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Sorry. I wasn't paying attention... "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" "Strange things are afoot at the circle K?" "This means something..." (still on my mind due to pumpkin carving) "To every question, there is always a simple, easy to understand, wrong answer." (i forget who that is attributed to, but i guess i should probably put it into quotes as well...

I'm oK with a strike out, too. No worse than monday, so i think we're in familiar territory at this point. Oh, Circus Boy Update, as it were: 3-0 Detroit after 3.

Come on! One more ball for Arcia to catch, and we're out of the inning...

"No-sac-fly-for-you" Arcia makes the catch in shallow left, charging well.

My impression was that was his strength... Not that i've paid as close attention as should. That said, something seems to be afoot in the game: he has runners at 2nd and 3rd with no out.

I continue to be surprised though, that things are usually easier than i expected when i actually try to do them. Due to #4, and the apparently inadvertent possessive apostrophe to start #5, i postulated perhaps #5 should be "grammars." But please do not remove the elegant ambiguity of #4. One assumes the wife is fully capable of explaining.

More flies.

Respectfully submit a more accurate statement would be "disproof, by counter example"? QED.

Game is on! (Posting rate reduced, as i'll be mildly distracted following the game...)

Agnes Nutter, i am not. (A kneejerk mildly oblique reference to the most recent book i finished reading. Nearly a month ago at this point... Which i didn't make at the time in favor of sleep. RIP Terry Pratchett. ) But then again, not saying anything, is perhaps the simplest way to be less wrong. Anyway, scouring the radar feeds, it would seem the game is on?

Thanks a bunch! I was a little leery of the source where i got 'em: through the notes link on mlb.com, as it said "today's lineup" and the pitchers listed reflected that, but amongst "upcoming games", april 8th was still listed... But as it is consistent with the gameday link what just appeared, i can rest assured i didn't mess up. On the other hand, a quick look at wikipedia enlightened me that argon is more prevalent than carbon dioxide. I should rectify that omission. It is very noble of the argon lobby not to have taken me to task.

Line ups here (as i seem to have mislaid my "edit this post" link) Minnesota: 1. Santana, D, SS 2. Dozier, B, 2B 3. Mauer, J, 1B 4. Hunter, T, RF 5. Vargas, K, DH 6. Plouffe, T, 3B 7. Arcia, O, LF 8. Suzuki, K, C 9. Schafer, J, CF Detroit: 1. Gose, A, CF 2. Kinsler, I, 2B 3. Cabrera, M, 1B 4. Martinez, V, DH 5. Martinez, J, RF 6. Cespedes, Y, LF 7. Castellanos, N, 3B 8. Avila, A, C 9. Iglesias, J, SS And current weather forecast i believe to be: 78% chance of nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% other gases, primarily carbon dioxide and water vapor. As we are at the bottom of most atmospheric conditions, and most of that 1% being denser, We may have disproportionally higher chance of that.

"Can you help us out with game threads?" Yes. (Sorry, i could only resist that response for so long. Though i think i thought it every time i saw the topic.)

Game Thread, Twins @ Tigers, 4/8 @ 12:08pm CT First! (Sorry, just had to get it out of my system) Weather: (Forecast from weather.gov... which calls Detroit "4 miles s hamtramck mi" now that's humor!) Showers likely, possible thunderstorms after noon. Cloudy, high about 47. Er, line ups: ---to be filled in either by me if i get up in time, or some kindly moderator type saving my bacon. (if posting this without full information is a rash move, then would saving my bacon be a rasher one?) Twins Pitching: Ricky Nolasco 1.Santana, D, SS 2.Dozier, B, 2B 3.Mauer, J, 1B 4.Hunter, T, RF 5.Vargas, K, DH 6.Plouffe, T, 3B 7.Arcia, O, LF 8.Suzuki, K, C 9.Schafer, J, CF Tigers Pitching: Anibal Sanchez 1.Gose, A, CF 2.Kinsler, I, 2B 3.Cabrera, M, 1B 4.Martinez, V, DH 5.Martinez, J, RF 6.Cespedes, Y, LF 7.Castellanos, N, 3B 8.Avila, A, C 9.Iglesias, J, SS And now for the game thread ignition sequence: 1) Previously... Now that opening day hullabaloo has blown over, we can get back to normal work. What are the take-aways? (Me? Oh, i was hoping you'd answer it. But here goes) Hughes had one inning he regretted. Graham got his jitters out of the way. A little hitting 'gainst good pitching and fielding on the Twins part, but not much to speak of. They ran on Hughes. I don't expect it to be too big a concern going forward. More importantly, a fine game thread! Welcome back y'all. 1a) for extra credit: If the Twins tied Monday's game in the top of the 9th. What position does Escobar field in the bottom? 2) Mulligans. I'm so glad i get second chances. So not that i have any say in the matter, but i'm on board with giving Nolasco a second chance to give a first impression. Or is that a first chance to give a second impression? What was my point again? I know i had one somewhere. Wait. Can i try that again? No? Oh well. Live and Learn. (Gosh, Riverbrian, this is harder than it looks.) 3) Growth. If the days of August are dog days, might not the days of April be puppy days? Bright eyed and bushy tailed. Are these the formative games for the season? Who needs to learn what? Discuss. 4) The weather. At the time of this posting, possible thunderstorms are predicted. But assuming nature doesn't provide the thunder, which Twin will provide it? Any guesses? My (hopefully reasonable, but not obvious) guesses: (and feel free to play along at home, kids) The thunder (Homerun) Mauer. Rain (Run) Robinson. Clouds (RBI) Santana. Er, Danny, that is. Hail (Extra Base hit) Vargas. Lightning (Stolen Base) Nunez. A crack in the metaphor (Sac Fly) Escobar. Tornado (Bunt Single) Arcia. At this point the metaphor has snapped and injured the writer, who will take a moment to wipe the egg off his face. When it rains, it pours! 5) A school bus metaphor... Someone's driving the bus. And indeed someone is in the front counting people, making sure no one is left behind, and that we're all wearing our safety belts. And of course most of the world is probably in the middle, passing the time until we get there. But i imagine the game threads are the people in the back of the bus, where the bumps and turns are hardest felt. It's the exciting place to be. Anyway, you'll have to figure out if it is an apt metaphor. In the meantime, thanks for an opportunity to do some good ol' fashion backseat driving! Will that get it up and running? I hope so, but if not, i'm no stranger to popping the clutch...

Twins doubling seems fitting. Makes me think of the old doublemint commercials.

Nice scoop by Gibson to complete another double play. After a bloop to right that fell.

3-6-1 Double play erases the errant Plouffe throw to start the game and end that half the inning, sandwiching a long fly ball to hunter.

Are they still saying "Cowboy up"? "Boston Strong" is a little bit better, i think. I still get a kick anytime i think of Mientkiewicz and the ball what broke the curse.

Is it still denial if you're right?

Ah, that makes sense he'd be off folk's lists. Thanks!

They ever figure out who it was?

Nice infield fielding (infielding?) by Red Sox. If either of a couple of balls squeaked through, Twins coulda scored another run.

I hadn't thought of that. With shift on and runner at third, the person covering third base could be... the pitcher! Now i gotta see a pick off sometime!

Stereophon... stereoscop... posting in stereo. That's what it is. To find a literary reference... "Aye, with both eyes at once — this and that. The testimony of one eye is naught — he may lie. But when it is corroborated by the other, it is good evidence that none may gainsay. Here are both present in court, ready to swear to him!" (if more people do it, will we find out what seeing through bug eyes is like?) Anyway, back to the game, yeah! Escobar is doin' right by himself! 5-2 it is (even if someone says so before me)

Herrmann comes through past a diving Pedroia to plate the run!