The WGOM

So, odds on Silva throwing a one-hitter?

Silva's gonna get shelled.

Yeah, I really missed out when I had to work a fundraiser last night; I would gladly have caught the second game instead of the first one!

Inquiry: Hasn't Sweeney broken up no-hitter(s) late in the game before? More than once? I think so.

Of all the games I did not watch -considering how much I goofed off during business hours on game one, that was a bad one to miss. I wish I would had been listening at least.

...and there goes the perfect game.

Long first ½ inning, but no damage done (except to Bart's fielding percentage)

RedDawg with the big gun, and "Email" Brown is dead at 2nd.

So, RR, do you have a life?

Our first five hitters were out on 13 total pitches? Yikes.

Where the hell did Li'l L-Rod come from?? I thought he got sent down to Rochester?

Hmmm...Luis "Not Nick Punto" starting at 3B today, eh?

Runs!

Punto doin' what he does best, killing the rally, stranding the RISPs

Way to work the pitcher, Tyny. 26 pitches and 7 outs for Duckworth.

Dazz talking about Twins who "just didn't understand" the part of the game that involves bunting. Hah.

JB is a regular hit parade these days. It's at least nice to see him cement his spot at SS for next year.

Being in StL, of course, we heard about Ankiel's GS, big-time. Didn't realize it was off Everyday Eddie, though.

great Enhanced Gameday on Morneau there. total respect

jeez. Is Cuddy channeling his inner Vlad G??

Today is SBG convention day? I thought it was Sept. 22?

Sure would be nice to thaw out Cuddyer a bit one of these days.

Cuddy fouled off ball 3 and ball 4 that AB.

A couple starts ago, Carlos was knockin' on 4.00 ERA's door. He could get to 4.11 with a CG shutout.

btw, what was that about Silva going to a sidearm delivery to K a batter in the first? Did I hear Dazzle right?

Costa with a "stand up ground rule" double according to Dazz. Tie game.

Silva really did make a pretty good pitch there. One of the dangers of living in a contact-pitcher's world I guess.

"The wheels on the bus fall off, off, off..."

Heh, under Moss' rule, Pena would score whether or not that was a ground rule double. The way it is currently just makes no sense. Everyone knows that Pena would've scored on that.

Per coolstandings.com, the Mariners' playoff odds fell every day from Aug. 25th to Aug. 31st, going from 56.4% to 14.7%. That's some kind of precipitous drop.

L-Rod's been saving up these hits for several weeks now. He's been taking copious notes on Punto's ABs, then negating them.

cr@p! look at those three "balls" on Gameday thrown to Gordon. ridiculous

Homer

Torii Torii Hunter Hunter

I really hope Hunter can get 30 HR again this year.

Yeah, Silva's not the sort of pitcher that can deal well with getting squeezed.

Kubel!! Twins up 4-3 now.

Often, managers seem to play match-ups too much, so I don't feel like I say this a lot, but did the Royals really want to bring in a lefty to face Redmond in that situation? Seems like a weird decision.

Walking Punto should be grounds for being DFA'd.

Sounds like Gordo agrees.

Why hell wasn't Tyner swinging on that last fastball?

jiminy! Bart getting hammered by the Official Scorer??

Tried twice to post a rally cap last inning, only to be thwarted by the server. Guess it's a Royals fan?

Dazz said Kubel went sprinting by JB on that dropped pop-up. Seems rather silly for him not to call off Bartlett there. Oh well...

Bart, Hunter, Morny this inning. Now is the time to put this game away.

Or not. Sheesh.

*in the distance, a wildcat did howl growl*

*two riders were approaching*

*and the wind...began to howl*

I think the Nation decided that Baker's masterpiece last night was a good place to call it a season. Ended on a good note.

just noticed that Neshek's release point on Gameday is almost below the horizon line.

I'm handing the hot potato back to you, Rhu_Ru. Gotta go be parental. Get out of this, Sideshow!!!

Oh, for crying out loud.

Okay, this is nothing but gratuitous padding of the stats now. I expect a fine for this post.

Twins Win!

Dazzle: "I got the license plate number of that erotic driver." Hmmmm, Freudian slip there?