This the Ruddigore game thread intro. Everyone is encouraged to be melodtramatic about everything that happens. The slightest misplay send you into horrendous depression, or make routine plays lift you into exuberant over confidence. Or if you'd like to emphasize the mellow part of melodrama... That's good too.
For those not familiar with it, Ruddigore (the Witches Curse) is Gilbert and Sullivan's parody of melodrama. If you have nothing better to do in the 4 hours before the game starts, go and watch a youtube version of it. It has a bad baronet, a haunting picture galory, and the epitomy of patter songs with the final line "this particularly rapid unintelligible patter isn't generally heard, and if it is, it doesn't matter".
Ruddigore has Rose Maybud as a main character that makes me think of Citizen Kane, with "Rosebud" as his dying word, and the inspiration for Citizen Kane was William Randolph Hurst who somehow was involved with yellow journalism? I'm not entirely sure why that seemed relevant to a game thread, but happy 20th of April, everyone!
Hopefully the questions involved with that train of thought as it recedes in the distance will have been an entertaining distraction from all the questions on the field. What were those questions? I haven't been paying close enough attention to recall... Who is this Paddock, and was he worth a Rooker? Were Urshela and Sanchez worth losing Donaldson or dealing with the Yankees? When do we get to see Buxton again?
Minnesota Lineup:
0. Chris Paddack (R) P
1. Jorge Polanco (S) 2B
2. Carlos Correa (R) SS
3. Gio Urshela (R) 3B
4. Kyle Garlick (R) RF
5. Gary Sanchez (R) C
6. Trevor Larnach (L) LF
7. Miguel Sano (R) 1B
8. Ryan Jeffers (R) DH
9. Gilberto Celestino (R) CF
Kansas City (Missouri) Lineup
0. Daniel Lynch (L) P
1. Whit Merrifield (R) RF
2. Nicky Lopez (L) 2B
3. Bobby Witt Jr. (R) 3B
4. Salvador Perez (R) DH
5. Andrew Benintendi (L) LF
6. Hunter Dozier (R) 1B
7. Adalberto Mondesi (S) SS
8. Michael A. Taylor (R) CF
9. Cam Gallagher (R) C
And sadly i will miss most of the game... Blame Into the Woods.