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Cuz of the contact tremor? I know my glass of water did the Jurassic Park thing

I have no problem with the play is it happened. 3 Twins players played hard and we got an out because of an exceptional play.

Is it possible this Sano/Nunuz Collision starts another discussion?

Vanimal: I know we've only known each other four weeks and three days, but to me it seems like nine weeks and five days. The first day seemed like a week and the second day seemed like five days. And the third day seemed like a week again and the fourth day seemed like eight days. And the fifth day you went to see your mother and that seemed just like a day, and then you came back and later on the sixth day, in the evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming like two days, so in the evening it seemed like two days spilling over into the next day and that started seeming like four days, so at the end of the sixth day on into the seventh day, it seemed like a total of five days. And the sixth day seemed like a week and a half. I have it written down, but I can show it to you tomorrow if you want to see it.

In: NUNEZ ESCOBAR Let's find 7 more

The Twins are so proud of these new Reds. Almost every team in MLB is Red. There are even a couple teams with Red in their nickname. Bring back the Robin's Egg BLUE!!!!

He does... I've heard North Speak But he types it badly Eh

Yeah Even Liverpool will put on something yellow when they play Arsenal.

It was a one time squaring and then he returned to the Joe he usually is. Might have been a shift away from the third base line that tempted him. It was good out of the box thinking and I don't think the intention was sacrifice. It was over quick.

I rarely listen to the Angels Post Game

I'm never serious and don't call me... Umm... Ok... Give me a Sec

Will those Rally towels help the Wild? If they do... we paid too much money for Parise and Suter.

Yeah.. but it's that same bummed out facial expression that has lowered his trade value.

Nunez is in my lineup tomorrow just because of the hustle getting back to first for two batters in a row. In: NUNEZ TBD Out: TBD

Red Team against Red Team... is.... against the rules I think. I'm gonna have to look this up.

I'm tired of beating the Braves... We do that all the time.

That isn't Liverpudlian enough for your tastes

Sure... monkeys look all cute and cuddly, especially when they shake their head no after being asked directions to the waterfall. But the truth of the matter is this: Monkeys can throw Grandma across the room. Monkeys are also fast and can easily outrun Grandma so she can't get away. There is no such thing as a Rally Monkey. Monkeys in reality... they will hunt you down and get on your back and make that awful screeching sound while they do it. We got Monkeys on the back of our youth. Does our youth know how to handle a monkey? Here are some things to think about: 1. The Gorilla in the Room -- I'm not worried about the 0-9 start. I continue to be worried about the same thing I was worried about back in December... that's the entire American League. Half the National League teams were busy shedding veteran talent for youth and immediately declaring to all that they were punting the year to play youth instead. Meanwhile, almost every American League team was busy patching holes with real veteran talent and improving significantly. 2016 is clearly going to be different than 2015 because every team was going to be harder to beat and the Twins are attacking this problem with youth. If you look around the room and can't find an easy team to beat... you might be it. 2. Beating a Dead Monkey -- To clarify... this thought has nothing to do with Davy Jones. Thought #2 is all about depth and Davy Jones was never the deep Monkee. We all know that Peter Tork was the depth dude. If the Twins had a strength in my opinion... it was depth. If you keep playing the struggling players every game hoping that they play their way out, you are negating your strength while you are beating a dead monkey. I'm not saying that you should bench these struggling players forever but if you have multiple players not playing well, I think you can experiment a little harder. It won't kill Buxton or Sano or Park or Rosario to sit a game or two while they struggle. Arcia may not be the answer but if he has only played once while the entire team is striking out and not scoring runs, when will you play him? You might as well cut him and find a player who can help this team. Is Murphy the guy who will knock out Arcia...? He might be. I'd play Arcia more before you cut him for Murphy; but if you ain't going to play him, what is he doing? Nunez has started once in the past 5 games. Find out who is hitting the hottest and put them in the lineup instead of playing the coldest game after game waiting for them to heat up. 3. The Bullpen Chimpanzee -- Perkins has lost a lot of velocity and is now on the DL. OK... Bullpen... grab your stuff and everybody move up a slot. Jepsen you are now the closer... May you take Jepsen's old role... Fien you move into May's spot. Pressly you move into Fien's and Tonkin you move into Pressly's. Abad you keep being left-handed and Rogers... welcome to the big leagues... let's see what you can do. Ok... look around... it sure looks like we have bullpen depth issues... again. How did that happen? I'm shocked to find that gambling is happening in this establishment. 4. Get the Monkey Off Your Back -- Just win one... Don't try to win 9 games at once... Just win one and then move on to the next game. One foot in front of the other... breath in... breath out. The first three thoughts may seem negative, but here's the deal... I'm just as stupid as the rest of you and the Twins still have plenty of time to right the ship and go the right direction. 5. Planet of the Apes -- It's not that far fetched. I once found myself in a desolate land. I originally thought I was alone but out of the corner of my eye I could see these human shapes covered in fur. I was in Tennessee, but I'm just saying... It's not that far fetched. -------------------- Lineups: ANGELS Escobar 3B Gentry LF Trout CF Pujols DH Cron 1B Calhoun RF Simmons SS Perez C Giovotella 2B Richards P TWINS Eduardo Nunez 2B Joe Mauer 1B Miguel Sano RF Trevor Plouffe 3B Oswaldo Arcia LF Byung-ho Park DH Eduardo Escobar SS Eddie Rosario CF Kurt Suzuki C Milone P Game-time forecast: 70 deg F, partly cloudy, winds in from the SSE at 14mph. Um, go Twins, please! Click here to view the article

I was gonna read through the entire thread but I'm resting in Escanaba and 28 pages is gonna take me until 3AM. Someone just tell me who got post of the day. Must have been a great game thread with some ugly stuff mixed in... considering the result. To my Twins, Concentrate on the next 155 games. Concentrate hard... And... And... Start tonight.

Actually I'm still kinda scoffing at myself. I only divorced the Gophers in Hockey for obvious reasons. Still cheer for BBall and FBall. Although that doesn't seem to do them any good. I think it's the Gophers who have taught me my amazing patience.

Gopher Fans I scoff at thee!!!

These are the days that test who you are as a Minnesota Twins Fan. Rough Start... Expectations not being met... and a small sample size. Do you start throwing babies out with the bath water or do you just keep washing this baby. All I know is that many of you have got the baby by both ankles and are looking for a place to dispose of it. I'm saying not yet because that's what Molly Ringwald would have done. 1. 0-6 -- I like to keep things loose. I'm not the type of guy who likes to focus on the bad stuff and I am constantly in search of the good stuff. It's just the way I am... I don't like feeling bad... I like feeling good. I like people who are happy and that's the table I want to sit at. If the other tables are complaining about things. I'd rather sit somewhere else. So here is what I have to say about an 0-6 start. Nothing... I'm going to stay quiet and whistle past the graveyard. I actually don't know how to whistle and that is a little awkward because everybody seems to be able to whistle at the table I sit at. So in order to keep up... I bring an actual whistle to blow into and this does get the waiter/waitress to the cool kids table faster. 2 0-6 (Part 2) -- I didn't do any research on it but I'm willing to assume that nearly every team has gone through a 6 game losing streak at some point during a 162 game schedule since the beginning of time. We just got ours out of the way early. When the Twins go 100-56 the rest of the way. I was talking about this at the cool kids table and even the cool kids want me to sit somewhere else. 3. What has gone wrong -- Well... It's all players that we were dying to see. Sano, Park, Buxton,Rosario and Dozier. The players who were supposed to lead us to the promised land can't make contact with the baseball. Those 5 have struck out 49 times in 6 games. 4. Trucking -- When you go to Best Buy and purchase a new 98 foot television. This is possible because of truckers. Truckers are the backbone of America... they keep the economy moving and in order for you to buy that TV. Someone has to be willing to leave their family for extended periods of time... sleep in a small space in the back of the cab... shower when you can in a truck stop and walk out in the cold to get back to truck with your hair all wet... give up your home court advantage when using the bathroom... eat truck stop food... and I would imagine you spend a lot of time talking to yourself because of the solitude of mile after mile. I'm thinking about trucking because I got me a 16 foot Budget Truck and I'm driving that thing through Northern Michigan, Upper Michigan, Northern Wisconsin and Northern Minnesota today and tomorrow. I'm gonna stop at the truck stops along the way and share my story of the road with my trucking brethren and I'm sure that they will except me as one of their own. Hopefully.. they can give me some advice on how to get this 98 foot television into this 16 foot truck. I'm struggling with that right now. 5. The White Sox win the World Series!!! -- And when this happens... the first thing that the White Sox fan will do is... Turn off the Play Station. One last thing... North Dakota. National Champions in Hockey!!! Woo Hoo!!! -------------------- Lineups: WHITE SOX Adam Eaton(L) RF Jimmy Rollins(S) SS Jose Abreu(R ) 1B Todd Frazier(R ) 3B Melky Cabrera(S) LF Brett Lawrie(R ) 2B Avisail Garcia(R ) DH Dioner Navarro(S) C Austin Jackson(R ) CF Quintana P TWINS Brian Dozier(R ) 2B Joe Mauer(L) 1B Miguel Sano(R ) RF Trevor Plouffe(R ) 3B Byung-ho Park(R ) DH Eddie Rosario(L) LF Eduardo Escobar(S) SS Kurt Suzuki(R ) C Byron Buxton(R ) CF Gibson P Game-time forecast: partly cloudy, 40 deg F (brrrr!), winds from the NW at 18mph (more brrrrr!) Go Twins! Click here to view the article

I’m ready for the Royals… I’m really not ready for much else right now. I’m riding Amtrak and sleep deprived as a result. Yeah… go ahead and try to sleep all curled up in a chair. Five-year-olds can do it… 50 year olds… not so much. Not sure what to think about because I’m not sure I remember how to think at the moment. Amtrak stressed Wi-Fi as a selling point when I bought my ticket… turns out that they don’t have Wi-Fi on this train. On others they do… but not this one. So the following thoughts are the ramblings of a guy running on no sleep and no way to verify those ramblings via the internet. And with that… Here are some things to think about:1. Kansas City – It’s a nice enough city… just a step above Tulsa, Oklahoma in my opinion, and we all know how average Tulsa is. So… clearly Kansas City is someplace we all must go to visit. In order to properly think about Kansas City with a clear mind, sing a couple verses of any Beatles song in your head… this will remove previous stuff that was rolling around your brain and give you a fresh palate. Then stop singing that Beatles song and immediately think Kansas City and whatever pops into your head first is what you think about Kansas City. I did that and I thought it was going to be Barbecue or George Brett but it turned out to be Yoko Ono. It’s a fun exercise… Give it a try and see what you come up with. 2. The Royals – I’m happy for them… World Series champions. And they did it without spending gobs of money. Lots of speed… great defense… contact hitters up and down the lineup... and a bullpen that knows how to hold a lead. I have no problem with these AL Central rivals winning the World Series. If it was the White Sox… I would have had a problem. The Royals were always the harmless little koala bears of baseball. That’s over now… they had their day in the sun. They are no longer cute and cuddly… they are like a child actor all grown up. We know what they are about… we can typecast them and read the tabloids for the reports of their demise. 3. Strikeouts– Many have been concerned about how our Twins have whiffed their way through the first 3 games. To Whom It May Concern: Don’t worry about it… it’s only been 3 games. Plenty of time for them to strike out more or less over the next 159 games. That’s right… I said “Less”. Always try to look at things on the bright side of life. The Twins struck out so much in the first 3 games. It is now possible for them to strike out less in the next 159. 4. Koala Bears – In Thought #2, I compared the Royals to koala bears so now koala bears have become my Fourth Thought. Actually koala bears mixed in with Yoko Ono. There she is… Yoko Ono… all furry and sitting in a tree eating leaves and those leaves have caused her persistent cough to be sufficiently suppressed. 5. A $76 Seat on Amtrak – Leaving Grand Forks bound for Milwaukee on Amtrak at 1:07AM is going to mess with your day. Well, at least it’s going to mess with mine because I can tell by the snoring going on around me that some people are going to be somewhat functional when they arrive wherever they are going. I found it absolutely impossible to get any sleep at all. I brought a pillow… my seat tipped back just fine but there is just no way to get comfortable enough to get any sleep close to what can be termed as restorative. Eventually… it’s 6 in the morning and you just fall asleep and wake up 5 seconds later because you are not comfortable and then you repeat the process. Kind of like trying to get a good night's sleep when you are in church Sunday morning. I found sleeping in this environment to be one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Here’s an updated list of the 10 hardest things I’ve ever attempted to do. Moving away from my Family to live by myself for a job. Sleeping in a $76 seat on Amtrak in the middle of the night. Cleaning up barf produced by someone else without adding to the pile. Coming up with the correct answer for any question asked by my wife that she already knows the answer to. Like why is the kitchen light on in the middle of the day? Trying to convince someone that the Twins roster will be OK with Eduardo Nunez on it. Getting out of a small space without making a noise that lets everyone know that it was hard for me to get out of that small space. Teaching a cat English. Trying to figure out what is draining your cell phone battery. Trying to read and comprehend the language in any written contract. Staying clothed when you really just want to be naked. -------------------- Lineups: TWINS Brian Dozier 2B Danny Santana LF Joe Mauer 1B Miguel Sano RF Trevor Plouffe 3B Byung-ho Park DH Eduardo Escobar SS Kurt Suzuki C Byron Buxton CF Santana P ROYALS Alcides Escobar SS Mike Moustakas 3B Lorenzo Cain CF Eric Hosmer 1B Kendrys Morales DH Alex Gordon LF Salvador Perez C Omar Infante 2B Reymond Fuentes RF Ventura P Game-time forecast: Mostly sunny/partly cloudy, 0% chance of precipitation, winds at 15 mph from NNW. Click here to view the article