Game Thread: Twins @ Kansas City, 5/22/22 @ 1:10pm CT

[bighat]

Just now, Aggies7 said:

I like when our manager just gives games away. It’s fun, we don’t need to win ‘em all

Yep, when we lose the division or miss the playoffs by 2 games, they can point to several games just like this one.

I'm sure all teams do this once in a while, but the Twins are forfeiting games once a week.

[Vanimal46]

1 minute ago, Aggies7 said:

We don’t need to try and win ‘em all, then I don’t need to watch em all

Your fan card is still active if you don’t watch them. This is the first time I’ve turned them on all week. 

[stringer bell]

6 minutes ago, Vanimal46 said:

Snow’s BBQ on Saturday - admittedly out of the way of Austin (in Lexington, TX) but worth the drive. The owner Tootsie is in her 90s and still working in the pit smoking the meat!

Dallas eats:

Keller’s Drive In - hole in the wall place for over 50 years but great burgers. Cash only. 

Pecan Lodge - Good BBQ joint in a cool neighborhood with breweries and a vodka distillery in walking distance 

Austin eats: 

BBQ: J Blacks, Stiles Switch, Franklins. Franklins you’ll have to start standing in line by 7 AM. 

Chili: Texas Chili Parlor, Valentina’s Tex-Mex (has brisket chili ?)

Can add Black's BBQ to the recommended list.

[stringer bell]

Megill's brother started out hot for the Mets. I believe he's hit the injured list.

[IndianaTwin]

6 minutes ago, Vanimal46 said:

Snow’s BBQ on Saturday - admittedly out of the way of Austin (in Lexington, TX) but worth the drive. The owner Tootsie is in her 90s and still working in the pit smoking the meat!

Dallas eats:

Keller’s Drive In - hole in the wall place for over 50 years but great burgers. Cash only. 

Pecan Lodge - Good BBQ joint in a cool neighborhood with breweries and a vodka distillery in walking distance 

Austin eats: 

BBQ: J Blacks, Stiles Switch, Franklins. Franklins you’ll have to start standing in line by 7 AM. 

Chili: Texas Chili Parlor, Valentina’s Tex-Mex (has brisket chili ?)

Thanks. Had some of these on the list, so good to know we were on the right track. Will look into the others. 

[Aggies7]

1 minute ago, Vanimal46 said:

Your fan card is still active if you don’t watch them. This is the first time I’ve turned them on all week. 

Yeah but like, it’s not good form to just say “eh we’ve won enough this week”. This is some new weird thing in baseball 

[Danchat]

I thought Cano looked good his first few outings, but yikes, this was a disaster. 

[h2oface]

It's that MOY form getting all lathered up. Making all the right decisions. Lineup, and bullpen usage. I will never understand throwing away games, or conceding runs. Compromized defense at third, short, first, catcher, left field, and center. Maybe one at a time might be a better plan.

[Mill1634]

What in the world is Megill doing? You're down 6 runs. Just get the out. 

[Aggies7]

Man, just last half inning we had a chance to lead. Now we’ll be lucky to keep this within single digits 

[h2oface]

Whatever happened to running right at the runner that we all learned in little league?

[Parfigliano]

WTF was that?  Even guys on field are taking day off

[shortround81]

12 minutes ago, Vanimal46 said:

Chilli: Texas Chili Parlor, Valentina’s Tex-Mex (has brisket chili ?)

The real question is: Are there beans in their chilli???

[Vanimal46]

5 minutes ago, IndianaTwin said:

Thanks. Had some of these on the list, so good to know we were on the right track. Will look into the others. 

It’s hard to go wrong with food down there. There’s a couple of tourist trap taco places like Torchy’s and TacoDeli that I think are over priced and over rated. Besides that there are a lot of good BBQ and taco places. 

[Vanimal46]

Just now, shortround81 said:

The real question is: Are there beans in their chilli???

Absolutely not! 
 

[stringer bell]

100 mph on one fastball. 

We've seen opponents make boneheaded plays. It's apparently the Twins' turn. I just saw Megill bend a breaking ball over the plate. If he can do that and throw 98-100 he might have a future.

[CRF]

Ober comes off the IL...pitches great for the most part...and takes it up the you-know-what because his manager decides to brain fart his way through the entire game process today. Thanks Rocco! 

[Mill1634]

Megill probably isn't good, but it's nice to see us bringing up a minor league depth guy who throws 96-100 with capable big league stuff rather than a slop tosser. 

[stringer bell]

1 minute ago, Vanimal46 said:

It’s hard to go wrong with food down there. There’s a couple of tourist trap taco places like Torchy’s and TacoDeli that I think are over priced and over rated. Besides that there are a lot of good BBQ and taco places. 

I've spent about two weeks in Austin this year. We walked into a couple of hole-in-the-wall barbeques walking around downtown and the food was excellent.

[h2oface]

55 pitches by Cano (38) and Megill (17) in the inning. I had to laugh when Dick said that Kepler made a diving catch. Fine catch, but it was more like a apologetic stumbling fall before you hit the wall catch, than a diving effort,

[h2oface]

Only the second triple by the entire team this year, both by Gordon.

[Mill1634]

Miranda has a LOT of La Tortuga in him. 

[Parfigliano]

2 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

I've spent about two weeks in Austin this year. We walked into a couple of hole-in-the-wall barbeques walking around downtown and the food was excellent.

In NM hole in the wall mom and pop NM food is always better then the "popular" places

[PseudoSABR]

16 minutes ago, h2oface said:

It's that MOY form getting all lathered up. Making all the right decisions. Lineup, and bullpen usage. I will never understand throwing away games, or conceding runs. Compromized defense at third, short, first, catcher, left field, and center. Maybe one at a time might be a better plan.

Would you prefer to stagger the resting players throughout the week to leave the team at 80% potency each and every night?  Or like tonight, you roll the dice with the subs, and maybe have a competitive game, which it was until we reached the bullpen.   

Oh that's right, you assumed robots. Injury-immune, always top-notch automatons.  

[TheLeviathan]

2 minutes ago, PseudoSABR said:

Would you prefer to stagger the resting players throughout the week to leave the team at 80% potency each and every night, or like tonight, you roll the dice with the subs, and maybe have a competitive game, which it was until we reached the bullpen.   

Oh that's right, you assumed robots. Injury-immune, always top-notch automatons.  

Also, what's more tried and true in baseball than the Sunday afternoon get-away lineup of scrubs?

[Montdak]

Just went over the fifty pitch mark to get two outs.  New pitcher up from the minors  proves up with a bonehead defensive play.  Why didn’t Rocco take Cano out when the left hander comes up with BL?  Cuz he likes to leave a guy in pitching right-handed when he can’t throw strikes and is over forty pitches to get one out?  Bang zoom three runs. The whole day shaped up to be like a forfeit.

[Parfigliano]

1 minute ago, PseudoSABR said:

Would you prefer to stagger the resting players throughout the week to leave the team at 80% potency each and every night, or like tonight, you roll the dice with the subs, and maybe have a competitive game, which it was until we reached the bullpen.   

Oh that's right, you assumed robots. Injury-immune, always top-notch automatons.  

I get that you have to play the "subs" its a long season.  Dont get habitually playing them all in same game.  That seems to be a Twins tradition.

[h2oface]

Just now, Montdak said:

Just went over the fifty pitch mark to get two outs.  New pitcher up from the minors  proves up with a bonehead defensive play.  Why didn’t Rocco take Cano out when the left hander comes up with BL?  Cuz he likes to leave a guy in pitching right-handed when he can’t throw strikes and is over forty pitches to get one out?  Bang zoom three runs. The whole day shaped up to be like a forfeit.

You must be watching on a delayed feed.......

[PseudoSABR]

2 minutes ago, TheLeviathan said:

Also, what's more tried and true in baseball than the Sunday afternoon get-away lineup of scrubs?

You can't argue tradition with a traditionalist. Obvi. 

[stringer bell]

I think Cano probably will be in St. Paul, maybe as soon as tomorrow. He's got to throw more strikes. Hitters can afford to be more selective when they're ahead on the count. 

Megill certainly throws hard enough. He needs to throw enough strikes and get more than the fastball over. Still, he has a chance, I think.