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This one will be live for me, televised for you. Wind is really blowing out to left today. Hopefully that means a few long balls … for us, not them. Go Twins!

Twins Lineup Denard Span CF Jamey Carroll SS Joe Mauer C Justin Morneau DH Josh Willingham LF Ryan Doumit RF Danny Valencia 3B Chris Parmelee 1B Alexi Casilla 2B SP: Carl Pavano

Game-time forecast: Mostly cloudy. Winds blowing out to left field at 5-15 m.p.h. Temperature around 60. Royals: SP, Shields Aoki EF Infante 2B Hosmer 1B Butler DH Gordon LF Perez C Moustakas 3B Cain CF Escobar SS Twins: SP, Nolasco Dozier 2B Mauer 1B Plouffe 3B Colabello RF Kubel LF Pinto DH Suzuki C Hicks CF Florimon SS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Things to Think About: 1. Saving for a Rainy Day -- Most Americans are busy living from check to check. 57% of all working Americans have less than $25K in savings and investments. With statistics like that... Why are the Twins scoring 10 runs in a game on a …

Very tough loss in the first game. Losing streak now at 4, and could come at hardly a worse time. We need a win tonight. A few other thoughts: 1) Mike Pelfrey. 'Nuf said, Big Pelf's got this. 2) Garrett Richards. The Angels threw a competent pitcher at us in game 1, we get another one tonight. Big righty (not as big as our guy of course), eats innings, strikes out his share of batters, keeps his team in the game. He walks a few, so maybe patience at the plate will be key. 3) The Twins Offense. This seems like the overall key. First game today was winnable, and a single run in any number of late inning chances would have achieved that. We need sustained offense the r…

Phil Hughes made his 2nd start of the spring today. He pitched 2 innings, gave up 3 hits, 1 ER, 2 BB and a strikeout Twins are up 4-1 in the top of the 4th.

Samwise Gamgee game thread intro: There is this one point in Two Towers where Sam and Frodo are resting on the stairs up to Cirith Ungol in a dark and dismal land and their conversation is about the epic tales and how the folk in them have no idea how they'll turn out, they just keep on going. I can't think what in this season might have brought that moment to mind... But in it Frodo jokes about wanting to hear more of what Sam says, as it makes him laugh. That brings me straight to a game thread intro... So... to run with a theme, Buxton and Sano are off enjoying ent draughts that will curl their hair, and we have the unexpected help of Faramir... er, i mean Fer…

Happy Labor Day weekend Twins fans and welcome back to more game thread action! The Twins are on a roll and finally playing with a little more fire in the belly. Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer (technically it's September 22nd but whatever) my point is, there is not a lot of regular season baseball left to play. I would really like to see a 12+ game winning streak heading into the playoffs. Momentum will be the key to making it through the Covid type playoff system MLB designed this year. Also need to do a quick shout out to Byron Buxton, nice work last night!!! When I walked outside this morning to survey last nights hail damage, I turned on the radio to s…

"The Odyssey 2*" Opening scene: Old man (played by Nelson Cruz) with an oar on his shoulder shuffling down the road. Twins fan catches his forelorn eye, waves and says, "is that a fan on your shoulder, or are you just happy to see me?" and an expressionof great relief crosses the oldman's face... Summary (i am too lazy and the game approaches) Odysseus (Cruz) is on the run from the law due to slaughtering all his wife's suitors, has to take care of hia family in hiding and still make good on his promice to expand poseidon's realm, whne he hears some of his band survived their travels butare caught by crazy dangers. Join us as Cruz teach…

Game-time forecast: Partly cloudy. Winds blowing out to center field at 10-15 m.p.h. 20% PoP. Temperature near 55. Orioles: SP, Jimenez Markakis RF Machado 3B Cruz LF Jones CF Wieters C Hardy SS Young DH Pierce 1B Schoop 2B Twins: SP, Nolasco Dozier 2B Mauer 1B Plouffe 3B Colabello RF Kubel LF Pinto DH Suzuki C Fuld CF Escobar SS -------------------------- Riverbrian, Riverbrian ... wherefore art thou, Riverbrian? Answer to come. ------------------------------------------------------------- Juliet: Deny my Father and refuse my name or if thou wilt not, but be sworn my love... and I'll no longer be a Capulet. Riverbrian: Umm... I not following what your s…

Game-time forecast: Sunny. Winds blowing out to center field at 5-10 m.p.h. Temperature around 65. I'm going to see my Dad today. Hopefully he will have the game on so I can listen to him tell me that the Twins don't swing at the first pitch in the zone. ChiTown will be along with the lineups and WX shortly. TWINS: SP, Hughes Danny Santana(S) CF Brian Dozier® 2B Kurt Suzuki® C Kennys Vargas(S) 1B Josh Willingham® DH Chris Parmelee(L) RF Eduardo Nunez(S) 3B Eduardo Escobar(S) SS Jordan Schafer(L) LF ATHLETICS: SP, Hammel Coco Crisp(S) DH Sam Fuld(L) CF Josh Donaldson® 3B Brandon Moss(L) LF Stephen Vogt(L) 1B Josh Reddick(L) RF John Jaso(L) C Alberto Callasp…

Perfect baseball weather for game 2 of the series. Pitchers: Wei-Yin Chen (3-2, 4.25) vs. Ricky Nolasco (2-4, 4.93). Lineups at bottom. Being a Twins fan in 2016 is no doubt some sort of cosmic test, administered by forces we do not understand, and frankly…. it’s a test we are failing. Did you see what direction the game thread went last night? The team needs help, but more importantly, so do we. We have descended into the mud. We treat straightforward discussion threads as self-help communities. One commenter in a game thread this weekend even suggested that Brian Dozier should check himself in to Pull Hitters Anonymous. If he does, he should wait a few weeks, beca…

In Search of a Yardarm Every St. Patrick’s Day my wife of 32 years (give or take a year or two, I lost track - but don’t tell my wife) and I sit down with a bowl of popcorn to watch John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara in “The Quiet Man”. If you’ve never seen it, give it a whirl. It was filmed in Ireland and has the distinction of being known as the only movie in which John Wayne played somebody other than himself. Anyway, watching the Quiet Man is one of my family’s traditions. My mother, God bless her soul, was Irish. Well, not Irish-Irish, but 2nd generation American Irish. That makes me half German, half-Irish. And some might say half-a$$ed. Actually being German-…

The Twins look to bounceback on Sunday after taking a beating in yesterdays game. The Twins started off the homestand with a convincing win over the ALC leaders after 3 weeks, and look to close out the series with a victory today. We know the Twins aren't going to go on a 30+ game win streak like the Indians did a few years ago, so they must take these small victories as they come, and that starts with winning series. The Pitchers RHP Jose Berrios (2-2, 3.04 ERA, 33 K's, 26.2 IP) vs RHP Brad Keller (2-2, 9.00 ERA, 13 K's, 18 IP) The Twins turn to arguably the best starter we've seen this year in Jose Berrios, while the Royals will send out one of their worse arms in B…

Preface: This is the first time I've ever been asked to write a game thread intro! Can you believe it? Over 18,000 posts at this site, and not one of them has been invited -- until now! In keeping with this momentous occasion, I have breaking news to share: according to team sources, the Twins poor performance so far this season has actually been intentional. The team was attempting to replicate the situation faced by the old hapless Washington Senators, and thereby attract the attention of the Devil to make a deal, à la Damn Yankees (the musical and film, not the rock supergroup). However, the Twins now believe that such a deal if off the table, as the Dev…

Good Morning Twins fans and welcome back to more Game Thread banter and fun! We have moved past July and are now entering the hot month of August. The Twins ended July on a high note with a win last night. Hopefully they can start the month with a win this afternoon. Entering August 1st our team is dead last in the Central with a .419 winning percentage...Got to admit I didn't see that coming when we started in April. Oh well, we have each other to entertain us and a bunch of new young talent from the Rays and Blue Jays to watch. Speaking of game thread fun, it was suggested in last nights game thread I do a survey on what your favorite beverage is while watching th…

Good afternoon Twins fans and welcome to the place where the best banter and humor exists on Twins Daily. That place to see and be seen is the one and only Twins Daily Game Thread! Tonight our Twins take on Cleveland after a nice win yesterday against our central division foes. Big Joe Ryan takes the mound tonight for Minnesota. It will be fun to see how he performs and how well that long hair holds up. I think this kid could turn into a decent pitcher in the near future. He looks confident on the mound and throws with a bit of a chip on his shoulder. Go Twins!! Below are tonight's lineups: TWINS: 1. Luis Arraez, 3B 2. Byron Buxton, CF …

Twins: SP Kevin Correia 2B Dozier C Mauer 1B Morneau DH Doumit LF Arcia 3B Plouffe RF Herrmann CF Thomas SS Florimon Royals: SP Jeremy Guthrie RF Cain 1B Hosmer DH Butler LF Gordon 2B Tejada 3B Moustakas C Kottaras SS Escobar CF Dyson Things to think about: 1. Think about the Astros... Yeah we swept them... But they played some bad baseball... It has to be the worst sweep feeling produced in quite some time. 2. Think about the Royals... The Royals are turning it on. I've always felt that this team was capable of contending and they were very slow coming out of the gate. They are 13-3 since the All Star Break and within wild card consideration distance. …

Bri: Will we start on time? Will we start with players in the lineup? ChiTown... Will Start later... Right Here. Chi: Well, Bri, considering the forecast, I think we'll start on time ... unless there is another deterrent other than the weather. So, here we go ... Game-time forecast: Sunny. Winds blowing in from right field at 5-10 m.p.h. Temperature around 80. White Sox: SP, Noesi Eaton CF Beckham 2B Gillaspie 3B Abreu 1B Dunn DH Ramirez SS Viciedo RF De Aza LF Flowers C Twins: SP, Nolasco Santana SS Dozier 2B Mauer 1B Willingham LF Morales DH Suzuki C Arcia RF Escobar 3B Fuld CF --------------------------------------------------------- Things to Think Ab…

This afternoon is the final game of a four game series at Target Field. Twins will look to even the series before Cleveland comes into town this weekend. Start time: 12:10 CDT Weather: http://static6.depositphotos.com/1000366/543/i/950/depositphotos_5439919-stock-photo-rainbow-in-the-dark-blue.jpg Today's starting pitchers: Seattle: Ariel Miranda (6-2, 3.67) Minnesota: Jose Berrios (5-1, 2.84) Lineups TBA More on today's pitchers. Ariel Miranda: Other than a very poor outing in early May, looks like Miranda has pitched very well, pitching at least 5 innings and allowing no more than 2 runs in his previous six starts. Jose Berrios: We all know the B…

Gametime forecast: 78 deg F, overcast, 10%PoP Red Sox: SP, Doubront (L) Victorino (S) RF Pedroia ® 2B Pierzynski (L) C Napoli ® DH Gomes ® LF Carp (L) 1B Bogaerts ® SS Middlebrooks ® 3B Bradley (L) CF Twins: SP, Hughes ® Bartlett ® RF Mauer (L) DH Plouffe ® 3B Willingham ® LF Colabello ® 1B Pinto ® C Hicks (S) CF Escobar (S) 2B Florimon (S) SS Check back to this spot for Brian's setup. I guess you could consider this spot as Twins Daily's version of 'Deep Thoughts.' Thank You ChiTown Here are my Deep Thoughts Things to Think About 1. It's a day game... And I'm just getting the chance to think about this game. So I'm late. 2. Boston again... As ofte…

Game-time forecast: Partly cloudy with a 50-percent chance of rain. Winds blowing out to center field at 10-15 m.p.h. Temperature around 70. INDIANS: SP, House Bourn CF Ramirez SS Brantley LF Santana 1B Chisenhall 3B Gomes DH Murphy RF Perez C Aviles 2B TWINS: SP, May Santana SS Dozier 2B Mauer 1B Vargas DH Plouffe 3B Suzuki C Arcia RF Nuñez LF Schafer CF ------------------------------------------- Okay, Brian ... GO! ------------------------------------------ Where? Things to Think About: 1. Birthdays -- Hey all... It's my Birthday Today!!! I'm still collecting these things... Today... I got my 49th. I'm keeping them all in the basement with all the othe…

4-0 after the 1st.

In memoriam of all of those who served and gave everything they had so we can enjoy one of our favorite pastimes, baseball.

A buddy o' mine is flying into the cities Monday, and thought to check out Target field which was a kindly sentiment, knowing he's not much of a sportsball fan. Last thing what got him to fenway was the Red Bull Crashed Ice competition. I looked at the schedule and saw there was no game. So i pointed him at the State Fair. I puttered round online, but in the short puttering i couldn't figure out how to pull headliners out from the more mundane every other hour shows. I read some of them allowed to various levels of ribald mockery, until i got to the lumberjack competitions. Now he has something to share with coworkers. But that being said, i's happy to pass on any r…

Roster Move: Jovani Moran was optioned to AAA-STP to make room for tomorrow's starter Tyler Mahle. OF Gilberto Celestino was activated from the paternity list and Kyle Garlick hit the 10 day IL The Pitchers: RHP Sonny Gray (6-3, 3.41 ERA, 74.0IP, 69K's, 1.0 bWAR) vs RHP Alek Manoah (11-5, 2.43 ERA, 126IP, 114 K's, 3.3 bWAR) The Minnesota Twins will have their hands full with tonight's starter Alek Manoah, who was possibly the biggest winner of the ASG after his mic'd up appearance in Hollywood. Alek last started against the Tigers, going 5.1IP, allowing 4 earned runs on 7 hits including a homer, a walk, and 4 strikeouts. Manoah has yet to start a game thi…

Royals Lineup 1. Chris Getz, 2B 2. Alex Gordon, LF 3. Billy Butler, DH 4. Eric Hosmer, 1B 5. Jeff Francoeur, RF 6. Mike Moustakas, 3B 7. Brayan Pena, C 8. Alcides Escobar, SS 9. Jarrod Dyson, CF LHP Bruce Chen Twins Lineup 1. Denard Span, CF 2. Jamey Carroll, SS 3. Joe Mauer, C 4. Josh Willingham, LF 5. Justin Morneau, 1B 6. Danny Valencia, 3B 7. Ryan Doumit, DH 8. Trevor Plouffe, RF 9. Alexi Casilla, 2B RHP Jason Marquis

Twins Lineup: Denard Span CF Brian Dozier SS Joe Mauer C Josh Willingham LF Justin Morneau 1B Trevor Plouffe RF Alexi Casilla 2B Jamey Carroll 3B Scott Diamond P

Game-time forecast: Mostly cloudy. Winds blowing out to center field at 10-15 m.p.h. Temperature around 60. INDIANS: SP, Kluber Bourn CF Ramirez SS Brantley LF Santana 1B Murphy RF Gomes C Kipnis DH Chisenhall 3B Aviles 2B TWINS: SP, Swarzak Santana SS Dozier 2B Mauer DH Vargas 1B Plouffe 3B Arcia RF Pinto C Hermann LF Schafer CF ------------------------------------------- Thoughts? Brian will be up soon to share his. In the meantime, I'm sure y'all have plenty to say about Santana playing short, and Pinto catching. ------------------------------------------ Things to Think About: 1. The Vikings -- Yes... It's Sunday and I'm gonna think about NFL Foot…

I survived my first game thread (7/25), although the Twines and Señor Berríos didn’t fare so well in Dodgerville that night. Here goes another one as they put their 6-game winning streak on the line against the aging and wilting Tigers of Detroit. Looking at the pitching statistics below, the Twins’ starter leads his Tiger counterpart in EVERY statistical category listed: more wins, fewer losses, lower ERA, lower WHIP, more K/9, and less BB/9. And Detroit is paying their starter $18,000,000 this year (and $24,000,000 next year and $25,000,000 for two years after that) with the Twins’ starter making $525,000. After seeing those numbers, I’m not quite so dismayed (see bel…