Game Thread Twins @ Rangers 8/16/19 7:10 PM CDT

[Richie the Rally Goat]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[Brock Beauchamp]

Mitch, don't hit the ball so hard next time and you might get two bases.

[FlauerPauer]

Really happy for Schoop! He's been pretty solid all year (outside of RISP) and just has been unlucky with Arraez crushing.

[Don Walcott]

Baseball is a funny game. So it turns out that it only takes about 15 minutes for me to consider crossing "Jonathan Schoop" off my "People I want to kill" list.

F’ing hilarious!!

[Diesel]

I was complaining during that whole Schoop at bat about him not being pinch hit for. It is nice to be wrong every once in a while

[FlauerPauer]

 

Dead weight offensively, aside from his first game back he's been just invisible. Used to be a huge bat in the 5-spot for this team and he's vanished.

 

This is a major problem moving forward. Maybe a couple days off would do him good.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Schoop got a big hit?

Is that a question? I once remember reading about a military general, who never asked a question he didn’t already know the answer to.

[John Kelsey]

 

This is a major problem moving forward. Maybe a couple days off would do him good.

 

I think it's safe to assume his thumb is still bothering him. 

[FlauerPauer]

Feel like the boys need at least two more runs to win this game.

[Squirrel]

Aaaaand ... I change the channel so I don’t have to listen to ‘God Bless America’. That has no business being the 7th inning stretch song. Absolutely none.

[FlauerPauer]

 

I think it's safe to assume his thumb is still bothering him. 

 

Has to be. He was a beast beforehand.

[FlauerPauer]

 

Aaaaand ... I change the channel so I don’t have to listen to ‘God Bless America’. That has no business being the 7th inning stretch song. Absolutely none.

 

But.... 9/11.....

[FlauerPauer]

Jesus Christ... There's a Joe Mauer book now?

[Reider]

Jonathan Schoop hit that timely 2 run home run for all of the haters that said he wasn't clutch.

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

But.... 9/11.....

*vomits on shoes*

 

I absolutely despise that song being a seventh inning stretch ritual in modern baseball.

[Squirrel]

But.... 9/11.....

If it had anything to do with that at this point I’d be all for it.

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

Jesus Christ... There's a Joe Mauer book now?

It's deceptively large, as the book only has printed text on left pages.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Schoop hits 2-run homer, removed from game. Mic drop !

[FlauerPauer]

 

*vomits on shoes*

 

I absolutely despise that song being a seventh inning stretch ritual in modern baseball.

 

Yeah I don't get it either. Do they not do "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" anymore?

[FlauerPauer]

8 to go!

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

Yeah I don't get it either. Do they not do "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" anymore?

They do both, which is totally awesome because we all know how baseball needs to slow down a bit.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Jesus Christ... There's a Joe Mauer book now?

Yeah, and the first page is blank...

 

 

 

*_{cause he took first pitch strikes, etc}

[yarnivek1972]

Interesting that to protect the lead Baldelli goes with Arraez at second instead of Schoop...

[Squirrel]

Yeah I don't get it either. Do they not do "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" anymore?

When I went to Texas for a couple of games years ago, they sang ‘Deep in the Heart of Texas’, which was fun. Like singing ‘Lights of the City’ being sung in San Fran.

[John Kelsey]

Same pitch

[FlauerPauer]

 

Interesting that to protect the lead Baldelli goes with Arraez at second instead of Schoop...

 

I get keeping his bat in the lineup, but Schoop is the far superior defender. Why not move Sano to 1b and put Arraez at 3b?

[John Kelsey]

Thanks ump

[jz7233]

 

Jonathan Schoop hit that timely 2 run home run for all of the haters that said he wasn't clutch.

It's hard not to be clutch every single time though. Don't get too carried away.

[Richie the Rally Goat]

Schoop hits 2-run homer, removed from game. Mic drop !

did he hurt himself trotting around the bases?

[IndianaTwin]

 

It's deceptively large, as the book only has printed text on left pages.

 

And the front cover is blank.