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Indians: SP Scott Kazmir CF Bourn RF Swisher 2B Kipnis 1B Santana LF Brantley SS Cabrera DH Giambi C Gomes 3B Aviles Twins: SP Cole DeVries CF Presley 2B Dozier 3B Plouffe DH Doumit LF Willingham 1B Colabello RF Mastroianni C Fryer SS Florimon Things to Think About: 1. Think about Led Zeppelin and Tool... The Indians are throwing Kazmir and DH'ing Giambi... These are baseball players not bad spellings of songs by Led Zeppelin and Tool. 2. Think about the Indians... This team is inches from the finish line... A possible playoff bound team from a city that hasn't been playoff bound for quite some time. Cleveland sounds like Minneapolis in that sense. 3. T…

Indians: SP Corey Kluber LF Brantley 1B Swisher 2B Kipnis DH Santana RF Raburn SS Cabrera C Gomes 3B Aviles CF Stubbs Twins: SP Pedro Hernandez CF Presley 2B Dozier RF Doumit DH Arcia C Pinto 3B Plouffe 1B Parmelee LF Mastroianni SS Florimon Things to Think About: 1. Think about the World Watching... Well maybe not the world... But they are watching in Northern Ohio... Central Florida and Northern Texas and a couple of people in Mahnomen. 2. Think about Pinto... Josmil Pinto... He's been doing pretty good... It's been a good September for him. That may turn into a good April. 3. Think about Roster Options... The Twins have a couple of options each night a…

Indians: SP Zach McAllister LF Brantley 1B Swisher 2B Kipnis DH Santana RF Raburn SS Cabrera C Gomes 3B Aviles CF Stubbs Twins: SP Andrew Albers CF Presley 2B Dozier RF Doumit DH Willingham C Pinto 3B Plouffe 1B Colabello LF Mastroianni SS Escobar Things to Think About: 1. Think about September Baseball... The Twins... It hardly matters... For the Indians it's everything. They are struggling with the Rangers for a wild card spot... If the Twins beat them... They can knock them out. For the Twins... It hardly matters... For the Indians... It's everything. It isn't exactly what we are looking for but it's September baseball at Target Field and the stakes are hig…

Tigers: SP Max Scherzer Twins: SP Kevin Correia CF Presley 2B Dozier 3B Plouffe DH Doumit C Pinto 1B Parmelee RF Herrmann LF Mastroianni SS Florimon Things to Think About: 1. Think about Max Scherzer... 20-3 is a pretty good record. If he doesn't win the Cy Young Award this year... You might as well give Bobby McFerrin a Grammy for "Don't worry be Happy" 2. Think about Clinching a division Title... The Tigers can clinch tonight with a win or Cleveland loss... They should be motivated for that... The Twins have to hang tough and "NOT ON MY TURF". Of course when the Twins say "Not on my Turf"... it doesn't sound like Clint Eastwood... It probably sounds more lik…

Tigers: SP Doug Fister CF Jackson RF Hunter 3B Cabrera 1B Fielder DH Martinez 2B Infante LF Tuiasosopo C Avila SS Santiago Twins: SP Scott Diamond CF Presley 2B Dozier 3B Plouffe DH Willingham C Pinto RF Doumit 1B Parmelee LF Thomas SS Escobar Things to Think About: 1. Last Night... Let it linger... A nice come back win against a contending team... You want to clinch the pennant... Not on our turf... We can say that for now. 2. Pinto... Josmil... has been given a chance and he is making the most of that chance. Mauer at 1B has to be in the 2014 plans now. 3. Mauer... Shut down for the year... Oh Well... We will see you next year Joe. We better see you ne…

Tigers: SP Justin Verlander CF Jackson RF Hunter 3B Cabrera 1B Fielder DH Martinez LF Dirks 2B Infante C Avila SS Santiago Twins: SP Mike Pelfrey CF Presley RF Herrmann 2B Dozier LF Arcia C Pinto DH Willingham 1B Parmelee 3B Escobar SS Florimon Things to Think About: 1. The Tigers... Playoff Bound... They can hit and and they can pitch... Fielding is a work in progress but the other two things seems to make up for it. 2. Justin Verlander... He won't be a fun guy for the Twins to face no matter how average he has been... He's not the ace of the staff anymore... Right now you got to put Scherzer over him in the rankings. 3. Think about Cabrera... Miggy is t…

Twins: SP Cole DeVries CF Alex Presley 2B Brian Dozier 3B Trevor Plouffe LF Oswaldo Arcia DH Josmil Pinto 1B Chris Parmelee RF Darin Mastroianni SS Pedro Florimon C Eric Fryer A's: SP Sonny Gray CF Coco Crisp SS Jed Lowrie 3B Josh Donaldson LF Brandon Moss DH Yeonis Cespedes RF Josh Reddick 1B Daric Barton C Stephen Vogt 2B Eric Sogard Things to think about: 1. Coco Crisp... I can't believe that I've started all these game threads facing the A's and have not mentioned Coco Crisp yet. I'm slipping... He's a real nice combo of speed and power. But... His skill isn't the thing to think about... It's his name... Coco Crisp? When he gets older... He will change it …

Twins: SP Pedro Hernandez CF Alex Presley 2B Brian Dozier 3B Trevor Plouffe LF Oswaldo Arcia DH Ryan Doumit C Josmil Pinto RF Chris Parmelee 1B Chris Colabello SS Pedro Florimon A's: SP Jarrod Parker CF Coco Crisp 3B Josh Donaldson SS Jed Lowrie DH Yoenis Cespedes LF Chris Young 2B Alberto Callaspo C Kurt Suzuki RF Josh Reddick 1B Daric Barton Again, you are on your own for the things to think about. Mostly, I'm not sure I want to think about anything, but here we go ... First responder, start with 1. Next with 2. And so forth ...

Twins: SP Andrew Albers CF Alex Presley C Chris Hermann 2B Brian Dozier :o RF Oswaldo Arcia DH Josh Willingham 1B Chris Parmelee 3B Eduardo Escobar LF Clete Thomas SS Pedro Florimon A's: SP Bartolo Colon CF Coco Crisp 3B Josh Donaldson SS Jed Lowrie DH Yoenis Cespedes C Derek Norris LF Chris Young 2B Alberto Callaspo RF Josh Reddick 1B Daric Barton I won't attempt to duplicate RiverBrian's '5 Things to think about,' so I will leave that to you. Start with 1. and fill in your thoughts ... then 2. and so on. Please keep the first 5 things A's/Twins related but after that, random thoughts are welcome! Thanks and enjoy the game! (Well, as best as we can!)

Twins: SP Kevin Correia Not released yet... Gardy is cooking up a real good one tonight. A's: SP Dan Straily CF Crisp 3B Donaldson SS Lowrie LF Moss RF Reddick DH Smith C Vogt 1B Barton 2B Sogard Things to Think About: 1. The Oakland A's... Much at stake for the Green and Gold... 5 Game lead over the Rangers with 10 games left on the A's Schedule. Half game lead over the Tigers for the 2nd best record in the A.L. and an extra home game during the 1st round. The Twins can experiment if need be... The A's can't... The Eye Black has to be on! 2. Dan Straily... This young starting pitcher can be tattooed and he can be lights out. He came out of nowhere as a pros…

Twins: SP Scott Diamond CF Presley 2B Dozier 3B Plouffe LF Arcia DH Doumit 1B Colabello RF Thomas SS Escobar C Fryer White Sox: SP John Danks Lineup not out... I hope they all get out... Once it comes out. Things to Think About: 1. Think About Eric Fryer... It's nice that he's getting a start. He hit a home run the other night... He probably thought that would spring board himself into a start the next night... That didn't happen... He had to wait until getaway day. 2. Think about Scott Diamond... He gave us some high hope last year... Now no one knows what he is going to give us. Good Luck Scott... Go Get Em... Pulling for ya. 3. Think about Oswaldo Arc…

Twins: SP Mike Pelfrey CF Mastroianni 2B Dozier 3B Plouffe RF Arcia DH Doumit LF Willingham C Pinto 1B Colabello SS Florimon White Sox: SP Jose Quintana CF De Aza SS Ramirez LF Viciedo DH Dunn 1B Konerko RF Danks 2B Beckham C Phegley 3B Semien Things to Think About: 1. Think about Josmil Pinto... As of September 2013... He's the best person to think about right now... Brian Dozier is here to stay... Joe Mauer is not around... Colabello has been around for awhile... Josmil is the fresh shiny package around all the unwrapped and played with toys. 2. Think about Joe Mauer... He's been gone along time now. It's not PC these days to make light of concussions. W…

Twins: SP Liam Hendriks CF Presley 2B Escobar 3B Plouffe LF Arcia DH Willingham 1B Parmelee C Pinto RF Herrmann SS Florimon White Sox: Erik Johnson CF De Aza SS Ramirez 3B Gillaspie 1B Konerko DH Dunn LF Viciedo RF Danks 2B Beckham C Anderson Things to Think About: 1. Think about the White Sox... I can't start a game thread... Game One... Against the White Sox... Without stating how much I hate the White Sox... I want them punished. 2. Think about Liam Hendriks... Will he pitch well... Will he struggle?? That's a good question... Let's find out. 3. Think about Trevor Plouffe... Batting in the 3 spot... Moving up in the world. 4. Think about Ron Garden…

Rays: SP David Price CF Jennings 2B Zobrist 3B Longoria RF Myers DH Young 1B Loney SS Escobar LF Rodriquez C Molina Twins: SP Pedro Hernandez CF Presley LF Mastroianni 2B Dozier RF Doumit 3B Plouffe DH Willingham C Pinto 1B Parmelee SS Escobar Things to Think About: 1. Think about Runs... Every time a runner crosses home plate a run is put up on the board. At the end of the game... The Team that produces the most runs is the winner. The Twins haven't scored a run in 19 innings. I'd like to complain about the pitching but we haven't scored a run in 19 innings. 2. Think about David Price... We haven't scored a run in 19 innings and now we get to face David Pr…

As an experiment, we are adding this additional game thread for the series against the Rays. The purpose of this thread is for serious/substantive discussion about the game, with less frivolity and off-topic discussion than in the main game thread. Users are encouraged to post in either thread or both threads as you wish. This is an experiment and may or may not continue depending on how it goes.

Posting from my new phone... if someone could post the lineups... and could a mod remove yesterdays game thread.

Rays: SP Chris Archer LF Dejesus 2B Zobrist 1B Loney 3B Longoria DH Johnson RF Myers CF Jennings C Molina SS Escobar Twins: SP Kevin Correia CF Presley C Pinto 2B Dozier DH Arcia 3B Plouffe 1B Parmelee LF Mastroianni RF Thomas SS Escobar Things to Think about: 1. Think about Escobar... Both Shortstops today have the last name Escobar and both are batting ninth. No real point to make... Just Think about it... Would You!!! 2. Think about Chris Archer... Archer was a former Cubs Prospect that the Rays acquired with a handful of others in the deal of Garza... We got Delmon Young in our deal for Garza. I didn't like that trade personally. 3. Think about Joe M…

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.

A's: SP Sonny Gray CF Crisp 3B Donaldson SS Lowrie RF Moss LF Cespedes 1B Barton DH Smith C Vogt 2B Sogard Twins: SP Mike Pelfrey CF Presley 3B Escobar 2B Dozier RF Arcia DH Plouffe LF Willingham 1B Parmelee C Herrmann SS Florimon Things to Think about: 1. Think about Sonny Gray... The Kid has been good with a 2.51 ERA since coming up from the farm recently. Kids that start good tend to stutter after awhile and maybe he will stutter tonight. I'm not sure I'd want a name like Sonny Gray... The two names seemed opposed to each other. He's like a conflicted sky. He's been Sonny so far... Let's make him Gray tonight. 2. Think about Eduardo Escobar... Batting 2n…

A's: SP Jarrod Parker CF Crisp 3B Donaldson DH Lowrie RF Moss LF Cespedes 2B Callaspo 1B Barton C Vogt SS Sogard Twins: SP Mike Pelfrey CF Presley C Pinto 2B Dozier RF Arcia DH Doumit LF Willingham 3B Plouffe 1B Parmelee SS Florimon Things to Think About: 1. Think about Jarrod Parker... He's unbeaten in 18 starts... He hasn't lost since May 22nd... That was right about the time that I dropped him in my fantasy league. It was early May and Parker was 1-5 with a 7 plus ERA. He's worked that baby down to 3.57. The Twins can stop that streak tonight!!! 2. Think about the A's lineup... I have some radical thinking and it's square pegs into Twins Daily round hol…

Angels: SP Jered Weaver Twins: SP Pedro Hernandez Things to Think About: 1. Think about Napoleon Dynamite... I do when Pedro pitches. Vote for Pedro!!! If he can throw a baseball like that creepy guy can throw a steak. Some Angels may get knocked off of their Bikes. 2. Think about the Angels... The Twins are facing the over compensation world tour. The Blue Jays roll into town followed by the Angels. 3. Think about Jered Weaver... He throws across his body... Some pitching coach in his development... Either... Couldn't change his delivery... Didn't care to change his delivery or Weaver just wanted his funky style. 4 Think about Josh Hamilton... There was a…

Blue Jays: SP Esmil Rogers Twins: SP Andrew Albers 1. If someone could post the lineups... It would be appreciated... And Things to think about. Thank You

Blue Jays: SP JA Happ SS Reyes 2B Kawasaki DH Encarnacion 1B Lind 3B Lawrie RF Sierra C Arencebia CF Gose LF Pillar Twins: SP Kevin Correia CF Presley RF Mastroianni 2B Dozier DH Willingham 3B Plouffe RF Arcia 1B Colabello C Pinto SS Florimon Things to Think About: 1. Umm... Think about things to think about... I'm struggling right now with thought number one... How am I gonna come up with 5. 2. Think about Kevin Correia... I know... A large percentage of Twins Daily followers have a distaste for Kevin Correia... I don't hate him and I've appreciated him. He's taken the ball every 5th day... He's had some real nice starts and a bunch of average starts and a…

Blue Jays: SP RA Dickey SS Reyes LF Davis DH Encarnacion 1B Lind 3B Lawrie RF Sierra 2B Goins CF Gose C Thole Twins: SP Mike Pelfrey CF Presley RF Thomas 2B Dozier DH Willingham 3B Plouffe LF Arcia 1B Colabello C Pinto SS Florimon Things to Think About: 1. Think About Canada... It's an invasion from Canada... You know it's just a matter of time before Canada Citizens en masse blow past the border and starts claiming warmer American land for themselves. No reason to guard the current border. They will swing around and go straight after Florida. A warm state and two hockey teams. It's only a matter of time. Think about the Canadian Dollar... The Blue Jays sp…

Twins: SP Liam Hendriks CF Presley LF Mastroianni 2B Dozier DH Doumit 3B Plouffe RF Arcia 1B Colabello C Herrmann SS Florimon Astros: SP Jordan Lyles SS Villar 2B Altuve LF Crowe 3B Wallace 1B Carter DH Krauss CF Barnes RF Hoes C Pagnozzi Things to Think About: 1. Think About Matt Pagnozzi... I didn't even know he was still playing baseball. Kind of like... I didn't know Lew Ford was still playing baseball when he showed up out of the blue last year with the Orioles. 2. Think about Liam Hendriks... We still want him to develop into a decent pitcher... don't we? We haven't given up on him... Have We? His last start was a decent one against Texas... Hopefully…

Twins: SP Pedro Hernandez CF Presley LF Mastroianni 2B Dozier DH Willingham 3B Plouffe 1B Colabello RF Arcia C Pinto SS Florimon Astros: SP Jarred Cosart DH Grossman 2B Altuve LF Crowe 1B Carter 3B Wallace RF Hoes CF Barnes SS Villar C Clark Things to Think About: 1. Think About Justin Morneau... He hasn't been in the lineup Sunday or Monday and he isn't in the lineup today. I haven't heard of any injuries so I assume that he ended up in the dog house some how.... Ummm... Yeah I know... Just Joking... Like I tend to do. 2. Think about Oswaldo... He's back and batting 7th... Nice to have the big part of our future back in the present. 3. Think about Pinto…

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?

Twins: SP Kevin Correia CF Presley RF Mastroianni 2B Dozier DH Willingham 3B Plouffe 1B Colabello LF Thomas C Pinto SS Bernier Rangers: SP Travis Blackley CF Martin SS Profar 2B Kinsler DH Beltre RF Rios LF Adduci 3B Baker 1B Moreland C Soto Things to Think About: 1. Think About Alex Presley... Batting Leadoff and Playing CF... OK... Let's see how he does. 2. Think About Josmil Pinto... Lot of us have been waiting to see this guy... OK... I know I'm pumped to see him play... Let's see how he does. 3. Think about Brian Dozier... 15 Dingers and that moves him from leadoff to the #3 Spot. We should all be Dozier Fans at this point. 4. Think about Clete Th…

Twins: SP Mike Pelfrey 2B Dozier C Herrmann LF Willingham DH Doumit 3B Plouffe 1B Colabello CF Thomas RF Mastroianni SS Florimon Rangers: SP Matt Garza CF Martin DH Andrus 2B Kinsler 3B Beltre C Pierzynski RF Rios 1B Moreland SS Profar LF Murphy Things to Think About: 1. Think About Justin Morneau... Traded to the Pirates today... Good Luck To Justin... I hope the Pirates reach the WS and Justin can get a ring. He was going to be a free agent and we got something for him. It'll be interesting to see who the player to be named later is but we got something for him. We were about to get nothing for him. 2. Think about Matt Garza... The One Time Twin is on the…

Twins: SP Liam Hendriks 2B Dozier C Herrmann 1B Morneau LF Willingham DH Doumit 3B Plouffe CF Thomas RF Mastrioanni SS Florimon Rangers: SP Yu Darvish CF Martin SS Andrus 2B Kinsler 3B Beltre C Pierzynski RF Rios 1B Moreland DH Profar LF Murphy Things to Think About: 1. Think about Clete Thomas... He's been playing CF everyday because... Well I guess because there was nobody else who could play CF. Then Wilken Breaks a Bone... Gets DL'ed and back to the majors after a long injury lay off is Mr. Mastrioanni. You'd figure that it would signal the end of the CF everyday for Clete Thomas... But... Surprise... Thomas is in CF and Mastro is in RF. 2. Think About …