Riverbrian

If my last name was Showalter... My kid would be named Walter... Without Question.

You gotta go ways back for that. I think it was Sir Walter Raleigh

Add Wile E. Coyote And a Box from Acme

Fantastic Show... It was must see TV as a kid.

Nope... It was the perfect amount of thought... It was hilarious........... umm... in a bad joke kind of way.

Shoot... I didn't notice and I missed it. Post 12K was supposed to contain references to Top Gun... Switzerland and Dogs that don't look like Dogs.

Good Wiggle!!! Wiggled right out of that sucker.

OK... Bark... Now we need Sano in full hunting gear with a machine gun standing over the bird.

I love bad jokes!!!

Everybody is pretty crabby in Minnesota right now. I know this because I can hear them all screaming in Michigan. It's hard to keep things relaxed when the bullpen coughed up two nice sized leads at Yankee stadium. On paper it isn't over yet and Baltimore is the team we face next... and Baltimore is one of the teams that we have to catch. It's kinda funny how the Twins have become major players in the AL East race: the Yankees... the Blue Jays... and now the Orioles. That's the top of the of the division and right now we are helping all of them by nicely getting swept. The Bullpen has struggled all year... It was nice to add Jepsen but we needed more help; and now Perkins is hurt and we really don't have an 8th inning guy to slide into the 9th inning guy. We got a lot of 4th inning guys and this is why a lot of Twins Fans are little bit crabby. 1. Baltimore -- A major city on America's East Coast that lies in very close proximity to Washington DC and Philadelphia and Delaware so nobody knows that it's there. Visit Baltimore, the official tourism department, has been working hard to raise the profile of the forgotten location with clever campaigns. In 2013... "Baltimore: Don't just Drive By" In 2014... "Baltimore: Come see why there are so many Drive By's". This year in 2015, tourism numbers increased from 17 to 36 with the new slogan... "Baltimore: We've got Crabs". Those blue crabs are tasty even if they come with the side effect of severe itching. 2. The Orioles -- Whoever had the idea of putting a sweet cream filling in between two chocolate wafers hit a home run. Everybody loves those Oriole Cookies. On the package it says that a single serving size is two cookies, so I'm just letting everybody know that I have the ability to eat 75 serving sizes in one sitting... provided I have enough milk. Of course the Baseball team was named after the cookie because the pitching staff routinely serves them up to hitters. There is nothing like an Oriole Cookie. 3. The Playoff Chase -- Well, now I've done it... I am publicly mentioning that the Twins are still in the playoff chase. The Twins are and nobody in Minnesota believes it. As a matter of fact... back when the Twins were 5 games ahead for the final wild card spot... nobody in Minnesota actually believed it. Here are some of things Minnesotans have said when told that the Twins are in contention. Melvin Anderson from Red Wing: "Paul Molitor... are you kidding me? This is all his fault. I can't understand why they hired him in the first place." Josh Olson from Baxter: "Playoff contention means nothing... This team is last in K/9 and DRS." Steve Nelson from Bloomington: "The Vikings are starting soon." Brian Peterson from Proctor: "I know the Gophers wish they were playing Hockey in the NCHC." Randy Jenson from Moorhead: "Yeah but I don't have a single Twins player on my fantasy team so I don't watch." Ole Larson from Oslo: "It doesn't matter what I say... Someone is going to twist my words into a joke about my wife and me." Lena Larson from Oslo: "Ole... Da Turn Signals are Vorking... No Der Not... Yes Day are... no der not... yes day are... no der not... yes... no... yes... no." Terry Ryan from 1 Twins Way: "Playoff Contention Smatention... Blah Blah Blah... What's the use?" 4. Miguel Sano -- We may be upset with the bullpen... We may be upset with Joe Mauer... We may be upset with Shane Robinson... but... not many are upset with Miquel Sano. Nine home runs now in 137 at bats... that's a home run every 15.22222 at bats for the rookie. To put that in perspective... Sano is out pacing Jonathan Schoop who has 9 home runs in 153 at bats. 5. Catching Crabs -- I went to Baltimore just a few months ago on my epic road trip. To get a true Baltimore experience I decided to do some crabbing. I rented a boat and went out on the Chesapeake Bay and I caught one. Much to my surprise you need a license and I didn't have one. A DNR official floated by and came on to my boat. He asked for my license and was ready to handcuff me when I couldn't produce one. I told him that I wasn't crabbing... I was just boating which caused him to point at my crab and ask, "What's that?" I told him that it was my Pet Crab and to prove it was my pet... I told him that I would put him in the water and he would come back to me. The DNR guy agreed to witness this... So I did and the crab didn't come back. This caused the DNR official to say... "So Where's your Crab?" and I replied, "What Crab?" -------------------- Game-time forecast: 82 deg F, humid, 69% chance of precipitation (thunderstorms), winds from the SSE at 8mph. Hmm, I see a doubleheader in our future perhaps. Lineups: TWINS Buxton CF Dozier 2B Mauer 1B Sano DH Plouffe 3B Rosario LF Hunter RF Suzuki C Escobar SS Duffey P ORIOLES Machado 3B Parra RF Jones CF Davis 1B Wieters C Schoop 2B Clevenger DH Hardy SS Urretia LF Gonzalez P Play ball! Go Twins! Click here to view the article

Tell Him Hey Back... From Me

If I only had a feather Along with a Camera (Cell Phone) and the time to post it on you tube.

No you shouldn't be... but... you should be terrified of running out of water in Tucson and having to move to Mississippi.

Nope... I have people who do that for me.

Nope... If Bark was here... He'd have Bark Art up already for a visual.

GLORM!!! My old friend... How's the MRS? Now you Type: Been Missing my beer for quite some time.

That's the post of the night

I agree with you... I've been concerned about the bullpen for quite some time and I'm shocked that Terry Ryan didn't address it. If I was Molitor I wouldn't be comfortable with any option at this point. But in the end...It's baseball. Sometimes 7 to 5 leads in the 6th don't hold.

Your horses are running loose. May want to grip them a little tighter.

I know... I was up at 5AM this morning to drive my Boys to the Kalamazoo Airport. That's like Midnight to Chief. And to think... I was actually happy that it was an Eastern Time Zone Start so I get to bed early and catch up on those ZZZZ's i've been owed.

You still talk to her? Obviously she isn't invited to Thanksgiving anymore.

And probably more monuments of Joe Mauer Alone.

Not enough... Because there is still a lot of hell left in it.

It's nice to be differentiated from a nectar dispensing organ.