Game Thread: Twins vs. Milwaukee 5-20 @ 1:10 PM CT

[LaBombo]

 

Ol' Joe West has had a nearly impeccable strike zone today.

 

So we got that going for us.

 

 

Sorry, the OCD made me do it.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

A real slugfest, eh!

 

Or perhaps a snailfest.

[Don Walcott]

 

The Twins lineup has potential when everyone is healthy. Clearly, though, they can't compete without a full lineup. This offense is putrid. 

I wish there were a way to get rid of that odor . . . .

[USAFChief]

 

Wife asked the score. Me: "We're behind 1-to-1."

http://37.media.tumblr.com/9614e1e492323b2d6284eea6a2f220f1/tumblr_my4lsuXzHx1t7mbl9o1_500.gif

[USAFChief]

 

A real slugfest, eh!

Or perhaps a snailfest.

[USAFChief]

Buxton catches that.

[Aggies7]

I’ve never seen so many bloop hits in a single game

[Aggies7]

Buxton catches that.

Where was he playing on the AB? Duluth?

[Nine of twelve]

Big K there. Gotta get our offense in gear somehow.

[USAFChief]

 

Where was he playing on the AB? Duluth?

http://www.logoserver.com/baseball/DuluthHuskies3.GIF

 

Not yet, but by 2021, maybe.

[Circus Boy]

A win will make me happy. Another late-inning loss will do the opposite. I took the red pill.

[Nine of twelve]

God bless Irving Berlin, but possibly the worst upshot of 9/11/2001 is having to endure that song every Sunday at every ballpark.

[LaBombo]

 

 

It's like the Twins during their losing streaks this year. You have to watch multiple times if you want to see all the moving parts that make it so disturbing.

[Aggies7]

http://www.logoserver.com/baseball/DuluthHuskies3.GIF

 

Not yet, but by 2021, maybe.

I was always partial to the duluth-superior dukes

[Aggies7]

God bless Irving Berlin, but possibly the worst upshot of 9/11/2001 is having to endure that song every Sunday at every ballpark.

Haha I’m amazed at all the folks who hate that so much. It’s done like what, a dozen or so times a year at most parks. Not a huge inconvenience, like say being drafted into the military or something haha

[USAFChief]

 

God bless Irving Berlin, but possibly the worst upshot of 9/11/2001 is having to endure that song every Sunday at every ballpark.

commie.

[Vanimal46]

Is there anyone worthwhile on the bench to pinch hit for Petit?

[USAFChief]

 

It's like the Twins during their losing streaks this year. You have to watch multiple times if you want to see all the moving parts that make it so disturbing.

The internet is a marvelous thing.

 

I literally googled "snail fest gif".

 

There were hundreds.

[USAFChief]

 

Is there anyone worthwhile on the bench to pinch hit for Petit?

Sometimes the answer is right in front of you.

[Aggies7]

Is there anyone worthwhile on the bench to pinch hit for Petit?

No, no there isn’t

[Riverbrian]

Here comes the RH for 3 batters. 

 

 

[Don Walcott]

Pinch-hitting for the DH? I like thinking out of the box, but it's a bit depressing.

[Riverbrian]

 

Is there anyone worthwhile on the bench to pinch hit for Petit?

 

Adrianaza or Wilson

[Aggies7]

I watched a Netflix doc about Hiroshima last night. Stunning similarities to this lineup

[Aggies7]

You should be ashamed, joe west

[KirbyDome89]

 

One of my working theories about managing is, I don't feel like guys who were naturally good baseball players--and Molitor was very, very naturally good at baseball--make good managers.

 

Things that they take for granted, because they always came easy to them, get lost in the shuffle. How to run the bases, where to throw the ball, when to look for a pitch, when to shift more toward the hole at SS. Those kinds of things, that seem so blatantly obvious to him...he doesn't feel like that's something that he needs to manage. Or teach. 

 

Just one of my theories. It applies to all walks of life, BTW. I had commanders who were kind of the same way. They were natural leaders their entire life, but made poor commanders, because they just assumed everybody already had the knowledge and skills they did.

 

 

I've always shared this theory.

 

I would say yes and no.

 

In theory I agree. It certainly can be more difficult to help an individual with something you find extremely easy. That said, I'm not sure how much is Molitor taking little things for granted because they came easy to him, and how much of it is him working from an assumed knowledge base that maybe doesn't exist for some of the players. I don't think it's unfair of Molitor to assume that all these guys have a strong understanding of all the little things listed. That doesn't mean he has no responsibility to reinforce some of those concepts in given situations but things like getting a lead at 2B w/o getting picked off, learning to differentiate between a lefty going home vs. 1B, throwing to the cutoff man/correct base, ect. are all hammered out in the minors if not well before then. 

 

Maybe it's as simple as the players not being reminded about situational awareness, but given how shocking some of the mental mistakes are I have to think the issue runs deeper than the major league manager not preparing them. 

[USAFChief]

Unfortunate choice of festivals with which to promote tourism, Wisconsin.

[Aggies7]

I bet rod carew in his prime wouldn’t be much help right now

[USAFChief]

Hey Van, you still around? I got some pickup lines you can use:

 

"Nice shirt. Can I talk you out of it?"

 

"Kiss me if I'm wrong, but dinosaurs still exist, right?"

 

"Are you a parking ticket? Cuz you got fine written all over you."

 

No charge, thank me later.

[Mike Sixel]

Phil Hughes pitches the ninth and tenth, right?