Riverbrian

KEPL Oops... Not quite

DOZIER

ROSARIO

Gee must be a Gee Whiz

Stats declining or over paid or whatever. Mauer still has sweet looking swing.

GROSSMAN

If we could just find a pitching coach who can get these guys to hang zeroes every inning. We'd have a chance to get back into this thing.

I feel a lot better when Duffey is pitching like someone we'd like pitching for us.

According to Molitor: He's hesitant to put Sano in the field because his elbow has a little soreness to it. From that I'm putting two and two together and this means Vargas can't DH because Sano can only do that and Vargas can't play 1B unless Mauer sits and Mauer needs development time to get ready for 2017.

If it works I have no problem if the advice comes from the P.A. announcer.

According to my eye test. If Buxton is well done... Grossman is medium rare. He catches what he gets to but he isn't getting to balls he isn't supposed to. If Sano could have gotten to a Grossman level of defense in the OF it would have been ok but Grossman isn't Sano at the plate. As for the question... should Grossman be a part of our plans? Yes... because we don't have anyone better at the moment. I reserve the right revise that statement based anyone better showing up.

I suppose... I just don't like turning on the TV... and seeing that. It's like waking up in the morning and banging your shin on the night stand.

See The Royals D would make that... Oops

Is this happening because I turned the TV on. Should I turn it off? Or is it Molitor, Ryan and Antony's Fault. I'll take the blame if I have to.

I don't know how Gibson isn't chewing the leather off his glove in anger between the Plouffe Bloop and the Grossman Bloop. Neither of those balls land with the Royals D.

Dear Trevor Plouffe, That ball dropping cost us two runs and the lead. Winners make that play!!! Other than that... How's the wife and kids? Sincerly, Riverbrian

I turn on the TV and I see a bases loaded bloop barely passed the infield dirt and Plouffe playing a fairly deep 3B... intermittently back pedaling. I had to rewind and look at it about 10 times and it bothered me more each time. That ball has no business landing. When you look at how much ground Polanco covered to almost get to the ball and the small amount of ground that Plouffe would have had to cover. I understand that he obviously mis-judged it...but... That ball was misplayed as badly as any of the dropped pop ups by Sano.

Before the rains came… things were looking good for the Twins and pretty bad for the Astros. A 5-0 Twins lead interrupted by rain on Wednesday shook out into 25 runs for the Astros in one single Thursday. Talk about an extreme change of fortune. The Twins now must shake it off and face the Royals at Target Field. They are a good opponent for our Twins because they haven’t been able to shake things off this entire year. I know what you are thinking… clearly… this was a shaky intro. Here are some things to think about: Before the rains came… things were looking good for the Twins and pretty bad for the Astros. A 5-0 Twins lead interrupted by rain on Wednesday shook out into 25 runs for the Astros in one single Thursday. Talk about an extreme change of fortune. The Twins now must shake it off and face the Royals at Target Field. They are a good opponent for our Twins because they haven’t been able to shake things off this entire year. I know what you are thinking… clearly… this was a shaky intro. Here are some things to think about: 1. Milkshakes – To be perfectly clear… you can go to McDonald's and get one of those shakes coming out of a machine and it’s still pretty good. But… but… McDonald's has to know that it can’t compete with a milkshake when it’s done as God intended… and that’s hand scooped premium ice cream into a steel cup. Money can’t buy you love but it can buy you a damn good milkshake. 2.A Leaf – Shaking like a leaf? A leaf? I guess I don’t spend enough time looking at trees. I think the person who came up with this idiom was probably stuck in a tree and couldn’t see anything but leaves. If Grandma was in the tree with him… the saying would be much different. 3. Earthquakes – Now these things can really do some shaking. I have no idea what it’s like to be in one but I’ve heard stories. Tectonic plates are always slowing moving and sometimes they get stuck. This causes a sudden release of energy which causes the ground to shake and destroys all the painstaking work done on etch-a-sketches in a 50 mile radius. 4. Tambourines – If the lead singer of a band can’t play guitar, the other band members insist on them doing something else to help fill out the sound. During instrumental sections of songs… the lead singer would leave the stage… get a drink of something… pick up women… whatever they wanted to do… it was time off that the others couldn’t get without a noticeable musical hole. This was why the tambourine was invented. Either make that lead singer shake this thing for additional sound or shove his head through the drum in jealousy. Turns out… most audiences would rather see the latter. 5. Handshakes – Let’s be honest… these things are a little out of control. They are conducted during greetings and departures and in moments of congratulations, the reaching of agreements, signs of sportsmanship and point to point germ passing. Sometimes you hug… sometimes you shake hands... sometimes one person goes for the hug while the other goes for the handshake. This can cause a brief period of awkwardness and longer periods dealing with a lawsuit depending on where your hand lands while reaching forward toward the incoming hugger. ____________________ Lineups: ROYALS Paulo Orlando [R) CF Cheslor Cuthbert [R) 3B Lorenzo Cain [R) RF Eric Hosmer (L) 1B Kendrys Morales (S) DH Salvador Perez [R) C Alex Gordon (L) LF Alcides Escobar [R) SS Raul Mondesi (S) 2B Yordano Ventura [R) P TWINS Brian Dozier [R) 2B Joe Mauer (L) 1B Max Kepler (L) RF Miguel Sano [R) DH Eddie Rosario (L) CF Trevor Plouffe [R) 3B Jorge Polanco (S) SS Kurt Suzuki [R) C Robbie Grossman (S) LF Kyle Gibson [R) P Forecast: Well, currently it's 70s and rainy. It will eventually move out. Could be a delayed start, but we'll get this one in. View full article

I get that... The big Cuban is arriving soon. But I guess they are also crying Uncle. Reed or White are also under performing and could have been sent down. It was just last year... Gomez was a playoff boost by addition. Now hes a playoff boost by subtraction. There's a chance I'm reading the right amount.

When Gomez was traded... I was pissed. Gomez was terrible for us but he was so young. I thought the Twins should have been more patient. That Speed... That Power... That Arm... The Kid had the potential to be one of the best and I was pissed about the trade. I also suspected that the Twins wouldn't have given him up if there wasn't something not right about him. Even as he started to show his potential with the Brewers... you saw glimpses of the behavior that may have led to the Twins moving on... yet... I was still pissed because of all that talent. Now that the Astros have DFA'd him... I'm finally at peace and now for the first time since the trade. I officially forgive the Twins for the Gomez/Hardy deal. The Astros don't DFA him unless there is something else going on. It's a bad year but you don't bounce that kind of talent because of one bad year. The Twins should Pass!!! I can't believe I just said that

Jeez You mashed them together. That can't be helpful for us.

I played Pursue the Pennant in my youth.

Breaking News: Major League Baseball has just announced that Dallas Kuechel will not win the Cy Young Award this year.

I bet it doesn't have the Correa Error Edit: Ok... Ignore this Move On... Nothing to see here.