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I love Baseball

Grossman has shown me that he can help a team win.

After Slater and Moore... We better get Span

THE SANOMAN

I am At least until I understand what business you are in.

The Sanoman is better. He must change and adapt to it.

Yay Bark Art Add Molitor as Professor Hinkle

I like Captain Insano... It's very good But... "The Sanoman" is absolutely perfect. I don't think it can be topped. The marketing department can work with that. Like the Giants did with the Panda. Sanoman Hat Giveaway.

If I could do it any other way... I'd leave those late game threads up longer. Unfortunately... I can't. I only have a small window in the morning to post the new open. Once I'm at work... it's nose to the grindstone. So that means a choice of posting at 7AM or when I'm done from work around 6PM. Yes I do get a lunch break but there are days when I have to cancel it for various reasons and I never know when that will happen in advance. That leaves the only safe window to post the new thread in the morning. My apologies and my hope for forgiveness and understanding.

Yeah it's clever enough... but I can't give this a like for obvious reason.

Anybody tired of the West Coast? Hang in there… just one more game played in the middle of the night, just 3 more games to go total, then back to Minnesota. Until then… inter-league action with a weekend series against the Giants. When a National League team is hosting, the pitchers will have to bat, which will be a welcome change from having our batters pitch. It’s frustrating when Chris Gimenez has thrown so much that he is now qualified for the ERA title. When pitchers bat, buntings follow. Here are some things to think about: 1. San Francisco – 870,000 people are crammed into 7 city blocks and this makes San Francisco the 2nd most dense city in the United States… after New York City. The reason for this denseness, San Francisco is built on a peninsula which reduces the opportunity to sprawl outward from the city in all directions. Also, the hippie counter-culture continued marijuana use that makes you explain things to them over and over without eventual understanding. San Francisco generates billions of dollars in revenue from tourism. People come from everywhere to see the Golden Gate Bridge and they leave San Francisco confirming that it is indeed a bridge and it is red. They visit Lombard Street and they leave with confirmation of it being paved and unnecessarily curvy. They visit Alcatraz and leave with confirmation that it contains a prison and a strong opinion that Nicolas Cage should be locked up there and never heard from again. 2. Our Twins – Hats off to Kyle Gibson. Last night had to feel good and he probably needed to feel good. Miguel Sano must also be feeling good. (Sano BTW… needs a unique clever nickname). Sano is hot again and he is beginning to look like one of the best hitters in the league. He is getting noticed by the ballot box stuffers because he took over the All-Star voting lead at 3B this week… surpassing Manny Machado. Minnesota is required by federal law to have at least one all-star representative at the All-Star game, but this year… it looks like a Twin might play significant minutes and have a legitimate shot at driving away in the vehicle awarded to the MVP. I always feel good when deserving baseball players win new automobiles because I know that adding an extra car to the 4 or 5 that they already own comes in handy. 3. The Giants – This team has big expectations every year but so far this year… those expectations have not been met… not even close really. The Giants currently have the third worst record in baseball. They blew the off-season budget on a closer and never really addressed LF. The bullpen has given up leads and the starting rotation has underperformed with someone named Ty Blach leading the staff. In hindsight, the Giants front office realizes that they should have addressed LF and they feel they made a mistake letting Madison Bumgarner enter games on a dirt bike. 4. Today’s Joe M Conversation Mauer: That was good… compliments to the chef. Maddon: Thank You… I like cooking when I get the chance. There are so many things you can do with pasta. It gives me a chance to be creative. McCarthy: I am full… Fulll… with a capital F and an extra L. Montana: I’m still hungry… do you have anything to snack on? Mauer: How is that possible? How can you still be hungry? You had more of that pasta than any of us did and we may not eat again until November? Montana: I had a bunch of Antipasti before I came. It must have evened out. 5. Greek - A friend of mine named Kostas is originally from Greece and he is very intelligent. He was trying to explain to me neuroscience... I’m not sure why since I started the conversation by mentioning that I had two different color socks on. Anyway, to fully understand neuroscience, it requires knowledge of engineering, mathematics, chemistry, physics, computer science, medicine, philosophy and psychology. He must have talked about 30 minutes straight on the subject before he finally nodded in my direction for a response. I was completely lost during the conversation so I said that it was all Greek to me. He didn't understand that. ____________________ Lineups: TWINS Brian Dozier 2B Joe Mauer 1B Miguel Sano 3B Robbie Grossman LF Max Kepler RF Eduardo Escobar SS Byron Buxton CF Jason Castro C Ervin Santana P GIANTS Denard Span CF Eduardo Nunez 3B Brandon Belt 1B Buster Posey C Brandon Crawford SS Hunter Pence RF Aaron Hill 2B Austin Slater LF Matt Moore P Weather: 59 deg F, partly cloudy, windy, not rainy Click here to view the article

Oh Yeah.. No doubt Plus... Kershaw, Darvish and Paxton

So it's already been decided? Nothing could ever happen to the Astros to change their fate? Once you make the playoffs... All you have to do is go 11-8 out of a max 19 games to win the World Series. Or 12-8 if you are a wildcard and all those career stats go out the window for a brand new small sample size. All 30 teams are capable of going 12-8 for a 20 game stretch. All 30 teams will go 12-8 or better at some point during the season. Anything can happen... anything always happens. The mighty Clayton Kershaw is 4-7 with 4.55 ERA in the playoffs... But the guy looks great on paper. I'd even say that he is the best pitcher in baseball. Roberto Perez hit 3 playoff home runs for the Indians but he doesn't look all that good on paper. Joe Panik was amazing for the Giants in the playoffs last year. Alcedis Escobar was perhaps the top KC Hitter in the 2015 playoffs. Remember David Freese... How Bout Ryan Merritt making a big start for the Indians. Delmon Young was amazing in the playoffs once. Historically... When you look at every year and list them all... You will compile a healthy list of 95 wins or better teams that did not reach the World Series. The game is not played on paper... anything can happen if you make the playoffs. If FalVine were to purposely pull the rug out from under a contending team because they think they know better... I will dedicate my life to raising billions of dollars as quickly as possible just so I can buy the Twins and fire them myself.

Good night all Tomorrow is a new day

I just checked Google Flights. Flying from Seattle to Rochester is not direct... it has a few layovers. Seattle to Denver to Minneapolis to Colorado Springs to Chicago to Syracuse to San Diego to Rochester.

OK... I'm going to bed. No need to collect any more memories from this game. Before... I go to bed... I'm going to fire off a quick email to FalVine asking for a fresh focus on bullpen arms this off season.

Exactly... There is no rule or law that states you can't get another one in a short period of time after getting one. To my knowledge there is no ration or allotment.

Good Arm that ain't ready.IMO

Vargas was out of the lineup tonight... so it's possible he was headed to the airport. If Vargas is up... he might as well stay up. Rosario isn't even close to hitting the locations that Gimenez is calling for. I imagine he will back down to the minors when Polanco returns. They might send him down after tonight.

Rosario is listed at 6-1 but he looks like he is 5-6.

DOZIER

I was gonna go to bed but I think o'll stay up and watch this Rosario for awhile. Start forming an opinion that I can call my own.