Game Thread: Twins@Mariners, June 6 @ 9:10pm CT

The Twins play relaxed on the road.  Their pitching remains suspect.  Hopefully the "up" Santana will show up Thursday.  Tuesday and Wednesday the bats need to be swinging.  Using the elevator analogy, let's hope they push the tenth floor button for a few days.

 

Good news is that Gibson will not pitch until Friday.  Go Twins!

If your suit goes in your garment bag and your garments go in your suitcase, what goes in your dopp kit?

I needed this. I went through game thread withdrawal yesterday.

 

We won't discuss the off-season.

NEVER FORGET: Seattle is a place that tops their hot dogs with creme cheese.... Those savages. 

Do you mean creme fromage?

NEVER FORGET: Seattle is a place that tops their hot dogs with creme cheese.... Those savages.

 

Well, they're prolly tofu dogs anyway, so who cares?

Go Twins Baby!!

NEVER FORGET: Seattle is a place that tops their hot dogs with creme cheese.... Those savages.

And they top their tossed salad with scrambled eggs...or something like that. They don't even know what do do with em, but they do it anyway.

Sheesh. That whole garment bag/suitcase thing is confusing... It's like driving on a parkway and parking on a beltway.   

Hope Edward McMichael also makes it to Green Bay.

 

Tuesday softball game is looking iffy due to local weather...

Edited June 6, 2017 by sampleSizeOfOne

 

Hope Edward McMichael also makes it to Green Bay.

Tuesday softball game is looking iffy do to local weather...

 

We've all been waiting to scout your stat line SSoO. Hit us with your slash line! 

NEVER FORGET: Seattle is a place that tops their hot dogs with creme cheese.... Those savages.

Evidentally you have never tried a Twinkie Wiener Sandwich...

 

("Tell him about the Twinkie")

 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z-_FO9p8Xdg

We've all been waiting to scout your stat line SSoO. Hit us with your slash line!

0 for 7 or so. Have yet to get a hit. Closest i come so far was the first swing where the 3rd baseman had to dive for it.

 

Scored a run pinchrunning though. And it might be fewer at bats than i recall as one pop fly might have counted as a sac fly.

 

I am making Buxton's early season woes look good...

...

 

5. Funny Bone - I turned a corner at work too tightly yesterday and I struck my funny bone on a corner. I didn’t find it funny at all… Everyone else did though and I assume that’s how it got its name. I’m pretty sure the name didn’t originate from the source, more likely from those observing.

 

Maybe you didn't hit it quite right?

 

0 for 7 or so. Have yet to get a hit. Closest i come so far was the first swing where the 3rd baseman had to dive for it.

Scored a run pinchrunning though. And it might be fewer at bats than i recall as one pop fly might have counted as a sac fly.

I am making Buxton's early season woes look good...

I'm sure he appreciates it. However, he is starting to play better, so I think you can bring your A game from here on out.

 

NEVER FORGET: Seattle is a place that tops their hot dogs with creme cheese.... Those savages. 

No, not savages. Savages eat grilled meat, bacon and real hot dogs with mustard. 

 

People who put creme cheese on hot dogs don't qualify as savages. Probably resemble this guy:

 

Up or down?  Whenever I find myself getting down about our Twins, I remind myself of the expectations going into the season...kinda puts it all in perspective.  First place on June 6?  Never dreamed it.  Robby Grossman doing well at DH?  I was critical of keeping him on the team over Park.

 

As far as this series, win 1 of 3 and we are still 4-3 on the road trip.  Win 1 of 3 against the Giants and we are 5-5 for the road trip and that's all you need to do AS LONG AS you win 6 of 10 at home...and that seems to be the tough part so far this year.  I expect it to even out as the year goes on.

Oh yeah...

 

I got an elevator story to share if anyone wants to hear it... er read it, i mean.

 

NEVER FORGET: Seattle is a place that tops their hot dogs with creme cheese.... Those savages. 

As opposed to bright green relish, wedges of tomato, chopped white onion, a dill pickle spear, pickled sport peppers and celery salt? Yeah ... no comment. I can't throw stones at what Seattle does with their hot dogs.

0 for 7 or so. Have yet to get a hit. Closest i come so far was the first swing where the 3rd baseman had to dive for it.

Scored a run pinchrunning though. And it might be fewer at bats than i recall as one pop fly might have counted as a sac fly.

I am making Buxton's early season woes look good...

Game called on account of rain.

 

No breakin out of my slump today...

 

Oh yeah...

I got an elevator story to share if anyone wants to hear it... er read it, i mean.

 

Go on?

 

As opposed to bright green relish, wedges of tomato, chopped white onion, a dill pickle spear, pickled sport peppers and celery salt? Yeah ... no comment. I can't throw stones at what Seattle does with their hot dogs.

 

yuck.

 

The correct answer is cheese and horseradish. 

 

Catsup/Ketchup or BBQ in a pinch. 

So my team has been having a prank war over the last 2 weeks. Some are nearing the edge of crossing the line... It first started with replacing my co-worker's family pictures with pics of her celebrity crush Brad Pitt. Others bought fake cockroaches and scattered them around the office. 

 

It's now evolved to a person making a craigslist ad saying there's an above garage apartment available for rent with my phone number... I rebutted by signing him up for Farmersonly.com yesterday. 

 

yuck.

 

The correct answer is cheese and horseradish. 

 

Catsup/Ketchup or BBQ in a pinch. 

No ... the only answer is mustard and chopped onion, the only exception being to leave off the onion

Pickled ginger and wasabi. Perhaps a little seaweed.

 

No ... the only answer is mustard and chopped onion, the only exception being to leave off the onion

... and then add extra mustard.

 

... and then add extra mustard.

And not that spicy brown stuff, either ... regular yellow mustard, as God intended!

Go on?

College sports team work-out one Saturday morning was a relay race up the tallest building on campus. Only time going up counted in race, so we could take our time going down. I being a hiker at heart finished earlier than most.

 

After my final ascention, i pushed the button for the elvator at the top with no one else around waiting. I then had a change of heart, decided i wanted to go down stairs to warm down as it were, pushed the button on that floor, had a change of heart, went down another floor, and pushed the button. You might notice a patten, and so did i, repeatig it until i got to the second floor which was a sort of lobby with someone working a front desk.

 

Feeling a wee bit awkward, i decided this was the time to actually wait for the elevator. It came, and i got in an empty elevator and decended to the basement. The door opened in the basement and i got off to the jocular welcome of my teammates who kindly explained to me that they had all piled in after finishing their race at the top, and then rode the elevator down, which proceeded to open at every floor until about the 4th, where apparently another of the two elevators heeded my summons more quickly.

 

I think undue credit was given to me at that point for cleverness.

Sauerkraut, chopped onions, ketchup, mustard. One beer to wash it down. Second beer to wash down the tums. Wipe mouth on sleeve, hands on pants leg. Burp loudly, but politely. Take wife's elbow to the ribs with a smile.

 

Pickled ginger and wasabi. Perhaps a little seaweed.

Wrapped in sticky rice topped with some roe. Yeah, that works.

 

(And if we had a vomit emoji, I'd put it here.)