Game Thread: Twins (Gray) v Mariners (Gilbert), 7/17/23 @ 8:40 CT

[IndyTwinsFan]

33 minutes ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

That is also one of the 2 or 3 ways I will remember Kep (2 are positive and 2 of 3 aint bad)

With regards to the late (and sometimes great) musical artist Meatloaf. 

[mnfireman]

54 minutes ago, RpR said:

The only thing that blocks any rookie is lack of talent, end of story.

Starts with an "O".................

Opportunity

[mnfireman]

To those of us that are cord cutters, the game is on FS1 if you can get it.

[wsnydes]

10 minutes ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

Oops NFC West

In the spirit of the internet, you should have just left it alone and waited for the inevitable Animal House gif.

[RpR]

3 minutes ago, mnfireman said:

Starts with an "O".................

Opportunity

Opportunity leads to both success and failure; lack of enough talent means failure.

Nothing blocked their opportunity, they are already in  professional baseball, nothing stops them moving foreward but themselves.

 

 

[Dave Borton]

47 minutes ago, Schmoeman5 said:

Isn't that Mr. Bill

 Bill got it from Reinhold Niebuhr, a Lutheran theologian.

[jkcarew]

4 hours ago, umterp23 said:

Buxton needs to be on IL till he is 100% healthy.  Sure doesn't need a rest day since he did a lot of walking back and for dugout to plate to dugout over the weekend.  

Baffled by Wallner not getting a run since being called up.  

 

Buxton’s as healthy as he’s ever going to be. If you don’t play him now, you’re never going to play him.

I wouldn’t mind him coming off the bench some days, though. Like give Wallner DH today?

[mnfireman]

3 minutes ago, RpR said:

Opportunity leads to both success and failure; lack of enough talent means failure.

Nothing blocked their opportunity, they are already in  professional baseball, nothing stops them moving foreward but themselves.

 

 

If the front office doesn't promote you or if manager doesn't play you once they do, there is no opportunity.

[Schmoeman5]

1 minute ago, davidborton said:

 Bill got it from Reinhold Niebuhr, a Lutheran theologian.

Damn you Bill. Plagiarizing like that

[jkcarew]

I say the second half starts tonight. The schedule is soft for a while, but not Oakland soft…not close. A’s and KC in a league of their own…sad, really.

[Dave Borton]

22 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

I have a nephew with a PhD in dark matter physics. I went to his defense of his dissertation and understood very little of it

A VP I worked with had a son working on dark matter. I asked him to explain it to me in layperson's language. I walked out 20 minutes later and couldn't even fill a cartoon bubble with anything I understood.

 

[RpR]

1 minute ago, mnfireman said:

If the front office doesn't promote you or if manager doesn't play you once they do, there is no opportunity.

Ones baseball talent brings promotion and playing time, or lack thereof; this is not grade school fairness, every one plays regardless of ability.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

15 minutes ago, wsnydes said:

In the spirit of the internet, you should have just left it alone and waited for the inevitable Animal House gif.

In the spirit of the internet, I don’t think anyone else really cared 🙂

[mnfireman]

1 minute ago, RpR said:

Ones baseball talent brings promotion and playing time, or lack thereof; this is not grade school fairness, every one plays regardless of ability.

So you are saying Wallner is being given an opportunity right now? His talent is as good as Gallo, Kepler or Buxton right now. Larnach's talent is at least as good as 3 of the 4 right now. So I call BS on this comment. 

[SwainZag]

6 minutes ago, jkcarew said:

I say the second half starts tonight. The schedule is soft for a while, but not Oakland soft…not close. A’s and KC in a league of their own…sad, really.

I mean...I'd say the 2nd half started with the 1st game of the 2nd Half.  

2nd half season record: 3-0.

[Dave Borton]

Cleve, 9-0, bottom 7th

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

10 minutes ago, jkcarew said:

Buxton’s as healthy as he’s ever going to be

Good take - a Nixon goes to China level of diplomacy that hopefully both sides can be happy with 

[Schmoeman5]

Just now, RpR said:

Ones baseball talent brings promotion and playing time, or lack thereof; this is not grade school fairness, every one plays regardless of ability.

Keep trying to justify running Gallo and Kepler out there every day. Opportunities are given to unproven commodities in cases where you know what your getting from the 1st 2 guys. Not much. And it's possible that Wallner might earn it if given a chance. He can't be any worse offensively. If he fails what have they lost? Same answer. Not much

[pierre75275]

I wonder if these teams will no hit each other in the same game, since both offenses are so futile.

 

[RpR]

3 minutes ago, mnfireman said:

So you are saying Wallner is being given an opportunity right now? His talent is as good as Gallo, Kepler or Buxton right now. Larnach's talent is at least as good as 3 of the 4 right now. So I call BS on this comment. 

His/their talent is as good as the Twins managers see it  to be, not you.

They know what he/they have shown they can or cannot do, you or those manager wannabes on the forum do not.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

So the report on this guy is he works high in the zone, so the home run swings with runners on base will need to be minimized tonight if possible.

[Schmoeman5]

3 minutes ago, pierre75275 said:

I wonder if these teams will no hit each other in the same game, since both offenses are so futile.

 

Harvey Haddix type game. It'll be a long night. 35-40 Ks  

[RpR]

3 minutes ago, Schmoeman5 said:

Keep trying to justify running Gallo and Kepler out there every day. Opportunities are given to unproven commodities in cases where you know what your getting from the 1st 2 guys. Not much. And it's possible that Wallner might earn it if given a chance. He can't be any worse offensively. If he fails what have they lost? Same answer. Not much

I am not justifiying anything; saying Player x, y, or z should not be playing because you or any one thinks some one else should be playing , does not justify that he should be playing either.

It is simple opinion.

[mrtwinsfan]

2 hours ago, ashbury said:

Troubled by others holding opinions contrary to your own?  Ask your doctor or pharmacist if The Internet is right for you! 

Dont quit your day job, A--hole !!

[mnfireman]

Just now, RpR said:

His/their talent is as good as the Twins managers see it  to be, not you.

They know what he/they have shown they can or cannot do, you or those manager wannabes on the forum do not.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing time after time (running Kepler and Gallo out there every night) and expecting different results.

Hopes and wishes don't win MLB games.

[Schmoeman5]

Just now, RpR said:

I am not justifiying anything; saying Player x, y, or z should not be playing because you or any one thinks some one else should be playing , does not justify that he should be playing either.

It is simple opinion.

Thats always a convenient response

[RpR]

1 minute ago, mnfireman said:

 

Hopes and wishes don't win MLB games.

They do not make rookie unknowns good ball players either.

[SwainZag]

No runs or hits, but 26 pitches from Gilbert has to be seen as a plus.

[RpR]

1 minute ago, Schmoeman5 said:

Thats always a convenient response

It is a fact, simple as that.

[Schmoeman5]

1 minute ago, RpR said:

It is a fact, simple as that.

Your facts