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  1. LaBombo
    No worries, pug soul intact, and the rest is settled in for the duration of the Twins game. This is stock footage from the internet but perfectly captures both my dog's preferred cushion/armrest sandwich nap dynamic(?) and her level of excitement over the Twins' current defensive (aka 'fetch') prowess, which is the only facet of the game that interests her.
  2. LaBombo
    Is he hurt? It feels strange to ask a serious question in the game thread, but there it is.
  3. LaBombo
    If any one thing could have been funny enough to redeem the '70s all on its own, that may have been it.
  4. LaBombo
    I do, but to be fair to Grossman and honest with everyone else, I wasn't watching. Or listening.
  5. LaBombo
    I swear, on the soul of my dog, that when I turned on the game, the first thing I heard was Dick saying "... and the Twins leave the bases full".
  6. LaBombo
    Well, we all know walks are evil, so getting rid of them is like cutting down on the mosquito population or curing the common cold. And in a season like this, there's little risk to the team by experimenting with individual players, either in terms of who to use, how to use them, or changing facets of their game. On the other hand, the Twins had a borderline Cy Young candidate in Hughes, who altered his approach in an effort to remove the 'borderline' from his title, and instead removed the other half, replacing 'Cy Young' with '5th starter' and ruining his shoulder in the process. Now the Twins are going to change the delivery of a recently acquired pitcher who would have led the Twins rotation in ERA and K's/9 if he had been a Twin the past three seasons. So while it's a good time to experiment for the team, and pitchers are always in need of at least a little delivery maintenance and the occasional oil change anyway, I'm a bit wary of the Twins and Allen going under the hood of their best pitchers for major overhauls except as a last resort. And as it regards Allen himself, the Santiago situation brings me to Ash's nicely summed up position, which is that Allen is neither a guy you need to replace or a guy you feel terribly reluctant to let go in an effort to try out someone new who could turn out to be the next Dave Duncan. It would be extremely interesting and perhaps instructive to ask the individual pitchers one on one how they feel about Allen. Also, I wonder if maybe the Santiago experiment isn't possibly a sign that Allen feels a need to take a risk or two in order to impress so that he can bolster his odds of weathering the coming GM shakeup.
  7. LaBombo
    That 'Chargois' is French, or that Enigma was cheesy?
  8. LaBombo
    Maybe they'd benefit from an outfield-only teambuilding exercise, like carpooling to home games. http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/clowns.png
  9. LaBombo
    Help them, Danny-wan! You're our only hope (for a win)! http://31.media.tumblr.com/beeef5b997ffd7c199a8e4036ec3a44a/tumblr_mwmqldejsO1qeliv2o1_500.gif
  10. LaBombo
    The pronunciation of Chargie's name has become increasingly foofy and French. I'm sort of hoping that he encourages it by going with that cheesy 90's Gregorian chant Enigma song as his walkup music... "Sade... shagWAH! Qu'est-ce que tu vas slider?" http://cdn.lyrics.songonlyrics.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Enigma-MCMXC-A.D..jpg
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  12. LaBombo
    Danny Santana making up for his lack of offense with defense that suggest a fan who won the drawing at a minor league "Play an inning of professional* baseball" promotional night.
  13. LaBombo
    Trouble. Right here in Kansas City! Trouble with a capital T! And that rhymes with G! And that stands for Grossman!
  14. LaBombo
    Dick: "Let's see if Grossman is charged with a cri.. uh, error'.
  15. LaBombo
    Wow. An in-game tribute to the career of Eric Gregg on that called third 'strike' to Dozier.
  16. LaBombo
    Yup. You've gotta do better than an oversized grasshopper if you want to impress a guy who walks a scorpion the size of a Yorkshire terrier three times a day.
  17. LaBombo
    Bert: 'I see some Francisco Liriano in Mejia when I watch him pitch. Also, I'm higher than the national debt right now'
  18. LaBombo
    Bert: "Didn't Bernie Carbo carry a monkey around with him?" Dick: [nervous chuckle] "I don't know"
  19. LaBombo
    Kick Saves: 1 And a Beauty: 1
  20. LaBombo
    "Call reversed, boys! That's the break we were looking for! We got 'em now!" http://media.lehighvalleylive.com/sports_impact/photo/9930871-large.jpg
  21. LaBombo
    Paul Molitor, before the game: "Don't worry about just getting here, Adalberto, we won't use you tonight unless the game goes extra innings or the starter gets injured." Paul Molitor, fifth inning. "Get Adalberto up and tell him he might be going two or three... Yes, Eddie, innings, not batters".
  22. LaBombo
    I think he's looking for just a little more consistency from Santiago, since the homers were to different parts of the park.
  23. LaBombo
    Just a wee bit of commentary by Santana about Santiago's pitching on that last homer, as he does four or five steps of mock jog in pursuit of a ball that was probably tracked briefly by NORAD before it landed.
  24. LaBombo
    Upright and fallen?
  25. LaBombo
    ... it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." "Hit it."
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