We figured we must have been switched at birth.  Besides, how can you not like a team with 2 names like that-  actually 2 1/2-  "AND Hove Albion."  I like that part.

[70charger]

I couldn't tune in until last inning. Santana has a run against him, but 54 pitches for 5 1/3? Damn, that's efficient.