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I never used the 'What's New' button intentionally. But I did just use the shop button. How could I resist shopping? But was disappointed there were no shoes.

For Arcia to officially clear coming off the DL?

Game-time forecast: Partly cloudy with a 30-percent chance of rain. Winds blowing out to left field at 10-15 m.p.h. Temperature around 65. Twins: SP, Nolasco Dozier 2B Fuld CF Plouffe 3B Colabello 1B Kubel RF Suzuki C Pinto DH Escobar LF (hmmmm ... ) Florimon SS Indians: SP, Salazar Morgan CF Swisher 1B Brantley LF Santana 3B Murphy RF Cabrera SS Chisenhall DH Gomes C Aviles 2B --------------------------------------- Please check back for the stylings of Riverbrian! -------------------------------------------------------- "The Stylings"... That's the name of a Philadelphia Soul Band if you are incredibly lazy... Betcha By Golly Wow!!! Things to Think about: 1. Escobar in LF -- I actually had some different thoughts but this thread has already exploded and directed my thoughts so I will just follow the crowd. To me it's pretty simple... The Twins are short handed and they have insisted on making an outfielder out of our infielders and if that's what they insist on doing. Damn Right... Put Escobar in LF and let's see what happens... If he looks like Bartlett out there... or if he looks like Delmon Young out there... I'll complain tomorrow. If it works... I will relax a bit and not worry as much about the way the organization approached CF this year. But I don't think I'll ever understand why Bonofacio is not in a Twins Uniform. 2. Florimon at SS -- I'm not surprised... and I'm not sure we should be up in arms about it. If you get up in the morning and you have a cup of coffee every morning. No one should be surprised that you had a cup of coffee this morning. There will be people that say that the coffee will raise your blood pressure and is bad for you but that cup of coffee is how you get through the day... no one should be surprised. Let's save our surprise for when Florimon gets a couple of hits in a game or Gardy quits drinking coffee. 3. Suzuki/Pinto -- Escobar in LF... Yep... Bring it on... Florimon at SS... Yep... Bring it on... But... what's this... Suzuki has moved in front of Pinto in the batting order. This is also not a surprise... Suzuki has been hitting very well and Pinto has cooled off... But to me... This is news... Pinto has been nothing but a terrific hitter his entire short major league career. Pinto is the hitting star in this pair... Suzuki has simply earned it and his performance has outdone and trumped perception. 4. Where's Oswaldo? -- Last I heard... He's in Rochester... Gardy says that he needs to get some more swings but the wrist is not bothering him. I assume that Gardy is getting those reports from someone else and passing them along like a middle man. Roster Moves are supposed to be coming after the game. I guess we will sit and wait... Herrmann going down is my guess... Arcia coming up? 5. The Sky above you -- I read something today that made me pause for a second to ponder what I was reading. According to Military Experts... In Ten Years time... every single country on this planet will have armed drones. Sleep Tight everyone!!!

What'd you do?

I never wanted him as a starter, but whatevs.

Sigh. Why is it the games I can finally sit down and watch start out like this? Hopefully won't end like this.

I haven't heard anything. For the lack of anything, I will assume he's just being given a day off? But I really don't know.

Game-time forecast: Partly cloudy. Winds blowing in from center field at 5-10 m.p.h. Temperature near 50. Twins: SP, Gibson Dozier 2B Fuld CF Plouffe 3B Colabello 1B Kubel LF Suzuki C Pinto DH Herrmann RF Florimon SS Indians: SP, McAllister Morgan CF Swisher 1B Brantley LF Santana 3B Chisenhall DH Cabrera SS Gomes C Murphy RF Aviles 2B ----------------------------- Tag, Brian ... you're it! -------------------------------- OK... But here's what I'm going to do... I bringing some books and snacks... and I'm going to hide. Wait patiently... You won't know where I am... You'll forget all about me. And SURPRISE!!! Tag you're it. I win a lot of games that way... I simply keep playing for a year or two after others stop playing. I was losing a basketball game once 21 to 14... After my opponent left the court thinking he won... I put in about 10 shots in a row and left declaring myself the winner... 24 to 21. --------------------------------------- Things to think about: 1. Cleveland -- The Twins travel to the mistake by the lake. Cleveland has been called the mistake by the lake. It got a bad rap for numerous reasons but the fact that Cuyahoga River would catch fire didn't help. I actually like Cleveland... I went to Cleveland for my honeymoon and the people of Cleveland were wonderful and we had a great time. For clarification... I tell people that we honeymooned in Cleveland because I like saying that as opposed to... we stayed in Cleveland on our way to Niagara Falls. I like to be a little different. 2. Kyle Gibson -- He started out real nice and has been stumbling a little since. That's the way the ball bounces... I still have a good feeling about Kyle and I hope the ball bounces his way tonight. 3. The Rubber Band -- The Rubber Band theory is still in play... If the Twins win tonight... It will be back at .500 ball. Keep that rubber band bound until July and that we will see what happens when it snaps. 4. The Indians -- Lonnie Chisenhall is the only guy on the team who is tearing it up and he can't seem to stay in the lineup. The rest of the Indians are below expectation with the exception of maybe Brantley. The Starting pitching hasn't been lights out... Cory Kluber has been the top dog in the rotation. The Twins have a 2 game lead currently on the last place Indians. 5. IPO's -- I dabble in the Stock Market... I've done OK buying what I think is low and selling when I think it's high. No emotional attachment... no greed... make 10 to 20% or lose 10% and move on to the next. I plan to continue that style because it's been pretty good so far. I'm not a day trader... I'm a trend trader. I had never purchased an IPO before but I finally did last week. I've been itching to take a part of my portfolio and invest in something ground floor and hold it instead of trading it. Own a piece of something forever and see how it's doing 30 years from now. Whatever happens will happen... It's a company that I believe in so I jumped in. My wife is nervous about it... She felt safer when I was watching for potential loss to minimize the risk... She thinks the stock market is risky... like betting on a horse at the track. I told her that the stock market and the horses are completely different because one of the horses must win. It didn't ease her mind... I should have taken a different approach.

Hahaha ... she didn't but that would have made for an interesting version.

I was at a Blackhawks party. We won today.

Why is Mauer out of the game? (Just tuned in) Did something happen?

Sounds about right. Keeping my fingers crossed that all goes well.

btw ... a little off topic ... I just posted a blurb over in the minors ... Buxton has been added to the Miracles' roster. I think that means he's ready for play. Yay! Wonder how long before he's promoted then to AA ...

He's been added to the Miracles' roster as of today. (High A, Fort Myers)

LOL ... I'd leave if I could, too! And I will, eventually ... when I win the lottery or when I retire ... whichever comes first.

This thread is now closed. If you want to have a medical discussion you are welcome to start a new thread leading off with correct information and without 'accusing' the Twins of malpractice. This is leading no where good, and I mean that in a bad way.

Nice win ... Kevin Correia ... staff ace!

Was running errands and what not ... nice outside today, too ... for a change ... missed a good one, so it looks from the score.

wow ... slow game thread this aft ...

We're not done yet.

Oh! So your wife came with you! Yes, not a date then.

I'll be checking the scores of BOTH games at intermission

Ha! Keeping with The Sound of Music theme of this thread.

Go for it!

Heh ... this is quite the production and I have been looking forward to it for a few weeks. So I'm not going purposefully to give myself a break from the Twins, it will still be a break from the Twins.