Article: AL Wild Card Game Thread: Twins @ Yankees, 10/3@7:09pm CT

[Vanimal46]

I predict...

 

I will miss the first hour or so due to a rehearsal.

 

Can y'all keep it close until then?

Selfishly I'm hoping the score is 17-0 Twins by the time you turn on the TV

[Vanimal46]

Checklist for a great game thread:

 

- scottz asking if the Twins won yet

- Blake and Vanimal go down a weird path

- Chief jokes

- Chief saying something that prompts Chi to respond "Ick" or "Ish"

- Bark's rally rum

- North says something Canadian

- One "yes" reply to a question(s)

[Dantes929]

 

Correction:

 

No SAC bunts.  Buxton can bunt anytime he wants when no one is on.

Correction.    Buxton can bunt anytime he wants for a hit.

[diehardtwinsfan]

 

Checklist for a great game thread:

- scottz asking if the Twins won yet
- Blake and Vanimal go down a weird path
- Chief jokes
- Chief saying something that prompts Chi to respond "Ick" or "Ish"
- Bark's rally rum
- North says something Canadian
- One "yes" reply to a question(s)

 

You're missing a Circus Boy Update.

[spanman2]

Pressure is 110% on New York...baseball world outside of Yankee fans want New York to lose...has no bearing on the game but lets roll with it anyway!  Twins are young enough in certain aspects of the team to not know any better of past struggles in the Bronx.  Through in some veterans who have been there before and a Hall of Fame player as manager who has been there before as a player along with Big Erv vs. the kid and it should be a great ball game.  Twins 4 Yankees 3

[ThejacKmp]

 

6 run 7th sounds great.   Do we win though?    Similar fate to Joe Smith?    Multiple wives?   Sounds great in some ways but it means multiple mothers-in-law.    Also reminds me of Oscar Wilde's quote.   "Bigamy is having one wife too many.   Monogamy is the same"

 

I was referring more to the fact that he was lynched at age 38. That would give me five more years. The many wives is a potentially solid silver lining but man, getting lynched seems like a high price to pay.

[twinsnorth49]

Pre game check list

 

Lorazepam

 

Selection of Surly beer

 

Old Dutch Potato Chips

 

Twins logo beer vessel

 

Twins hat

 

Twins T-shirt

 

Twins underwear (pants optional). 

 

Stress ball (in case lorazepam wear off)

 

Laptop to follow game thread

 

ensure projectiles are removed from living room

 

barf bag, from listening to Dan Schulman all night. 

 

Xantac

 

more beer

 

 

I think I'm ready.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Vanimal46]

 

Pre game check list

 

Lorazepam

 

Selection of Surly beer

 

Old Dutch Potato Chips

 

Twins logo beer vessel

 

Twins hat

 

Twins T-shirt

 

Twins underwear (pants optional). 

 

Stress ball (in case lorazepam wear off)

 

Laptop to follow game thread

 

ensure projectiles are removed from living room

 

barf bag, from listening to Dan Schulman all night. 

 

Xantac

 

more beer

 

 

I think I'm ready.

 

You forgot a 2nd pair of underwear, just in case. 

[twinsnorth49]

 

You forgot a 2nd pair of underwear, just in case. 

What 2nd pair?

[nokomismod]

Grumpy's downtown will be our watching hq

Eagerly awaiting to see how our Twins do

I'm expecting three home runs to the short porch in left

Even without the Sano and his heft

Thank you Falvey and Levine

for letting us realize this dream

The Twins bullpen will scrape and claw their way to the end

And around 11pm due to the tight strike the Twins will be on their way to Cleveland

[Riverbrian]

 

I've told both the thesaurus and the Armageddon jokes in the last week.   Can't be a coincidence.    My only conclusion is that Riverbrian is either my wife or my 5th grade son.    I'm betting on 5th grade son.

 

Yeah... I noticed that to. Apparently those 5 guys are stealing off the internet when deciding what to talk about. 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

You're missing a Circus Boy Update.

(This has been a Circus Boy Update)

[Vanimal46]

 

(This has been a Circus Boy Update)

 

Check. That's 2 things off the list. North said something very Canadian earlier. 

[Riverbrian]

 

So.... who's gonna start at DH today?  I'd say there's a miniscule chance Sano starts.  I was at the game Sunday and he just looked so uncomfortable.  Grossman did not play when the Twins faced Severino last.  Vargas started that game at first (Joe at DH), and was 1-1 against Severino.  Would you dare start Vargas?  I 99.9% would not.  I'd presume Grossman gets the start, batting 9th like he has lately, with instructions to draw long at bats and get on base for Dozier and Mauer.

 

I'd say the rest of the lineup will be trivial.  Castro, Mauer, Dozier, Polanco, Escobar, Rosario, Buxton, Kepler.

 

Normally I'd say Vargas because I like guys who hit the ball out of the park at any moment. With Sano out of the lineup... Vargas is next guy up for that role. However... since today is Yankee Stadium with a right field fence only 140 feet from home plate. Any left handed hitter will do so I'll settle for a guy who can put the ball in play. 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Checklist for a great game thread:

- scottz asking if the Twins won yet

- Blake and Vanimal go down a weird path

- Chief jokes

- Chief saying something that prompts Chi to respond "Ick" or "Ish"

- Bark's rally rum

- North says something Canadian

- One "yes" reply to a question(s)

Something borrowed? Something blue?

 

It's a nice day

for a... um... to start again.

[Tom Froemming]

Five hours to first pitch and I already fell like I'm gonna barf ...

 

This is gonna be awesome!

[Respy]

So I'm solely in charge of my 2 and 4 year olds during the game tonight.  Any experience on how to get them to sit still during the entire game? 

[Pardon My Dinger]

So I'm solely in charge of my 2 and 4 year olds during the game tonight. Any experience on how to get them to sit still during the entire game?

.

 

Turned over laundry basket with a big rock on top of it?

[yarnivek1972]

So I'm solely in charge of my 2 and 4 year olds during the game tonight. Any experience on how to get them to sit still during the entire game?

Bourbon

[Mike Sixel]

 

So I'm solely in charge of my 2 and 4 year olds during the game tonight.  Any experience on how to get them to sit still during the entire game? 

 

don't try? You'll spend more time distracted by that! IME.

[Richie the Rally Goat]

 

So I'm solely in charge of my 2 and 4 year olds during the game tonight.  Any experience on how to get them to sit still during the entire game? 

Ipad loaded with cartoons and little dab of booze in their sippy cups

[Riverbrian]

 

In honor of Tom Petty, let's "Breakdown" this game...

 

The Twins are "Runnin' Down a Dream" as they try to get the monkey off their back against the Evil Empire. Ervin's already said "I Won't Back Down" to people like Aaron Judge and Gary Sanchez. So hopefully he won't "Surrender" more than a couple of runs tonight. 

 

A lot of national experts may say "You Don't Know How It Feels" to be in a playoff game in regards to the Twins. But you know what? "Even the Losers" make it to the playoffs every now and again. And they "Learn to Fly" with the best of the best. 

 

So "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" and get this game underway! 

 

Alright... I like this approach. RIP Tom Petty... I enjoyed all your albums. Your loss was the biggest Heartbreaker of all.  

 

 

Will the Twins win today "I Need to Know". "The Waiting" is the hardest part and we are a still hours from game time. the answer is isn't immediate because first pitch isn't until tonight. There will be no talk of "You Got Lucky". when it comes to these Twins, if you do feel that way... "Don't come around here no more". Have a "Change of Heart", quit "Jammin Me" with those negative vibes and "I'll feel a whole lot better". I know "I won't back down" because we are "Runnin down a dream" The Yankees will be "Free Fallin". 

[cmoss84]

I didn't get much sleep last night. Too excited. Read this thread and fell asleep for a short nap. Had a dream where I was on a roller coaster with Tom Petty and a goat (from a Zombie Zoo). We were drinking good bourbon. The Twin's bats were on fire and we free fell into Cleveland. 

[zenser]

Just the fact that there is a game thread today is awesome.

[Squirrel]

Just the fact that there is a game thread today is awesome.

Every day there's a Twins game there's a game Thread!

[USAFChief]

I was in a Walgreens yesterday, when this duck walked up to the checkout counter with some chapstick.  The counterperson was a bit taken aback, but recovered enough to ask, "Cash or credit?"

 

"Neither," said the duck.  "Put it on my bill."

 

[zenser]

 

Every day there's a Twins game there's a game Thread!

 

I think you know what I mean.  We could be watching the Angels and Yankees tonight and have no game thread.

[Pardon My Dinger]

 

I was in a Walgreens yesterday, when this duck walked up to the checkout counter with some chapstick.  The counterperson was a bit taken aback, but recovered enough to ask, "Cash or credit?"

 

"Neither," said the duck.  "Put it on my bill."

I'm just too upset to even watch the game now. 

[Craig Arko]

 

I'm just too upset to even watch the game now. 

Time for Twins-logo seasickness bags?

[Vanimal46]

 

I was in a Walgreens yesterday, when this duck walked up to the checkout counter with some chapstick.  The counterperson was a bit taken aback, but recovered enough to ask, "Cash or credit?"

 

"Neither," said the duck.  "Put it on my bill."

 

Chief joke! Check. 3 off the list!