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Cup of Coffee: November 20, 2008

Hey! A Wolves win!

This entry was posted by SBG on Thursday, November 20th, 2008 at 7:18 am and is filed under Cup of Coffee. It is one of 3095 entries by the author. We are no longer accepting Letters to the Editor on this post.

44 comments to Cup of Coffee: November 20, 2008

  • Yickit
    November 20th, 2008 at 9:19 am

    The floodgates are now open for the T-Wolves.

  • Jeff A
    November 20th, 2008 at 9:37 am

    Phoenix is clearly coasting since clinching their division, as the Desert Dogs lost to Surprise 11-6. No Twins pitchers appeared in the game. Dustin Martin was the hitting star, going 2-for-3 with a walk and a two-run homer. He drove in three runs on the game. Steven Tolleson was 1-for-3 with two walks and a run scored. Danny Valencia was 0-for-4 and struck out twice.

    In Venezuela, the Tigres got back on the winning track by defeating Magallanes 6-2. A four-run sixth was the key to the victory. Luke Huges was 1-for-5 with a run scored. Jose Mijares pitched a scoreless eight, despite giving up two hits. He also struck out two.

  • Algonad
    November 20th, 2008 at 10:10 am

    I saw a Carleton College license plate holder on an Escalade today. Isn't that against some kind of alumni rule? Or is this just a really smart person being ironic and me not getting the joke?

    • brianS
      November 20th, 2008 at 10:22 am

      You have to remember that Carleton isn't just Thorstein Veblen's (theorist of "conspicuous consumption") alma mater or where Paul Wellstone taught. It's also the alma mater of Melvin Laird (Nixon's Sec'y of Defense) and many other conservatives.

      It's like that old commercial where the proto-Palin comes home from the office to the lyric, "I can bring home the bacon/fry it up in a pan/and never, ever let you forget you're a man". We can do it all.

    • SBG
      November 20th, 2008 at 10:27 am

      Was there a Deadhead sticker on it?

    • Dread Pirate Will Young
      November 20th, 2008 at 10:28 am

      That's like when Crossfire was filmed at GW. Paul Begala would do his douchey, "The environments!!!!one!!111eleven!!!" spiel on television and then turn around and roll out in his Escalade to drive about 3 miles in city traffic to wherever his house is. Such hypocrisy.

      By the way, a certain "Unidentified Male" got to be on Crossfire one day defending the great state of Minnesota (scroll towards the bottom).

  • Dread Pirate Will Young
    November 20th, 2008 at 11:26 am

    Question for brians and anyone else who may have input:

    I actually get to name myself. Of course, the catch is that I have to give myself a Hebrew name (to put on the ketubah). Now, I'm drawing a blank on any good Hebrew names that I want to keep for the rest of my life.

    Right now, the top choices are Zev (which was the most common Hebrew name associated with William because it means Wolf so the W and L are in the right spot) or Abraham (because he was a fantastic President and a ancestor of mine on my father's side - however, I feel sort of guilty reaching so high into the Jewish history foodchain and taking Abraham, the Patriarch!, and not even converting plus it might piss of Sheenie's father since he's in love with the South and thinks Lincoln was the worst President this side of FDR).

    So any other alternatives I should consider before I name myself for the rest of my life?

    • SBG
      November 20th, 2008 at 11:38 am

      I'm not a member of the Tribe, but how about Adam? True, he's like the father of everyone so that maybe a little presumptuous, but Adam Sandler wrote a cool song about Hanukkah. So, there's that. Plus, you could go with Aaron, Moses's right hand guy and the name of some Twins blogger. Or Jacob. He had a lot of sons and he's also Joe Mauer's brother. So there you go.

    • AMR
      November 20th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

      Hosea? I liked that for my son who ended up Henry, but Wife objected that too many people would think him an Hispanic Girl. Seems there was a well-liked Gophers Basketball player with the name. I'm pretty sure it's a Hebrew name because he was a prophet. (But now I seem to remember the Red Hot Chili Peppers telling me that Bob Marley was a prophet, too, and "Robert" is clearly Germanic.)

    • Jeff A
      November 20th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

      How about Samuel, for the first Twins manager to take the team to the World Series?

    • brianS
      November 20th, 2008 at 12:40 pm

      I'd offer "Haman" as an opening gambit.

      funny, my "christian" name is on our ketubah.

      Zev works. Abraham works. How the hell can your FIL argue with going patriarchal? But remember, while he's the patriarch, he's the patriarch of a lot more than just the jews. If you want to get specific, you gotta go with Jacob.

      Here's a good place to look.

      My current favorite is "Barak" (meaning either "lightning" or "Barry" depending on mood).

  • Jeff A
    November 20th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

    Denard Span was named to the Topps Rookie All-Star Team.

  • meat
    November 20th, 2008 at 3:25 pm

    bS: I'm at the albuquerque museum. Art and history to be exact, but not natural history (that’s across the street), and not the atomic museum (also across the street). When are you going to cruze through? If you're here and want to see something special (at least IMO) check out the NHCC's exhibition of the de la Torre brothers' newest works. Afterwards, you should check out the marble brewery (corner of marble and 1st street), but if you're only going to be in Santa Fe you can taste some of the marble's brews at the sleeping dog tavern or blue corn cafe

    The food and the beer aren't too shabby at the 2nd street brewery in santa fe as well, the place is just a bit off the beaten path.

    • E-6
      November 20th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

      Watch for mail at the Museum tomorrow or Sat, meat.

    • brianS
      November 20th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

      meat: I'll confer with the Powers That Be. We are planning for a Dec. 25-30 visit, but don't have tix yet (or at least I have not been informed. Need to know basis, and I don't need to know).

      I believe I've been to the 2nd street brewery, although it has been a few years. I'd love to check out marble.

  • brianS
    November 20th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    It is now only a matter of time until they discover the giant underground oxygen machines! Huge Buried Water Glaciers Discovered on Mars

  • davidwatts
    November 20th, 2008 at 7:17 pm

    did anyone see that the Red Sox traded Coco Crisp to the Royals the other day
    I dont like that move, because it seems Coco kills Twins pitching

    • cheaptoy
      November 20th, 2008 at 8:04 pm

      I don't like the move because now we'll have to see him making that annoying kissy face when he hits way more often.

    • DK
      November 20th, 2008 at 8:04 pm

      I think it means they want to move De Jesus to LF and trade Teahen.

    • AMR
      November 20th, 2008 at 8:47 pm

      GMDM must really believe that relief pitching is overrated in the market... He just dropped his #2 and #3 righties for guys that I don't think are awesome. (#1 is Current Royal and One Time All-Star Joakim Soria.)

      I didn't want Crisp as return for Johan last year, and trading him one-for-one for Ramon seems to be a downgrade for the Royals (depending on what they can get for Teahen, though). I think I'd prefer Gathright and Ramon to Coco and no one.

  • Jeff A
    November 20th, 2008 at 7:33 pm

    You may have seen this, but the Twins have added the following players to the major-league roster:

    Drew Butera
    Brian Duensing
    Luke Hughes
    Trevor Plouffe
    Wilson Ramos
    Deibinson Romero
    Anthony Swarzak
    Steven Tolleson

    Drew Butera? Seriously? I mean, I loved his dad, even though he wasn't very good, and I'd love to see Drew make it, but right now, he has about as much business on a big-league roster as you or I do. What, Corky Miller isn't available? Chris Heintz won't return their calls? They won't pay the price for Danny Ardoin? I know you need a certain amount of depth at catcher, but if you can't find a Drew Butera in an emergency, you'd better revamp your front office.

    • AMR
      November 20th, 2008 at 8:10 pm

      Yeah, Butera has gotta be 4th or 5th in line of succession for catching.
      Corky was with the Braves' organization, And Chris was with the O's IIRC.

      I'm disappointed that they didn't put Julio DePaula back on...

      • brianS
        November 20th, 2008 at 9:56 pm

        added to the 40-man, or to the "Major League roster" (the 25-man)??

        • Jeff A
          November 21st, 2008 at 3:22 pm

          The article said "major league roster", but I'm sure it must be the forty-man roster. Still, what's the point? Are you really afraid someone is going to take Drew Butera away from you? And are you really afraid you can't replace him if they do? Why wouldn't it be better to just leave the roster spot open in case you acquire someone you want to add?

  • Jeff A
    November 20th, 2008 at 7:58 pm

    davidwatts mentioned recently that the library for "FSN Twins Classics" seems to consist of about five games from the last three years. He got that right. Tonight they are again showing the Liriano v. Kazmir game from 2006, which they just showed a couple weeks ago.

    What's so annoying about this is that it's just laziness on someone's part. Somebody just simply doesn't care enough to do their job properly. FSN North has been showing games since what, 2001? And before that it was MSC, which started around 1988 or so. Even assuming they don't keep them all, they have to have recordings of a whole bunch of games. All it would take is somebody spending a little time with a source like baseball-reference.com, finding some good and/or significant games, and then going and finding the recordings. I know someone else's job always seems easier than your own, but this just does not seem like it would be that hard. All that keeps them from doing it is that the person whose job it is apparently doesn't care.

    • AMR
      November 20th, 2008 at 8:18 pm

      Well, they do edit the games a bit, but it can't be more than a

      Can I get the LeCroy Grand Slam in Toronto? Or was that a Victory Sports game? I think it was the Victory Sports season, so even though it was a day game, it would have been televised. I heard that on the radio and never got to watch it.

      Can we get Garza's debut to make us feel not so bad about letting him go?
      Mauer's debut was a Victory sports game, I think.

      Can we get the Koskie chair game? That was in Baltimore, right? I remember an awesome Morneau game in throwbacks in Baltimore. Same game?

      Mauer's 5-for-5? Morneau's homer off Zumaya? Silva's 81-pitch cg (is that the same as the one against the Angels)? A game when Radke toughed it out with a shoulder made of wax and sawdust? Milton's no-hitter?

      Who else has suggestions? Maybe we could compile them and send them to FSN.

    • davidwatts
      November 20th, 2008 at 8:19 pm

      lets make a list of games we would like to see:

      Paul Molitor's 3000th hit in Kansas City. I know that game was on tv.

      • Jeff A
        November 20th, 2008 at 8:36 pm

        This is old, and they may not have been televising then, but Kirby Puckett's 6-hit game against Milwaukee would be tremendous to see. Actually, it would be fun just to see a random game from the Puckett-Hrbek era.