Game 95: Twins v. Tigers
Posted by Big Mak on Sunday, July 13th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Verlander and Blackburn on the mound.
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I can just feel the excitement around here.
Everyone left after another frickin bunt.
stuck at work today for the majority of the afternoon. Fortunately no one else is here, so mlb.tv is allowed.
I'm around as well. Just for fun, I'll predict a GWRBI for Mike Lamb
I would like to play this game as well. I am thinking a prediction of a bunt single for Go Go
I'll go with a Buscher HR.
I'm going with a prediction of Denard Span's first HR.
your predictions seem more fun.
I'm just feeling good on a fantastic July day.
Verlander doesn't seem interested in enabling any of those predictions so far.
Seems like he's getting some nasty stuff called inside - yikes.
Looks like Morneau will be in the derby
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080713&content_id=3127636&vkey=allstar2008&fext=.jsp
lets hope that he doesnt go into a HR funk like he did last year after the derby.
I heard that, and I was kind of surprised because Morneau seemed to (at least in his own mind) blame the derby for messing up his swing last year in the 2nd half.
Also, this year he's hit about half as many HR as last year at this point, hopefully he doesn't have to make too many major adjustments for the derby.
My lord, terrible call
awful call
Was Thames out at first? I am watching on Gamecast.
Morneau had to stretch into foul territory for Buscher's throw, while he adjusted his foot came off the base, but it was definitely back on the base when he caught the throw.
Time for a double play
Dick and Bert are right - that was a horrible call! How could the ump miss that?
And the Tigers get a free run off of it! For pete's sake!
Tigers 1, Umpires 1, Twins 0
These umps owe us a run now.
Ok, I gotta ask. What was the bad call?
They said the throw pulled Morneau off the base when his foot was clearly on it.
Luke Hughes is batting the the Future's game on ESPN 2 now.
That would have been a perfect time for a makeup call.
We'll get the make-up call sometime when it doesn't matter. /bitter
Jim Wolf is the evil umpire.
Add him to the list. Runge, Hernandez, Reliford, Bucknor, West....
I think when we hit a ball just to the right of the foul pole will be a good tme for that makeup.
Morning folks.
hey everybody! it's meat!
So the Twins aren't making Verlander work very hard today.
Meat- Heading over to the Taste of Buffalo in an about 1/2 hour.
Man, that just makes me salivate. Have some chiavetta's for me.
You betcha. I will not be making the mistake of eating an "Elephant Sub" again this year. Though I do plan on enjoying some Lance Diamond.
Oh boy. I thought he'd be dead by now. Is the Elmwood still open, I would have thought that the health department would have shut the doors on that place.
Lance is alive and the Elmwood Lounge is still open. He is actually working with a friend of mine attempting to put together an album of original material. So far, all reports are hilarious.
Let me know when that comes out. I have a few friends who need that for christmas.
You know that he has a Christmas , right?
http://cdbaby.com/cd/lancediamond2
Verlander with 4K the first time through the order
Ugh...Gomez watching two meaty fastballs. I smell a strikeout coming
My boy David "Raptor" Benefield is one of the chip leaders going into Day 6 of the WSOP ME.
http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2008-world-series-of-poker/main-event/chip-counts/day6/
A close personal friend, Greekhouse? You ever have designs on playing the WSOP?
I once thought that I could do well in the WSOP because I dominated on Pokerstars.net. Then I realized that the other people playing for free on that site were morons, like most of the internet.
Yeah, the play money players are absolutely awful. They don't think, they just call. There is plenty of money to be made in the low stakes real money games, but you have to know what you're doing. Most people assume their good without actually having a good reason for believing it. If you learn basic skills, that's good enough to beat many of the games online (although live games are typically much softer).
Hmm, if I had even a little bit of spare change I'd think about giving it a shot. I haven't played a whole lot since college, so I'd probably be a bit rusty.
Not a close friend, more of an acquaintance. I hung out with him a bunch and stayed in his room for a night when I was in Vegas a few years ago.
If I can continue to dominate online poker the way I have been for the past few months and can get myself into a good financial situation while moving up in stake, I might consider playing in an event someday. Right now though, I'd much rather have $10k than an entry to the ME.
Were I Dick or Bert, I would refer to the Thames play at first as the Jim Wolf error every time it's mentioned. Nothing like giving a team an extra run.
Alright Lexi, now lets see some M's do some things.
COME ON KUBES!!!!
Random fact:
That was Justin Morneau's 100th plate appearance with a runner on first.
He's driven that runner in 10 times. Only Craig Monroe has a higher percentage on the Twins (4 of 31).
Was that payback? Was Morneau out on the play?
I think he was safe, but it was a really tough angle and I think most umpires would have given the fielder the benefit of the doubt.
I think he was safe, but it was close.
That first pitch was get me over fastball I wish Kubel would have turned on.
This would be nice.
Our best friend, a Mr. W. Pitch just entered the stadium.
They didn't even need our second best friend, Mr. Productive Out to tie.
awesome. now a hit.
Pretty good PA for the Dude there.
Heh heh heh, The Dude walks.
Jason Kubel has driven in 24 of the 107 runners in scoring position in his at-bats this year (not counting intentional walks). His 23% success rate is last on the active roster (Everett [20%] and Tolbert [15%] are the only hitters lower this season).
Somebody's been hitting the stats this afternoon ...
like i said, I'm alone at work...
Harris!
Right on squinty!
Nicely stroked, Harry. 5 RBI in 2 days so far.
YUSS!
Alright folks, I have a street festival to attend. take care, go Twins.
Afternoon, folks
nibbs, yo.
And what is your avatar, BTW?
A miniboss from the old game 'Descent'. I liked the game, and at the time, it was the only smallish/squarish pic I had on the work computer. Might get changed sometime, might not.
Yeah, I remember Descent. I just never played very far into it. Seems like the vehicular 3D omnidirectional navigation FPS genre never really caught on.
Well, Descent especially tended to give people motion discomfort, hard to sell people on that sort of thing.
Salutations, nibbish.
How's the game been going thus far?
I'm out for the rest of the game, if the twins do indeed sweep here is the broom.
http://artistsblog.artistsnetwork.com/content/binary/12_Jasper%20Johns_Fools%20House_1962_72dpi.jpg
have a good one.
Have a good one, meat
Gardy inexplicably brought in Bass, so it doesn't look like we'll need it.
Terrible route my Gomez. Man, he needs a couple of years of seasoning yet
I don't know that he would have had a play at 2nd even if he played it on the first hop.
Doesn't change the fact that it was a bad route, but I don't think it hurt us in this particular instance.