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  1. gil4
    Unfortunately, he's just a spectator - not on the roster for this game.
  2. gil4
    Nothing - we're just getting warmed up.
  3. gil4
    That would be right around never. (+/- a couple of years.)
  4. gil4
    Three kinds of people - those who can count and those who can't
  5. gil4
    My daughter plays, so I guess I am (when I'm not umpiring).
  6. gil4
    I'm surprised they didn't get the call the first time.
  7. gil4
    It's working so far. Got any more Yankee memorabilia? Or goats? We can send over more bourbon, and you have at least three walls left.
  8. gil4
    I interpreted the "strike early" as build a decent lead. The best chance to win is to do that and then have Santana shut them down. A low-scoring affair can quickly turn into a battle of the bullpens, but if the Twins are up 6-0, I don't care who pitches for the Yankees.
  9. gil4
    Caught in the act...
  10. gil4
    I think we have Kyle Gibson's answer.
  11. gil4
    It has been a good night for sccoreboard watching. The Twins took care of business, Houston shut out the Angels 3-0, Chicago beat KC 7-6 after a wild 9-2-3-6 DP to end the game, and Oakland has just finished off Texas, 4-1. The magic number is now 6, with 5 games remaining against what's left of the Tigers. The series against the Indians might be survivable. Edit: It was a 9-2-4-6 DP. The second baseman was covering first after the throw home from RF.
  12. gil4
    I had that book at one time - it didn't make the cut on one of my moves. Les Straker was the #3 starter, and in 154 innings his ERA+ was 106, which is above average. His W-L was only 8-10, and his SO/9 was an unsustainable 4.4, but I find it hard to believe he was the problem when you compare him to the disasters that attempted to fill the 4th and 5th starter slots. Any analysis based on W% of starters is flawed, and that was in the early days of baseball analytics. Straker was right in the middle of two groups of extremes, and if you lump him in with either group you will have a Sesame Street "one of these things is not like the other" situation. "Throwing away all wins by 1-2 pitchers for championship teams", combining the stats of the rest of the starters, and then determining "the difference maker [for the '87 Twins] then became the lack of a #3" just isn't fair to Straker. I bet if you combined the top three starters for championship teams, the Twins would still be in the normal range for championship teams, but doubt very many championship teams gave 2/5 of their starts to a group of 4 guys who all were well below replacement level. (They combined for -2.9 WAR. Straker's WAR was 2.2)
  13. gil4
    Not really. Adrenaline + cliches = boring. I'd rather just keep yelling.
  14. gil4
    Fine with me, but I can't make it. (OK, if I start driving now I could, but...)
  15. gil4
    I vote we go back to winning 16-0 tomorrow night. The lead-up to these walk-offs is too stressful.
  16. gil4
    The 4 and 5 were in line with other championship teams? Just looking at their stats I have a hard time believing it, unless you say #3 is empty and call Straker a #4. Even then, what they really put out there for 3 and 4 was amazingly putrid: Smithson - 20 GS, 109 IP, 5.94 ERA, 1.505 WHIP, 78 ERA+, -0.4 bWAR; Niekro - 18 GS, 96.1 IP, 6.26 ERA, 1.661 WHIP, 74 ERA+, -1.0 WAR Carlton - 7 GS; 6.70 ERA, 69 ERA+, 1.791 WHIP, -0.5 WAR Portugal - 7 GS, 7.77 ERA, 60 ERA+, 1.864 WHIP, -1.0 WAR That was interesting stuff about Reardon. I remember being underwhelmed by our big acquisition during the regular season, but he was pretty darned good in the post-season (despite blowing saves in the first two games against Detroit.)
  17. gil4
    Not too far off - 17-10/2.90 and 15-12/4.01. And almost 4 w/30 HR. I couldn't remember if they just made it or just missed it, but Kirby had 28.
  18. gil4
    I didn't realize Viola and Blyleven were that good. My memories of that season are still in old-school stats (top of my head - 17-10/3.20, 15-11/3.70; 4 guys w/30+ HR - I'll check how I did in a minute). I haven't gone back and looked at how good they were according to the modern stats.
  19. gil4
    I've been a Vikings fan since 1970, so I can. I also saw the 1987 Twins go on a run in October despite having pitching staff that was almost as bad as this one, so I can see scenarios going the other way, too.
  20. gil4
    Eddie Rosario stuck a pretty big pin in that voodoo doll! I think we're resigned to the fact that he's not getting fired, but we still wish he wouldn't bunt so much.
  21. gil4
    Last year we would have counted that as a win. And a quality start.
  22. gil4
    I think that's a young Tom Cruise, before he learned the proper technique: http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150323201742-erin-pkg-moos-mission-impossible-5-tom-cruise-00001504-large-169.jpg
  23. gil4
    I think you left out a few o's. Sanoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
  24. gil4
    Or he could have waived him around and done a big fist-pump when he scored, to make up for last time..
  25. gil4
    Not really a nickname, but I'd love to see Santana with Johan on his uniform.
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