Game Thread: Twins vs Cleveland 7:10 PM EDT (6:10 PM CDT) 9/7/2019

[USAFChief]

 

Why don't they use Miller to pinch run? Why is he on the roster if not to pinch run?

Buxton's going out to the OF anyway, might as well let him run.

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

For the sake of the game, that really needs to change.

I know. The players are unionized too, but they get fired all the time.

[IndyTwinsFan]

Why don't they use Miller to pinch run? Why is he on the roster if not to pinch run?

Probably because Rocco wants Buxton's defense in the 9th.

[Richie the Rally Goat]

They're unionized, and their union is incredibly strong. There is no official way to fire an umpire.

 

Granted, if one went on a murder spree, they'd probably try, or at least sit him in a rubber room until the trial or whatever, but yeah. There's no official termination process.

Brian Runge got fired for multiple drug offenses.

 

On the other hand Angel Hernandez, Joe West, and Ron Kulpa

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

plate appearance.

I'm with you, Chief. It's a silly error that commentators make all the time. My God, it so easy to tell the difference.

[MNT1996]

 

plate appearance.

 

I was just testing to make sure you knew

[LaBombo]

 

What if he falls on a player and crushes him to death? Could they fire him then?

 

Looked this up and it turns out that he not only is protected from liability, he also has a strong case for being discriminated against by gravity.

[notoriousgod71]

 

It seems like a Wade at bat either ends with a walk or a groundout to 2nd

 

A cheaper Joe Mauer.

[70charger]

 

Brian Runge got fired for multiple drug offenses.

On the other hand Angel Hernandez, Joe West, and Ron Kulpa

 

Yep, I mentioned that in a later comment.

 

My unspoken assumption was that we were talking about terminating umpires for things that they do on the job. We then started talking about killing sprees, drug offenses, and Joe West literally crushing people to death under the weight of his ego body.

 

I guess I should have been more explicit. We are in a game thread, after all.

[mrtwinsfan]

3

[USAFChief]

 

I'm with you, Chief. It's a silly error that commentators make all the time. My God, it so easy to tell the difference.

I just like to kid about it.

 

....

 

 

Mostly.

[LaBombo]

 

A cheaper Joe Mauer.

 

And less charismatic...

[Richie the Rally Goat]

Yep, I mentioned that in a later comment.

 

My unspoken assumption was that we were talking about terminating umpires for things that they do on the job. We then started talking about killing sprees, drug offenses, and Joe West literally crushing people to death under the weight of his ego body.

 

I guess I should have been more explicit. We are in a game thread, after all.

it’s hard to keep up on the GTs

[VATwinsFan]

Rogers against 7-8-9 batters.

 

Piece of cake, right?

 

Please.

[bighat]

No bigger 9th inning this year for Rogers. Had the day off yesterday. Let's go buddy.

[USAFChief]

 

A cheaper Joe Mauer.

FOUR Wade bobblehead days in 2020!!

[USAFChief]

Rogers, what a ballhog.

[operation mindcrime]

ROGERS!!!!!!!!!!

[notoriousgod71]

Maybe I'm showing my mid-30s age but I get annoyed when I see players pulling scouting reports out of their pockets or hats.

[Nine of twelve]

Love the 1U putout!

[PDX Twin]

 

FOUR Wade bobblehead days in 2020!!

 

But he's cheaper. You can get by with 2.

[bighat]

Nice defense, Taylor Rogers. One down!

[glunn]

Great play by Rogers.

[70charger]

 

Maybe I'm showing my mid-30s age but I get annoyed when I see players pulling scouting reports out of their pockets or hats.

 

But they get mad in my softball league when I pull them out of the front of my shorts.

[USAFChief]

 

Maybe I'm showing my mid-30s age but I get annoyed when I see players pulling scouting reports out of their pockets or hats.

I used to get really annoyed watching Gardy pull scouting reports out of his ***.

[operation mindcrime]

3

2

[operation mindcrime]

2

1

[LaBombo]

 

and Joe West literally crushing people to death under the weight of his ego body.

 

 

 

Wouldn't want to be the forensic physicist tasked with trying to separate the traumas caused by those two terrible forces.

[bighat]

Okay Rogers, two down! No walks, no HBP, no baserunners, let's do this!

[LVTwinsfan]

They're unionized, and their union is incredibly strong. There is no official way to fire an umpire.

 

Granted, if one went on a murder spree, they'd probably try, or at least sit him in a rubber room until the trial or whatever, but yeah. There's no official termination process.

following the mass resignations in 1999 because the umpires could not strike according to their agreement 22 umpires were not allowed to rescind their resignations and they became permanent. This failed negotiation tactic is used as a model as to what not to do in a negotiation for union contracts. That union is no longer , the umpires belong to a new union now