Twins (López) @ Mariners (Miller); 6/29 @ 9:10pm CT

[Squirrel]

Okay, López … let’s follow up your last effort with the same this time! Go Twins!

 

[Brock Beauchamp]

WTF is up with this start time?

[Squirrel]

18 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

WTF is up with this start time?

7:10 is a typical start time on weekends … perfectly fine if you live on the west coast. Imagine east coasters with the start time at 10:10pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

9 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

7:10 is a typical start time on weekends … perfectly fine if you live on the west coast. Imagine east coasters with the start time at 10:10pm

Derp derp, I was doing the math wrong in my head. I had just woken up.

[nicksaviking]

32 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Derp derp, I was doing the math wrong in my head. I had just woken up.

Still you're not wrong. West Coast teams COULD start an hour earlier, and on Saturdays many hours earlier, but it's a pretty solid competitive advantage not to. Seems to me the Mariners and Angels are the West Coast teams that NEVER do Saturday day games for traveling time-zoners, even though Saturday day games are pretty common.

[Brock Beauchamp]

11 minutes ago, nicksaviking said:

Still you're not wrong. West Coast teams COULD start an hour earlier, and on Saturdays many hours earlier, but it's a pretty solid competitive advantage not to. Seems to me the Mariners and Angels are the West Coast teams that NEVER do Saturday day games for traveling time-zoners, even though Saturday day games are pretty common.

I believe most baseball games should target a 6:40 start. I go to WAY fewer games because of this 7:10 nonsense and it's much harder to get my kids into the sport when their bedtime is 8pm.

[nicksaviking]

18 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I believe most baseball games should target a 6:40 start. I go to WAY fewer games because of this 7:10 nonsense and it's much harder to get my kids into the sport when their bedtime is 8pm.

Yeah, my kids are older now and mostly do their own bedtimes, but I remember how frustrating that was. Growing up, it seemed most Twins games started ASAP after the local news, but I could be remembering that wrong.

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 minute ago, nicksaviking said:

Yeah, my kids are older now and mostly do their own bedtimes, but I remember how frustrating that was. Growing up, it seemed most Twins games started ASAP after the local news, but I could be remembering that wrong.

I need at least one of those little goblins to start loving baseball, I'm not going to do this job forever. 😁

[Patzky]

A couple early runs really ease the pressure on the pitching and defense. Love to see a three spot in the first or second inning today.

[Parfigliano]

Has Rocco been fired yet?

[nicksaviking]

1 hour ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I need at least one of those little goblins to start loving baseball, I'm not going to do this job forever. 😁

I failed in that regard, none of my kids have any interest in watching, it's a huge bummer. I'd blame MLB and the Twins for their terrible TV situation and inept marketing, but my kids aren't interested in watching any sports. Not sure what happened, I watched every and anything ESPN had to offer back when I was their age.

[stringer bell]

I presume Castro will be in the starting lineup at second base again tonight. This will mark the fifth position in where he will have played 20 games (in the 83rd game of the season). Willi has played 164 innings at SS, 144.2 innings in LF, 144 innings in CF, 141.1 innings at 2B and 99 innings at 3B. The injuries to Buxton, Lewis and Correa have given him time in CF, at 3B and SS. 

I've never seen someone divide their playing time so equally in so many positions. I hope attention to this can get Willi some All-Star buzz.

[lecroy24fan]

42 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

I've never seen someone divide their playing time so equally in so many positions. 

Tony Phillips was the first name that came to mind for me. He is the first super utility type I remember A couple of years he had a position he played m,ore than others but there are at least 2 seasons that he player 20 or more games at 4 different positions. 

[ashbury]

4 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

 and it's much harder to get my kids into the sport when their bedtime is 8pm.

You monster.

[Squirrel]

4 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I believe most baseball games should target a 6:40 start. I go to WAY fewer games because of this 7:10 nonsense and it's much harder to get my kids into the sport when their bedtime is 8pm.

The solution is simple. It’s summer. Later bedtime. But only if they watch the game.

[Brock Beauchamp]

5 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

The solution is simple. It’s summer. Later bedtime. But only if they watch the game.

We let them stay up later but only to an extent. If our eldest doesn't get enough sleep or gets over-tired, she turns into a velociraptor.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

16 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

We let them stay up later but only to an extent. If our eldest doesn't get enough sleep or gets over-tired, she turns into a velociraptor.

Velociraptors could make pretty good center fielders...

[thelanges5]

Good to see Buxton and Jeffers in the lineup. Lewis getting a breather?

[Patzky]

23 minutes ago, thelanges5 said:

Good to see Buxton and Jeffers in the lineup. Lewis getting a breather?

Think he maybe needs one lately. 

[USAFChief]

2 hours ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Velociraptors could make pretty good center fielders...

They tend to short arm their throws.

[Doctor Gast]

In Brazil it begins 11;10pm, On the weekend it's ridiculous.

[Jocko87]

1 hour ago, USAFChief said:

They tend to short arm their throws.

Run down anything in the outfield though.

[Patzky]

2 minutes ago, Jocko87 said:

Run down anything in the outfield though.

Make mean work of the chow line in the clubhouse cafeteria too.

[Jocko87]

1 minute ago, Patzky said:

Make mean work of the chow line in the clubhouse cafeteria too.

Why am I thinking about Ben Revere again?

[TwinsCD]

6 hours ago, stringer bell said:

I presume Castro will be in the starting lineup at second base again tonight. This will mark the fifth position in where he will have played 20 games (in the 83rd game of the season). Willi has played 164 innings at SS, 144.2 innings in LF, 144 innings in CF, 141.1 innings at 2B and 99 innings at 3B. The injuries to Buxton, Lewis and Correa have given him time in CF, at 3B and SS. 

I've never seen someone divide their playing time so equally in so many positions. I hope attention to this can get Willi some All-Star buzz.

According to an Audra Martin tweet, he's the 3rd in MLB history to play 20 games at 5 different spots.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

18 minutes ago, TwinsCD said:

According to an Audra Martin tweet, he's the 3rd in MLB history to play 20 games at 5 different spots.

Ever? Or in a season?

Who beat him to it?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

7 hours ago, Parfigliano said:

Has Rocco been fired yet?

I don't know. As a player, maybe?

Wasn't paying attention then...

[Patzky]

34 minutes ago, Jocko87 said:

Run down anything in the outfield though.

Helluva bunter though.

[TwinsCD]

5 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Ever? Or in a season?

Who beat him to it?

In a season.  Zach McKinstry last year and Tony Phillips 1992.  But one of Phillips's spots was DH so strictly from a defensive standpoint, it's just Willi and McK.

[Patzky]

11 hours ago, Squirrel said:

Okay, López … let’s follow up your last effort with the same this time! Go Twins!

 

A run or two would be most welcome!