Game Thread: Twins @ Royals, 4/10 - 7:10pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Lineups:

 

Twins:

Aaron Hicks CF

Joe Mauer DH

Josh Willingham LF

Justin Morneau 1B

Ryan Doumit C

Trevor Plouffe 3B

Chris Parmelee RF

Brian Dozier 2B

Pedro Florimon SS

(Liam Hendriks P)

 

Royals:

Alex Gordon LF

Alcides Escobar SS

Billy Butler DH

Mike Moustakas 3B

Salvador Perez C

Eric Hosmer 1B

Jeff Francoeur RF

Lorenzo Cain CF

Chris Getz 2B

(Wade Davis P)

[Mike Sixel]

I vastly prefer day games to distract me from boring meetings, frankly. Oh well.

[DaveW]

If it keeps on raining the levee's gonna break.

[snepp]

So, all of our trees are falling down from the ice around here. How's everyone else's day going?

 

 

Gawd I could use a Twins win tonight.

[glunn]

So, all of our trees are falling down from the ice around here. How's everyone else's day going?

 

 

Gawd I could use a Twins win tonight.

 

It's 75 degrees and sunny here today, but I want the win as much as you do.

[Riverbrian]

So, all of our trees are falling down from the ice around here. How's everyone else's day going?

 

 

Gawd I could use a Twins win tonight.

 

Ice storms in April!!! Just when you think your out... It pulls you back in.

[Riverbrian]

It's 75 degrees and sunny here today, but I want the win as much as you do.

 

you can pretty much cut and paste that post and use it every day can't you.

[Top Gun]

It looks like a KC sweep to me.

[jokin]

Originally Posted by glunn

 

It's 75 degrees and sunny here today, but I want the win as much as you do.

 

 

 

 

you can pretty much cut and paste that post and use it every day can't you.

 

In this case, one might want to question the integrity and power of his pathos...

[Riverbrian]

It looks like a KC sweep to me.

 

Boooo!!! Hisssss!!! Raspberry blown in your direction.

[Badsmerf]

Boooo!!! Hisssss!!! Raspberry blown in your direction.

For future reference, never blow anything in my direction. Thanks.

[ashbury]

It looks like a KC sweep to me.

 

C'mon Hicksie. C'mon Dozier-zie. C'mon, especially, Hendriksie.

[ashbury]

If it keeps on raining the levee's gonna break.

 

AccuWeather's hourly forecast has another hour or so of "light rain", then very low precip probabilities after that. I think they get this game in.

[glunn]

you can pretty much cut and paste that post and use it every day can't you.

 

The weather in Los Angeles is usually pretty nice, but at least I refrained from mentioning the secretaries who like to sun themselves on the lawn behind my office.

[snepp]

For future reference, never blow anything in my direction. Thanks.

 

[glunn]

In this case, one might want to question the integrity and power of his pathos...

 

I may live in paradise but I bleed blue just like you do when the Twins lose.

[Riverbrian]

The weather in Los Angeles is usually pretty nice, but at least I refrained from mentioning the secretaries who like to sun themselves on the lawn behind my office.

 

lol... In consideration of the price you pay for real estate in Beverly Hills.

 

Every structure should come with secretaries sunning themselves.

[Ultima Ratio]

Hey, a six pitch AB -- improvement.

[glunn]

Who would have guessed that 8 games into the season, Escobar and Florimon would have the highest batting averages on the team?

[snepp]

Who would have guessed that 8 games into the season, Escobar and Florimon would have the highest batting averages on the team?

 

I did.

 

 

 

[/deadpan]

[Ultima Ratio]

No slide there Willy? Pretty confident are we?

[IdahoPilgrim]

The weather in Los Angeles is usually pretty nice, but at least I refrained from mentioning the secretaries who like to sun themselves on the lawn behind my office.

 

Next time go ahead and mention those - I could stand to hear a little more:p

[IdahoPilgrim]

Who would have guessed that 8 games into the season, Escobar and Florimon would have the highest batting averages on the team?

 

I'm sure somebody somewhere down in their preseasons picks.

 

If you put an infinite number of monkeys in front of an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite amount of time, all pecking away randomly, they'll eventually produce the works of Shakespeare.

[ashbury]

If you put an infinite number of monkeys in front of an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite amount of time, all pecking away randomly, they'll eventually produce the works of TD.

 

ftfy

[ashbury]

No slide there Willy? Pretty confident are we?

 

Didn't see the play, but I think with his past back problems, his game has to be to minimize risk of injury. It's most evident in his defense, but he's also tied with Morneau for least-likely to get sent by the third-base coach and not solely on the basis of speed, and he probably gets a pass on any baserunning decisions he chooses to make.

[glunn]

If you put an infinite number of monkeys in front of an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite amount of time, all pecking away randomly, they'll eventually produce the works of Shakespeare.

 

They already produced the Internal Revenue Code.

[GCTF]

That went a long way

[Alex]

Bert keeps acting like this is do or die for Hendriks. There do seem to be fans frustrated with Hendriks, too, and he's obviously been pretty bad up in the bigs. But, why do people give him a shorter leash than Dozier, for example? I mean both players have comparable time in the big leagues and neither have looked good. The difference is, Hendriks has already pitched well in AAA and is younger.

[ashbury]

That went a long way

 

There goes the perfect game.

[ashbury]

The difference is, Hendriks has already pitched well in AAA and is younger.

 

More home runs, too.