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

[Peter]

Pablo pitching like 💩. He’s better than this. Lucky to be 1-1 Twins need to put this out of reach!!! Enough of the one run games-no more of that 💩rest of season! And yes late night west coast games are 💩

[Patzky]

2 minutes ago, Tlaker said:

Beaker Street was great!

Late night am radio in the 60’s and 70’s was fantastic.

WLS in Chicago, KOMA in OKC, KAAY in Little Rock for music 

KDKA in Pittsburgh, WCCO in Minneapolis, WJR in Detroit, KMOX in St. Louis WSB in Atlanta for baseball 

Can still get some late night AM MLB. I'm on east coast, Mets Nats Guards and Cards come in reliably 

[Patzky]

Just now, Peter said:

Pablo pitching like 💩. He’s better than this. Lucky to be 1-1 Twins need to put this out of reach!!! Enough of the one run games-no more of that 💩rest of season!

Hey it's not a one run game right now it's a zero run game!

[stringer bell]

2 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

This is ****ing painful 

It would be worse without the pitch clock. The 9:10 start will probably make this one go to midnight.

Speaking of starting times, the Twins used to start their home games at 8:05, but the length of games was a lot shorter back in the 60s.

[Parfigliano]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

I hate giving up that free stolen base

 

They were not even considering it D wise.  Bad coaching.  Bad fundamentals.  Bad.

[Patzky]

2 minutes ago, TwinsCD said:

Feels like Pablo is too hellbent on getting the off-speed stuff to work tonight.

Didn't he watch Jax last night?

[Patzky]

Atta boy Santana

[Aggies7]

1 minute ago, stringer bell said:

It would be worse without the pitch clock. The 9:10 start will probably make this one go to midnight.

Speaking of starting times, the Twins used to start their home games at 8:05, but the length of games was a lot shorter back in the 60s.

That would be 1 am for me. Not sure I’d make it 

[Aggies7]

I love that you have to be completely set or it’s a balk, but you can flutter your glove around like a peacock trying to mate and it’s ok

[USAFChief]

Oh FFS Kepler. Do your f job.

[stringer bell]

Yes, I remember the late night clear channel stations. Little Rock, Chicago, St. Louis. I listened to a few St. Louis games. Some great music.

[Patzky]

Steady diet of sinking splitters from Miller suddenly.

[Patzky]

Buck 🚒 

[Aggies7]

Haha good effort though

[IndianaTwin]

Santana’s not a HOFer, obviously, but 20 years from now, people are going to look at his b-r.com page and say, “That was a pretty good player.” 

Per 162 games, he’s averaged 31 doubles, 25 homers, 85 RBIs and 100 walks and currently a 114 OPS+. Nine seasons of 150+ games and on pace for a 10th. 

EDITS to add: 300+ career homers, likely 400+ doubles. Currently 55th among 1Bs in career bWAR.

(Aside, Rizzo recently pushed Hrbek out of the top 50 in bWAR.)

[USAFChief]

Thought Raley was gonna nab that one.

Nice job Buck!

[Aggies7]

Pablo really is an ultra sweaty guy. The grays don’t flatter him

[Patzky]

7 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Oh FFS Kepler. Do your f job.

Shades of last night..

[USAFChief]

Perkins: "I was not a guy that sweated a lot."

[USAFChief]

Much better, Pablo. More fastballs, more strikes.

[TwinsCD]

16 minutes ago, TwinsCD said:

Feels like Pablo is too hellbent on getting the off-speed stuff to work tonight.

Maybe someone read my observation in between innings.  That 4th was tidier.

[IndianaTwin]

5 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

Pablo really is an ultra sweaty guy. The grays don’t flatter him

 

3 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Perkins: "I was not a guy that sweated a lot."

Mariner guys also discussing that he changed shirts for last inning. 

[IndianaTwin]

3 minutes ago, TwinsCD said:

Maybe someone read my observation in between innings.  That 4th was tidier.

Wasn’t there a discussion recently about how many Twins FO people are following TD? Maybe Maki is following the Game Threads. 

[Aggies7]

2 minutes ago, IndianaTwin said:

 

Mariner guys also discussing that he changed shirts for last inning. 

He must be a hairy dude. We tend to usually stay pretty moist

[Patzky]

That was a fine leadoff at bat by Austin Martin. 

[USAFChief]

Have a night, Willie.

[TwinsCD]

C'mon Larnach, swing the bat and protect your runner.

[RpR]

13 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

Yes, I remember the late night clear channel stations. Little Rock, Chicago, St. Louis. I listened to a few St. Louis games. Some great music.

1970 when KQRS first hit the air waves, as  an AM only station, we would listen to KQ till it lost power in the evening then switch to KOMA, or KAAY.

Early KQRS was totally different from the commercial thing it is now.

I met one of the gents who worked there in the early years, and he said while they were commercial from the get-go they had empty spots to fill so they would stick in there  what ever they could.

I still remember the Zodiac News well.

[Patzky]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

Have a night, Willie.

Yeah he's due for one of these..

[Aggies7]

Off speed and he was still dead meat