Game Thread: Twins v Astros, 8/8 @ 7:10pm CT

Pitching coach to the mound, bullpen warming up.

 

Thanks, pitching coach guy who's name I can't remember!!

Gattis looks looks like he should swing an axe bat too

Even dumber than that... My buddy and I were trying to make nitroglycerin. The teacher wouldn't tell us how.

 

Twins Daily is either for the better, or for the worse because of that teacher. Everyone will have to form their own opinion!

Keep Duffey in one more inning?  Might not be a bad idea...maybe.

 

Dozier would have reached out and had his glove at thigh level and then showed to ump his glove, and Santana would have been safe. Correa keeps his glove low and makes the tag. I hope Dozier watches and learns. Might be too much to ask, though.

 

"I don't think you talk about this nearly enough," said Sarcastic Guy.

Bert has talked about it lots of times, and it's also true in tennis: If you want the ball to bite downwards, you have to punch your fingers over the ball at the release point. If you don't fire those finger missiles, the ball won't bite down. For instance, lots of people can swat a tennis serve very fast, but they have no idea why it sails flat and long. Opening up too soon and not jabbing your fingers are the two reasons the ball sails long. Same thing must be true with pitching. 

 

I wonder if Neil Allen just told Duffey that...

 

Bert has talked about it lots of times, and it's also true in tennis: If you want the ball to bite downwards, you have to punch your fingers over the ball at the release point. If you don't fire those finger missiles, the ball won't bite down. For instance, lots of people can swat a tennis serve very fast, but they have no idea why it sails flat and long. Opening up too soon and not jabbing your fingers are the two reasons the ball sails long. Same thing must be true with pitching. 

 

I wonder if Neil Allen just told Duffey that...

 

Even dumber than that... My buddy and I were trying to make nitroglycerin. The teacher wouldn't tell us how. 

Good thing too!  You could have ended up like the guy on "Breaking Bad".  

 

 

"I don't think you talk about this nearly enough," said Sarcastic Guy.

Funny. But please don't start sniping at one another.

Come on TD!  I need some analogies for what we just saw!  Never mind. 

Get the K's outta the way and Sano's OK.

 

 

Oooo, luck on that slide.

Noooooooo.....Not the Hammy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Whew!

 

Come on TD!  I need some analogies for what we just saw!  Never mind. 

 

Deer in the headlights?

Remember when everyone touted Monitor as this tremendous base running guru who would gain us all kinds of runs on the bases as a manager? Those were the days.

um, yeah.  blunder....

Hitting sure.....running not so much.

 

Oh Miggy....

 

Deer in the headlights?

I was thinking grizzly bear slips on a banana peel and slides down the mountain head first...  then gets picked off 2nd.

 

Remember when everyone touted Monitor as this tremendous base running guru who would gain us all kinds of runs on the bases as a manager? Those were the days.

Yup, around 260lbs ago.

Polanco.....Wish he would've been here with us in May or June.

Geeze, Polanco looks like he can hit McHugh in his sleep!

Come on TD!  I need some analogies for what we just saw!  Never mind.

 

Gesundheit.

Three hits in the inning, including a double. Aren't we supposed to have a run?

Good thing too!  You could have ended up like the guy on "Breaking Bad".  

The difference between comedy and tragedy is when you end the story. ;-)

 

Remember when everyone touted Monitor as this tremendous base running guru who would gain us all kinds of runs on the bases as a manager? Those were the days.

I was thinking the same thing.  Well said.  

 

Monitor needs to put on a base running clinic more frequently.  

Geeze, Polanco looks like he can hit McHugh in his sleep!

I doubt that. McHugh would probably balk or something, if he really were asleep.

I don't remember a Twins team ever having this many baserunning mistakes.  Maybe I've just walled off that corner of my mind.

 

Or maybe I'm old and I forget stuff, that could be it too.

 

Nice inning here if Sano had stayed on second.

 

Come on TD!  I need some analogies for what we just saw!  Never mind. 

 

I doubt that. McHugh would probably balk or something, if he really were asleep.

Not to mention, hitting him would wake him up.

I doubt that. McHugh would probably balk or something, if he really were asleep.

Hoisted on my own grammatical petard! It appears that Polanco, even in his sleep, could hit McHugh!

 

Meanwhile, if Centeno's liner were a couple feet lower, McHugh's day would have been done.