The WGOM

I know I am a little bit early with the posting but I am going to be sleeping one off most of the afternoon.

This scheduling could get crazy for the Sox. It looks like they're rained out twice again today. I vote for a tripleheader tomorrow, really tire out their pitching staff.

Of course if it starts coming down in Baltimore I take back all talk of tripleheaders.

Wow, Milwaukee looks like ass these days. (it's all I got on, cause I don't care about college football.) They're getting ripped by Phillie. They're collapsing big time and are looking a little iffy on the post season chances.

As I watch this, I think I prefer to have a team struggling to get into first rather than a team being at the top and falling off a cliff.

Attabury says Cuddyer has been activated. I'm not expecting big things, but an extra bat can't hurt anything.

So no TV period until 6 central? This is what Joe C's blog seems to say. I'm in Canada with Mlb.Tv, does that mean I don't get Dick n Bert or the Baltimore feed?

Have they said anything about how wet the field is?

Huh... that's disappointing. Ah well, time to fire up game day, grab a beer and put on some music.

...I guess that's not such a bad day to spend an afternoon.

The Baltimore feed is on MLB.TV - no blackout today - at least not yet. I will switch to FSN at 1800.

afternoon folks.

Abide!

Ah, the dude is doing his part.

I wish they could have scored Morneau on that, but I have no way of knowing whether he had a chance.

This Baltimore announcer is baffled my Daniel Cabrera. I don't think that he cares for him.

Rats. A big inning early might have discouraged Baltimore the rest of the night.

Clutch on the Balt feed being up.

Well there goes the perfect game. Way to go fellas. way to go. /snark

Baker better start figuring something out pretty soon.

Is Baker making his pitches and getting beat or is he missing his spots?

Baker is scary today. Lousy breaking ball on the RBI single.

Okay, Scotty, new start. Get 'em 1-2-3 this inning.

Good job, Scotty. Now lets get some Twins runs.

All the fly balls to _elmon make me nervous.

Spanning the bases!

SPAN-tastic!

D-Rock is bringing it in the field today. Late Gold Glove charge!

I think someone with more photo manipulating skills than me should shop the "Denards" onto the Big Card for his home runs.

I love that Darnell Span kid.

Mountie-ing an attack.

Keep 'em coming.

We'll take all the breaks we can get.

Well, sounds like the O's D is helping us out a bit today.

Darn it, that was supposed to be a wild pitch.

Is anyone else annoyed that the Orioles announcer keeps calling him "Butcher?"

I honestly don't think that I have ever heard a pair of announcers give a home pitcher a harder time than I am hearing now. These guys do NOT like Daniel Cabrera. Wow.

Good job, offense. Keep shutting 'em down, Scotty.

Good job again, Scotty. Let's get some more Twins runs.

The Twins offense thoughtully made it easy for Dazzle to describe the action that inning.

Come on, Scotty, no let-up now. We don't need lead-off walks.

Baker struggling to find the strike zone today so far.

31 strikes, 25 balls...not good.

He'd be better served to throw strikes to these hitters.

Please give me Dick and Bert...now!

I cannot stand listening to Gladden...Denard Span "fields it."

WTF!?

Throw strikes Scott!

*clap clap clap clap clap*

Throw strikes Scott!

*clap clap clap clap clap*

The Twins saw "how bad" the Mariners were Dazzle?

The Twins went 5-4 versus the M's this year, you douche.

Way to get through it, Scotty. A tack-on run or two for the Twins would be nice.

Too bad Major League Baseball doesn't play two 7 inning games for double headers.

The Twins would find themselves sitting well with those.

Let's have some abidage, Jason.

Kubel is SO due for a HR.

Well, some might say Jason did his job.

I hate Delmon.

Awesome. I leave for a while and the Twins take the lead. I <3 it.

Well, that could have gone better. Keep getting 'em out, Scotty.

I say this a lot...but this is a big inning for Baker.

Okay folks I'm out again, I hope that my leaving will bring more runs.

Good job again, Scotty. Strong inning. Let's have a couple Twins runs this inning.

81 pitches for Light Rail through 5. It would be nice to see him go 7 rather than 6 innings today.

Gomez walks on 4 straight!

!!!!

Dazzle and Gordo are basically calling for Gardy to use the B squad in the second game to give the regulars some rest. I could not disagree more. I know it's late in the year, and I'm sure they could use the rest, but the Twins cannot afford to give away the second game.

Ha ha ha. 4 pitch walk to Go-go

a 4 pitch walk to Gomez? Unbelievable.

I'd be down for the Twins adding 3-4 runs here.

Do it big here Alexi!

Is that true? Dazzle said the Orioles went through a several-game stretch when their starters were averaging ten walks a game. That doesn't seem possible. Maybe the staff as a whole could average that many, but the starters?

You've gotta be fucking kidding me!

Just put the damn ball in the outfield!!!

Thems the breaks.

No way to know if that was a good call, but I think Gardy is smart not to go out and argue. We don't need to do something that might wake the Orioles up.

Jeebus, what a horsecrap ending to that inning. Wish I could have seen Span's slide, I'm not very trustful of umpire calls like that these days. Dazzle didn't seem to agree with the call.

Keep getting outs, Scotty.

Span wasn't close to the bag and took out the 2B real nice. It was the correct call.

Good job, Scotty. Not to be greedy, but I'd sure like to get a couple more runs yet.

Okay, so 94 pitches for Baker. Do you give him the next inning? Don't forget that unless you toss in a spot start he'll be on short rest in his next start. I'd say put him back out there for one more.

I understand why they would move the Cubs-Astros game out of Houston, but why to Milwaukee? Why not some place that's not quite so much a home-crowd advantage for the Cubs?

I like sending him out. If he can get through in 15 or so pitches he'll be alright. Just have someone warming (Reyes?) in case he allows a hit or two.

I like M&Ms.

That's the way, Justin!

Is anyone else having problems with mlb.tv right now?

Why could I imagine Delmon swinging at these pitches?

And I miss another Morneau double. Crap.

Orioles TV feed is up. Avec graphics!

I'm walkin' here!

So these announcers have never seen a Twins game before between Butcher and Punto (soft U).

Pretty poor at bat there, Nicky.

the O's staff is helping out the Twins team OBP

Gomez comes through!

Any chance of a lil' Mijares today?

I'd be okay with taking Baker out now.

You know your team has bullpen issues when I'm still not comfortable up 6 runs and needing nine outs. Can we just use Nathan for 3 innings so I can relax?

Is this a BOOf! proof lead?

This game is going well.

So in game 2, are we going to see the starters again or might we see some of the Twins' B-squad? Is anybody ready for another dose of Jason Pridie?

Hey look at that. I ask, and the Twins provide.