Game Thread: Twins (Ryan) v White Sox (Lynn), 7/21/23 @ 7:10 CT

[ashbury]

3 minutes ago, OptimisticTwinsFan said:

batted ball events

Suddenly I feel like I'm reading an interview with a FEMA, TSA or CDC spokesperson.

[wsnydes]

Just now, ashbury said:

Suddenly I feel like I'm reading an interview with a FEMA or CDC spokesperson.

Not enough acronyms for that.

[OptimisticTwinsFan]

1 minute ago, ashbury said:

Suddenly I feel like I'm reading an interview with a FEMA or CDC spokesperson.

Similarities in use cases

[jkcarew]

Exhale

[cHawk]

5 minutes ago, RpR said:

Well then when the Twins played the Yankees in regular season it must have morphed into post season play.

You gents are rationalizing Twins porr play agains good teams.

No, the Yankees have consistently been a superior team to the Twins over the past 20 years. That explains their head-to-head record in the regular season and postseason. One three-game regular season series isn't great evidence as to which team is better.

[ashbury]

Watching MAT and Max converge on that ball felt like slow-motion and live in the same frame.

[Schmoeman5]

1 minute ago, RpR said:

Do you think Pagan escapes this inning or it ends up a tie game?

Why don't you tell us nostradamus 

[stringer bell]

A giant exhale from Twins Nation. 

[Nine of twelve]

Bullet dodged. Good job.

[Parfigliano]

2 minutes ago, RpR said:

Do you think Pagan escapes this inning or it ends up a tie game?

Makes it interesting but holds.

[ashbury]

Just now, wsnydes said:

Not enough acronyms for that.

I went back and edited to include TSA while you were replying.  Is 3 enough?

[USAFChief]

1 minute ago, OptimisticTwinsFan said:

Similarities in use cases

First rule of holes...

[RpR]

1 minute ago, wsnydes said:

What's strawman about it?  

How do you explain it then?

One never enters a straw man discussion as plays both ends against the middle.

[wsnydes]

Just now, ashbury said:

I went back and edited to include TSA while you were replying.  Is 3 enough?

Not in my experience.

[ashbury]

3 minutes ago, OptimisticTwinsFan said:

Similarities in use cases

It just gets better!  Now it's technical marketing!

(Just pulling your leg.  I'm apparently with you on the analytic side of things, BTW.)

[wsnydes]

1 minute ago, RpR said:

One never enters a straw man discussion as plays both ends against the middle.

So...why did you enter this discussion?

Moving on...

[Schmoeman5]

1 minute ago, RpR said:

One never enters a straw man discussion as plays both ends against the middle.

I thought a strawman was to scare birds 🐦 keep em outta the corn. Like wizard of oz

[cHawk]

9 minutes ago, wsnydes said:

I'll bite, how do you explain a clearly inferior team winning in the regular season yet floundering in the postseason?  Seems pretty random to me.

In the postseason, teams are forced to run out their best pitchers, as it's win or go home. Not so in the regular season. Success against a team's 3rd, 4th, and 5th starters isn't a great indicator of success against their 1st and 2nd starters.

[ashbury]

1 minute ago, wsnydes said:

Not in my experience.

I forgot NOAA.  They would talk in those terms too.

[RpR]

2 minutes ago, cHawk said:

No, the Yankees have consistently been a superior team to the Twins over the past 20 years. That explains their head-to-head record in the regular season and postseason. One three-game regular season series isn't great evidence as to which team is better.

Yet Chicago took a series from one of the top two teams in the league.

OH MY!

[RpR]

Just now, wsnydes said:

So...why did you enter this discussion?

Moving on...

Staw man.

[wsnydes]

Just now, ashbury said:

I forgot NOAA.  They would talk in those terms too.

In my experience, they speak almost exclusively in acronyms.  It's dizzying!

[ashbury]

Just now, RpR said:

Yet Chicago took a series from one of the top two teams in the league.

OH MY!

Look, it's the White Sox.  When they lose they suck.  When they win it's luck.  Memorize that poem and you'll enjoy our company better.

[cHawk]

Just now, RpR said:

Yet Chicago took a series from one of the top two teams in the league.

OH MY!

I literally just said that one three-game regular season series isn't great evidence as to which team is superior. A sample of 100+ games is solid evidence.

[ashbury]

Just now, wsnydes said:

In my experience, they speak almost exclusively in acronyms.  It's dizzying!

Probably they have acronyms where an 'N' stands for 'NOAA'.

[Parfigliano]

Hahahaha.  ChiSux D

[Schmoeman5]

And that my friends will  be scored a double. 

[ashbury]

White Sox defense is getting better.  Their RFer almost got a glove on that can of cake piece of corn.

[USAFChief]

Is that Delmon Young in right?

[ashbury]

Just now, USAFChief said:

Is that Delmpm Young in right?

The TD autocensor doesn't let us spell that curse word out, does it.