GAME THREAD: 4/6/21 Minnesota Twins @ Detroit Tigers, 12:10 CDT

[operation mindcrime]

Yeah Astudillo!!!!!

[nicksaviking]

I'm still not back on the Astudillo bandwagon, but I'm openminded enough to buy a ticket for a seat for future use.

[Brock Beauchamp]

I'm still not back on the Astudillo bandwagon, but I'm openminded enough to buy a ticket for a seat for future use.

I’m far from being on the bandwagon but if he’s even moderately capable with the bat, he’s a pretty great 26th man.

[MMMordabito]

Looks like another challenge waste by Rocco

[USAFChief]

Why have replay if you're not overturning that?

[wsnydes]

 

I’m far from being on the bandwagon but if he’s even moderately capable with the bat, he’s a pretty great 26th man.

That's really the ideal role for him, in my view. He can play many positions and doesn't need to play every day.

[operation mindcrime]

What a bunch of bull crap! He was clearly out!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

 

Why have replay if you're not overturning that?

Make sure we are well rested after a close play.

[USAFChief]

Watching Happ pitch is sort of like having a dull toothache. Unpleasant, but you sort of just put up with it.

[MMMordabito]

Twins will be lucky to get four innings out of Happ.

[mrtwinsfan]

Could of Sano maybe stretched out ???  yes he was out 

[TouchEmAllGuy]

 

Watching Happ pitch is sort of like having a dull toothache. Unpleasant, but you sort of just put up with it.

 

I haven't watched (listening on the radio) Happ pitch yet. What is unpleasant, the delivery? pace? his stuff? Control?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

 

What a bunch of bull crap! He was clearly out!

Sweet are the uses of adversity...

[Brock Beauchamp]

That's really the ideal role for him, in my view. He can play many positions and doesn't need to play every day.

He’s also a really nice PH option you can slot someplace on the field very easily afterward.

[USAFChief]

 

I haven't watched (listening on the radio) Happ pitch yet. What is unpleasant, the delivery? pace? his stuff? Control?

Yes.

[Sielk]

I don't know, I am really not comfortable watching Happ pitch. He may have been pretty successful with it but Happ pounding the edges of the zone with countless 90 mph fastballs feels like a disaster waiting to happen.

[wsnydes]

 

He’s also a really nice PH option you can slot someplace on the field very easily afterward.

I don't think much of his glovework, but that is true and it is an asset.

 

I'd much rather have him as the 26th man instead of a rookie, that is for sure.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Since Hostess went bankrupt, The new Twinkies are nowhere near as good as the old ones.

[USAFChief]

Today's quiz:

 

When does a joke become a dad joke?

[wsnydes]

 

Since Hostess went bankrupt, The new Twinkies are nowhere near as good as the old ones.

I bet they're "healthier" too! 

 

A tragedy of epic proportions...

[sampleSizeOfOne]

That said, i'd still get them for a twinkie-weiner sandwich.

[Brock Beauchamp]

I don't think much of his glovework, but that is true and it is an asset.

 

I'd much rather have him as the 26th man instead of a rookie, that is for sure.

Oh, his glovework is pretty crap but if you’re at the end of a bench, it’s not like you can PH Rooker for, say, Simmons. Or a catcher.

 

But because Astudillo can play a half-assed second or third, you can PH him for almost anyone in any situation; sure the defensive alignment takes a hit afterward but that beats not being able to do it at all.

[wsnydes]

 

Today's quiz:

 

When does a joke become a dad joke?

When Chief tells it on a Game Thread?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Today's quiz:

 

When does a joke become a dad joke?

After a pregnant pause*?

 

(not to be confused with pas or pa's)

[USAFChief]

 

When Chief tells it on a Game Thread?

Sorry...incorrect. Although perhaps better than the actual answer.

[USAFChief]

 

After a pregnant pause*?

(not to be confused with pas or pa's)

Sorry...incorrect. Although perhaps better than the actual answer.

[Squirrel]

 

Since Hostess went bankrupt, The new Twinkies are nowhere near as good as the old ones.

 

That's not a high bar to cross, but a pretty low bar to go under

[USAFChief]

On another note...anyone watching the Detroit telecast on MLB Network?

 

The Detroit announcers are possible the dryest, most enthusiasm-free team in the history of televised sport.

 

Morneau is Robin Williams by comparison.

[USAFChief]

 

Since Hostess went bankrupt, The new Twinkies are nowhere near as good as the old ones.

WHA?????!!?!!?!?!?!!?!?!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

I bet they're "healthier" too!

 

A tragedy of epic proportions...

You got that right.

 

Dogs and cats living together.

 

Mass hysteria.