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Game Thread 4/20/19 Double Header vs O's 3:05 and 6:05 CDT

Dave The Dastardly

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Can you please clarify?

bighat Cedar Rapids Kernels

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Not sure you can continue to play Marwin Gonzalez in game 2. Twins aren't in a position to just let a guy work things out with Cleveland winning this afternoon. He's starting to look like a liability offensively - he doesn't hit when the Twins keep rolling him out there, and days off don't seem to help either. 

gil4 FCL Twins

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How many games are we playing today? I thought it was just two.

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How many games are we playing today? I thought it was just two.

Looks like a season prediction of 100.

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It always amazes me when sell high folks call for trading a player like Rosario. You can't win MLB games with minor league prospects. How are those guys from Houston doing from the trade for Pressly? Yup. Still deep in the minors while our bullpen suffers.

 

I'm also luke-warm about dealing proven major leaguers for prospects. Lots of folks suggest trading the whole team because we have guys like Kiriloff, Rooker, Larnach and Royce Lewis in the minors. The reality is that 1 out of those 4 will become an every day major leaguer.

 

I think fans of small-market teams that are consistently missing the playoffs get a bit too geeked about "prospect hauls" because it gives them hope for the future. If the Twins can start winning on a regular basis, I think that frame of mind for lots of fans of this team will gradually change.

jimbo92107 Cedar Rapids Kernels

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I have been resurrected!

 

Fittingly, I have come back to life in time for Easter.

 

You see the Dastard was dead for about a month, then I was resurrected.

 

No, I’m not a zombie, though my wife at times might disagree. In fact she lives to disagree with me, but that’s neither here nor there. Well, actually it’s more here than there because we don’t go there as often anymore.

 

But getting back to my return, my vintage iMac (once you go Mac you never go back) gave up the ghost about a month ago. Partially anyway. The built-in monitor after beaming blue waves at me for nine years pulled Douglas MacArthur’s Old Soldier’s trick and just faded away (fittingly MacArthur starts with “Mac” - thought I’d throw that in - no charge).

 

So there I was, staring into blackness, listening to my now-blind Mac humming away doing computer stuff I couldn’t see. It could’ve been looking at porn for all I know, but actually I think it was dialed into Twins Daily because I could “hear” laughter in the background, not panting. Wait a minute… maybe I have that backwards.

 

Being old, frugal (some might say miserly) I spent a week checking around with the tech gurus about repairing the blinded beast. But for some odd reason whenever I mentioned the date of purchase, the gurus broke into laughter. Which was surprising because gurus are normally a humorless lot.

 

Thwarted, I reluctantly dusted off the checkbook (they’re these pocket-sized things with blank paper checks in them that you fill out and sign and use to buy stuff)  and purchased a new Mac, knowing this one will probably outlive me.

 

So thinking I was reborn, I was sitting in my home office, pulling files from my old blind computer into my all-knowing new computer when I discovered the new computer was not all-knowing; it didn’t know all the secret passwords I had built into the old computer, and the old computer didn’t want to share them either.

 

Alas and alack (actually I’ve never had alack, except maybe a lack of … well, maybe only since I turned seventy) I was thus cast adrift on the Password Sea, rudder…rudderless, mizzen mast… unmizzened, foc’sle… foced (let’s see if that gets past the Word Cops).

 

End result: I couldn’t get into my TD account! And no matter how many times I clicked the “Lost Password” icon, and despite the TD claim I would be given a temporary password in less than ten minutes, I was ignored, shunned, banned, cut off, excommunicated (just continuing with the religious motif I started with) from TD!

 

I wept, I cried, I rent my garments (that’s an old Biblical phrase, not a capitalist American phrase - it means I tore my clothes, not off, just ripped). Then, after two Schmidts I saw the Light, it said so right there on the bottle, I resurrected myself on TD as Dave the Dastardly II!

 

Then once back among the living the TD folks advised me to contact Brock, which I did, and I am baaaack! Sorry Arnold. And thanks Brock!

 

So what’s all this got to do with Twins baseball? Well, maybe not much. Except maybe the team we’re following this year has also been resurrected. Unlike the team we’d gone blind (shutting our eyes) to these past few years, this 2019 version offers hope to the faithful, perhaps even salvation.

 

Anyway it’s good to be reincarnated, though I was sorely disappointed to learn TD is now like my closet: Threadbare. At least schedule-wise. I always look forward to a stimulating stream of wit, wisdom and repartee in TD’s Game Threads and I would surely miss it if no last-second volunteer writer steps up to the plate on Game Day.

 

Perhaps we need to resurrect the schedule. 

 

Yo, Lazarus! You out there?

 

We got a double-hinder today. Bad Man Jose takes the mound in the first game, he of the 2-1, 2.30 ERA 28K. His opponent? None other than Disastrous Dan Strailey, 1-1 but sporting a slump-busting 10.24 ERA and two measly strikeouts.

Second game at 6:05 CDT features Martin “The Marauder” Perez 1-0, 5.02 ERA 17K versus Alex “Sweet Corn” Cobb 0-0 3.18 ERA 4K

 

Lineups in flux, which I believe is just outside Toledo.

Just do like me and write all your passwords on a piece of paper. Then...lose...that...firetruck...piece of paper...! Ah, just send all your passwords to yourself in an email, or keep 'em as a draft email. Same as al Qaida, do like the pros. 

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So they're keeping Gonzalez in the #2 slot and both Kepler and Polanco are out of the lineup... I don't love that. Kepler must be dealing with a minor injury or something.

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So they're keeping Gonzalez in the #2 slot and both Kepler and Polanco are out of the lineup... I don't love that. Kepler must be dealing with a minor injury or something.

he is ill

jorgenswest St Paul Saints

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So they're keeping Gonzalez in the #2 slot and both Kepler and Polanco are out of the lineup... I don't love that. Kepler must be dealing with a minor injury or something.

Kepler and Parker are dealing with some kind of illness.

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