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"She'll make point five past lightspeed. She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid. I've made a lot of special modifications myself."

He was hustling to make it into second too, as the left fielder played the bounce pretty much perfectly, and fired a gem in that he just beat.

Wow! That's a good play to come up on, a throw home to cutdown the runner!

Thanks for providing the depth to the analogy i wasn't up to doin'. Do ya mind if we jump on your back today? I think you're drivin' the bus... Perhaps Ervin Santana as Bran? Anyway, on to watchin' the game!

Game Thread, Twins vs. White Sox, 4/30 @ 7:10pm CT Game of Threads... 0. Weather and line ups: Mostly Sunny, high of 68F. Winds calm (as of 3pm) Visibility of 10 miles (as reported at the airport) which should be just enough to see where that Vargas home run lands. Line Ups... Chicgo White Sox: Pitching: Chris Sale {L} 1. Adam Eaton {L} CF 2. Alexei Ramirez {R} SS 3. Melky Cabrera {S} LF 4. Jose Abreu {R} 1B 5. Adam LaRoche {L} DH 6. Avisail Garcia {R} RF 7. Conor Gillaspie {L} 3B 8. Tyler Flowers {R} C 9. Micah Johnson {L} 2B Minnesota Twins: Pitching: Trevor May {R} 1. Brian Dozier {R} 2B 2. Torii Hunter {R} RF 3. Joe Mauer {L} 1B 4. Trevor Plouffe {R} 3B 5. Kurt Suzuki {R} C 6. Kennys Vargas {S} DH 7. Eduardo Escobar {S} LF 8. Shane Robinson {R} CF 9. Danny Santana {S} SS 1. Mauer is coming. Mauer's been good so far. But one expects dominance from one's super stars, if that's what they are. But don't worry. Mauer himself will execute. What do you think will be his biggest contribution to this game? (Same deal for whoever you think is the Mauer equivalent playing for Chicago, for extra credit) 2. A Song of Fire 'n Ice Wild are on fire. Rather, they're not playin' too shabbily. They play on ice. (clever, no?) But their next game doesn't start until tomorrow, so let us not be distracted. Fire usually is associated with hot, or in baseball, streakiness of an approved variety. Ice, streakiness which is less approved of. Who will end up (when the game ends) with the longest streak regarding... i) hits. ii) runs. iii) Ks. iv) outs. v) errors (or poor play resulting in runs, in your subjective opinion) 3. Mayday. With all the players getting injured yesterday, and after a couple of starters go down at the beginning of the season, one might say they were um, dropping like flies. But we're the Twins. We do the little things right. Like not letting flies drop. So neither is Mayday the international distress signal (like SOS ... --- ... which i still think gets used? So we're still in the SOS age*...) but the first day of May in the outside world, or (finally getting to the point) the day Trevor May pitches. He's been hurling pretty good of late, or so i hear, but he'll really have to be on his game if the Twins can put one over on the White Sox tonight, as they're trotting out Chris Sale. Oh yeah... Which pitcher gets the most called third strikes, Sale o' May**? (but of course you're not really limited to starters) *sausage **salami I really should have worked in more luncheon meats, but oh well. Left like this, one can only hope the wurst is yet to come... 4. Draft day. Not that i'm paying attention, but i vaguely recall the Vikings being perennial last minute movers regarding draft picks. I'm still not paying attention, but couldn't help but notice all that AD speculation. I'm not wondering what will happen there, but on a more long term antithetical question... Who do folk think will the next Twins pitcher to be involved in a trade? 5. Improve vice. I had kinda meant to put together baseball questions coming out of the game of thrones series, but that fell apart pretty quickly. I suppose i could salvage it, by comparing the Royals and the Tigers and the other central teams to various factions in that series, and asking who will come out on top. And then i thought it was just easier to end everything with a question as a sort of challenge to the reader to pick and well, making a Game of it. But all and all, i just kinda petered out. But a good manager changes on the spur of the moment, as the game dictates. I don't wanna know how the Vikings trade their picks on draft day, or if AD ends up going for something, but rather What do ya figure Molitor's most meaningful move will be today? And these perhaps are just as interesting to ask after the fact, so no need to show how smart ya are, and predict everything. But of course you can do that too. Oh, and credit where 'tis due: Game of Threads idea came from a thread earlier this week where glunn mentioned the mother of dragons. I'm sure someone will eventually do the idea justice...

Hmmm... Does this mean the Twins are starting to figure a few things out? I like it.

If it works once... I like where this is going!

It is something useful to have in your back pocket for when you and 10 kids are back from a hike, and van/bus is late to pick ya up.

(Goony takes) balls but not strikes.

Oswaldo updates the Circus Boy, bringing in Mauer for 3-1 lead. As expected?

You got it. The canonical example is the moon, but not the sun.

It is good to prove them (and us) wrong, isn't it? Looks to be a quick game. Hope we can match the run sooner...

Reminds me of the ol' summer camp puzzle figurin' out why Goony likes some stuff, but not other things. Anyone else know it?

He's hanging tough at least...

He throws someone out. (He probably shouldn't be stealing himself... most of the time) But yeah. I am happy too.

Settlin' down to watch. Did i miss anything? Good game thread starter by the way.

Really hope that is not a euphemism for something... To my expectations, euphemisms are not likely to be "boring"... Unless bored is also a euphemism. Anyway, speaking of comics, this is the image i thought of at the time... "ChiTown, i'm bored. What plaything can you offer me today?" https://youtu.be/Xfc_CrwiE4Y?t=7s Oh, and by the way, i think we won. ChiTown, hope your heartburn is better!

ftfy. Obviously your not a bowler...

Yes.

Esco-barrels up that payoff pitch, with Nunez running with the pitch. Oswaldo, thy name is Redemption...

punch line contest for the night. (crickets)

Is it worth learning the rules for cricket where they have a less subjective strike zone equivalent?

Is he a "ToysRus kid"? Meh, sometime we'll get over these base running blunders... (But bases don't run!?)

2 hits for Arcia. I like.

Third out pays for all...