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Or, with Berrios on the mound... "I'm gonna have me some fun! I'm gonna have me some fun!"

For no particular reason, I've always liked Jay Bruce's game, and even though I would have rather seen him come to a competitive Twins team at the deadline than struggle with the Mets, at least he got out of CInci and has a good shot at the playoffs. Plus I love that ELO song... 'Brrruce! Don't bring me down!' What? What are you guys laughing at?

So you're saying this isn't going to be fun? I mowed the lawn and worked on the deck today, so the bar is set pretty low.

New Mets promo announced for tomorrow's game: Jacob Degrom Elbow Day. A Mets jersey sleeve with a fake latex ulnar collateral nerve dangling from it. http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12330586.1474144294!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg I'm sorry Jacob. Too soon? Ok, too soon. In all seriousness, it there is such a thing in a game thread, crappy break for the Mets and mostly for Degrom. He's not just a fantastic pitcher when healthy, he's boatloads of fun to watch. Get well soon, JG.

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Did I get here in time to take partial credit for an improbable rally if there is one? I'm guessing Vargas won't go down looking.

One envisions certain foreign crew members being ushered off his pirate ship with a lusty "YARRR, walk the plank, ye scurvy undocumenteds!"

I'm not sure if this is true, but I'm not only in no position to dispute it, I'm at least vaguely supportive of the notion. But it may be a temporary state brought on by the guilt and self-loathing incurred by feeling entitled to eat many Nutter Butters to tide myself over until dinner. Has any person ever eaten a half dozen of those things in ten minutes and then thought 'I'm extremely pleased with that decision'?

The Republicans who nominated McCain and Romney didn't wake up one morning, flip out en masse, and nominate Trump. The Trump movement brought in a whole bunch of people who were not traditionally Republican and not even necessarily conservative, under the unifying theme that Trump is the consummate Washington outsider. Gallup has, for better or worse, polled for years to determine what Americans see as Our Nation's Biggest Problem, and "Government" has gone from finishing fourth or lower in 2007-10 to third in 2011-12, second in 2013, and first ever since then. In many ways it's an absurdly broad term, but it may indicate that 'government' is a generic fall guy for another, even more widespread tendency across a broader swath of Americans to say that they feel the country is 'headed in the wrong direction'. But that message/plea/protest vote appears lost on fellow citizens, media and politicians alike when the candidate nominated by 'country-is-headed-in-wrong-direction' folks is a guy who at times appears bent on making the case that the 'wrong direction' the country is headed in could loosely be summarized as 'sanity'.

One would think think that Bill's "flu" stumble would be somewhere between considerably and infinitely less newsworthy and damaging than his inadvertent admission on Monday that Hillary faints "frequently". He seems to have lost a step in terms of his ability to work in the spotlight. And I completely agree with your larger point. Issues aside, on a purely infrastructure level the Clinton campaign was supposed to be the more professional and polished machine in terms of messaging, ground game, media savvy, etc. And prior to last weekend, probably most people would agree that it had been, and not by a small margin. Less than a week later, Hillary and her staff have managed to leave a large portion of the American public either wondering how she shot herself in the foot, where she got the gun, or, for the highly persistent 'Hillary is dying or something' folks, how she managed to conceal the gun for so long. And it's not Team HRC's only issue, as they now have the lesser but unnecessary and still potentially costly "deplorables" comment to contend with, and are also having to do so when the table was already beginning to tilt slightly less against Trump as his staff seemed to have finally succeeded in convincing him that his best shot at a comeback was to stop being himself. 538 still has Hillary a 3-2 favorite due to the favorable electoral math, but as has been mentioned, it's hard to see how this election is anywhere near the popular vote dead heat that some polling shows. If the improbable (and unthinkable for many) happens and Trump wins, this last week may go down as a kind of political Pisarcik-Csonka handoff moment in presidential campaign history. More likely, Hillary will still win, and this will end up being just one more 'What the Bleep' moment in an election that, even if I live another several decades, will probably still end up being the one that I think of as 'The What the Bleep Election'.

Dick: "Logan Schafer, trying to keep the game alive for the Twins..." ... so you know you're in good hands right there.

That, and a few nuts... http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2003_Bruce_Almighty/003BAL_Jim_Carrey_002.jpg

And Fast Eddie is leading off...

Catchers' agents?

How you know your team is outgunned, part 146: A .330/.380/.480 hitter is on deck, and your color commentator helpfully points out that "second base is open". http://wallpapercave.com/wp/o4BTL7H.jpg

Bullpen Corgi spooled up fast tonight... http://i.imgur.com/ZqsSOHb.gif

Once, long ago. Do not recommend. http://gainesvillescene.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/dbbd220a8766adc81b6fb1f4a594035cdf4f9d14.jpg

Merged it for you.

Hastily scrawled in Brunansky's dugout journal of techniques that help opposing hitters succeed: 'Be Miguel Cabrera'

For a kid whose defense drew whatever the extreme, exact opposite of 'raves' are from Twins scouts, it seems to me like Kennys' play at first is not likely to crack the list of The Twins' Top 100 Concerns any times soon.

... followed shortly thereafter by

Is there a Ben Revere somersault in his future?

If Shagwahhh eventually slots in as an 8th inning guy, the Twins will be sort of obligated to find a closer named Scoobay or the like. At least a pitcher okay with that as his nickname.

I'm in no matter what. Anything to get rid of the taste of this season.

Only on the replay. On the live shot he's usually jogging across the plate by the time they switch away from the CF batter cam.