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I share in your distaste of all things Bison as my alma mater was stampeded by them for one of their football championships.

You're right, you don't do that. But your eye line when you're back there and that trained should be gauged to the point that both pitches are strikes. That being said, he royally hosed Shields on what should have been strike 3 to Polanco and he just has zero consistency thus far.

If you call Rosario out on a bender in that place, you have to ring up Smith on a fastball in the same spot.

Rough night for the 2B umpire....And how the hell can the home plate umpire call that pitch on Rosario for strike 3? That particular pitch is NEVER a strike when it ends where it did in the catcher's glove.

Ohhhhhhh, Vargas smh

About 10 pitches more than necessary but nice work getting out of that jam.

Don't look now but Buxton is now at .250

Baseball rules prohibit a manager from batting a guy in every slot of the lineup.

This is just another shining example of why I despise the word 'expectations' and how they are attached to a lot of things. Bux got all of this hype because of his athletic prowess and his performance at the HS level and the low minors. Then you have one-time generational talents come along like Harper and Trout and all of a sudden, people look at Buxton like, 'oh, he's going to be our guy to do that as soon as he gets here'. Maybe that would have happened if he hadn't lost nearly that entire year to injuries right as he's in the apex of his minor league development. I cringed hard when the Twins traded Hicks because I knew that they'd unnecessarily rush Buxton to the majors in the hope of him becoming that next Trout/Stanton/Mookie Betts. He comes up and now that year of development he lost gets played out at the Major League level and he looks lost at the plate. We're just now starting to see what we have always hoped to see. Credit goes to two things -- Rowson for continuing to work with him and being patient enough to bring him long and Buxton himself for never getting down and also not carrying his offensive issues into the field with him. I've said it before and I'll keep saying it -- I'll take Buxton scuffling at the plate if he's going to keep saving runs all over center field. There has rarely been a time when I see a ball hit to the outfield that I don't think Bux is gonna somehow run it down. That's gotta give a pitcher a ton of confidence when he has that out there behind him.

Regurgitates chicken parm dinner only to eat it again.....yeah, that's kinda gross. Let's do this again tomorrow!

So Belisle is up in the pen. Why wouldn't you just leave Hildy in there to finish?

BIG BUX, BIG BUX!!!

Unless it's breakfast, McD's is so inedible to me anymore. If I have to go fast, I'd prefer a sandwich shop or a chicken place like a chic-fil-a or zaxby's (two southern staples).

Chicken Parm here!!

Thank God for Bux in CF. I don't care if he bats 160, he saves them so many runs.

I was going to college in Baltimore when the Colts won the Grey Cup in the small era of the mid-90s when the CFL invaded the US. They somehow squeezed a 55-yard line and bigger endzones into Memorial Stadium.

You have a free swinger like Gomez 0-2 and you screw around with him instead of just going at him and now look what happens.

The Jack Links Sasquatch guy is perfect thru 2 innings.

One of my favorites -- those who can call balls & strikes from an angle or from behind a fence or from 200 feet away. Come on out and strap on the gear and let's see how you do.

Sooooooo, Molitor must have pulled different names out of the hat tonite when he made out the lineup card. What would have been wrong with Mauer leading off again? Worked pretty well yesterday.

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Ball cut across the inside edge of the plate. Umpire is standing right there in that position over the inside portion of the plate. If he can't see that, then he shouldn't be in the majors. However, he does have a bit of a low strike tonite. That should guarantee Castro looking at a strike 3 there sometime tonite.

You're exactly right. They ran the white flag up the pole when there's still a fighting chance at the WC. But we're the minority that wants to try to win now when everyone else wants to say they can't win this year but maybe they will next year or in 19. All of these so-called prospects that we picked up might as well be college kids since we won't see them until 2020. A lot of good that does us now.

But they were trying to develop Busenitz as a closer!!! C'mon, you were looking for development, weren't you?

Given that a bunch of Twins went to play Pebble Beach before going to Oakland, you'd think they were ready to get the 9-irons out to hit these low pitches instead of taking them.