Game Thread: Twins (Varland) @ Blue Jays (Gausman), 6/11/23 @ 12:37 CT

[ashbury]

"Vazquez, in play, outs."  Ugh.

Good inning though.  Let's sprinkle another good inning or two later this game to put it away.

[Squirrel]

25 minutes ago, FlyingFinn said:

Again, get Gallo totally healthy before bringing him back. Then, play him in the OF and Kirilloff at 1B which gives the Twins their best defense.

This. I know they’ve had Gallo at first, which I think he’s pretty good there, but I think he’s a better outfielder than AK. The leg is probably why they were playing them the opposite.

[CRF]

Very nice inning...now Louie needs to put up a quick 1-2-3.

[SwainZag]

Couldn't really ask for a better start than 4 runs and forcing Gausman to throw 36 first inning pitches.   Let's go!

[Squirrel]

6 minutes ago, wsnydes said:

I step away for a couple of minutes and come back to three runs?  A guy can get used to that.

Step away more often! (I missed it, too, as I just got home from a stretch session)

[Blyleven2011]

2 minutes ago, ashbury said:

Kepler for once got vaccinated though.

Does Canada still require  that a player be vaccinated  ???

[ashbury]

Just now, Squirrel said:

Step away more often! (I missed it, too, as I just got home from a stretch session)

Third base coach windmilled you home and you beat the throw?

[ashbury]

1 minute ago, Blyleven2011 said:

Does Canada still require  that a player be vaccinated  ???

Um, probably not?

[wsnydes]

3 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

Step away more often! (I missed it, too, as I just got home from a stretch session)

Trying to get rid of me, eh?

[Squirrel]

1 minute ago, ashbury said:

Um, probably not?

No, they dropped that requirement sometime during the off-season

[ashbury]

1 minute ago, wsnydes said:

Trying to get rid of me, eh?

Squirrel would ban her own mother if it meant avoiding a jinx.

[CoastiePilot08]

Come on Varland

[CoastiePilot08]

Nice pitch 

[Squirrel]

Nice K!

[rwilfong86]

8 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

Shhhhhhh … I love the thought but don’t throw a jinx on it! 🙂

I'm not superstitious I'm just a little... stitious.

[Squirrel]

Just now, ashbury said:

Squirrel would ban her own mother if it meant avoiding a jinx.

Actually I wouldn’t, but she would get my jinx lecture and the anti-curse

[mrtwinsfan]

Louie , --  Please get some of your pitches below the waist, or your gonna get Smoked

[Squirrel]

Okay, I can live with that … it’s an out anyway

[ashbury]

1 minute ago, Squirrel said:

Actually I wouldn’t, but she would get my jinx lecture and the anti-curse

I was just channeling the old line (Burleigh Grimes? Early Wynn?) about a pitcher beaning his own grandmother, "but only if she was crowding the plate."

[Sutter50]

I think it's gonna take more than 4 runs to win this. Offense needs to keep going

[Squirrel]

I’ve been living in disarray the last three weeks and my kitchen remodel is almost done. Done enough that I can start putting away things. I don’t mind normal clutter, but remodel clutter is just unsettling … but so excited about my new kitchen! 🙂

[Blyleven2011]

After 1 inning we are ahead and that's what counts  ....

 

[Robert Floren]

2 minutes ago, ashbury said:

I was just channeling the old line (Burleigh Grimes? Early Wynn?) about a pitcher beaning his own grandmother, "but only if she was crowding the plate."

That's a good one, hadn't heard it before.

[Squirrel]

Just now, Blyleven2011 said:

After 1 inning we are ahead and that's what counts  ....

 

And I’m praying it stays that way through nine!

[wsnydes]

6 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

Actually I wouldn’t, but she would get my jinx lecture and the anti-curse

Chewing out ones mother in the name of jinxing is pretty hardcore.  I guess I'll find reasons to step away from the radio periodically, lest I get banned!

[ashbury]

1 minute ago, Robert Floren said:

That's a good one, hadn't heard it before.

I was curious enough to try to pin it down via Google, and it's attributed to Early Wynn, and he only stated that he would "brush back" his granny.  So no ill intent there. 

[CRF]

Julien really needs to stay up here and play. Yeah, his D needs some improvement, but he's got game. 

[Danchat]

Random Blue Jays thought - the Dalton Varsho trade confused me at the time, and now looks even more questionable. He's an intriguing player but he's not that great of a hitter, and was moved for an elite catching prospect who's already starting in the bigs for Arizona, and Loudres Gurriel, who had a much better track record and is back on track as a great hitter. I'd be ticked off if I were a Jays fan.

[Squirrel]

1 minute ago, ashbury said:

I was curious enough to try to pin it down via Google, and it's attributed to Early Wynn, and he only stated that he would "brush back" his granny.  So no ill intent there. 

Well, no ill intent could still accidentally be a hbp …

[RickOShea]

7 minutes ago, ashbury said:

I was just channeling the old line (Burleigh Grimes? Early Wynn?) about a pitcher beaning his own grandmother, "but only if she was crowding the plate."

Sal Maglie was also included as one of those guys who would knock down his mother.