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http://www.ric.edu/commencement/publishingimages/commencementweb.jpg Good afternoon and welcome back to the Twins Daily Game Thread. I think tonight will be a lot more fun than the disappointment we experienced last night. I have written a few Game Thread introductions this year and I think my record is very good. I'm not really sure but I think my win percentage is close to 90%. Have faith people! Seattle is on a hot streak now but I think the Twins will shut them down tonight. Speaking about tonight, my oldest son graduates from High School tonight...If any of you have already experienced this it's kind of strange. It seems like just yesterday he was leaving…

Friday 6/5, 7:10 PM CT at Target Field TV: FS-N; Radio: Go 96.3, TIBN Weather: Partly cloudy, with a low around 59. East wind 5 to 10 mph. Lineups: BREWERS (18-36) 1. Segura, SS 2. Parra, RF 3. Gomez, CF 4. Lind, DH 5. Lucroy, C 6. Ramirez, 3B 7. Peterson, LF 8. Rogers, 1B 9. Perez, 2B Kyle Lohse, RHP (3-6, 6.50 ERA) TWINS (32-21) 1. Dozier, 2B 2. Hunter, DH 3. Mauer, 1B 4. Plouffe, 3B 5. Nunez, RF 6. Roszrio, LF 7. Suzuki, C 8. Escobar, SS 9. Hicks, CF Kyle Gibson, RHP (4-3, 2.61 ERA) Special guest appearance: Bob Uecker and the late Paul Giel. I'm sure most people think "Carlos Gomez and what could have been" when Milwaukee is in town. My mind initia…

Tonight's game features a matchup between 25 year old LHP Matt Boyd and 25 year old RHP Tyler Duffey. Here are lineups: Tigers Matt Boyd (L) 1. Cameron Maybin ® CF 2. Erick Aybar (S) SS 3. Miguel Cabrera ® 1B 4. Victor Martinez (S) DH 5. J.D. Martinez ® RF 6. Justin Upton ® LF 7. Casey McGehee ® 3B 8. Jarrod Saltalamacchia (S) C 9. Andrew Romine (S) 2B Twins Tyler Duffey ® 1. Brian Dozier ® 2B 2. Robbie Grossman (S) LF 3. Miguel Sano ® DH 4. Trevor Plouffe ® 1B 5. Jorge Polanco (S) SS 6. Eduardo Escobar (S) 3B 7. Max Kepler (L) RF 8. Kurt Suzuki ® C 9. Eddie Rosario (L) CF Have a great game thread everyone. http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/4d5d2a9649e2ae8f2…

Lineups: Twins: Aaron Hicks CF Joe Mauer DH Josh Willingham LF Justin Morneau 1B Ryan Doumit C Trevor Plouffe 3B Chris Parmelee RF Brian Dozier 2B Pedro Florimon SS (Liam Hendriks P) Royals: Alex Gordon LF Alcides Escobar SS Billy Butler DH Mike Moustakas 3B Salvador Perez C Eric Hosmer 1B Jeff Francoeur RF Lorenzo Cain CF Chris Getz 2B (Wade Davis P)

Twins | 49-57 overall, 30-23 at home, 5-5 in their last 10 Adalberto Mejia, LHP | 1-0, 3.65 ERA, 1.62 WHIP, 1.60 K:BB Cleveland | 58-48 overall, 26-27 on the road, 5-5 in their last 10 Carlos Carrasco, RHP | 12-5, 3.89 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 4.92 K:BB Lineups: https://twitter.com/MikeBerardino/status/1024676491941040128?s=19 Additional notes: As we turn the page from July to August, the Twins will also attempt to turn the page after a crazy week leading up to the trade deadline. I'm sure things didn't work out the way the guys in the clubhouse would have wanted, but at least it's all over now and we know who's here, who's not and the focus can be on moving forward. Let D…

Pitching matchup: MIN: Milone (8-4, 3.54) CWS: Quintana (8-10, 3.60) Today the Twins look to get a win from the White Sox, and the A's want to beat the Rangers. #1 Thing to Think About: Minor League Playoffs - The Kernels beat Quad City in the first round of the playoffs, and Max Kepler came up huge for the Lookouts in their first game, but that isn't the whole reason why we are thinking about MILB playoffs. The real reason why we are thinking about MILB playoffs is because we are Twins fans, and Twins fans have a habit of saying, "Well, there are always Minor League games, and the playoffs are fun..." unless you are also a Packers fan, then you go root for the Pack …

Twins: SP Andrew Albers Alex Presley CF Darin Mastroianni RF Brian Dozier 2B Josh Willingham DH Trevor Plouffe 3B Chris Herrmann C Chris Colabello 1B Clete Thomas LF Pedro Florimon SS Astros: SP Paul Clemens Robbie Grossman LF Jose Altuve 2B Jason Castro C Matt Dominguez 3B Chris Carter 1B Trevor Crowe RF Brandon Barnes CF L.J. Hoes DH Jonathan Villar SS Things to think about: 1. I wonder where Brian is?

As April enters on a day of silliness, it stands to reason it ends on a day of seriousness... seriosity? seriodom. It ends on a serious day, irregardless the propper noun form of seriositude. You may well ask "but sampleSize, if we can't tell if someone is sarcastic, how can we tell their being serious???" That is where you are wrong. The truly serious are emphatic and use expletives. And to cut it off at the source, sure all the boring, easy to use ones are banned and even filtered by this site. That just makes it more interesting. Beat the shift, by gum! Dagnamit, hit it where they ain't! Zounds! It is easy if you just go with the goldarn pitch! Now that's out o…

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 …

Quick’s The Word And Sharp’s The Action Pirates Logo 1960-66 You gotta love the Pirates, if for no other reason than their team name and logo. I mean what kid hasn’t grown up playing pirates, jumping around the living room, slashing the air with a toy sword, maybe stabbing the kid brother a few times until he runs to momma crying like a baby? Advancing from playing pirates to becoming a Pirates baseball fan seemed like a natural transition for me back in 1960. You could say their logo shivered my timbers and because of that Pirate baseball cards were probably my first attempt at collecting anything. I’d save up my pennies (yeah, kids used to earn penn…

Probable Starters: Matt Garza (5-5, 3.68 ERA) vs Adalberto Mejia (4-5, 4.30 ERA) 1. Today’s Special Event I’ve whipped up a little game on Sporcle, a website for quizzes. If you click the link below, you can try and remember which 25 players where on the Twins roster on the same day one year ago. Can you go 25 for 25? Go ahead and try and post your score in the comments! (Rules: You have 4 minutes to guess all 25 players and you can eliminate them by typing in their last names. Good luck!) https://www.sporcle.com/games/Danchat0/twins-8817-roster 2. Twins Pitchers Summer Stats Let’s look at how Twins pitchers have fared from June to August so far, and perhaps we will f…

No No ir... It was a hot and humid Houston as i sauntered into my Private investigator's office. Business was slow, and i was even slower. Hadn't been any decent action in who knows how long. And i had gotten used to it, in a slovenly sort of way. I stumbled to the door, pulled it open, and got the shock of my life! There in my office was a sight to behold! But alas, it wouldn't do to discuss my clients... Suffice it to say, someone got away with a crime yesterday, at trope i canna field i mean minute man maid field. maid... man... that could even be the problem. On the outside, it looked like your average, even expected baseball game last night. A home team won goi…

I had a nice big, long game thread I worked on all morning with videos and graphs.......and it's gone. So I am going to make this as long as possible before I have to run. What a difference a couple of days make! Monday night we were celebrating Sano's pinch hit HR deep into the Minneapolis night for a walk off win against Atlanta and an 8-2 stretch. Today we come in losers of 3 straight and a single game ahead of Cleveland, who just will not go away. The Indians are riding a stretch of playing .700+ baseball in their last 50 games and a win tonight would tie our Twins for 1st place atop the AL Central. In not so good news, Nelson Cruz joined Byron Buxton on the I…

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4tf788ILv1r4skvr.gif ANNND Welcome! To Minnesota Twins Whine Line: News at 6 Edition! I am your host and lead anchor for the next 2 days, Vanimal. We also have our trusty companion, Chief Meteorologist Intern! We have ourselves a BARN BURNER match up this weekend against Tampa near a Bay! Before we get into the HARD HITTING news stories of the day, let's talk lineups and weather.... Intern, err, I mean Chief Meteorologist Intern, take it away! Van... They're playing in a dome today. Who cares about the weather? GOOD POINT! That's why you're the chief meteorologist today... Minnesota Twins (8-6): P - Kyle Gibson (R ) - 77 o…

Gametime weather forecast: Mostly cloudy. Winds blowing out to center field at 5-15 m.p.h. Temperature around 55. A's: SP, Kazmir Fuld CF Lowrie SS Donaldson 3B Moss 1B Cespedes LF Callaspo DH Reddick RF Norris C Sogard 2B Twins: SP, Correia Dozier 2B Mauer 1B Plouffe 3B Colabello RF Pinto DH Kubel LF Suzuki C Hicks CF Florimon SS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Things to Think About: 1. The Home Opener -- The Twins have a record of 30-23 in home openers dating back to 1961. They last won a home opener April 8th, 2011... Beating these same Oakland A's 2 to 1. Carl Pavano outdueled Brett Anderson in …

Back in the early 1980s, one of my college roommates became an All-American goalie the year after I’d graduated with a journalism degree. We each had a big problem: He was Division II with no real path to the pros and I was jobless. So I wrote a feature about his plight and walked it, unsolicited, through the front door at the Strib. They declined – but sent me across the street to The Associated Press. As luck would have it, the Minneapolis AP sports department was a one-man show. He bought the story and, not long after, called to ask if I'd be interested in working some Twins games. Thus began a 10-year stint as a stringer – a freelance sportswriter – covering everyth…

I've got some good news and some bad news, but first I will give you the good news, we have completed the first round vote for the TDGTHOF! The bad news? VOTES FOR YOURSELF DON'T COUNT!! So now we have seven finalists, due to a tie between Vanimal46 and always33. Below I will give you a brief scouting report on each of our finalists: Riverbrian - Riverbrian's five things to think about are short, funny, and informative, but he also is a chronic liar and very prideful, so voters will have to take that into consideration. My advice is that since Riverbrian will make it to the HOF you should seriously consider voting for someone else, but voting for him will not necessaril…

Game-time forecast: Drizzle, maybe rain. 82 deg. ROYALS: SP, Ventura Aoki RF Infante 2B Perez C Butler 1B Gordon LF Cain CF Ibanez DH Moustakas 3B Escobar SS TWINS: SP, Hughes Santana SS Dozier 2B Mauer 1B Vargas DH Arcia RF Plouffe 3B Suzuki C Parmelee LF Schafer CF ----------------------------- Brian? You there? You're on! ----------------------------- I'm Somewhere... Always am. Things to Think About: 1. 1st Place -- That's what the Royals are thinking about right now. They are Currently 1.5 games up on the Tigers. 2 teams that are currently going in opposite directions. The Royals are 9-1 in their last 10 while the Kitty Kats from Detroit are 3-7. L…

Twins | 52-58 overall, 19-34 on the road, 5-5 last 10 Kyle Gibson, RHP | 3.47 ERA, 1.21 WHIP, 2.49 K:BB Cleveland | 61-49 overall, 34-22 at home, 7-3 last 10 Trevor Bauer, RHP | 2.34 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 3.68 K:BB Lineups: https://twitter.com/LaVelleNeal/status/1026553926412263425?s=19 Additional notes: The Twins are 7-5 against Cleveland so far this season. Jorge Polanco has three home runs in just 22 plate appearances against Bauer. Gibson has been excellent on the road this year, posting a 2.94 ERA and 1.10 WHIP in 11 starts. Over his last 101 plate appearances, Max Kepler has hit .301/.416/.590 with six home runs. Cleveland has had mixed returns from their bullpen ad…

Lineups: Twins: Brian Dozier 2B Joe Mauer DH Ryan Doumit C Justin Morneau 1B Trevor Plouffe 3B Oswaldo Arcia LF Chris Parmelee RF Aaron Hicks CF Pedro Florimon SS (Kevin Correia P) Blue Jays: Blue Jays: Jose Reyes SS Jose Bautista RF Edwin Encarnacion DH Adam Lind 1B Colby Rasmus CF Rajai Davis LF Maicer Izturis 3B J.P. Arencibia C Munenori Kawasaki 2B (Mark Buehrle P)

5. Sometimes less is more. 4. If that is the case, how can you tell? 3 days ago, Riverbrian wrote a fantastic game intro about the colour green. Not to be confused with the colour red. This thread became the coming green thing. And then the game started, and a trouncing happened. Not by ounce, but by the pound. You might even call it a pounding. 2 days ago, i wrote something, now lost in the sands of time, aka the game thread archive. It was probably trying to be clever too. But while well received, response was spartan. Like the offense in the game. But the Twins pulled it out. 1 daze ago, A long thread. It says it is hot. And people actually discussing baseball.…

A's: SP AJ Griffin CF Crisp 3B Donaldson SS Lowrie DH Cespedes 2B Callaspo LF Young RF Reddick C Norris 1B Barton Twins: SP Scott Diamond CF Presley C Pinto 2B Dozier RF Arcia DH Doumit LF Willingham 3B Plouffe 1B Colabello SS Florimon Things to Think About: Will have to be provided by the Game Threaders... Remember to number them as you come up with them. I got time for one 1. Think about 18 to 3... If the Twins pitching and defense would have shaved 15 runs off the A's output last night... It would have been a ball game. Today is a new day... Last night is in the rear view mirror.

June is finally here and the Twins are off to a not so hot start. However, they did play one of their most exciting games, once again against Cleveland. Let's hope they start June off on the right foot and get a win. A few days ago the offense couldn't help the pitching staff at all. Now the pitching staff has been terrible, and can't contain the opposing offenses. GAMETIME WEATHER: 77 degrees farenhite, sunny. 0% chance of rain. Wind east at 12 MPH. A beautiful night for a Twins victory PITCHING MATCHUP: Carlos Carassco (6-3,3.98 ERA) vs Jose Berrios (5-5, 3.67 ERA) - Berrios pitched a gem against Cleveland in the 16 inning marathon down in Puerto Rico. Hopefully h…

And welcome back to TD Game Thread, August 12, 2022 variety, as our Hometown Hero's begin a 3-game set with the Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles, or is it Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, or Anaheim Angels, or whoever they are. Let's just say they are not the Dodgers, and thank goodness for that, as our Twins are coming off a 2-game spanking at the hands of one of the very best in MLB. But that unhappiness is in the rear-view mirror, and tonight, the Twins have a chance to get back on track as they will face an Angels club coming off a 3-game sweep of Oakland. On the season, the Twins stand at 57-53, good for second place in the AL Central, 1.5 games behind Cleveland. Wi…

Looks like a warm and humid night in Arlington with just a light southerly breeze. About 87 degrees at Game time but the humidity will make it feel a bit warmer. Should have 3 days of sunny (or partly cloudy) weather – mostly in the upper 80’s. Chances of showers overnight and on Saturday and Sunday. They do not need more rain in the Dallas area right now so let’s all hope for sunny skies. Here are the line-ups for tonight: For YOUR Minnesota Twins (33-26): Dozier 2B Hunter RF Mauer 1B Plouffe 3B Vargas DH Rosario LF Suzuki C Escobar SS Hicks CF LHP: Tommy Milone For the Texas Rangers (may they eat too much barbeque and get logged down) (31-29): DeShi…

Game-time forecast: Mostly sunny. Winds blowing out to right field at 10-15 m.p.h. Temperature around 80. I just couldn't wait to get game thread up... ChiTown has to wait to post the lineups. Chi here. And I'm still waiting. You'd think they'd get these things up 5 hours in advance, but nooooooo ... but the game-time weather forecast is up. INDIANS: SP, Salazar Kipnis 2B Dickerson FL Brantley CF Santana 1B Chisenhall 3B Swisher DH Gomes C Murphy RF Aviles SS TWINS: SP, Pino Santana CF Dozier 2B Plouffe 3B Morales 1B Willingham DH Suzuki C Arcia RF Escobar SS Fuld LF ------------------------------------------------------ Things to Think About: 1. E…

Duffey is the opener tonight, which sounds like a recipe to start the 2nd inning down 7-0. 5 BURNING questions: - Most overrated fast-casual restaurant? - Decorative pillows on the bed... Your thoughts? - Best furniture to take a nap on? - Who has the best hair in baseball? - Real or fake Christmas tree? 9/11/2001 a day we will never forget.

Today it’s the Blue Jays again, as the Twins try to scramble their way over the finish line ahead of the Angels and the rest of the chasing mob. And the Angels are now breathing down their necks. (Do angels breathe? They sing, so they must breathe, right?) With a tough road trip ahead and on the heels of two total duds against the Jays, this looks like a pretty important game; it’s probably a really bad time for a game-thread author whose record so far is 0-2… The all-knowing Internet tells me that there are ten species of jays in North America. Toronto had a nice choice of colors: they could have chosen to be the Gray Jays, Brown Jays, or Green Jays. The Gray Jay is al…

Lineups: Twins: Brian Dozier 2B Joe Mauer C Josh Willingham DH Justin Morneau 1B Chris Parmelee RF Trevor Plouffe 3B Oswaldo Arcia LF Aaron Hicks CF Pedro Florimon SS (Scott Diamond P) Rangers: Ian Kinsler 2B Elvis Andrus SS Lance Berkman DH Adrian Beltre 3B Nelson Cruz RF David Murphy LF Geovany Soto C Mitch Moreland 1B Craig Gentry CF (Justin Grimm P)

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