Game Thread Twins @ White Sox June 29, 2021 7:10 CDT

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Nitpick: the 90s teams were known as solid fundamentally, but utterly lacking talent 

[Aggies7]

2 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

It’s definitely bad. The worst? Dunno. I remember some truly awful teams from 2012-2016, never mind the 90s.

But that’s picking nits. They were all terrible at baseball in fundamental ways. 

Biggest underachievers in my almost 3 decades of watching. 

2 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

1 minute ago, operation mindcrime said:

The Rusty Patched Bumble Bee has more fight than this team!!!!

and hits into fewer double plays!!

[Brock Beauchamp]

Just now, Aggies7 said:

Biggest underachievers in my almost 3 decades of watching. 

2011 was just as disappointing. 

[Aggies7]

Donaldson acted like a clown earlier? Well knock me over with a feather. Won’t miss him when he’s gone 

[SanoMustGo]

I hope they attempt to trade Maeda..he's getting as bad as Happ and Shoemaker.  Kepler can go too, had enough of him.

[operation mindcrime]

3 minutes ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

and hits into fewer double plays!!

That's classic!

[Vanimal46]

7 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

It’s definitely bad. The worst? Dunno. I remember some truly awful teams from 2012-2016, never mind the 90s.

But that’s picking nits. They were all terrible at baseball in fundamental ways. 

I could be totally wrong. Didn’t Parker Hageman make a montage video of Robbie Grossman’s adventures in the OF during 2016?

[Brock Beauchamp]

Just now, Vanimal46 said:

I could be totally wrong. Didn’t Parker Hageman make a montage video of Robbie Grossman’s adventures in the OF during 2016?

Yes. I believe that was the first Jefferson Starship video from Parker. Hilarious. 

[Aerodeliria]

5 minutes ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

Nitpick: the 90s teams were known as solid fundamentally, but utterly lacking talent 

Agreed! You could complain all you want about Tom Kelly's approach, but he was 'blessed' with some less than talented teams.

[jkcarew]

Horrible pitching across 6 months and 100+ games = dysfunction. Always has. Always will.

[Vanimal46]

2 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Yes. I believe that was the first Jefferson Starship video from Parker. Hilarious. 

Thanks for confirming. Just spent the last 5 min combing the internet for it and came up empty… That was the worst fundamentally sound Twins team I’ve seen, no doubt. 

[USAFChief]

11 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

It’s definitely bad. The worst? Dunno. I remember some truly awful teams from 2012-2016, never mind the 90s.

But that’s picking nits. They were all terrible at baseball in fundamental ways. 

I said nothing about bad.

Those 90s teams got beat due to massive talent differentials. But they never looked as bad at actually playing the game. 

[Vanimal46]

Can’t help but laugh with the ticket promotions every half inning. Give it another month and the poor ticket sales reps will be breaking windshields and leave tickets on the dash. 

[SanoMustGo]

Kepler's BA is about to drop below Sano's

[Danchat]

So... how about Jose Miranda?!

 

[jkcarew]

1 minute ago, Vanimal46 said:

Can’t help but laugh with the ticket promotions every half inning. Give it another month and the poor ticket sales reps will be breaking windshields and leave tickets on the dash. 

Isn’t showing clips of Buxton in the promos fraud? There can’t be a realistic likelihood of a fan buying a random ticket for a random date seeing Buxton play. Splitting legal hairs here maybe.

[USAFChief]

2 minutes ago, Vanimal46 said:

Can’t help but laugh with the ticket promotions every half inning. Give it another month and the poor ticket sales reps will be breaking windshields and leave tickets on the dash. 

"Caller number 3 gets 2 tickets to Saturday's Twins game! Those of you who don't win get four tickets."

[SanoMustGo]

4 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

"Caller number 3 gets 2 tickets to Saturday's Twins game! Those of you who don't win get four tickets."

They'll just start randomly mailing tickets to people.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

[Vanimal46]

8 minutes ago, Danchat said:

So... how about Jose Miranda?!

 

His fielding splits are interesting. Pretty much equal innings spent at 1B, 2B, and 3B this year. Let’s hope he spends more time at 3B in St Paul. Another 2B isn’t needed too much in Minneapolis. 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Don't look now, but we got a few doubles.

[USAFChief]

Wild winger Kirill Kaprizov wins the Calder Trophy for his win at the PGA Western Open.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Suddenly a ballgame? 

Now just need the bullpen to hold them  dow—— 

[Vanimal46]

If Miranda is for real, I think Arraez becomes redundant and tradable in the winter. Need to make a call on Polanco or Arraez to man 2B in 2022 anyway. 

[Vanimal46]

German Marquez has a no hitter through 8 for the Rockies. If he accomplishes the feat, that will be 8 official no hitters. 9 technically with Bumgarner’s 7 inning DH game. 

[SanoMustGo]

Just now, Vanimal46 said:

German Marquez has a no hitter through 8 for the Rockies. If he accomplishes the feat, that will be 8 official no hitters. 9 technically with Bumgarner’s 7 inning DH game. 

The year of the pitcher, except for the Twins

[SanoMustGo]

The offense is not the problem anymore

[Vanimal46]

I went in blind to the Rockies broadcast, and they are more nervous than the pitcher lol. Voices are shaky and mumbling about nothing in particular while the Rockies hitters are at the plate. 

[USAFChief]

1 minute ago, SanoMustGo said:

The offense is not the problem anymore

Or any less.