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That ball had some carry... GO TWINS!!!!

If Ervin Santana calls Yankee Stadium a joke (which it is) I wonder what he is going to call Tropicana? A garbage dump? I guess we can have a contest to see who can come up with the best name.

The Rays announcers are so disrespectful... The O's and Yankees were very respectful about the Twins, even if they obviously thought their teams were better (which they should), but the Rays are as disrespectful as Hawk, but not as funny. These are the worst announcers I have ever heard.

It seems interesting that a lot of players are using batting stances like they do in Japan. I have noticed Greg Bird and John Jaso have both used them on this road trip.

Currently I am reading The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill; it is an excellent read, and the first of six in a series he wrote on WW2.

I was listening to Sunday Night Baseball last night, and Jim Bowden had some interesting stuff to say about it, including how Andrew McCutchen is better than it makes him out to be, because the Pirates have a groundball staff that also gets a fair amount of k's, and since Marte and Polanco are also very good he will let them take flyballs that he could get, which makes his DRS go down. So even if errors are the dumbest stat out there, (which they probably are) DRS really isn't going to tell you if this guy is a Gold Glover, even if it helps. Oh, and another thing, is that I have actually heard Danny Gladden talking about what a dumb stat errors are, but he references to the stat frequently, so it probably has something to with habit since these guys having been announcing for a longtime.

Robinson has been a very good addition to this team, he gives the Twins pluck.

Didn't matter.

Apparently Kurt Suzuki has been on fire this season, and the Twins have a great outfield defense...

Tillman and Gibson seem like they have a similar build.

Machado is so cocky...

These "discussions" drive people away because they are sick of people who whine and complain because they think they know more about baseball than TR and company, and when people are acting like that nobody wants to stay around because both sides start acting immature. At least that is my view on it.

That was a nice hit!

Nice hitting, Joe!

That was a great play by Dozier.

Evilday is going to pitch a perfect game, and he won't be the first Yankee to do it against the Twins.

Greg Bird reminds me of Nishioka.

Gutless team.

Which one would choose Jesse Ventura to be his running mate?

I'll tell you what, you may not think this is the greatest country in the world, but I wouldn't live in any other country unless we get a third term of the same failed policies back in the White House.

Nice start for Duffey.

Bad Guys: Jose Enrique Ramirez 2B Francisco Miguel Lindor SS Yan Gomes DH Carlos Santana 1B Giovanny Urshela 3B Abraham Almonte CF Roberto Pérez C Lonnie David Chisenhall RF Michael Anthony Avilés LF Good Guys: Aaron Michael Hicks CF James Brian Dozier 2B Joseph Patrick Mauer C Miguel Ángel Sanó Jean DH Trevor Patrick Plouffe 3B Torii Kedar Hunter RF Eddie Manuel Rosario LF Christopher Ryan Herrmann C Eduardo José Escobar SS

Lineups and weather... This afternoon: Sunny and hot, with a high near 94. Heat index values as high as 97. South wind around 15 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 73. South wind 10 to 15 mph.

Game Thread, Twins Vs. Indians, 8/15 @ 6:10pm CT‏ Going for Chief Wahoo - Josh Tomlin (0-0, ERA --) Going for the Ted Cruz Bear - Tyler Duffey (0-1, ERA 27.00) Things to think about: Being absent - I have been absent from TD for about 6 weeks now, (you don't need to know why, but it could have something to do with nerd sniping) but it seems that a lot has happened since I was gone, such as Kevin Jepsen arriving, Spirit of Vodka Dave going to the Happy Hunting Grounds, and the Twins falling well behind the Royals, but I happen to have some top secret information about the Jepsen trade, so I'll get to that below. The Trade - On July 29th, a Tampa Bay Rays scout was kidnapped by members of the Twins front office, the reason for this was because Neil Allen had told Terry Ryan that the Rays were using some new found scientific information to help them alter their pitchers to become strikeout machines, but since it will take to long to go about explaining how it works I will go on to what happened during the afternoon of July 30th. On the afternoon of July 30th, the Twins front office members were discussing things. This is what happened, according to my highly reliable source. Terry Ryan was standing in front of his desk, while Rob Antony was sitting in a chair across the room, with an intern standing to his right, after Antony informed Ryan that the kidnapping had been successful, Ryan replied, "This is wonderful news! Everything is positioning nicely." Antony then said, "Think we will have any luck getting our guest to spill his guts?" Ryan replied, "His guts will spill, one way or another." At this moment the scout, who was behind Antony's desk shouts, "Never! I'll never talk!" To which Ryan says, "You are beginning to irk me! Rays scout, I am irked! And that will not do." Then Ryan said, "Has the package arrived? I think it would make our dear friend a bit more communicative." Rob Antony then said, "I'm sending an intern to pick it up." And with that Ryan replied "Gooorgeous!! Have him bring it to me." On July 31st the intern returned with the Tampa Bay supercomputer, and Ryan and Antony immediately got to work, trying to find out how to make their pitchers strikeout machines, but what they didn't know, was that Matt Silverman had sent Kevin Jepsen to retrieve his computer, and as he opened the door to the Twins bullpen (which is where they were operating from), Terry turned around and said, "Such devotion, it brings tears to my eyes!" And as Jepsen stepped into the trap that is the Twins bullpen Ryan said, "Your GM's discoveries could be of great use to our organization." Meanwhile Matt Silverman was watching via a drone, and he immediately called Ryan and told him the he could keep Jepsen and the supercomputer if he would send Chih-wei Hu and Alexis Tapia in return, so Ryan agreed, and as the deal was finalized Ryan shouted with glee, "World domination is within my grasp!!" But what he didn't know was that the supercomputer was fake, and that the Rays intentionally sent Jepsen to retrieve it because they wanted to get him off their hands. Emails - The reason I happen to know about this is because Terry Ryan had been conducting trade negotiations through his own private email server instead of the one the Twins had created for him. Somehow the Cardinals got ahold of his passwords and got into his account, they then released it to all the other teams, and posted it online. When Ryan was informed about this, he couldn't decide how to get out of this dilemma, so he decided to consult Rob Antony, and they decided that if the general public found out, and started comparing them to Hilary Clinton, they would do what Bill would do and say, "I never emailed." http://media.cleveland.com/tribe_impact/photo/s0603tribeajpg-97a090ea9a7f59ce.jpg

WE WHUPPED THEM!!!! WE WHUPPED THEM ALL!!!!!! YOU'LL THINK TWICE BEFORE MESSING WITH PAUL L. MOLITOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!