Game Thread: Twins (Maeda) v Tigers (Olson), 8/16/23 @ 12:10 CT

[Mike Sixel]

I look away for a second, and wut? Yikes. 

Jax doing his best early season Pagan impression. 

[RickOShea]

Well at least Rocco isn't sad. You play to mediocrity, you get mediocrity.   Series split=supreme mediocrity.

[wsnydes]

Just now, IndyTwinsFan said:

Just like Wile E. Coyote?

Just waiting for the cliff to follow him into the body shaped hole he's made in the ground.

[Vanimal46]

Griffin Jax looks like a Cy Young Award winner the last few weeks!

[Aggies7]

Wow what a meltdown. Bad loss to a mediocre team if it holds. Thankful to be in the AL central 

[Twins_Fan_For_Life]

That's a nice job of limiting the damage to four runs

[CRF]

Well...that didn't go smoothly. Jax is definitely the new/old Pagan. OUCH! 

[USAFChief]

4 minutes ago, wsnydes said:

Just waiting for the cliff to follow him into the body shaped hole he's made in the ground.

Wouldn't that be the piano following him into the body shaped hole?

 

[RickOShea]

1 minute ago, Vanimal46 said:

Griffin Jax looks like a Cy Young Award winner the last few weeks!

You mean like a previous winner who has passed away?

[USAFChief]

"Solo home runs don't hurt you."

[Vanimal46]

5 minutes ago, wsnydes said:

Well this is fun...

 

 

Opposite Day, sarcasm, take your pick...

So it’s fun?

[Vanimal46]

Just now, RickOShea said:

You mean like a previous winner who has passed away?

Bartolo Colon is still alive and well! 

[SwainZag]

1 minute ago, RickOShea said:

Well at least Rocco isn't sad. You play to mediocrity, you get mediocrity.   Series split=supreme mediocrity.

I see you waste zero time blaming Rocco.

[SwainZag]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

"Solo home runs don't hurt you."

Except when they come in bunches. 

[wsnydes]

1 minute ago, Vanimal46 said:

So it’s fun?

Maybe.

[wsnydes]

2 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Wouldn't that be the piano following him into the body shaped hole?

 

Why not both?

[IndyTwinsFan]

2 minutes ago, CRF said:

Well...that didn't go smoothly. Jax is definitely the new/old Pagan. OUCH! 

Right now, I'd much rather have Pagan in a higher leverage, late inning situation than Jax.

[RickOShea]

1 minute ago, SwainZag said:

I see you waste zero time blaming Rocco.

I didn't blame him, in this instance. I said he wasn't sad.

[Mike Sixel]

1 minute ago, SwainZag said:

I see you waste zero time blaming Rocco.

He can only play the RPs he's given....I really don't know how this is on him at all. 

I count 4 hitters in teh lineup I want on the roster next year. Five if Vazquez has to be a backup. That's partly health, and partly guys I just don't want around.

[Parfigliano]

4 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

Wow what a meltdown. Bad loss to a mediocre team if it holds. Thankful to be in the AL central 

Season series beatdown by a below mediocore team.

[WLFINN]

If only we could throw strikes to the guy barely hitting over .200 🤦

[SwainZag]

1 minute ago, RickOShea said:

I didn't blame him, in this instance. I said he wasn't sad.

Should he be sad? I'm sure he's not pleased.

[Aggies7]

The missed opportunities, you knew it was going to happen like this

[SwainZag]

2 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

He can only play the RPs he's given....I really don't know how this is on him at all. 

I count 4 hitters in teh lineup I want on the roster next year. Five if Vazquez has to be a backup. That's partly health, and partly guys I just don't want around.

How dissipointed are you going to be when 7 are back on the roster next season?

[IndyTwinsFan]

2 minutes ago, WLFINN said:

If only we could throw strikes to the guy barely hitting over .200 🤦

Why would he want to do that, when it's more of a challenge to walk him instead?

(Sarcasm inserted)

[SwainZag]

10 in a row down now.   No one has reached since Lewis walked in the 4th to loaded the bases up. 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

I hope we come back.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

2 minutes ago, SwainZag said:

10 in a row down now.   No one has reached since Lewis walked in the 4th to loaded the bases up. 

I hope that means we're equally streaky when we hit.

[Mortimerkenny21]

3 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

I hope we come back.

I share these same hopes.

[Twins_Fan_For_Life]

Perhaps it's time to lace up the "hittin' shoes"