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Outer, as Bert has pointed out 97 times, Duffey hasn't pitched inside all night.

I think that last pitch was about half a cm off the exact middle of the plate.

A triple to put us up by 1.

Wut?!

Ok, you can have the low strike or the high strike, but you can't have both. Unless the ump and starting pitcher are both from Venezuela.

When your DH hits 7th and his name is Robbie Grossman, it's not a good omen. Unless of course.....

Thumbs up....nice pic!

Funny, that was copy and pasted from Baseball Press. They've since corrected it, and so have I. If that's what you want to call it.

Yeah...uh....no.

I love Hoagies. That is all.

Captains log, stardate 94307.18, My negative self is under restraint in sickbay. My own indecisiveness growing. My force of will steadily weakening. On the planet, condition critical. And so here we are, 165 days into what is still on track to be the worst season in franchise history since the arrival of the team in the TC's. The words of Captain James T. Kirk, pretty much epitomize my current state of being when it comes to watching this team. I wonder if, in like a reverse kind of way, the '82 Twins will start assembling like the '72 Dolphins do. Their record of futility in Twins lore is in jeopardy and their immortality threatened. My guess is corks will be popped if the day comes that the 2016 team wins it's 61st game, thus ensuring the '82 team remains in the history books another year. Things to think about. 1. The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. Was never more true after last nights win. Mollie is likely still shaking his head on how that team beat the Tigers 8-1. Back to the drawing board today, tough task. 2. Job interviews. The Twins are in the midst of conducting interviews for a very important role with the team. Jim Pohlad is more than up to the challenge and has been diligently preparing. Don't worry folks, he's got this. 3. Brian Dozier. I recently read an old BP scouting report on Dozier. If serves as a pretty good reminder of the often futile nature of predicting young talent. Dozier should take advantage of what is a golden opportunity. He should be able to hit .270-.280, but the question is what he will do around the batting average. Over a full season, 5-10 home runs and 10-15 stolen bases are realistic expectations 4. BREAKING NEWS, 2017 TWINS SCHEDULE RELEASED!! A brief perusal of the schedule shows 22 of the first 25 games against divisional foes, so in other words the playoff suspense should be fleeting. 5. TD Pub Crawl See all that are attending there, probably two of each of you. Lineups. Twins Bobby Mitchell CF John Castino 2B Tom Brunansky RF Kent Hrbek 1B Gary Ward LF Gary Gaetti 3B Greg Wells DH Lenny Faedo SS Ray Smith C Starting Pitcher Jack O' Connor Texas Rangers George Wright CF Pete O'Brian LF Buddy Bell 3B Larry Parrish RF Dave Hostetler 1B Lamar Johnson DH Jim Sundberg C Mike Richardt 2B Bucky Dent SS Starting pitcher John Matlack Ok, Ok, for realsies Twins 1. Brian Dozier ® 2B 2. Jorge Polanco (S) SS 3. Max Kepler (L) RF 4. Kennys Vargas (S) 1B 5. Kurt Suzuki ® C 6. Eduardo Escobar (S) 3B 7. Robbie Grossman (S) DH 8. Logan Schafer (L) LF 9. Byron Buxton ® CF SP. Tyler Duffey Tigers 1. Ian Kinsler ® 2B 2. Cameron Maybin ® CF 3. Miguel Cabrera ® 1B 4. Victor Martinez (S) DH 5. J.D. Martinez ® RF 6. Justin Upton ® LF 7. James McCann ® C 8. Andrew Romine (S) 3B 9. Jose Iglesias ® SS SP. Anibal Sanchez

I think Sano, Buxton, Kepler and Berrios are reasonable to consider as the team's building blocks in the next few years. I'm not as convinced of Polanco, but after last night, maybe so. None of them are untouchable for the right package of players, expecially if one of those players will undoubtedly be the best player of his generation. That's not a hard decision to make however.

You people watch too much television.

Awesome! Enjoy.

Actually TSN was outbid 2 years ago by Sportsnet and now just has minor coverage, in fact other than playoffs they only have deals in two places, Montreal and Winnipeg, which expire in a couple of years. I don't believe they have rights to the World Cup as its an NHL event. They pretty much just do IIHF stuff.

Suck it Kesler.

Is this your new game? Now that TR has left the building it's rip on Sano and any other struggling young player in order to blindly defend Mollie? Lose credibility? Good grief man, have you seen this team play all year long?

Wait, the goal posts are moving here. Nobody said it shouldn't be news, they just said it shouldn't be an ongoing issue or some indication of her worthiness to be POTUS.

You've got potential kid. Stay by the phone.

I'm in.

Yeah, at least people in small towns have an excuse. I'll never understand someone in a city with options eating at places like that.

Fair ball.

Who trades anything for Papa Murphys pizza? Better yet, what the hell were you doing with Papa Murphys pizza in the first place?

I don't know how they're going to top Naked and Afraid Africa, but I can't wait to find out.

Maybe someday they'll be the same thing.......hopefully.