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  1. spinowner
    No local TV. Don't know if there's an Oakland feed available anywhere.
  2. spinowner
    No, that would be me, as I never read it. The scoops from both local papers wind up here quickly enough anyway.
  3. spinowner
    Dat would be tree games.
  4. spinowner
    And only 81 to go!
  5. spinowner
    WINNAH!!
  6. spinowner
    OK, they've got the bottom third of the order in the ninth. Go right at 'em.
  7. spinowner
    Those of us of a certain age may remember the heyday of MNST.
  8. spinowner
    Glynn's mistake resulted in Suzuki's out, Molitor's mistake (or wrong guess) resulted in Rosario's out. We can't afford that.
  9. spinowner
    Sale was last year. Trouble is, we may only see Hamels once more this year whereas we faced Sale about six times.
  10. spinowner
    I know you know. And you know that I know that you know. And I know that, well, you get the idea.
  11. spinowner
    So I was unavailable to watch the game. Did I miss anything?
  12. spinowner
    For the sake of information: Sunday, July 3 is game 81. 35.5-45.5 is a winning percentage of .438.
  13. spinowner
    I'm 100% serious about what I said about the USPS. That said, Cliffie is my hero. Not only is he a mail carrier but he's an insufferable know-it-all. I couldn't find a link to the video, but there was an episode where Cliff conceived of a theme park called "Postal World" which, in Cliff's words would convey "the pageantry that is the US Postal Service." He followed that with, "Who knows? Maybe if this idea takes off I can get out of this stinking rotten dead-end job."
  14. spinowner
    People love to make jokes, but the US Postal Service is the most efficient postal system in the world.
  15. spinowner
    That took place well before either of them were with the Twins. And love your user name, BTW.
  16. spinowner
    Yet he also said this about Park later in the Phil Miller piece: “Everybody knows what it’s like to struggle at the major-league level. And here’s a guy that’s never seen most of the pitching he’s facing,” Ryan said. “We’re trying to work with him, we’re trying to help him, we’re trying with video, we’re trying with voices." Seems contradictory to me. Moreover, with Park the timeline is much shorter than with Buxton because of his age. His skills will inevitably start to decline very soon. The Twins need to get him to the top of his game ASAP.
  17. spinowner
    Interesting strategy. The plus side is it gives them one more player to use for a substitution later in the game. The other side of the double-edged sword is that if he has to be pulled early or if the game runs into extra innings the DH is gone.
  18. spinowner
    The 2002 play where Giambi was thrown out at home was textbook. Hunter got to the ball at the base of the centerfield wall very quickly and fired a strike to Denny Hocking. Hocking's relay was the key to the play because: A, he positioned himself perfectly, exactly halfway between the wall and home plate, B, he made a perfect throw home, which was possible because, C, in spite of being a utility player he had the arm of an outfielder. It is not possible to execute that play any better. The play where Mauer made the diving tag of Gardner took place partly because Mauer planned it. It was a huge fluke that he got the ball where he did but he purposely faked the throw to first to get Gardner to break for home. What he didn't realize is that Gardner never hesitated running from second to home and Mauer barely beat him to the plate. A play like that is an example of why baseball is my favorite sport to watch. There are so many more variations in the play of the game compared to other sports that you can see something truly unique at almost any time.
  19. spinowner
    That play will actually slightly increase his fielding percentage because he gets an assist.
  20. spinowner
    Mmmmmm. Audra.
  21. spinowner
    Game thread on TD: priceless.
  22. spinowner
    Bus windshields.
  23. spinowner
    Pfffft! Rookie mistake. 634-5789 Or, maybe that's a rookie mistake. Pennsylvania 6-5000
  24. spinowner
    OOOOH! OOOOH! Give them my name! I love getting phone calls!
  25. spinowner
    Not honeymoon pointers, but allow me to post a few marriage pointers. 1.) Marriage is all about compromising. Sometimes the husband meets the wife halfway, and sometimes the husband meets the wife 100% of the way. 2.) If your wife is having fun and you're not, you're still having way more fun than if you're having fun and your wife is not. 3.) Enjoy your wedding day. It's a special time and almost always is a lot of fun. But remember it's just one day out of your marriage. Think of it this way: your wedding is a word, but your marriage is a sentence.
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