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C'mon, Kye-Kye, make a mistake to Sano.

We don't do game night often but we all like Catan.

The Twins have been on both ends of a 13-hit shutout. http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/437

The game of life has cars, not pawns.

Another great bad-ball hitter was Ralph Garr.

Not in Victor Victoria. Couldn't find the video, though.

I'm having Samuel Deduno flashbacks.

And remember it's pronounced Kye-Kye.

Was going to post about this but I was busy catching up on the beginning of the thread.

I believe I've told this here before but it bears repeating-- Norm Green walks into a bar with a toad sitting on his head. The bartender says, "What the heck is the deal with that?" and the toad says, "I don't know. It started out as a pimple on my butt and just kept growing."

Including everyone on this site marshalling the team to victory!

My lawyer will be in touch with your lawyer. Meanwhile, gotta get back to work. It's up to all of you to bring it home from here!

OK, well then my car is part of my home and I can see hundreds, nay, thousands of lakes through my windows.

I can see a body of water from the windows of my home. Can you?

That's the consolation prize for living not in market.

Guess what was the first image that came up when I googled mulligatawny

If I had the runs I would probably be nonnonchalant about it.

Updated weather: Low to mid eighties, mostly sunny, little to no chance of precip.

I don't go to many games so I'm not an expert on offerings there, but once I got a Kramarchuk's brat and told them I'd take as much sauerkraut as they were allowed to give me. The little paper tray thing was heaped with kraut to the point where the brat was barely visible and it was delish!

A woman I once dated liked bacon and peanut butter together so she tried substituting bacon grease for butter in a peanut butter cookie recipe. She took one bite, I took none and the rest of the batch went in the trash. Both ick and ish.

Lineups: ATHLETICS Billy Burns (S) CF Jed Lowrie (S) 2B Josh Reddick (L) RF Khris Davis [R) LF Stephen Vogt (L) C Billy Butler [R) DH Yonder Alonso (L) 1B Marcus Semien [R) SS Tyler Ladendorf [R) 3B Sonny Gray [R), 3-7/5.42 P TWINS Eduardo Nunez [R) 3B Robbie Grossman (S) LF Joe Mauer (L) 1B Brian Dozier [R) 2B Miguel Sano [R) DH Max Kepler (L) RF Eddie Rosario (L) CF Juan Centeno (L) C Danny Santana (S) SS Twins: Ervin Santana [R), 2-7/4.50 P Expected weather: Low 80's with a high probability of rain. Greetings, all! I'm using the time-honored five point thread opener. 1. PAY ATTENTION! This is the game thread for Wednesday, July 6. 2. Hanging breaking pitches. As most of us know, the three factors which determine the trajectory of a thrown baseball are initial velocity (speed and direction), air resistance and the warpage of spacetime caused by the mass of nearby objects (often referred to as "gravity"). The first factor is controlled entirely by the person throwing the ball. The last factor is affected so little by the by the person throwing the ball that the effect is essentially zero relative to the effect of the earth. As for the second factor, while the person throwing the ball cannot affect the amount of drag the surrounding air imparts to a thrown ball he/she can use that resistance to alter the ball's trajectory by imparting angular momentum (often referred to as "spin") to the ball as it is thrown. As a spinning baseball moves through air there is less drag on the side of the ball moving faster relative to the surrounding air than there is on the side moving more slowly. This has the effect of slowing the velocity more on the slower-moving side, causing the ball to curve (or "break" in baseball parlance) in that direction. That means a ball thrown with a lot of top-spin will break downward more than a ball with little top-spin. The more energy used by a pitcher to impart spin to the ball, the less energy available to impart speed to the ball. This is why breaking pitches travel more slowly than fastballs. In order to achieve the maximum break the axis of rotation of the ball must be perpendicular to the direction of travel. The farther away from perpendicular the axis is, the less break the ball will have. It is very difficult for a pitcher to consistently put enough spin on the ball with the axis close enough to perpendicular to cause maximum break. If there is insufficient spin the ball will break less, and if the axis of rotation is too close to the direction of travel the ball will break less. It is usually the latter effect that results in a pitch with insufficient break. Such a pitch is often referred to as a "hanging" breaking pitch because it moves more slowly than a fastball and doesn't break much. As such it appears to a batter to "hang" in place. Skilled batters can recognize such pitches and very often impart a change in the trajectory of the baseball resulting in it making contact with the earth quite far away in a location not favorable to the pitcher's team. 3. Player names. There are many internet sites which list every player who has played major league baseball. The lists I have found all list the players in alphabetical order by last name. And that's fine, unless one is also interested in first names. The reason for my interest stems from something my younger son told me once. He informed me that there are very few players who have both first names not held by any other player and last names not held by any other player. Two Twins on that list are Harmon Killebrew and Dustan Mohr. Prior to 2103 Zoilo Versalles was another, but the arrival of Zoilo Almonte removed our Zoilo. I was unsuccessful in finding a list of players alphabetized by first name. 4. PAY ATTENTION! This is the game thread for Wednesday, July 6. 5. It's not what you look like when you're doing what you're doing, it's what you're doing when you're doing what you look like you're doing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y-il5RQPQc Go Twins!

I think it's well worthwhile to compare Arcia to the other players that could have been DFA'd instead. Apples vs oranges of course, but still interesting. But it's not worth anyone's time to compile or read stats on a day-by-day or even week-by-week basis. Let's wait till the end of the season.

So if a pitcher allows 3 runs through 6 it's a quality start. Is it still a quality start if he allows a run or many runs in the seventh inning? I realize it's not an official stat but I've never been clear on it.

All's fair in love and Warriors.

Just turned on the radio and heard Corey say a very interesting factoid. Going into this game the all-time record between the two franchises is 1000-1000.