Riverbrian

Sox were struggling... The control will come. It wasn't a bad inning all in all. If he does this every inning... Then they will bad innings.

Instead of walking Abreu to get to Dunn... Just plunking him is more efficient.

The Flagstead Estate was upset when Cecil Cooper reached it. I assume they are more resigned to it now.

You know you've achieved when you mentioned in the same breath as Ira Flagstead

Ok Phil Hughes time

There all on Lake Shore Drive or the Kennedy Expressway... The Dan Ryan.... Eisenhower... Reagan. They actually left for today's game on Sunday.

Nope... It's only against Policy for ChiTown to try picking up Brian Dozier due to conflict of interest.

I wish I could type in even smaller print.

Well I trust you but it'll be hard for me since I always base my real life decisions on Jim Croce.

Damn your Windy City anyway... Too many White Sox Fans!!! Traffic Hell!!! The worst 5 days of my life was attempting to drive through Chicago at 1MPH. I hit the Chicago Suburbs at 12Noon on a Monday and reached Indiana at 5PM on Friday.

In the baddest part of town? If you go down there... You better just beware.

You are trying to hurt me by saying that. I trust the Twins Front office but I fail to understand how Bartlett makes more sense over Bonofacio.

Watch this space for the starting lineups from the lovely and talented ChiTown Thanks, Bri! Gametime weather forecast: cloudy, rainy, windy, 35 degrees. My umbrella blew out on me 3 times just walking 2 blocks to the bus stop this morning. Just sayin'. Rain is to abate around 3 ... we'll see if we have a delayed game or a postponed game. Twins: SP, Hughes Dozier 2B Mauer DH Willingham LF Colabello 1B Plouffe 3B Arcia RF Pinto C Hicks CF Escobar SS Sox: SP, Quintana Eaton CF Semien 3B Abreu 1B Gunn DH Garcia RF De Aza LF Ramirez SS Flowers C Garcia 2B ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Things to Think About: 1. Blown Games -- Why the Twins don't have a win in the win column is tough to explain. It's easy to point to key moments and plays not being made but there are 9 innings of ball played(sometimes 10 11 or more innings) and a game is decided at any time. The goats were obvious yesterday. Perkins wasn't sharp... Plouffe couldn't make a basic play... Deduno was a little wild and Suzuki wasn't used to catching a Deduno. It comes down to making plays and the Twins didn't make plays. Today is a new day!!! 2. Aaron Hicks -- He looks confident right now... He looks like he knows what he's doing... If he was 0 fer right now... I'd say the same thing. He looks like he belongs. It's only two games but I think he could be a professional hitter. 3. Phil Hughes -- Today we get our first look at Phil Hughes in a regular season Twins uniform. Phil Hughes was always considered a top prospect until he hit the majors. His time in Yankee stadium was unrealized potential. Is that potential still there? If it is we got a steal with his contract. If not... He will end up... in the way. The answer to the question starts today. 4. Adam Dunn -- The White Sox spent some money on this guy. They also spent some money on Abreu. Gardy has been walking Abreu to get to Dunn. That kinda suggests that the Twins may feel that the White Sox overspent acquiring Dunn or it suggests that the Twins underspent in pursuit of Abreu. Is it respect for Abreu or lack of respect for Dunn... I think it's the latter. 5. April 3rd -- On this date in 1868... A Hawaiian surfs a 50 foot tidal wave... The largest wave ever surfed. The wave was created by a Chief Belly Flop. On this date in 1966... Tom Seaver signed with the Mets for a $50K bonus. He bought a real nice refrigerator with the bonus money. On this date in 1985... Vic Elliot pocketed 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours. Vic was pissed about it because the player he was playing against kept taking his made shots out and throwing them back on the table forcing Vic to make shots over and over again. His opponent eventually won using this method.

Amen!!!

Been watching this Paxton kid with Seattle as well. Seattle might be happy with him.

They'll probably develop a spinner down the line and hitters will probably be grateful for that. I've seen Wacha drop some decent curves in the past but it's his Change that makes him extremely good. Nice velocity change with a healthy drop to it. Cingrani... I can't figure out but his 90MPH fastball looks 99 and he moves it around brilliantly.

I've been watching these two pitch tonight. What a great pitchers duel. After 5 innings... No runs allowed... 3 hits combined. A couple Real Deal Arms in my opinion.

My wife is worried that she might get worried.

My opinion... Spring training doesnt mean much and it probably shouldn't in my opinion because players can go cold at anytime. If Bartlett made the team it couldn't be based on his ST performance... To me... That means that Bartlett made the team the moment he signed the minor league deal.

Me To!!! I found a 20 dollar bill in my pants pocket today. I was pretty excited but then I remembered... It used to be a $50.

I might surprise you here. I've stated many times about my dissatisfaction over Plouffe's play. Mainly the issue was his feet. He doesn't move them like an infielder should. On the play in question... He moved his feet... Charged the ball. So... Hats off to Plouffe... I consider that progress. Of course... He one hopped the catcher from with the play right in front of him. How do you do that? Plouffe... Has to hit homers or his existence in the majors is questionable. Deduno... They couldn't hit him... He's hard to hit and apparently hard for Suzuki to catch as well. Terrible baseball... Not MLB quality on the 2nd day of April. But I'm liking Hicks Right Now... He's looking confident. I might pick him up for fantasy baseball team. He might be here to stay.

You are allowed to do that just use a different adjective or a less aggressive approach... That would be my suggestion. "Adding Bartlett to the roster is questionable". "I don't understand why they kept Bartlett". "I wouldn't have kept Bartlett and Neither would my Wife". Saying its stupid leads to the food fights and things get out of control. Using the word stupid lacks respect. We've seen what the word stupid leads to so just avoid saying its stupid... Even if it's stupid.

Deduno and Dozier are mine. They play the game the way I like it played... With passion.

I would have used Pinto for Florimon in that situation. Escobar as pinch runner if Pinto reaches.

When Auto Correct takes a perfectly fine word like runs and changes it to rubs. We are one step closer to the Terminator scenario coming to life.