Game Thread: Twins v White Sox, 7/17/22 @ 1:10 CT

[Aggies7]

3 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

I think it's as much a stretch as people thinking it deserves the same respect as our National Anthem. Do you stand for every patriotic song you hear?

Who said that it does? If I were in a stadium with tens of thousands of people, I probably would stand. In what way could it possibly hurt? Not every moment has to be about me and what I want or think 

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

this team desperately misses Dobnak and Coulombe*

* joking**

** i think

[ashbury]

8 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

When people stand for GBA, I actually think it's a HUGE disrespect to our actual National Anthem. HUUUUUUGE. So, yes, I'll stay seated and if anyone wants to ask me, I'll tell them that, that they are the ones being disrespectful.

Go ahead and do that in Mississippi.  They won't punch a woman.

 

In public.

[Nine of twelve]

1 minute ago, Squirrel said:

Eh ... as a song, I don't particularly like that one, either ... lol ... yes, I'm a music snob.

Sometimes musical snobs, though well-intentioned, can go overboard. Igor Stravinsky immigrated to the US in 1939 and became a citizen in 1945. Desiring to honor his new home he penned an arrangement of the National Anthem. However, he almost created an incident with it.

https://www.openculture.com/2015/07/stravinskys-illegal-arrangement-of-the-star-spangled-banner-1944.html

[Aggies7]

This is why the team needs to win so we don’t have to talk about nonsense like this ?

[RickOShea]

Is this Pagan's last audition before the break, in hopes of a possible deal,  We can't hold onto this loser til the Deadline.

[USAFChief]

1 minute ago, Aggies7 said:

This is why the team needs to win so we don’t have to talk about nonsense like this ?

Like that would change us.

[Aggies7]

1 minute ago, RickOShea said:

Is this Pagan's last audition before the break, in hopes of a possible deal,  We can't hold onto this loser til the Deadline.

The only thing he should be auditioning for is America’s got talent 

[Aggies7]

Just now, USAFChief said:

Like that would change us.

Well pretty soon we’ll be at the point of the season where only like 4 people post here, so I guess we should enjoy it while we can 

[ashbury]

25 minutes ago, Nine of twelve said:

Sometimes musical snobs, though well-intentioned, can go overboard. Igor Stravinsky immigrated to the US in 1939 and became a citizen in 1945. Desiring to honor his new home he penned an arrangement of the National Anthem. However, he almost created an incident with it.

https://www.openculture.com/2015/07/stravinskys-illegal-arrangement-of-the-star-spangled-banner-1944.html

Fascinating.  If that were played without anyone mentioning it was a special arrangement, I doubt 99.9% of listeners would notice.  Nearly every live rendition reflects some little addition or variation.  Sometimes even on purpose.

Imagine the outcry if this were performed at a ballpark:

 

[snotboogie]

3 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

This is why the team needs to win so we don’t have to talk about nonsense like this ?

Oh we need nonsense, maybe not this.  "The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss."

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

4 minutes ago, RickOShea said:

Is this Pagan's last audition before the break, in hopes of a possible deal,  We can't hold onto this loser til the Deadline.

Just a friendly reminder you mis-spelled ‘closer’ by forgetting the letter ‘c’ somewhere in the above sentence  

(In other words, that we don’t call names or get personal here)

[sampleSizeOfOne]

52 minutes ago, ashbury said:

Three innings to mount a comeback!

1...

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

4 minutes ago, snotboogie said:

Oh we need nonsense, maybe not this.  "The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss."

Is this one of those Spanish Inquisition types of deals? 

[snotboogie]

7 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

The only thing he should be auditioning for is America’s got talent 

Singing GBA, right??

[snotboogie]

1 minute ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

Is this one of those Spanish Inquisition types of deals? 

What were you expecting?

[CRF]

That was an amazingly putrid effort by the Twins.

[USAFChief]

What might be termed "limping into the break."

[snotboogie]

Bratwurst tonight, I guess.

[srjr19]

Welp,  on the bright side, instead of having to pinpoint something to improve on in the second half, the twins just have to improve everything.

 

[IndyTwinsFan]

1 minute ago, CRF said:

That was an amazingly putrid effort by the Twins.

Mere words barely do justice to the putridness on display today. 

[ashbury]

7 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

What might be termed "limping into the break."

Hey, it's a travel day, sometimes they go through the motions.

[William K Johnson]

Chicago and Cleveland will go around us like Secretariat at the Belmont in the second half.   They are much superior teams in every aspect of the game, especially at the helm.

[ashbury]

6 minutes ago, IndyTwinsFan said:

Mere words barely do justice to the putridness on display today. 

The game was an insult to putrid things, amirite?

 

[ashbury]

7 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

1...

2. ???
3.  Profit!

[IndyTwinsFan]

6 minutes ago, ashbury said:

The game was an insult to putrid things, amirite?

 

100%

[wsnydes]

This'll be a fun one to sit on for almost a week.  It's one thing to lose before going into the break, quite another to not show up.

[SanoMustGo]

what a lovely effort today

[Aggies7]

21 minutes ago, William K Johnson said:

Chicago and Cleveland will go around us like Secretariat at the Belmont in the second half.   They are much superior teams in every aspect of the game, especially at the helm.

There was a time not very long ago at all where I would have fully disagreed with this statement, especially concerning Cleveland. I still believe we’re better than Cleveland but thinking Chicago is going to cruise past us. We just have nothing in the pitching department. Nothing.

[SanoMustGo]

1 minute ago, Aggies7 said:

There was a time not very long ago at all where I would have fully disagreed with this statement, especially concerning Cleveland. I still believe we’re better than Cleveland but thinking Chicago is going to cruise past us. We just have nothing in the pitching department. Nothing.

agreed, and I think the term to use today is "quitters"