Game Thread: Twins v Cleveland in Puerto Rico, 4/17 6:10pm CT

Por fin, los Twins estan jugando beisbol hoy! Gracias a dios!

"The Twins are the local computer". That's what the Google says. I am not sure of the significance of that as it pertains to baseball. But, the following should be helpful, whether blindfolded in Puerto Rico or not. dónde está el baño .

Okay, now to go back and read what Brian wrote.

 

I'm so excited that Twins baseball is on again that Brian could have just put up a pic of a baseball and that would have been good enough for me.

 

 

Un día sin béisbol es como el desayuno sin jugo de naranja. O algo así.

Ok, now folks are just showing off.

 

No me gusta este.   El otro lingua esta muy dificil por todos los blancitos en este pais.

 

...or at least I think I said that correctly?   Despite four years of Spanish, my southern language skills never really evolved past basic officer street level.   We won't even speak of my grasp of the language of the Fatherland (German).

 

 

Ubi est villa, agricola?

 

Took me two years of Latin to learn that phrase. Fifty years to remember it.

 

Wo wirst du heute Abend sein?

 

Pick up line my dad, a WW II combat veteran, learned in occupied Germany. He passed it along to me and my brothers in case we ever ran into a pretty fraulein. It's always good to be prepared.

 

Base-a-balla. Italian for our favorite sport.

 

I guess I'm multi-lingual. I can even speak Minnesotan. Uffda!

I had assumed the baseball season was over.

Feels like days since there's been a Twins game.

 

¡Pleibol!

Puerto Rico Joe is ready for this. 

Per Google translation: 

 

No hablo español y odio las matemáticas. Cuando publicas en español no tengo ni idea, y en matemáticas ... bueno, puedo reconocer los números. VAYA GEMELOS !!!
Y Google tiene la culpa de esta publicación.

Si

OK...it makes sense now. Not enough werewolves on the team. Mid-season trade for a couple?

Ok, now folks are just showing off.

The only thing I was showing off is my skill at using Google translate.

So what did everyone do over the winter break? Err... I mean the blizzard over the weekend?

So what did everyone do over the winter break? Err... I mean the blizzard over the weekend?

I skipped being a spectator at the Boston Marathon because the weather was yucky here too. (OK, that was Monday, but it's a long weekend.)

 

So what did everyone do over the winter break? Err... I mean the blizzard over the weekend?

Winter? What's that?

I speak 7 languages fluently. Unfortunately Spanish, or English, are not on that list. Anyway, in high school my oldest daughter took Spanish. One day in an attempt to color her hair she got a little too much red tint in it. The next day I called a friend who spoke Spanish, and asked for some help. That evening when my daughter came in the door I greeted her with a hearty "el rojo grande". My attempt at bi lingualism was not received well at all.

 

I speak 7 languages fluently. Unfortunately Spanish, or English, are not on that list. Anyway, in high school my oldest daughter took Spanish. One day in an attempt to color her hair she got a little too much red tint in it. The next day I called a friend who spoke Spanish, and asked for some help. That evening when my daughter came in the door I greeted her with a hearty "el rojo grande". My attempt at bi lingualism was not received well at all.

 

Teenage girls are usually pretty laid back about their hair -- you must have been pretty surprised at her reaction. 

My sisters were in high school during the home perm era.  It did not always (ever?) end well.

Edited April 17, 2018 by D. Hocking

Teenage girls are usually pretty laid back about their hair -- you must have been pretty surprised at her reaction.

My sisters were in high school during the home perm era. It did not always (ever?) end well.

Especially when her dad comments on her hair. I'm sure she took it in stride and wasn't self conscious at all! Edited April 17, 2018 by Vanimal46

Bano. Spanish for restroom. Learn it, know it, live it.

Bano. Spanish for restroom. Learn it, know it, live it.

Also, cerveza.

 

Also, cerveza.

 

Bano. Spanish for restroom. Learn it, know it, live it.

 

The two are somewhat related.

I learned all of the Spanish I know from Bumblebee Man on The Simpsons. With the problems they've been getting into with Apu lately, I'm sure that's a bad thing and I should be ashamed.

 

Edited April 17, 2018 by woolywoolhouse

¡Vamos, los gemelos de Minnesota, amigos!

 

Not sure if that's right.  

Game is to be broadcast on FS1. Channel 732 for Xfinity folks in Minneapolis.

Buxton a scratch with a migrane, so Kepler in center and Grossman in right.

 

Buxton a scratch with a migrane, so Kepler in center and Grossman in right.

No bueno.

 

Buxton a scratch with a migrane, so Kepler in center and Grossman in right.

The sudden increase in temperature got to him.    But migraines are no joke.

 

According to multiple reports from the scene, it’s also raining at Hiram Bithorn stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In other words, the weather continues to follow the Twins seemingly wherever they go.

 

Boy, I sure hope we don't get rained out. That'll be 5 days without any games...