Riverbrian

I really like the Galaxy... I'm just trying to decide if it makes sense to get it... When I've already invested so much time and effort Into my IPad. Everything on my IPad will just ICloud over to my IPhone.

Thats the kinda country I like... Taylor Swift... No Way... BR549... I love em. The name taken from Junior Samples

Anyway you can compare the Apps with the IPhone.

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It was bizarre... Hub and spoke travel... My calendar kept getting filled up. I'd sit down for a second and someone would make me go somewhere. Wife: What are you doing? Me: I was gonna sit down and watch the Twins. Wife: Umm... I don't think so. You have to put the cat to sleep. It's tonight... Did you forget? Me: The cat? She's strong and healthy. Why are we... Wife: Her cat food went up two cents a can. Me: Oh... OK... (Next Night) wife: What are you doing? Me: I was gonna sit down and watch the Twins Wife: My great Aunt Agnes is in town... We are going out to dinner. Me: Seriously... Agnes... I didn't know she was still around. How old is she? Wife: I'm not sure... She was born in 1910... 80 or Something like that. Me: She's 103??? Wife: She wants to dancing after Me: OK... (next Night) Wife: What are you doing?

OK... I'm getting a smartphone... I really like the Samsung Galaxy... But I have an IPad and Apps that can be shared on the iPhone. Is there any reason... To get the Galaxy?

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GLORM!!! Where Ya Been? Now you type -- Ummm right here... I haven't left since April.

I didn't like 5 so much but my Son thought it was funny.

By definition... It means the Twins are not going to play worse.

Thats Easy... Christiaan Bernard.

You just gotta believe... With Presley and Pinto... The killer Pees. You just gotta believe!!!

Wait a Sec... Rotoworld lied to me... That wasn't Pelfey Pitching!!! Actually... It was a 1-2-3 inning... So I'm not sure it was Hendriks either.

How bout that... I'm sitting on my couch... Watching a game.

A's: SP Jarrod Parker CF Crisp 3B Donaldson DH Lowrie RF Moss LF Cespedes 2B Callaspo 1B Barton C Vogt SS Sogard Twins: SP Mike Pelfrey CF Presley C Pinto 2B Dozier RF Arcia DH Doumit LF Willingham 3B Plouffe 1B Parmelee SS Florimon Things to Think About: 1. Think about Jarrod Parker... He's unbeaten in 18 starts... He hasn't lost since May 22nd... That was right about the time that I dropped him in my fantasy league. It was early May and Parker was 1-5 with a 7 plus ERA. He's worked that baby down to 3.57. The Twins can stop that streak tonight!!! 2. Think about the A's lineup... I have some radical thinking and it's square pegs into Twins Daily round holes at times. One of my radical thoughts is this... If you are good enough to make a major league roster... You are good enough to win games. The A's are there to support this radical theory of mine. Take a look at the lineup that they are putting out. With the exception of Cespedes and maybe Lowrie... Everybody in the A's lineup is off the scrap heap... Crisp was tossed aside by the Red Sox for a Royals relief pitcher and allowed to walk by the Royals. Josh Donaldson was a slightly above average Catching Prospect before finding his stride as a 3B. The Pirates and Phillies both gave up on Moss... Callaspo was basically a default 3B for the Angels... Barton is glove first 1B... Vogt was never really voted for and Sogard wears glasses. They compete and they win games... I like Ron Gardenhire and I think Gardy has been short suited with talent in the past few years but when I watch the A's... I tend to think that Ron is running out of motivational steam. 3. Think about the A's Pitching... Another radical theory that I have is this... Starting Pitching is the most important thing and the 2nd most important thing is starting pitching... The third most important thing is starting pitching... The 4th most important thing is decent ball park food. The A's have starting pitching that gives them a chance to win... Colon, Parker and Griffin have been a solid 3 for them. Rookies Gray and Straily have held serve and who knows what will come from Anderson but he's shown talent in the past when healthy. Billy Beane keeps making deals for young arms from other organizations and this pipeline is working. The Twins will compete again when the rotation has quality arms... It won't happen when Buxton and Sano show up... It will happen when the Arms can compete and the rest of the team plays along. Radical thinking... I know. 4. Think about the Twins lineup... Ron is shaking things up... Willingham and Plouffe in the 6 and 7... If Willingham doesn't start figuring things out... he will be batting in the 11 spot soon. 5. Think about Darkness... Last night around 3AM... I woke up and remembered that I forgot to do something at work. I needed my blackberry to take care of it and I left the blackberry on the end table in the living room. It was dark and I didn't want to wake my family so I left the lights off and tried to find the end table. It isn't easy finding stuff in total darkness but I'm able to report that my shin found the end table. When I yelled **** after banging my shin. My wife and family woke up. In the end... I guess I could have turned on the light.

I'm on the road today(Monday) and I won't be able to post the lineups. If someone could post them it would be appreciated. Its been an oddly busy two weeks for me and this should be the last of it. I'm hoping to be able to actually watch the Twins play and Game thread on Tuesday. Maybe even catch up to what's happening on Twins Daily.

Angels: SP Jered Weaver Twins: SP Pedro Hernandez Things to Think About: 1. Think about Napoleon Dynamite... I do when Pedro pitches. Vote for Pedro!!! If he can throw a baseball like that creepy guy can throw a steak. Some Angels may get knocked off of their Bikes. 2. Think about the Angels... The Twins are facing the over compensation world tour. The Blue Jays roll into town followed by the Angels. 3. Think about Jered Weaver... He throws across his body... Some pitching coach in his development... Either... Couldn't change his delivery... Didn't care to change his delivery or Weaver just wanted his funky style. 4 Think about Josh Hamilton... There was a time when I thought Josh was the best player in the game... Now I'm starting to think he's an old man before he should be. 5. Think about reading material... I don't read a lot... I like to read at night because it puts me to sleep... However since it puts me to sleep... I rarely get to finish a book. Awhile back our family took a trip and stayed at a friends house for a night. I was having trouble sleeping so I got up to look around for a book to read. After finding one... I started reading and it was written in this strange chronological literary style. The Chapters were titled Thursday January 12... Friday January 13 and so forth. The book was depressing... Each chapter seemed to have an expression of hopelessness from a female narrator. She worried about the kids growing up in a heartless world... the meaning of life... she seemed to have problems with nearly everyone she came across... someone was too uppity... someone was to nosey... someone was too aloof and so on... The book was also sexual... Intimate details of her desire... Graphic at times. Honest thoughts about the narrator's body... Her feeling of inadequacy... Her lack of fulfillment from her husband. Her unrequited lusting of another man who works at Starbucks that she would patronize daily. When I woke up the next morning... My friends wife asked how I slept and I said fine after I found a book to read. I asked where they found such an interesting book with no title and handwritten. I thought the concept was clever and I was eager to go over every detail that I read. I was surprised to see that she looked horrified as I discussed what I was reading last night and I was finally interrupted when my friend yelled out "You don't even drink Coffee"!!! I knew it was time to gather the family and thank them for the hospitality and head on down the highway.

Blue Jays: SP Esmil Rogers Twins: SP Andrew Albers 1. If someone could post the lineups... It would be appreciated... And Things to think about. Thank You

Blue Jays: SP JA Happ SS Reyes 2B Kawasaki DH Encarnacion 1B Lind 3B Lawrie RF Sierra C Arencebia CF Gose LF Pillar Twins: SP Kevin Correia CF Presley RF Mastroianni 2B Dozier DH Willingham 3B Plouffe RF Arcia 1B Colabello C Pinto SS Florimon Things to Think About: 1. Umm... Think about things to think about... I'm struggling right now with thought number one... How am I gonna come up with 5. 2. Think about Kevin Correia... I know... A large percentage of Twins Daily followers have a distaste for Kevin Correia... I don't hate him and I've appreciated him. He's taken the ball every 5th day... He's had some real nice starts and a bunch of average starts and a couple of stinkers... About what I expected and I happy with that. I wasn't thinking he'd pitch like Kershaw and he has been much better than Blackburn... Correia would look a lot better with better arms around him in the rotation. 3. Think about Joe Mauer... Still not back from his concussion... Still no timetable for his return... No Setbacks reported... I guess he's just sitting around taking it day by day and hanging out with his new born Twins. 4. Think about Ron Gardenhire... He needs 7 wins to reach 1,000... 23 Games left to play... If he doesn't do it this year... He may not do it... He'll probably be back... but who knows... He might not be back. I'd like to see him get there. 5. Think about Flashlights... They make great holders for dead batteries. They fit perfectly.

Blue Jays: SP RA Dickey SS Reyes LF Davis DH Encarnacion 1B Lind 3B Lawrie RF Sierra 2B Goins CF Gose C Thole Twins: SP Mike Pelfrey CF Presley RF Thomas 2B Dozier DH Willingham 3B Plouffe LF Arcia 1B Colabello C Pinto SS Florimon Things to Think About: 1. Think About Canada... It's an invasion from Canada... You know it's just a matter of time before Canada Citizens en masse blow past the border and starts claiming warmer American land for themselves. No reason to guard the current border. They will swing around and go straight after Florida. A warm state and two hockey teams. It's only a matter of time. Think about the Canadian Dollar... The Blue Jays spent a ton on the 2013 squad... High expectations eh?... High expectations were not met. The Blue Jays are a big slump away from drafting before the Twins. 3. Think about RF or LF... Where does Arcia Play? I understand that Thomas can move around a little. So can Arcia I guess. 4. Think about Brett Lawrie... He hasn't hit like expected but the guy is a treat to watch play 3B. Somebody get Trevor Plouffe a notepad and have him take notes. 5. Think about Fishing... Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day... Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

I just watched the highlights of today's game... Plouffe busted his butt down the line on a close play at first and dove head first into the bag. You probably shouldn't dive into 1B but he was a collision course with Carter and he had to dive to avoid that. Anyway... I appreciated him getting his jersey dirty. I'll let him come a few feet out of my doghouse.

Twins: SP Liam Hendriks CF Presley LF Mastroianni 2B Dozier DH Doumit 3B Plouffe RF Arcia 1B Colabello C Herrmann SS Florimon Astros: SP Jordan Lyles SS Villar 2B Altuve LF Crowe 3B Wallace 1B Carter DH Krauss CF Barnes RF Hoes C Pagnozzi Things to Think About: 1. Think About Matt Pagnozzi... I didn't even know he was still playing baseball. Kind of like... I didn't know Lew Ford was still playing baseball when he showed up out of the blue last year with the Orioles. 2. Think about Liam Hendriks... We still want him to develop into a decent pitcher... don't we? We haven't given up on him... Have We? His last start was a decent one against Texas... Hopefully he can have another one in Houston. 3. Think about Brian Dozier... It is September and Brian Dozier is the leading home run hitter on the team. Let me repeat that... It is September and Brian Dozier is the leading home run hitter on the team. 4. Think about Josh Willingham... It is September and Josh Willingham is not the leading home run hitter on the team... Let me repeat that... It is September and Josh Willingham is not the leading home run hitter on the team. 5. Think about Patience... They say that good things come to those who wait... However... doesn't it also mean that they are good things left over from the fantastic things that came to those who got there first.

Twins: SP Pedro Hernandez CF Presley LF Mastroianni 2B Dozier DH Willingham 3B Plouffe 1B Colabello RF Arcia C Pinto SS Florimon Astros: SP Jarred Cosart DH Grossman 2B Altuve LF Crowe 1B Carter 3B Wallace RF Hoes CF Barnes SS Villar C Clark Things to Think About: 1. Think About Justin Morneau... He hasn't been in the lineup Sunday or Monday and he isn't in the lineup today. I haven't heard of any injuries so I assume that he ended up in the dog house some how.... Ummm... Yeah I know... Just Joking... Like I tend to do. 2. Think about Oswaldo... He's back and batting 7th... Nice to have the big part of our future back in the present. 3. Think about Pinto... Start Number Two... Start Number one was alright... Hopefully that continues or escalates into terrific. 4. Think about Cosart... This guy was a highly thought of prospect... He wasn't supposed to be as amazing as he has been... He was supposed to be OK. He's been hanging up zero's and he is giving the Houston faithful something to look forward to. 5. Think about Shoe Size... My wife and I were discussing the new Iphone yesterday. She made the comment that I'm the type of personality that just wants new gadgets and when I said "That isn't true"... She said "If the Shoe Fits"... To which I replied... "I will get another one just like it".

5. Think about Riverbrian... Who was getting around to it.

Twins: SP Kevin Correia CF Presley RF Mastroianni 2B Dozier DH Willingham 3B Plouffe 1B Colabello LF Thomas C Pinto SS Bernier Rangers: SP Travis Blackley CF Martin SS Profar 2B Kinsler DH Beltre RF Rios LF Adduci 3B Baker 1B Moreland C Soto Things to Think About: 1. Think About Alex Presley... Batting Leadoff and Playing CF... OK... Let's see how he does. 2. Think About Josmil Pinto... Lot of us have been waiting to see this guy... OK... I know I'm pumped to see him play... Let's see how he does. 3. Think about Brian Dozier... 15 Dingers and that moves him from leadoff to the #3 Spot. We should all be Dozier Fans at this point. 4. Think about Clete Thomas... Still in the lineup... Too Funny... In LF today. 5. Think about Stats... I spent yesterday doing some research and the results were interesting. Did you know that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the Population?