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

[Aggies7]

Amazed at how fast you folks turn on the positive vibes. Maybe I'm just a salty east coaster.

[dbminn]

Thanks Twins!!

[AlwaysinModeration]

I would have preferred a win.

[dbminn]

 

Typical Joe. 

 

Lame

[Aggies7]

Duds of the game:

 

Erv

Jose

Joe

Castro

Grossman

[Smarterthanyou]

Winter is coming

[Riverbrian]

 

Agree, and if we can build on this season, and pick up some better pitching and keep everyone healthy  then next year could be the one.

 

I'll plead for one of those super bullpens like the other playoff teams have. Get that.. and look out. 

[AlwaysinModeration]

You mean a bullpen that pitches 300 innings and gets 450 strikeouts? That's impossible, no team could ever construct that.

[glunn]

 

I'll plead for one of those super bullpens like the other playoff teams have. Get that.. and look out. 

It will also help if Sano can stay healthy and Trevor May can come back strong. The Twins seem to have a solid young core and now it's up to Falvine to build on that.

[LaBombo]

 

Amazed at how fast you folks turn on the positive vibes. Maybe I'm just a salty east coaster.

 

It's a survival skill. Our summer is nine days long.

 

And that's in southern Minnesota.

Edited October 4, 2017 by LaBombo

[Riverbrian]

 

It will also help if Sano can stay healthy and Trevor May can come back strong. The Twins seem to have a solid young core and now it's up to Falvine to build on that.

 

Concur

[AlwaysinModeration]

What sucks about this is the fact that this whole "the Yankees own the Twins" thing will continue...forever.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Amazed at how fast you folks turn on the positive vibes. Maybe I'm just a salty east coaster.

Nah, just trying not to take out on any of y'all...

 

There are other windmills to joust...

[Aggies7]

What sucks about this is the fact that this whole "the Yankees own the Twins" thing will continue...forever.

2-13 in the playoffs will do that to ya

[yarnivek1972]

What sucks about this is the fact that this whole "the Yankees own the Twins" thing will continue...forever.

The Yankees are our daddy.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Winter is coming

Indeed.

 

We must be in the wrong hemisphere again...

[PseudoSABR]

Very proud of our club.  It was too bad not see Sano and Buxton finish this game, but makes me imagine the good things to come.

[Halsey Hall]

Well kind of a let down to end it, but not a big surprise.  What's the odds on improving by 26 games next season?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

The Yankees are our daddy.

Surely there must be better role models for us...

[Pius Jefferson]

 

Lame

 

 

Keep apologizing. He sucked when it mattered. 

[AlwaysinModeration]

If Mauer's hit is five feet further and Judge's is five feet short, Twins win 7-6.

[dbminn]

 

Keep apologizing. He sucked when it mattered. 

 

What did you expect, a four run homer with no one on?

 

[alskntwnsfn]

If Mauer's hit is five feet further and Judge's is five feet short, Twins win 7-6.

A game ifs... fml.. good season.

[PseudoSABR]

Just watched that highlight where the camera can't get Gardner into frame on that Joe Mauer liner to left field with two on.  Did he really catch it? What was the cameraman's name? The producer's? The ghost of Phil Cuzzi haunts us.  

[one_eyed_jack]

I'm mostly lurk and rarely post these days, but it was a fun season, and I wanted to thank all involved for making it more fun - I enjoy the content and the conversation.

 

The ending was tough, more so because it was in the Bronx.  I hate the Yankees with the white hot passion of a thousand burning suns.  If this had happened in Boston or Houston, I wouldn't be nearly as ticked off as I am right now.

 

But the future is bright.  This team can score runs.   The rotation and bullpen need help.

 

Here's hoping that the postseason losing streak ends 1 year from right now.

 

 

[h2oface]

 

Uhh even if erv got that strike 3 call, it would only have been out #2. Castro nearly fell over trying to catch it. He was not going to get the call. Alfonso Marquez was the least of the reasons the twins lost tonight

 The next batter, Castro, flew out. 3 outs - inning over. It is history. To deny how the bad ball and stike calls change game after game after game is just not paying attention and disregarding the effect it has on the outcome of game after game after game. After game after game after game.

Edited October 4, 2017 by h2oface

[h2oface]

 

Just watched that highlight where the camera can't get Gardner into frame on that Joe Mauer liner to left field with two on.  Did he really catch it? What was the cameraman's name? The producer's? The ghost of Phil Cuzzi haunts us.  

 When I saw it live, I started jumping up and down and making a fool of myself. I thought I had seen it go out.!

[Craig Arko]

 

Ervin’s got this.

Well, I was wrong. See you next Spring.

[Jerr]

Thanks for all the fun from all you posters on here and to the Twins to taking all of us into October!!!!

 

Come the Spring, we will be tied for first and hopefully we will end up there, at the end