Game Thread: Twins v Tigers, 5/25 @ 12:10 local time

[bighat]

3 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

We’ve deserved to lose the past 4 games, to be honest

Too true. Don't get me wrong, terrible teams don't win 6 in a row -- but this team is nowhere near as talented as many are giving credit for.

As for Pagan, I think at some point he's got to take on a different role in this 'pen. Like the low man on the totem pole role, only pitching in blowouts type stuff.

[shortround81]

4 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Marge Schott? Or baseball purgatory?

 

Blenders can be frightening.

I'm always extra careful with scissors around my ears

[stringer bell]

Pagán has two problems, walks and homers. So far, it’s been one or the other, but if both happen in the same outing, look out. 

[wsnydes]

1 minute ago, shortround81 said:

I'm always extra careful with scissors around my ears

This would have been sage advice had it come before the accident...

[Aggies7]

1 minute ago, bighat said:

Too true. Don't get me wrong, terrible teams don't win 6 in a row -- but this team is nowhere near as talented as many are giving credit for.

As for Pagan, I think at some point he's got to take on a different role in this 'pen. Like the low man on the totem pole role, only pitching in blowouts type stuff.

Lots of smoke and mirrors here, I’m not excited yet. We don’t comfortably beat teams and we have only a couple reliable relievers who undoubtedly will be overworked by july

[Jerr]

I think I'm smelling another walk off win.

 

[wsnydes]

sigh...again

[operation mindcrime]

Joe Smith should be available tomorrow since he only threw 3 pitches!

[wsnydes]

Well, it's about time the bats take care of some business.

[Danchat]

The pitching has done its job fine enough, time for the offense to scrape across another run against the Tigers.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

3 minutes ago, wsnydes said:

This would have been sage advice had it come before the accident...

Still sage, not timely.

[bighat]

3 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

Lots of smoke and mirrors here, I’m not excited yet. We don’t comfortably beat teams and we have only a couple reliable relievers who undoubtedly will be overworked by july

Yep - and they honestly can't hit worth a lick. Averaging 3 runs per game against KC and DET during this stretch, going against perhaps some of the worst pitching staffs in the AL, isn't encouraging.

NYY, Tampa, LAA, HOU, TOR, and CHW are all light years better than theTwins as things stand today. It's not really even close.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

5 minutes ago, wsnydes said:

Well, it's about time the bats take care of some business.

The bitter business bureau will from it if they don't, lemme tell ya!

[Aggies7]

Just now, bighat said:

Yep - and they honestly can't hit worth a lick. Averaging 3 runs per game against KC and DET during this stretch, going against perhaps some of the worst pitching staffs in the AL, isn't encouraging.

NYY, Tampa, LAA, HOU, TOR, and CHW are all light years better than theTwins as things stand today. It's not really even close.

For sure. Hitting just hasn’t been there all year. And we expect the pitching to continue what it’s been doing? Yeah, no

[dex8425]

1 minute ago, bighat said:

Yep - and they honestly can't hit worth a lick. Averaging 3 runs per game against KC and DET during this stretch, going against perhaps some of the worst pitching staffs in the AL, isn't encouraging.

NYY, Tampa, LAA, HOU, TOR, and CHW are all light years better than theTwins as things stand today. It's not really even close.

Well, not CWS. Twins swept the white sox, and they're one of the worst offenses in the AL. I want to say only the Tigers and A's are worse in runs/game?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

I do like the Tigers announcers when having occasion to hear 'em in the past. 

 

If youtube is using them, i approve of them mentioning Predator. Reminded me of the line "I ain't got time to bleed."

[bighat]

Just now, dex8425 said:

Well, not CWS. Twins swept the white sox, and they're one of the worst offenses in the AL. I want to say only the Tigers and A's are worse in runs/game?

They've been struggling for sure, but IMO they have too much talent to hover around .500 for much longer.

[Aggies7]

I think there are more people on this thread than there are at the game. Yikes.

[Squirrel]

Just now, Aggies7 said:

I think there are more people on this thread than there are at the game. Yikes.

If you lived in town would you be there? I think the people on this thread probably (mostly) all live elsewhere ... or are commenting from their work computers, as I am

[dex8425]

1 minute ago, bighat said:

They've been struggling for sure, but IMO they have too much talent to hover around .500 for much longer.

You can't honestly that the white sox are "light years" ahead of the Twins "as things stand today." That's why no power rankings have the White Sox higher than the Twins. They're 5.5 games back. That's a lot. 

I don't think the white sox end up going .500 this year either. But they need Lynn back and the offense needs to get going quick. Grandal is too good to be as bad as he's been. 

[IndianaTwin]

Just now, Squirrel said:

If you lived in town would you be there? I think the people on this thread probably (mostly) all live elsewhere ... or are commenting from their work computers, as I am

And it was a good day to have had a long Zoom seminar, I might add...

[CRF]

3 minutes ago, bighat said:

Yep - and they honestly can't hit worth a lick. Averaging 3 runs per game against KC and DET during this stretch, going against perhaps some of the worst pitching staffs in the AL, isn't encouraging.

NYY, Tampa, LAA, HOU, TOR, and CHW are all light years better than theTwins as things stand today. It's not really even close.

Agreed. We're definitely not as good as our record, but we are finding ways to win games somehow. We might even do it again today. A lot of lucky breaks our way so far. Things have a way of evening out and I'd expect us to slowly fall back towards .500. No one is tearing the cover off the ball and the pitching can't possibly continue the way it has. I do think we've got the makings of a solid team, but we're not in the same category as NY, Hou, TB, LA, Tor etc. I also think the White Sox will eventually catch and pass us. 

[Aggies7]

1 minute ago, Squirrel said:

If you lived in town would you be there? I think the people on this thread probably (mostly) all live elsewhere ... or are commenting from their work computers, as I am

I already went to a minor league game today. 

[LVTwinsfan]

Well this is the game

[Mill1634]

https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1529567007879880705?s=20&t=lGKUkl9oquecSukW0mjt7A

[cHawk]

2 minutes ago, CRF said:

No one is tearing the cover off the ball and the pitching can't possibly continue the way it has

What makes you so sure?

[shortround81]

Everybody doing okay?

[mrtwinsfan]

Hey Rocco, this not working out the way u thought ??

[Mill1634]

How do you have nobody warm my god

[PDX Twin]

Wow. Pinch-hitting for a guy who's hit two homeruns today.