Game 46: Rangers vs. Twins
Posted by ubelmann on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
"Sir" Sidney Ponson vs Nick Blackburn
Ponson's really been pretty decent so far.
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Twins lineup looks the same
Texas
I. Kinsler 2b
M. Young ss
J. Hamilton cf
M. Bradley dh
D. Murphy rf
G. Laird c
B. Boggs lf
C. Shelton 1b
R. Vazquez 3b
Minnesota
C. Gomez cf
A. Casilla 2b
J. Mauer c
J. Morneau 1b
M. Cuddyer rf
J. Kubel dh
D. Young lf
M. Lamb 3b
A. Everett ss
Texas
S. Ponson
Minnesota
N. Blackburn
A.L. In-laws coming to Hartford tomorrow. Can't wait to hear 1) how much he's won at cards at the Legion, 2) how many times they've won free chicken from you, and 3) how great Billary is and why she should rule Ameritopia.
awesome!
and I hope I dont draw thier name while they are away
nice inning
I'm off to jr. high band concert
We should wish each other luck. *
*Naw. The kids will sound great. You guys are the ones who need the help.
have a great time!
Jr. high band concert - let us know if they don't do a number involving alternating timing, clapping, and the occasional shout of a Nunavit verb.
Just got in from running errands. Nick with a 1-2-3 first, and a K to Hamilton. Muy bien.
And another 1-2-3 for Blackie. Muy bien-er.
get outta here Washington
Wha happened? I was tending the grill.
Bradley had a pitch called strike three. He was barking at the ump from teh dugout. When the radio came back from commercial break, Gordo was describing that Washington was in the umps grill, then he got tossed
ah.. it was Bradley who got ejected
I think it might have been both.
This is Sidney freakin' Ponson for crying out loud.
the last time we faced Ponson, it took us 3 innings to get a hit. then we scored 2 runs
It's the new and improved Sidney Ponson. Now with 80% less hair.
The mullet was the entire reason he sucked.
Now with 80% less hair.
Let's just say what's left follows the Ponson distribution.
I'm doing 8 things at once here. Wife has Idol on the living room TV, so I'm running back to the bedroom to catch snatches of the game while I fix dinner. Is that TK in the TV booth?
So, Gomez leads the AL in infield hits. That's kind of a dubious distinction.
according to FanGraphs (I forgot who pointed me to that website, but thank you! I dont understand everything on there, but I love looking at it. One day all that stuff will soak in)
anywho.. according to FanGraphs, coming into todays game Gomez had 7 infield hits, placing him tied for 5th in AL IF. Gomez does lead all of baseball with 9 bunt hits
FSN crew added them together to get 16. I guess a bunt hit seldom gets to the outfield.
This American Idol finale is just painful. Two hours of relentless cross promotion.
Okay, David Cook is singing Sharp Dressed Man with ZZ Top. It just got a little less painful.
I have watched a total of 0 minutes of Idol in its entire run.
I feel proud about that
I, on the other hand, have not seen a single episode of The Wire. That makes me very sad. But I do plan to start withe DVDs this summer. I've heard too many good things to miss it. Better late than never.
I have not watched The Wire. I dont even know what its about.
Police drama set in Baltimore.
OH that show. I thought that was some other show like CSI.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND The Wire. My advice, check your library or Netflix to see if they have The Wire, because they cost $60/season if you want to buy them for yourself.
Casilla showing some range and flashing the leather. Very nice play.
lets see Justin blast one out
maybe next at bat
Blackburn needs an out here
Go-go's got that last out.
Swinging for the fences.
Gawd. That was one horsesh!t half inning for the Twins.
5 innings in the book. 70 minutes to play
leave it to the Twins to make Ponson look like a groundball genius and aid in the effort to anoint him comeback player of the year
Tonight's menu: grilled sirloin, baked potato with garlic olive oil and fresh cracked pepper, romaine salad with Italian dressing, Leinenkugel Honey Weiss.
I'm going to take a guess here on davidwatts' dinner: sandwich, chips, some variety of soda.
yep
egg salad sandwich, bag of chips, bottle of Coke
alright k this piece of crap catcher again
That ball one looked like strike three on TV. Anybody see it on Gameday?
Yep, looks like a strike to me. Blackburn got a bit jobbed by the ump that time.
...looks like Blackburn is relying to much on that cutter again
looked like strike 3 on gameday too
i hate it when our offense makes our pitchers look bad because they give up 2 or 3 runs over 6 innnings
Well, that 7 runs for Texas should make our offense look better.
AW NUTS
Jeez. Blackburn was cruising, then hit the wall. And our offense is MIA tonight.
Everett gets a hold of one!
He better score
Lil fella makes some magic.
If the left fielder lets that fall, no run scores.
Just got back from softball. Looks like I got back right in time -- these guys could use some help.
A Morneau blast would get us within striking range again.
You know, I mentioned in the CoC that Ponson was definitely a better pitcher this year than he was for us last year. But he's not this damn good.
good time to bring Rincon in
Gardy's throwing in the
towelRincon.the thing that stinks about Rincon is that he has pretty much pitched himself out of any trade value. Not that he had a lot of value to begin with. But I cant see any team taking him
That and the $2.5 million price tag.
It would appear that Juan couldn't buy a strike tonight. oh well, so much for that Ice cold bullpen.
evening folks! I see tat this has been a
fungame.From the Dept of Slow Realizations: Minny TC - Cincy C = Texas T
Chicago SOX - Baltimore O + Unassisted putout = SUX
dwatts: Is there some way we could rig up a chix signal here so that if the F.in.L gets the nod we could get some notification on the WGOM?
sure. email me
benchwarmerjim at hotmail dot com
we can work something out
clearly, I made the right choice with the jr high band concert
High Chapparal?
the hit of the concert was "Tequila"
Prolly woulda been the highlight of this ballgame, too.
Locals eat the worm tonight.
They skipped that part of the song.
Indeed.
Boy, this thing fell apart fast. I was out tonight and on the way home, it was 0-0 in the fifth. I went out to water a little grass I planted last weekend and the game is now a blowout.
So, I guess we can blame you? Vicariously?
Texas scrap heap pickups are making it happen tonight. Ponson is killing us, 14 ground-ball outs and 5 k's. Shelton has 3 hits, glad to see him finding a home.
8th inning trivia: Tonight, in the 3rd inning of my softball game, in my only AB in the inning, I hit a SF, yet I scored twice in the inning -- how? btw, the OF did not drop the SF.
enter as a pinch runner, score.
lineup bats around to the initial spot, hit a SF.... hmm
reach on catcher's interference? not recorded as a plate appearance, score.
that's the best I got.
I think you are right Mak
not bad! I was the last out of the previous inning, so when our gimpy catcher got on, I pinch ran and scored. Then hit the SF. And lastly, when batting around, that SF was the last out prior to the gimpy catcher getting a second hit, in which I pinch ran again and scored once more.
Thus ends my attempt to take attention away from a sickening ballgame.
somebody brought you two beers?
would it be inappropriate to call the Twins offense Turf Munchers?
anybody else giving Ponson the ball for the 9th?
Korecky/Goreski: Already it is Dark.
apparently, today is not the day that Everett wins it for us with his glove.
how should i feel about going to tomorrow's afternoon game after a night like this?
when you average last night and tonight...should be a close game.
Dr. Atomic - pls attach the wires to the patient.
and Ponson declared "Vengeance is MINE"
I think todays game deserves that
Huge Explosion
This was exactly what we were supposed to get from Ponson last year. The Texas pitching coach doesn't exactly have a great reputation and I doubt he's better than Andy at coaxing the most out of these guys, I wonder what's different for Ponson this year compared to last?