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WOOHOOO! (Not about the Twins lol, but we're doing okay.) Apparently Trey Vavra's home run was inside the park!!!!!!!!!!!

Trey Vavra homered AGAIN!

So...what's it called when the Pirates' organist plays a tune that resembles something between Offenbach's Can Can and Saint-Saens' Tortues?

It's the ideas that JB has that are so much better than Brian's (sorry - no offense, but it's my duty to stand by my fellow women). Keep your position. I attempted to compile my interpretation of a gorilla throwing a baked potato at Dan Gladden. And decided that in the future I'm going to stick with the more primitive art form of pencil and paper.

Now that is Perfection with a capitol http://content.sportslogos.net/logos/54/71/full/2ip8r9d63fggwhza63j7rqygv.gif Let's just hope this doesn't jinx us.

Well then, I guess we'll have to rely on the Tigers slumping.

I've been doing a lot of thinking. At the end of April, I was in a state of deep mourning because the Twins had a worse record than we had the year before at that time, and last year we ended the season with a 70-92 record. It didn't look too hopeful for any Twins fans, really. But the thing I didn't stop to think about was that we had played 2 less games and hadn't lost any more than we had last year (April 2014's record was 12-12 and April 2015's record was 10-12). However, the tables turned rather quickly. The Twins streak at the end of this April was W1, and that carried into May for a 5 game winning streak, beating last year's longest winning streak by 1 and placing us 2 games above .500 ball, also beating last year's best record by 1. Last year we ended the month of April with a streak of L1, and that carried over into May for a 4 game losing streak. At this time last year, the Twins record stood at 21-21. This year, we are 21-17. So, while at the end of April we had already lost as many games as we had the year before with a worse record, the Twins have now won as many games as we had on this date last year, but we have a better record. To me, that's pretty exciting. It used to be that every year I would have great hopes for the Twins in April, but that would die a little month by month until by the time August rolled around, I would have predicted a worse record for the Twins than we actually ended up with on the season. This year I didn't have much hope in April, but now that it's May and our record on the month is 11-5, it seems like the Twins are set to win 90 games. But maybe it's just the opposite of the last 4 years - I'll get more and more hope worked up for the team until by August I'll predict a better record for the Twins than we'll actually end up with. But, depending on what I predict, that may not turn out to be too horrible of a deal at all. I also noticed something fairly interesting about road games within our division. The first was a 3 game series against Detroit to start the season, and we were swept. Now, obviously everyone's going to remember that, but I'm putting it down for posterity, so bear with me. The next was a 3 game series in Chicago in which we won 1 game. Then we had that series against KC when they were still bickering with every team they played except us, and we lost 1 out of 3 games. Then we finally won a series on the road about a week ago when we were in Cleveland, but the very next series was in Detroit, and we lost 2 out of 3 games there. However, we do seem to be improving on the road, and after a series in Pittsburgh (I didn't bother to think much about that series since it's our first interleague play this year), we're back in Chicago, taking on the Sox in a 3 game series. Now this is where we get to the interesting part: we don't have another road game within our division until July, when we'll go to KC for a 4 game series. Then we have another wait until we play Cleveland in August, and then again we won't have another until a series each with KC, Chicago, and Detroit, and 2 series with Cleveland in September. So, while our worst play has been in division road games, soon we'll have gotten past the worst of it until September - a truly crucial month for any contending team - and then, ironically, the team we play twice is the Indians, who we have so far fared the best against. So, let's just sit back and take a breather while we can...and enjoy some more Twins wins.

How sad.

Don't we just wish?! But apparently it's Jeff Locke instead of the Vanimal: http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Jeff+Locke+Houston+Texans+v+Minnesota+Vikings+GJTKqSlDCMyl.jpg

Ash, Hrbowski and I are making plans to break the news to our mom that she needs to bring me down to see Trey Vavra and possibly Trevor Hildenberger. Wish me the very best of luck. ETA: That was directed to Ash. He is not part of the group, though that would be great fun. I picked out the day: https://www.ticketreturn.com/prod2/Buy.asp?EventID=135380#.VVkO2WCH_zI It has to be soon, or Trey will be promoted right out from under my nose.

Get a kindly moderator to change it to "Jam a Giant Pitchfork Up Duensing's Seat."

Here we go. I don't even remember hearing about that one. And I thought that Sochi was bad enough already.

And Luke Westphal picks up his second win of the season! I didn't even realize that he was set to get the win. Just a quick overview of his stats on the year: W-L: 2-2 ERA: 4.71 G: 8 GS: 4 IP: 21 SO: 15 BB: 8

Um...you mean we're not even good enough to make the amateur Olympic team?

I'm not quite sure what's supposed to be going on here.

What do we say at this point? - We can't win EVERY day...? But then, neither should the Tigers or Royals.

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Yes!!

If we had anything really important to say, it would be said in private.

No? You and I can always think of something entertaining to talk about. The problem is, if we're going to talk alone, we don't exactly have to put it on Twins Daily. Not all of our conversations need to be documented.

This thread is eerily silent. http://25.media.tumblr.com/2059ae9f17a0239541c871e2803c5848/tumblr_mweoobhLsi1smd5xdo1_500.gif

I just right-swiped my trackpad to put up the time since I was checking to see what the inning was - or trying to, that is. I think that Twins games should be Microsoft's next feature on their charms bar.

At least Danny and Cory know how to be entertaining no matter what.

Let's see if I can make a post on a phone: What doesn't your roommate listen to?

Oh, I think you missed the beginning (or the middle, as the case may be) of this thread. I'm just trying to apply the jinx.