Game Thread "David" Twins vs. Tigers 6:10pm edt 8/24/2019 ad

[FLTwinsGuy]

This is embarrassing

[HawksNest]

Can we get Edwin Jackson in this rotation!!??!

[mrtwinsfan]

Is this really the Detroit Tiger Team ?????????????   whats that make ours 

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

What in the wide wide world of sports is a goin on here!!!

Unfortunately, this might answer your question....

 

http://i.imgur.com/cr9ipBN.gif

[LaBombo]

 

I don't mean to overact, but....

 

 

Good idea, you don't want to infringe on William Shatner's turf...

 

[Blake]

I guess going down 1,2,3,4 is a step in the right direction.

[Aggies7]

This is going to come off as a totally whining post considering the timing of it, but I want to take an informal poll to see what posters are thinking. As constructed right now, it doesn’t appear the team would have good odds to win the pennant. Would you still want to see the club make the playoffs if they were to end up losing the first round (or wild card game at this point)? Understanding that this franchise has not won a playoff series since 2002 nor a game since 2004, even considering their recent lean years, I’m not all that interested in seeing another one and done. But then again it would be a total embarrassment to set the all time single season record for home runs and not even qualify for the postseason. I’m torn.

[FLTwinsGuy]

Good lord i am so sick of Kyle Gibson

[LaBombo]

You know it's not your night when you hear "Cabrera digs for second" and he ends up not even needing to slide...

[mrtwinsfan]

Collars a bit tight ya think ??

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Anyone seen chief?? We could use a good, okay, average, okay, marginal, joke right about now.

Chief tells jokes?

 

I thought he just lived a very interesting life...

[Blake]

 

This is going to come off as a totally whining post considering the timing of it, but I want to take an informal poll to see what posters are thinking. As constructed right now, it doesn’t appear the team would have good odds to win the pennant. Would you still want to see the club make the playoffs if they were to end up losing the first round (or wild card game at this point)? Understanding that this franchise has not won a playoff series since 2002 nor a game since 2004, even considering their recent lean years, I’m not all that interested in seeing another one and done. But then again it would be a total embarrassment to set the all time single season record for home runs and not even qualify for the postseason. I’m torn.

As someone who has competed, and won, in various types of competitions, one has to learn how to win and the only way to learn is to get the experience.

 

So, even if one series and out, the team gains invaluable experience.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

File that double under: “a good throw gets him”

[Riverbrian]

 

You know it's not your night when you hear "Cabrera digs for second" and he ends up not even needing to slide...

 

Bad play by play... Everyone knows that Miggy "plows" for second. 

[ashbury]

Cabrera comes out and jumps on the first pitch for a double.

 

Bottom of the previous inning, Garver looked at strike 1 right down the middle.

 

We need to mix things up a little.

[Blake]

 

You know it's not your night when you hear "Cabrera digs for second" and he ends up not even needing to slide...

Yeesh, that's right up there with, "Jim Thome digs for second."

[LaBombo]

 

Is this really the Detroit Tiger Team ?????????????   whats that make ours 

 

One of the two best teams on the field!!!

 

#NachoHelmetHalfFull!

[NorthwestTwinsFan]

 

This is going to come off as a totally whining post considering the timing of it, but I want to take an informal poll to see what posters are thinking. As constructed right now, it doesn’t appear the team would have good odds to win the pennant. Would you still want to see the club make the playoffs if they were to end up losing the first round (or wild card game at this point)? Understanding that this franchise has not won a playoff series since 2002 nor a game since 2004, even considering their recent lean years, I’m not all that interested in seeing another one and done. But then again it would be a total embarrassment to set the all time single season record for home runs and not even qualify for the postseason. I’m torn.

I'd rather have them get swept in the first round than miss the playoffs.

[mrtwinsfan]

Gardys gotta be snickering,  dont blame him

[Aggies7]

As someone who has competed, and won, in various types of competitions, one has to learn how to win and the only way to learn is to get the experience.

 

So, even if one series and out, the team gains invaluable experience.

That’s a good point, but I would counter with the argument that being 3 games from the World Series in ‘02 did nothing for the next 3 trips to the playoffs for that general squad.

[ashbury]

This is going to come off as a totally whining post considering the timing of it, but I want to take an informal poll to see what posters are thinking. As constructed right now, it doesn’t appear the team would have good odds to win the pennant. Would you still want to see the club make the playoffs if they were to end up losing the first round (or wild card game at this point)? Understanding that this franchise has not won a playoff series since 2002 nor a game since 2004, even considering their recent lean years, I’m not all that interested in seeing another one and done. But then again it would be a total embarrassment to set the all time single season record for home runs and not even qualify for the postseason. I’m torn.

I pegged the team as below .500, in the pre-season poll, so I think I have to abstain.

[MNT1996]

Holy cow that RISP statistic for the series

 

Tigers 7-26 RISP

Twins 0-6 RISP

 

That's pathetic

[jz7233]

All leadoff hitters reached base in all the innings Gibson pitched. Pathetic.

[Aggies7]

I'd rather have them get swept in the first round than miss the playoffs.

Swept? Sheesh, I just left it up to a won/loss scenario. A sweep would be an absolute no from me. Seen it each of the last three times they’ve gone (4 if you count the wild card)

[LVTwinsfan]

I have some sympathy for that POV. The umpires take it upon themselves to try to encourage fair play. That's probably somewhere in the rules, worded indirectly.

 

But the strike zone is also in the rules, and defined pretty specifically in regard to the knees and so forth.

This ump is just blind, you see the one he called on Sano

[Riverbrian]

 

This is going to come off as a totally whining post considering the timing of it, but I want to take an informal poll to see what posters are thinking. As constructed right now, it doesn’t appear the team would have good odds to win the pennant. Would you still want to see the club make the playoffs if they were to end up losing the first round (or wild card game at this point)? Understanding that this franchise has not won a playoff series since 2002 nor a game since 2004, even considering their recent lean years, I’m not all that interested in seeing another one and done. But then again it would be a total embarrassment to set the all time single season record for home runs and not even qualify for the postseason. I’m torn.

[mrtwinsfan]

Well at least we wont see no more of ryan harper for awhile  as cabera steals third

[Aggies7]

I pegged the team as below .500, in the pre-season poll, so I think I have to abstain.

Ha, overruled. Gotta answer

[Blake]

 

That’s a good point, but I would counter with the argument that being 3 games from the World Series in ‘02 did nothing for the next 3 trips to the playoffs for that general squad.

I can't argue that, either. 

 

I would point to KC World Series win as an example of a team that learned from prior playoff experience, though.

[Aggies7]

Dude, Miguel Cabrera stealing third is the baseball equivalent of doing an onside kick when leading by 5 touchdowns