Game Thread 8/19: Milwaukee Brewers (10-11) @ Minnesota Twins (16-8) 7:10pmCT

[Mill1634]

Sano heating up!

[LVTwinsfan]

It’s doubles week for Sano

[PDX Twin]

 

"When in Rome." He's Japanese playing in America. Could really pick or choose which way to do it unless he's expressed a preference to the U.S. media previously.

 

I guess I agree, but I wonder if he was given a choice.

[LVTwinsfan]

Not really. It's the standard here. When I was living in Budapest, it was normal for them to use eastern name order on me. I was charger70.

and Ocho Sinco was 68

[Mill1634]

Eddie the stick!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

I thought it was a well established tradition to get ninja'd on these forums & then to acknowledge it with a "ninja'd by xxxx" post or edit?

See previous statement about new material.

 

How many others could legitimately claim to have ninja'd me if i said ninja'd?

[LVTwinsfan]

I guess I agree, but I wonder if he was given a choice.

pretty sure you tell them what your name is, not the other way around

[Mill1634]

What in the world was Rosario doing?

[MVP Nick Punto]

 

See previous statement about new material.

How many others could legitimately claim to have ninja'd me if i said ninja'd?

Can't they legitimately claim to have ninja'd you whether you say "ninja'd" or not?

[ScrapTheNickname]

Eddie can't be consistent. It wouldn't be Eddie. He thrives on F-ing up every too often.

[IndianaTwin]

 

and Ocho Sinco was 68

 

Ocho Cinco in reverse would be 58.

 

(But if you are talking about the football player, it would have been 85 Chad, since he went by “Chad Ochocinco.”) 

[LVTwinsfan]

What in the world was Rosario doing?

hit and run? Batter didn’t make contact

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Is anyone else bothered by the American habit of inverting the names of people from (some) countries (Japan, Korea, Hungary) where the surname is traditionally first? It really should be Maeda Kenta, which is (presumably) why his Twitter name is MaeKen.

I approve of cultural literateness. Thanks for pointing it out.

 

Feel free to call me "ofOneSampleSize" for the remainder of thr game thread.

 

I also will try eating my soft boiled eggs from the other end...

[LVTwinsfan]

Ocho Cinco in reverse would be 58.

 

(But if you are talking about the football player, it would have been 85 Chad, since he went by “Chad Ochocinco.”)

I stand corrected

[Mill1634]

 

hit and run? Batter didn’t make contact

3-2 count. Not a hit and run. And even if so, he wouldn't have just stopped running in the middle of the basepaths.

[jud6312]

 

Verlander, Josh Donaldson, Mickey Mantel, Ted Williams, and oddly, Rocco Baldelli are some names that come to mind.

Feels a little light.

[LVTwinsfan]

3-2 count. Not a hit and run. And even if so, he wouldn't have just stopped running in the middle of the basepaths.

if it was 3-2 maybe they send the runner, and he was a dead duck so he stopped to make them throw the ball a couple of times, I wouldn’t assume he just ran on his own

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

hit and run? Batter didn’t make contact

But when you have to turn around half way to second, that's one bad jump.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Can't they legitimately claim to have ninja'd you whether you say "ninja'd" or not?

I am talking about the people who'd ninja'd me by saying "ninja'd" before i did.

[LVTwinsfan]

Ocho Cinco in reverse would be 58.

 

(But if you are talking about the football player, it would have been 85 Chad, since he went by “Chad Ochocinco.”)

probably Johnson Chad because he now uses his original name, all supporting the idea that you can call yourself whatever you want

[Mill1634]

Welp. Can't walk the 9 hitter

[IndianaTwin]

 

I guess I agree, but I wonder if he was given a choice.

 

I hope that he was given a choice.

 

By contrast, I used to have baseball cards of “Bob Clemente,” which was unfortunate, because he regularly requested people to use his actual first name.  

[sampleSizeOfOne]

3-2 count. Not a hit and run. And even if so, he wouldn't have just stopped running in the middle of the basepaths.

Oh, he must have been "in motion".

 

I got this explained to me over the weekend.

 

Only i got lucky, and Arraez got hit sending Sano to 3rd base.

[PDX Twin]

 

3-2 count. Not a hit and run. And even if so, he wouldn't have just stopped running in the middle of the basepaths.

 

Sometimes he can be an Eddiot.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Welp. Can't walk the 9 hitter

I assume you mean it is inexcusable... And that it just happened? And one more run scored that shouldn't have?

 

Am i getting the hang of this understatement?

[IndianaTwin]

 

probably Johnson Chad because he now uses his original name, all supporting the idea that you can call yourself whatever you want

 

World B. Free concurs. 

[LVTwinsfan]

So is Buxton told to play deeper so he doesn’t crash into walls, make sense in 21st century baseball strategy I guess. Hit home runs, prevent home runs, nothing else matters

[Mill1634]

Hill really laboring after getting 2 quick outs

[LVTwinsfan]

Who’s behind the plate tonight

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

Hill really laboring after getting 2 quick outs

If this doesn't stop soon he will need a midwife to come to the mound.