Game Thread: Twins @ Tigers, Sunday 7/18/2021, 12:10 PM CDT

[RickOShea]

4 minutes ago, SoDakTwinsFan4 said:

Agree. AND he creeps me out a little with his Gene Simmons impression to the dugout camera. He also leaned forward (inexplicably) on a cross up earlier in the season letting the ball hit the umpire. I wouldn't trust him.

I'd like to see the scouting report: Average to below defense.  Trouble driving the fast ball.. average arm. Horrendous Gene simmons impression.  Over all grade : c-

[AceWrigley]

Nothing like a dreadful series like this coming out of the All-Star break to dash any hope of a possible run to a post season birth. It looks like they are playing to lose. Where's T.K. when you need him. Leo Durocher or Billy Martin would be kicking some major butt right now.

[Matthew Lenz]

2 minutes ago, LVTwinsfan said:

They changed it 2 years ago, went from 2:20 to 2:00

Interesting! I stand corrected. I still can't imagine they'll go less than that but maybe they'll do something like the NFL with the split-screen commercials.

[RickOShea]

1 minute ago, AceWrigley said:

Nothing like a dreadful series like this coming out of the All-Star break to dash any hope of a possible run to a post season birth. It looks like they are playing to lose. Where's T.K. when you need him. Leo Durocher or Billy Martin would be kicking some major butt right now.

I can see Billy grabbing the ball from a pitcher and kicking him in the butt as he walked off the mound.

[SoDakTwinsFan4]

6 minutes ago, RickOShea said:

I'd like to see the scouting report: Average to below defense.  Trouble driving the fast ball.. average arm. Horrendous Gene simmons impression.  Over all grade : c-

LOL! Lovin it

[RickOShea]

Watching Happ pitch is like going to the dentist.  You go in and the dentist quickly pulls your bad tooth, or you have dentist take 1/2 hour to pull 5 of your teeth.

[LVTwinsfan]

Happ’s been bad today but chances are the Twins would be behind no matter who is on the mound

[Vanimal46]

This team is lifeless. Just waiting for the trades to happen. 

[AceWrigley]

3 minutes ago, RickOShea said:

I can see Billy grabbing the ball from a pitcher and kicking him in the butt as he walked off the mound.

I wonder if Billy and A.J. Pierzynski would have gotten along.

[MABB1959]

1 hour ago, Rick Blaine said:

Once Cave is ready, I think most people think Celestino or Gordon will go to St Paul.  I wonder if it might be helpful for Larnach goes down for the month of August and come back in September. 

I disagree I think they should let them play especially Gordon for the rest of the season to see what they can or cannot do.  Let them play consistently.  Who knows who will be here after 8/1.  

[notoriousgod71]

Rocco letting happ roast out there but pulls pitchers at 80 pitches that are sailing along.

[RpR]

Gordon showed what he can do yesterday, and many time before; it is not pretty.

[RickOShea]

When will someone in the Twins' FO, finally stand up during a game like this, and have security physically remove Baldelli for the dugout.  I don't care if he's at fault 0%, 33% or 100%.  He's providing nothing remotely positive for this team.  No one can even hold their head up, like they're playing aggressive or smart baseball.   He's just an extra seat on the plane or an extra buffet plate.  We would not be in worse shape, if he took a powder.

[RpR]

One more double play and the Twins will have hit into as many double plays as they have hits.

[AceWrigley]

2 minutes ago, MABB1959 said:

I disagree I think they should let them play especially Gordon for the rest of the season to see what they can or cannot do.  Let them play consistently.  Who knows who will be here after 8/1.  

I'd like to see NIck "Night Light" Gordon get some regular playing time. Maybe provide a glimmer of light amidst the darkness.

[RickOShea]

3 minutes ago, AceWrigley said:

I wonder if Billy and A.J. Pierzynski would have gotten along.

I think you'd have to kill Billy  or at least knock him out to beat him in a fight.

[LVTwinsfan]

17 minutes ago, AceWrigley said:

Nothing like a dreadful series like this coming out of the All-Star break to dash any hope of a possible run to a post season birth. It looks like they are playing to lose. Where's T.K. when you need him. Leo Durocher or Billy Martin would be kicking some major butt right now.

Truthfully, that hope was dashed long ago

[Vanimal46]

5 minutes ago, notoriousgod71 said:

Rocco letting happ roast out there but pulls pitchers at 80 pitches that are sailing along.

Might be getting the “leave it all out there, we’ll DFA you tomorrow” treatment like Shoemaker. At least I hope. 

[RickOShea]

1 minute ago, LVTwinsfan said:

Truthfully, that hope was dashed long ago

The dash was so long, it was a line!

[LVTwinsfan]

5 minutes ago, RickOShea said:

I think you'd have to kill Billy  or at least knock him out to beat him in a fight.

AJ would only have to extend his arm and put the palm of his hand on Billy’s forehead

[RpR]

6 minutes ago, AceWrigley said:

I'd like to see NIck "Night Light" Gordon get some regular playing time. Maybe provide a glimmer of light amidst the darkness.

What more lousy fielding?

[AceWrigley]

1 minute ago, LVTwinsfan said:

Truthfully, that hope was dashed long ago

Yeah I agree, but coming out of the break with play like this is just so soul crushing I thought I'd bring it up.

[HokieRif]

I’m not even watching the game. This is about as bad of an exit out of the all-star gate that any team can possibly make. My anticipation is just going to build up over the next 2 weeks as I see who we trade away, who we acquire, and analyze it the future potential of what we just traded for as I slip in to a coma of I don’t care for the last 2 months of the regular season. 

[LVTwinsfan]

8 minutes ago, RpR said:

One more double play and the Twins will have hit into as many double plays as they have hits.

That’s a net of zero

[AceWrigley]

Just now, RpR said:

What more lousy fielding?

I don't think he's been bad in CF . . . I blame yesterday's game-ending mishap more on positioning and Simmons really.

[RickOShea]

The Carol Burnett Show is actually more entertaining than Twins' baseball.

[AceWrigley]

1 minute ago, RickOShea said:

The Carol Burnett Show is actually more entertaining than Twins' baseball.

Maybe always has been. ?

[LaBombo]

19 minutes ago, Vanimal46 said:

This team is lifeless. Just waiting for the trades to happen. 

I admire the Twins' decision to wear uniforms today.

It lends some much-needed credibility to the theory that they're at work and doing their jobs, rather than just some dudes who know each other from school and get a game together on weekends sometimes.

[RickOShea]

2.0 WHIP?

[AceWrigley]

Minaya pitches a clean inning, woohoo.