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Game-time forecast: Partly cloudy. Winds blowing in from right field at 15-20 m.p.h. Temperature around 90. Twins: SP, Hughes Fuld CF Dozier 2B Mauer 1B Morales DH Arcia RF Suzuki C Parmelee LF Escobar 3B Florimon SS Rangers: SP, Darvish Choo LF Andrus SS Pena 1B Beltre 3B Murphy DH Martin CF Gimenez C Choice RF Odor 2B ----------------------------- Okay, Brian ... give us something ... anything ... it will be appreciated! ---------------------------------------------- Here' something... In Alaska a 180 pound Bear crashed through a skylight and ate the cupcakes they had out of their child's birthday party. It actually happened... I just read it in the paper. I'…

Game Thread, Twins Vs. Indians, 8/15 @ 6:10pm CT‏ Going for Chief Wahoo - Josh Tomlin (0-0, ERA --) Going for the Ted Cruz Bear - Tyler Duffey (0-1, ERA 27.00) Things to think about: Being absent - I have been absent from TD for about 6 weeks now, (you don't need to know why, but it could have something to do with nerd sniping) but it seems that a lot has happened since I was gone, such as Kevin Jepsen arriving, Spirit of Vodka Dave going to the Happy Hunting Grounds, and the Twins falling well behind the Royals, but I happen to have some top secret information about the Jepsen trade, so I'll get to that below. The Trade - On July 29th, a Tampa Bay Rays scout was k…

In case of game, break glass. 1. The Surgeon General has noticed that caring too much about a baseball team can be hazardous to your equanimity. Proceed at your own risk. 2. Familiarize yourself with all safety proceedures including but not limited to emergency exits, safety restraints, and relevent contact information. 3. Turn all signed permission slips and insurance waivers. Does your family know you are watching a baseball game? Feel free to invite them along. 4. Please wash hands after using the fasilities. Share snacks and beverages responsibly. 5. And in the words of a certain Disney caterpiller, "Keep your temper." Angels Tyler Skaggs (L) 1. Ian Kin…

Hello and welcome to today's game thread. I like using the 5-topic intro so here goes. 1. I don't feel like discussing the Twins. 2. I don't feel like discussing the Brewers. 3. July 4th is designated as Independence Day because on July 4, 1776 the final wording of the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Second Continental Congress. Most of the signatures on the best known version of the document, the one that is displayed at the National Archives, were made on August 2 of that year. 4."The Stars and Stripes Forever", composed by John Philip Sousa in 1896, was named the National March of the United States in 1987 by an act of Congress. 5. F…

I can't think of a more "Dog Days of Summer" locale than Houston, TX. I believe Kris Atteberry mentioned yesterday that the Twins are entering their third and final leg of the "Humidity Tour", consisting of St. Louis, Cincinnati, and now... H-Town. At least there's a roof at Minute Maid Park, unlike Busch Stadium or Great American Ballpark. Now I want some orange juice, but absolutely no pulp. The last time the Twins visited Minute Maid was in April of 2019. Check out these pitchers of record for a blast from the recent past: April 22nd Twins 9, Astros 5 Winning Pitcher: Jake Odorizzi Losing Pitcher: Brad Peacock April 23rd Tw…

Game-time forecast: Sunny. Winds blowing out to left field at 5-10 m.p.h. Temperature around 70. One Batter followed by another and you got a lineup. ChiTown is a lineup professional and she'll post them shortly. Brian ... I'm only a lineup professional if I were paid to create them. But whatever, here they are ... and I didn't create them, just typed them up. Free of charge. ANGELS: SP, Rassmus Calhoun RF Trout CF Pujols 1B Kendrick 2B Aybar SS Freese 3B Iannetta C Boesch LF Cron DH TWINS: SP, Hughes Santana CF Dozier 2B Mauer 1B Vargas DH Plouffe 3B Arcia RF Suzuki C Escobar SS Hicks LF --------------------------------------- Things to Think about:…

TWINS: Santana SS Dozier 2B Mauer 1B Hunter RF Vargas DH Plouffe 3B Arcia LF Suzuki C Schafer CF Gibson P RED SOX: Betts CF Pedroia 2B Ortiz DH Ramirez LF Sandoval 3B Napoli 1B Victorino RF Bogaerts SS Leon C Masterson P ---------------- Not only was I able to put down the Twins lineup without looking (not really too hard to do), I was able to do the same with the Red Sox lineup up to Leon (also not really that hard to do) but that is way more familiarity with the Red Sox with which I am comfortable. Another beautiful day in Fort Myers; looking good for a ST finale ... clear, sunny, 81 degrees. Now is the time to shake off all your game thread rust. Looking forwa…

MISNOMER (I Think I May Have Dated Her In College) What kind of name is "Athletics" for a sports team? I mean isn’t every player in the major leagues an athlete? Oakland could’ve just as well named their team the Ipso Factos. No, that’s not a swear word. For one thing, it’s two words. For another, there’s six letters in Facto. All good cuss words are limited to four letters. That’s in the Bible. Ergo and theretofore (I thought I’d go with the lawyer lingo just to make sure no one knows what I’m talking about) Ipso Facto is a non-offensive non sequitur. Sort of like the Twins. Anybody remember Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? The movie, not the real Butch and Sund…

Twins made some cuts this morning - which Seth Stohs documented here - no of which are surprising. Unfortunately for Steve Pearce, he will not get to square off against his former organization as after straining his calf (on his leg, not on his ranch) he was re-assigned to the minor league camp. Here's today's lineups courtesy of the Star Tribune's Joe Christensen: Today's game can be heard locally on 1500ESPN as well as MLB.TV.

Twins: Revere CF Mastroianni RF Mauer C Willingham LF Morneau 1B Doumit DH Dozier SS Casilla 2B Carroll 3B (Blackburn P) Red Sox: Ellsbury CF Crawford LF Pedroia 2B Gonzalez 1B Ross DH Saltalamacchia C Middlebrooks 3B Kalish RF Aviles SS (Morales P)

Lineups: Twins: Jamey Carroll 2B Joe Mauer DH Josh Willingham LF Justin Morneau 1B Ryan Doumit C Oswaldo Arcia RF Aaron Hicks CF Eduardo Escobar 3B Pedro Florimon SS (Mike Pelfrey P White Sox: DeWayne Wise CF Alexei Ramirez SS Alex Rios RF Adam Dunn 1B Paul Konerko DH Conor Gillaspie 3B Dayan Viciedo LF Jeff Keppinger 2B Hector Gimenez C (Dylan Axelrod P)

Game-time forecast: Mostly cloudy. Winds blowing out to center field at 10-20 m.p.h. 0% PoP. Temperature around 55. Orioles: SP, Chen Markakis RF Machado 3B Cruz DH Jones CF Clevenger C Hardy SS Pearce 1B Lough LF Schoop 2B Twins: SP, Correia Dozier 2B Mauer 1B Plouffe 3B Colabello RF Kubel LF Pinto DH Suzuki C Fuld CF Florimon SS --------------------------------------------------------------- Things to Think About: 1. Offense -- We got shut out yesterday and we struggled to score against the Dodgers in both games of the doubleheader. You don't know what you got until it's gone. I miss the offense... I'd like to see it come back. I'd like to ask the Twins t…

Liriano vs. Williams Lineups: Span - CF Casilla -2b Mauer - dh Willingham - lf Valencia - 3b Doumit - C Parmelee - 1B Thomas - RF Carroll - SS Trout - CF Callaspo - 3B Pujols - 1B Hunter- RF Trumbo, DH Kendrick - 2b Wells - lf Aybar - ss Iannetta - c

We've reached the final series of the regular season, and the Twins will fight to avoid a 90 loss season. Today, it's time to run an old favorite of mine that I've done on several past Game Threads - it's time for a game of Strat-O-Matic Baseball! For those who don't know, Strat-O-Matic is a simulation board game that, well, simulates a game of baseball. Normally you'd need a deck of cards for each team, but I've come up with ways to develop my own player cards. As you can see below, here is what I have for the Twins and Royals rosters: The numbers range from 1 to 8 or 1 to 5 based on their 2021 stats ( and recent years). I took the defensive values from …

Game-time forecast: Clear. Winds blowing out to left field at 5-10 m.p.h. Temperature around 65. Twins: SP, Nolasco Darin Mastroianni LF Brian Dozier 2B Joe Mauer 1B Chris Colabello RF Trevor Plouffe 3B Josmil Pinto DH Kurt Suzuki C Aaron Hicks CF Pedro Florimon SS Royals: SP, Vargas Aoki RF Infante 2B Hosmer 1B Perez C Gordon LF Butler DH Moustakas 3B Maxwell CF Escobar SS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Things to Think about: 1. The Royals -- It's our 2nd look at them. Our 1st look at them was wonderful. This time it's in Kansas City. They've hit a couple more homeruns so maybe the bats are starting to unth…

Twins Lineup: Denard Span CF Brian Dozier SS Joe Mauer C Ryan Doumit DH Danny Valencia 3B Chris Parmelee 1B Trevor Plouffe RF Erik Komatsu LF Jamey Carroll 2B SP: Francisco Liriano Angels SP: Jered Weaver

Game-time forecast: Mostly cloudy. Winds blowing in from left field at 5-10 m.p.h. Temperature around 80. ChiTown will have the Lineups Soon... Live from Minneapolis... Which will make the lineups even more special. ROYALS: SP, House Bourn CF Ramirez SS Brantley LF Santana 1B Kipnis 2B Walters DH Aviles 3B Dickerson RF Perez C TWINS: SP, Nolasco Santana CF Dozier 2B Mauer 1B Vargas DH Arcia RF Plouffe 3B Escobar SS Fryer C Schafer LF ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Things to Think About: 1. This Weekend -- I'll be taking a 4 day break from the Game Thread setups. It's a vacation... It's actually more like a …

Tonight's starting lineups 1. Ben Revere, CF 2. Jamey Carroll, 3B 3. Josh Willingham, LF 4. Justin Morneau, DH 5. Ryan Doumit, C 6. Trevor Plouffe, 1B 7. Brian Dozier, SS 8. Alexi Casilla, 2B 9. Darin Mastroianni, RF Starting pitcher: RH Nick Blackburn (1-4, 8.37 ERA) 1.Alex Gordon, LF 2. Johnny Giavotella, 2B 3. Billy Butler, DH 4. Mike Moustakas, 3B 5. Jeff Francoeur, RF 6. Eric Hosmer, 1B 7. Bryan Pena, C 8. Jarrod Dyson, CF 9. Alcides Escobar, SS Starting pitcher: RH Felipe Paulino (3-1, 1.70 ERA)

The Future is Now. (started yesterday's intro off with a Coen Bro's movie quote regarding the past, figured today would be the future) And strangely i want more from the movie, but this as good as i got... So what are y'all looking forward to in the Twins world? We got a collective bargaining agreement coming up (eventually) We got a playoffs with no team from Minnesota involved, though perhaps a former Twin or two. We go Mr. Ryan on the mound for tonight. That's pretty exciting. And we got some good players in our minors, not to mention the rest of the current roster. Does Buxton sign long term? Do…

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Twins: Denard Span CF Ben Revere RF Joe Mauer C Josh Willingham DH Justin Morneau 1B Ryan Doumit LF Trevor Plouffe 3B Jamey Carroll 2B Pedro Florimon SS (Liam Hendriks P) Mariners: Dustin Ackley 2B Franklin Gutierrez CF Kyle Seager 3B Jesus Montero DH John Jaso C Justin Smoak 1B Eric Thames RF Trayvon Robinson LF Brendan Ryan SS (Felix Hernandez P)

Twins: Denard Span CF Ben Revere RF Joe Mauer C Josh Willingham LF Justin Morneau 1B Ryan Doumit DH Trevor Plouffe 3B Jamey Carroll 2B Pedro Florimon SS (Scott Diamond P) Mariners: Dustin Ackley 2B Franklin Gutierrez CF Kyle Seager 3B Jesus Montero DH Justin Smoak 1B Miguel Olivo C Eric Thames RF Trayvon Robinson LF Brendan Ryan SS (Hisashi Iwakuma P)

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 Eduardo Escobar SS (Scott Diamond P) Mets: Collin Cowgill CF Daniel Murphy 2B David Wright 3B John Buck C Lucas Duda LF Marlon Byrd RF Ike Davis 1B Justin Turner DH Ruben Tejada SS (Matt Harvey P)

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

I’m pretty cynical about the Twins these days, so here my take on the Twins’ Halsey Hall-vintage broadcast intro song, updated to late 2022: We’re gonna lose, Twins. We’re gonna score (maybe). We’re gonna lose, Twins. Watch that baseball soar (into the catcher’s mitt). Crack out a foul ball; Shout a “Hip-Hooray.” (Yet, despite it all) Cheer for the Minnesota Twins today! So here’s what I’ve got for tonight: Rookie Josh Winder starts for the Twins, with his 4-5 record and 4.20 ERA. So much has happened since April that it is difficult to realize that he had never appeared in a major-league game until 2022. Missing much of the season through injur…

Twins Lineup: Denard Span CF Ben Revere RF Joe Mauer C Josh Willingham LF Justin Morneau 1B Ryan Doumit DH Trevor Plouffe 3B Brian Dozier SS Jamey Carroll 2B SP: Scott Diamond

Well, here we are. The day following a first for the 2021 Twins: grasping victory from the jaws of defeat. Having spent the previous four months mastering the inverse, last night the Twins - led by unlikely defensive hero Miguel Sano - did something right and actually won a game it looked like they were going to lose. Which means the Twins are on the verge of a... Exciting, right? Leading the charge into today's game, we have Michael "Inexplicably Still on the Twins" Pineda toeing the rubber, looking to enhance his non-existent trade value for the no-longer-in-existence August waiver deadline. Sorry, Mike, but you're stuck here. Try to make the most of…

"Let's start things rolling with the Tiger Rag" So begins the first side of the second record in the Spike Jones Omnibus i listened to as a kid. Unfortunately largess of youtube has let me down and the track doesn't come up when searching, so i shall have to leave my Spike Jones and his City Slickers comfort zone. Roll seems as good a cue to follow as any: and for those of you like to know the score: And just to reassure anyone worried about yestersay... And without further ado... Twins 0. Kenta Maeda (R ) P 1. Max Kepler ( L) RF 2. Jorge Polanco ( S ) SS 3. Nelson Cruz (R ) DH 4. Miguel Sano (R ) 1B 5. Jake Cave ( L) CF 6. Luis Arraez ( L) 2B 7. M.…

Twins Lineup: Denard Span CF Jamey Carroll SS Joe Mauer DH Josh Willingham LF Justin Morneau 1B Ryan Doumit C Danny Valencia 3B Clete Thomas RF Alexi Casilla 2B SP: Carl Pavano Yankees Lineup: Derek Jeter SS Curtis Granderson CF Alex Rodriguez 3B Robinson Cano 2B Mark Teixeira 1B Nick Swisher RF Raul Ibanez DH Russell Martin C Brett Gardner LF SP: Freddy Garcia

Twins Lineup: Erik Komatsu CF Brian Dozier SS Joe Mauer 1B Josh Willingham LF Ryan Doumit C Danny Valencia 3B Trevor Plouffe RF Drew Butera C Jamey Carroll 2B SP: Diamond