Twins (Ryan) vs Brewers (Patrick): 5/16/7:10pm

[Parfigliano]

2 minutes ago, shortround81 said:

What, pray tell, is that?

Slang for prison wine

[Doc Lenz]

6 minutes ago, Tlaker said:

So what does one do first…. take a swallow of Scotch that tastes like sucking on a charcoal briquette to offset the bite of lutefisk that tastes like roadkill skunk after soaked in poison or vice versa?

3 shots scotch

[David HK]

Wow, 7 pitch inning, with an already high pitch count!

Guess what, Brewers, you just bought yourselves another cuppa Joe!  Maybe 2! 😅

[Patzky]

Just now, David HK said:

Wow, 7 pitch inning, with an already high pitch count!

Guess what, Brewers, you just bought yourselves another cuppa Joe!  Maybe 2! 😅

Decaf hopefully!

[Patzky]

What you think there Royce?

[Tlaker]

4 minutes ago, Doc Lenz said:

3 shots scotch

Not sure that is even enough….. however I sure do like butter!!!

so if I drain the butter off the lutefisk through my dirty sweat socks onto my freshly popped popcorn it will taste just fine!

and again I mean no offense against my Norsk cousins 

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Leaving meat on the bone. Hopefully it doesn't bite them in the ass.

[UpstateNewYorker]

5 minutes ago, Tlaker said:

There was so much quality fast pitch softball back in the 60’s and 70’s around the midwest! 
I have kind of lost track about it now….. is it still around?

I played in fastpitch leagues in the 1980s-1990s in the Hudson Valley.  Having enough pitchers for a league was always a problem.  It's a great game -- nothing like beer league softball!  

[stringer bell]

Joe can empty the tank for this inning. Nearly certain he won't go beyond 6.

[Tlaker]

Just now, UpstateNewYorker said:

I played in fastpitch leagues in the 1980s-1990s in the Hudson Valley.  Having enough pitchers for a league was always a problem.  It's a great game -- nothing like beer league softball!  

Absolutely! When you had a serious fast pitch softball pitcher you could rule!!

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Thought that was gone...

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

That one too...

 

Bear down here, Joe.

[Parfigliano]

Just now, Twins_Fan_in_NJ said:

Thought that was gone...

Ball doesn't seem to be carrying.  Several loud contact flyouts to base of wall

[Parfigliano]

Fitz a 2b that can catch the ball

[mrtwinsfan]

1 minute ago, Parfigliano said:

Ball doesn't seem to be carrying.  Several loud contact flyouts to base of wall

roof is closed ,   big difference in that park

[Parfigliano]

Ryan 6IP 2H 9K.  NICE

[Aggies7]

Nastiness from Ryan 

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Nice work, Joe. Now bats get some insurance runs!

[ziggy]

is a 3 run lead large enough to bring in Alcala?

[stringer bell]

6 scoreless from Ryan. Pretty impressive. Given the hard contact last inning, I don't think there's any doubt that will be it for him.

[IndianaTwin]

14 minutes ago, Tlaker said:

There was so much quality fast pitch softball back in the 60’s and 70’s around the midwest! 
I have kind of lost track about it now….. is it still around?

The Elkhart/Mishawaka area nearby was one of those hotbeds for Class A and above as recent as when I was a sportswriter in the '90s. Some of the area RV manufacturers were big sponsors. It's tailed off and a friend just said there's nothing here, but thinks there might be some C league teams about 90 minutes away in Michigan. Perhaps some D league teams in Indianapolis.  

[Parfigliano]

1 minute ago, ziggy said:

is a 3 run lead large enough to bring in Alcala?

No

[Tlaker]

What does the spreadsheet say about a guy being pretty damn dominant, at least starting the next inning???

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

2 minutes ago, ziggy said:

is a 3 run lead large enough to bring in Alcala?

For the love of God, no.

[gil4]

1 minute ago, stringer bell said:

6 scoreless from Ryan. Pretty impressive. Given the hard contact last inning, I don't think there's any doubt that will be it for him.

That last pitch was a great way to finish.

[IndianaTwin]

13 minutes ago, Tlaker said:

Not sure that is even enough….. however I sure do like butter!!!

so if I drain the butter off the lutefisk through my dirty sweat socks onto my freshly popped popcorn it will taste just fine!...

The popcorn? 

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

36 minutes ago, IndianaTwin said:

What? I scrolled through seven pages of comments and no one has made an obligatory comment like, "Was your clue that he wouldn't buy anything that wasn't in the day-old bread section"?

I guess I'll have to do it.

Was your clue that it was Falvey that he wouldn't buy anything that wasn't in the day-old bread section?

Do you think he’s buying green bananas again, after this winning streak? 

[Parfigliano]

Wishing more they wouldn't have needlessly used Duran yesterday

[Tlaker]

1 minute ago, IndianaTwin said:

The Elkhart/Mishawaka area nearby was one of those hotbeds for Class A and above as recent as when I was a sportswriter in the '90s. Some of the area RV manufacturers were big sponsors. It's tailed off and a friend just said there's nothing here, but thinks there might be some C league teams about 90 minutes away in Michigan. Perhaps some D league teams in Indianapolis.  

Love hearing about this kind of quality softball when it was so good! Thanks Indiana! Sponsors were always so important!

[Aggies7]

2 minutes ago, IndianaTwin said:

The Elkhart/Mishawaka area nearby was one of those hotbeds for Class A and above as recent as when I was a sportswriter in the '90s. Some of the area RV manufacturers were big sponsors. It's tailed off and a friend just said there's nothing here, but thinks there might be some C league teams about 90 minutes away in Michigan. Perhaps some D league teams in Indianapolis.  

It was huge in my area too. Tons of leagues. It all died out around the turn of the century for some reason