twinsnorth49

Likely what Martinez and Tabler aredoing.

Dammit!!......Luckily I have ultimate editing power.

That's it, you are banned.

Don't you start....

Well that's a lot of white noise, luckily Nunez is raking it at the moment but I'll take Bautista's lifetime .859 OPS over 'Duardo's .697 OPS and let somebody else worry about stealing bases.

Twins DH, Eduardo Nunez Blue Jays DH Jose Bautista ....sigh.

Completely agree with the lack of patience last night, didn't quite understand it. Plouffe's first two at bats consisted of two swings and two quick weak pop flies, one in foul territory. Also agree they need one of Arcia or Vargas to be that big bat presence and punish mistakes.

Gametime Weather forecast (courtesy The Weather Network) Partly sunny, 15 degrees celsius, wind NW 21 km/h, 10% pop. Cola how could you? Well that sucked, didn’t it? Damn you to hell Mark Buehrle! And what kind of appreciation for giving you your MLB start was that Chris Colabello? Thanks for nothing. Two run shot in the top of the 9th against 18 for 18 closer Glen Perkins? Tip of the hat to the big Italian there, but don’t expect me to be happy for him, I’d of been a lot happier for him if he did it against the Royals or the Tigers. Cola might be a real feel good story and all but I wasn’t feeling so good about him last night, argh! Not much to remember from last night beyond the first, the Twins really have to revisit this whole no more runs after the first 3 innings game plan. On to today’s proceedings. Kyle Gibson (4-3, 2.72 ERA…..wut?) takes the hill vs highly touted prospect and fellow sinkerballer Aaron Sanchez (4-4, 3.98 ERA) in this afternoon’s tilt. After pretty much letting all the horses out of the stable last night, Mollie will be hoping for Gibson to go deep into the game again today. Kyle is coming off a 1 run, 4 hit, 8 inning gem against the ChiSox last week. Sanchez, who debuted with the Jays last summer in the bullpen got off to a rocky start in his first season as a starter this year. After failing to go 6 innings in his first 5 starts he’s been better of late going at least 7 innings in 3 of his last 4. Sanchez has struggled mightily with walks however, giving up a league leading 5.88/9. Patience with the bats will be the order of the day for the Twins this afternoon. Ok, so we’re in second place, not so bad, right? A win today and a KC loss and we’re back on top again. Let’s get to a few thoughts on today’s game. 1. Homeruns, the Jays sure showed the value of the long ball last night, tying the game in short order with Donaldson’s 3 run blast and then vaulting ahead just as quickly on Cola’s 2 run shot in the ninth. The Twins also have some mashers lurking in the shadows and it’s only a matter of time before we see one if not more of them again………..right?.......amiright??? 2. Rain, I like rain when I’m sleeping, I don’t like rain when I’m looking forward to watching baseball, especially on a Friday night with nothing better to do. I’ve only been in a few rain delays as a paying spectator fortunately. I rather enjoyed my first Target Field rain delay a few years back against the Tigers. Firstly, it allowed me to tour the beer stations throughout the concourse, a very valuable extra curricular activity. I’ve since decided that the rail right next to the Fulton’s stand in RF might be my favourite section of the park. Secondly, it allowed a couple of extra hours to adequately prepare me to watch Carl Pavano get shelled by the Tigers. 3. Blue Jays, the Blue Jay is a rather noisy, obnoxious bird, not unlike it’s teams fans……..I kid (not really). As the provincial bird of Prince Edward Island, it makes perfect sense that it is the namesake of the local baseball team in Toronto……?????? Actually the Jays name came from a fan contest to name the team and Blue Jays was selected as the winner, mainly as a tie in to the popular (and absolutely terrible) Labatt’s Blue beer that owner Labatt’s Breweries produced. The other reason stemmed from the team deciding that most people would recognize a Blue Jay, so therefore they could steal competing Expos fans who still had no idea what their team’s logo was. 4. Bullpens, while the Twins bull pen has been inexplicably resilient I would prefer not to see much of it today. I’d like to see the Jays bullpen however, it’s one of the worst in the league, only converting on 6 of 15 save opportunities this far and allowing a whopping .790 OPS in close games in the seventh or later. After watching Colabello crush our spirits last night, I think beating up Liam Hendriks to put the game away would be good karma today. The Twins basically just have to somehow score 5 runs as Toronto is a paltry 2-23 when they score less than that many. 5. Saturdays, I think Saturdays, especially Saturdays in late May are for lazing around, not having to get up for work, drinking coffee all morning and for, well, watching baseball. This belief however was severely tested when I got married and pretty much ceased to be anything but a fantasy when I had children. I love my kids of course (and my wife….whoops), and I suppose it’s my own fault for introducing them to baseball and softball, so that I now have no time to watch baseball on weekends because I am instead out on some godforsaken diamond coaching them and their little friends on how to hit the ball “before” it hits the catcher’s glove. Oh well, it doesn’t last forever I’m told, so I’ll enjoy every minute of it and thanks to the wonderful invention of the PVR, I will enjoy Saturday afternoon baseball on Saturday night, by myself, in peace and quiet. Besides, it could be winter, whereupon I’d be coaching the same little buggers in some godforsaken hockey rink freezing my ass off. Enjoy the game everyone…….Go Twins………please…………my sister is insufferable already, let alone if the Jays win this series! Starting Lineups Twins 1. Brian Dozier 2B 2. Eduardo Nunez DH 3. Joe Mauer 1B 4. Trevor Plouffe 3B 5. Eddie Rosario RF 6. Eduardo Escobar LF 7. Chris Herrmann C 8. Aaron Hicks CF 9. Danny Santana SS SP Kyle Gibson (4-3, 2.72 ERA) Blue Jays 1. Jose Reyes SS 2. Josh Donaldson 3B 3. Jose Bautista DH 4. Edwin Encarnacion 1B 5. Russell Martin C 6. Chris Colabello LF 7. Ezequiel Carerra RF 8. Kevin Pillar CF 9. Ryan Goins 2B SP Aaron Sanchez (4-4, 3.98 ERA)

Man, SportsCentre is going to be intolerable tonight, going to have to hit the mute button.

The Blue Jays win the game with about 1.42km's worth of HR's tonight, dang it.

Silly American, that's not where the u goes.

I know some who are, I'll call him.

I go my own way, but that works too.

For me it is

Fify,

Edit, spelling, fify

Buehrle is like the goddamn energizer bunny. Either that or he has a rubber arm. Can the Twins check that?

It's 13 degrees celsius at Target. Much higher in fahrenheit.

You should know better by now.

Man that air must be heavy, that was laced!

Blue Jays announcers trying to jinx us.

Wow, defence, gotta love it!

Same pitch called a strike on Mauer....shut up Gibbons.

Torii's also goes out without the damp.