Game Thread "The Odyssey 2*" Twins at White Sox 7:10pm cdt 5/12/2021

[Aerodeliria]

Just now, cHawk said:

What should the plan be for 2022 since this season is so clearly lost? Blow everything up? Retool?

I want to blow it up because there is clearly a lot wrong internally with this team. Most analysts ranked this team in their top six at the start of this year. The team is really kind of a joke at the moment.

[insagt1]

I'm sure someone has the stat somewhere....but how many teams who were 12-22 actually finished above .500? I'm guessing not very many. Twins are playing 'soul-less' right now.  Its only the 5th but it looks like they want it to be the 9th so they can just go to bed.

[ashbury]

7 minutes ago, LaBombo said:

9-7, just close enough to make people stick it out to the end and hate themselves for it.

I already hate myself for watching as much as I have.

[HokieRif]

This team owes me a refund for my MLB.TV subscription

[wsnydes]

Just now, HokieRif said:

This team owes me a refund for my MLB.TV subscription

Imagine being a season ticketholder...

[Vanimal46]

2 minutes ago, insagt1 said:

I'm sure someone has the stat somewhere....but how many teams who were 12-22 actually finished above .500? I'm guessing not very many. Twins are playing 'soul-less' right now.  Its only the 5th but it looks like they want it to be the 9th so they can just go to bed.

Once upon a time the 2019 Washington Nationals were horrible, then won the WS. Let’s just forget about the other hundreds, potentially thousands of teams in history that started bad and ended with a bad record to make ourselves feel better. 

[Mill1634]

That’s gonna do it for me tonight. This team stinks — bad. I hate that I make myself watch them and talk myself into a potential turn around day after day. 
 

with that said, see y’all tomorrow!

[wsnydes]

Just now, Mill1634 said:

That’s gonna do it for me tonight. This team stinks — bad. I hate that I make myself watch them and talk myself into a potential turn around day after day. 
 

with that said, see y’all tomorrow!

Glutton for punishment just like the rest of us!

[USAFChief]

4 minutes ago, HokieRif said:

This team owes me a refund for my MLB.TV subscription

They owe me a refund for the past 6 weeks of my life.

[adorduan]

my God, they can't even turn a routine ground ball into an out.....  Ridiculous...

 

[Mill1634]

Just now, Vanimal46 said:

Once upon a time the 2019 Washington Nationals were horrible, then won the WS. Let’s just forget about the other hundreds, potentially thousands of teams in history that started bad and ended with a bad record to make ourselves feel better. 

The thing that many seem to ignore is that the nationals had 3 legit aces — scherzer, stras, and Corbin. They also had Juan Soto, Anthony rendon, and trae turner. They also had a legit closer in Sean Doolittle. The twins have a lite version of the hitters in Buxton, Cruz, and JD, but the pitching is nowhere near the level as that nationals team. Any fan that’s still clinging onto this stat is absolutely foolish. 

[Aggies7]

Billy Hamilton needs a double for the cycle.

[Vanimal46]

1 minute ago, Mill1634 said:

The thing that many seem to ignore is that the nationals had 3 legit aces — scherzer, stras, and Corbin. They also had Juan Soto, Anthony rendon, and trae turner. They also had a legit closer in Sean Doolittle. The twins have a lite version of the hitters in Buxton, Cruz, and JD, but the pitching is nowhere near the level as that nationals team. Any fan that’s still clinging onto this stat is absolutely foolish. 

You get the bit. I also heard the 1991 Twins were bad at the beginning of the season too. 

[Aggies7]

Dick sounds like he just watched his dog get run over 

[srjr19]

I thought we hit rock bottom a couple of times this year but...

[Aggies7]

I don’t think Shaun Anderson is gonna be the guy

[Vanimal46]

1 minute ago, srjr19 said:

I thought we hit rock bottom a couple of times this year but...

The season is still young, my friend. 

[ashbury]

This rookie shortstop, Simmons I think his name is, looks like he needs a little more seasoning at AAA to hone his craft.

[Vanimal46]

1 minute ago, Aggies7 said:

I don’t think Shaun Anderson is gonna be the guy

0-3 on bullpen reclamation projects from the pitching gurus. Waddell, him, and Sire of Fort Myers Derek Law were supposed to be the saviors in AAA? 

[Vanimal46]

Is bullpen ace La Tortuga warming up? 

[Aggies7]

We have no other options beside dobnak who is in AAA. We’ve tried everyone else

[operation mindcrime]

Fire everyone!!!!!!!!

[LaBombo]

Just now, Vanimal46 said:

Is bullpen ace La Tortuga warming up? 

If there are more than three Hostess Fruit Pie wrappers scattered on the ground around him, then... yes.

[USAFChief]

6 minutes ago, ashbury said:

This rookie shortstop, Simmons I think his name is, looks like he needs a little more seasoning at AAA to hone his craft.

Why? He seems to be fitting right in, playing "Twins Baseball!"

[Vanimal46]

1 minute ago, Aggies7 said:

We have no other options beside dobnak who is in AAA? We’ve tried everyone else

Something called Glenn Sparkman is probably next?

[USAFChief]

9 minutes ago, srjr19 said:

I thought we hit rock bottom a couple of times this year but...

Don't be ridiculous.  A couple??

 

They've hit rock bottom at least 10 times this year.

[LaBombo]

13 minutes ago, srjr19 said:

I thought we hit rock bottom a couple of times this year but...

It feels like this trip is just getting started...

[ashbury]

A seeing-eye single gets our broadcast crew rhapsodizing about how this is what can get a team going.

[Aggies7]

We’ve turned into the Bumba Squad

[operation mindcrime]

Where's that guy with the M&M's jacket? He's missing one hell of a game!