Riverbrian

I'm already sold on Deduno... I'm not concerned in the slightest. Deduno will be in the stsrting rotation in 2014. I'll wait for the rest of you to join me.

First off... I like aggressive baserunning. I get frustrated with careful station to station baseball. Putting pressure on the defense to make a throw and tag is the only way to play in my mind. However... That doesn't mean suicidal either. The throw was not a good throw... It was slightly off line and it was kind of loopie. My guess would be poor arm with Schuck based on that throw... However... that doesn't matter when looking at the play. Vavra's mistake wasn't mathatical from a percentage standpoint. Vavra's mistake was not noticing or caring that Schuck had the ball and was into his crow hop as Hicks was touching third. An average high school player could have made that throw. Ben Revere could have made that throw. Sending Hicks, Byron Buxton, Jose Reyes, Mike Trout, Emilio Bonafacio or anyone was suicidal. If Shuck was still moving away from the throw while fielding it... Yeah... Send him because Schuck would have had to stop his momentum and set his feet before throwing. The time it takes to do that would have given Hicks half the distance depending on the mo he needed to stop. Decisions to take the extra base should not be based on arm strength... They should be based on how the fielder is positioned when fielding. If he has the ball in his hands and cocked... and you haven't crossed third... It's stop sign time. Every MLB player can throw the ball faster than anybody can run. That's right Revere can throw the ball faster than Ben Revere can run. Vavra blew it... It happens... I forgive him. Now... Once Vavra blows it and sends the runner. Forget the slide... Hicks needed to PLOW the catcher. Show his coaches and teammates and fans that he can play the game hard and a catcher ain't getting in his way. If you don't plow the catcher... I wonder about you and I'm wondering about Hicks. Yeah... You can get hurt... You can hurt running into outfield walls or swinging at an inside pitch. It's baseball... Play the game and play it hard. This ain't little league. Plow the catcher!!! I'm kinda pissed that he didnt. The Twins lack this toughness in my opinion. Its about time somebody showed it.

Twins: SP Kyle Gibson 2B Dozier 3B Carroll C Mauer 1B Morneau RF Doumit DH Colabello LF Thomas CF Hicks SS Florimon Angels: SP Tommy Hanson LF Shuck CF Trout DH Pujols 2B Kendrick 3B Callaspo 1B Trumbo C Conger RF Cowgill SS Aybar Things to think about for tonight's game: 1. Think about Kyle Gibson... When going through a struggling season such as this one. Rookie pitchers with potential become our dreams. Let's hope this dream is a good one. 2. Think about Pacific Time... I'm supposed to be watching baseball at 7:10 Central at the latest. I'm supposed to be in bed around 11PM. California messes up everything. 3. Think about Tommy Hanson... A shadow of the once highly thought of Braves prospect. The guy used to throw upper 90 bullets. Now he looks like he is pitching hurt perpetually. He's almost painful to watch. The fastball is much slower. 4. Think about Ryan Doumit... .174 in his past 23 at bats... PM to Ryan Doumit. Knock it off!!! 5. Think about toothbrushes... The modern day toothbrush was invented in by William Addis in England... That's right England... If it was invented anywhere else... It would be called a Teethbrush.

Just a American/Canadian compare and contrast.

I read somewhere that Puzo and Coppola originally named the character "Vestibule" Roth but it didnt sound Meyer Lansky enough.

Amen!!!

Bon Scott told me that "during" is a real bad idea.

Hyman Roth on the mound... "I'd give 4 million just to be able to take a piss without it hurting".

She's still trying to piece together the other night when she woke up in a different hotel room and couldn't remember what time zone she was in.

One "Y" too many.

Deduno will be a 2014 Twin

This one should go in your signature. That one was extra funny!!!

As Faith No More once Stated: "What Is It"?

O' Hare is a pretty small airport. You just might.

Downs is a negative last name... Not just negative but plural as well.

Tom Selleck

Collin Peterson... Destroying all evidence.

True Story... Many Many Years ago... I'm flying back from Baltimore... I got a window seat... I like window seats. Garmin hadn't taken over the navigation world yet so I brought an atlas with to help me find my way around Baltimore. As I'm watching the highways below I decided to pass the time by trying to follow the highways and rivers below on my atlas. I'm doing great... I pretty much know exactly what cities we fly over... The skies are clear. I'm concentrating pretty hard because it isn't that easy. But because I'm concentrating so hard... I don't say a single word to the guy sitting next to me. We are over West Virginia... When I glance over at him... And he is looking at me with this WTH are you doing look. I finally say something... Just felt the need to explain... "I'm actually following the highways... We are over West Virginia... Pretty desolate directly under us". The guy says to me... "I like West Virginia... They keep to themselves". And then he turned away. I was younger... He was about 120 pounds... I was like twice his size... I decided that... I should explain every thing I saw on the ground the rest of the way in retaliation.

Umm!!! No sign of Bert in this photo of ChiTown.

Pollock shaped Shrimp... The things they can do... And yet we still haven't cured cancer.

Chances are.... Those shrimp ain't fresh.

i don't find that funny at all!!!

It's late at night... I blew it... I should have typed. Teacher turns to Ashbury and asks him... "How Many Kissable Areas on a Woman's Body"? Ashbury Says... 9. Lipstick Chief yells out "Winnah"

You gotta plow.

LOL... That's OK... I was the teacher.