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Twins: SP Kyle Gibson Mariners: SP Erasmo Ramirez Things to think about: 1. Think about Sam Deduno... His ERA is now down to 3.18. At some point... you have to consider him as a legit stopper. Of course that doesn't do us much good today but I think it's worth thinking about. 2. Think about Kyle Gibson... He's still trying to recover from a real bad start against the Yankees. He's been OK apart from that real bad start. His ERA will remain some inflated until he can get some more decently thrown innings under his belt. Hopefully he can continue to chip away at that inflated 5.72 ERA this afternoon. 3. Think about the Twins Offense... Still not impressing us ve…

Twins: SP Samuel Deduno 2B Dozier RF Herrmann 1B Morneau C Doumit DH Colabello LF Thomas 3B Plouffe CF Hicks SS Bernier Mariners: SP Aaron Harang SS Miller 2B Franklin LF Ibanez DH Morales 3B Seager 1B Smoak RF Chavez C Quintero CF Ackley Things to think about 1. Think about Odds... The Incredible King Felix took on the struggling Scott Diamond and the Twins win in extras after the struggling Trevor Plouffe tied the game in the 9th with a pinch hit followed by a home run by the struggling Chris Colabello. Yesterday truly doesn't matter and that was true yesterday and it's true today as well. 2. Think about Deduno... The guy continues to impress while some…

Twins SP: Scott Diamond 2B Dozier 3B Carroll 1B Morneau DH Doumit RF Herrmann LF Thomas CF Hicks C Butera SS Florimon Mariners SP: Felix Hernandez RF Bay 2B Franklin LF Ibanez DH Morales 3B Seager 1B Smoak CF Ackley SS Ryan C Blanco Things to think about: 1. Think about the Twins lineup... Right Now Aaron Hicks and Clete Thomas are hitting the best out of everyone. 2. Think about Joe Mauer... Enough time with the babies already... The Grand Parents have seen them... They are cute and cuddly... You can come back now and hit a home run for each one. 3. Think about King Felix... Yeah... He's just the tonic this struggling offense needs. With that said... W…

Twins: SP Kevin Correia 2B Dozier C Herrmann 1B Morneau RF Doumit 3B Plouffe LF Thomas DH Colabello CF Hicks SS Florimon Mariners: Iwakuma SS Miller 2B Franklin LF Ibanez DH Morales 3B Seager 1B Smoak RF Saunders C Zunino CF Ackley Things to think about for tonight's game: 1. Think about Chris Colabello... He is due for a big game. He's the guy on the roster who really needs to have a big game. Maybe not tonight but he needs one soon. 2. Think Iwakuma... I discovered this guy... I had no idea who he was last year. I watched him throw a game and I said to myself... I don't care what his stats say... He can throw... I've said that about a lot of people and mi…

Twins: SP Mike Pelfrey LF Thomas 2B Bernier DH Morneau C. Doumit RF Herrmann 3B Plouffe 1B Colabello CF Hicks SS Florimon Angels: SP Jered Weaver LF Shuck CF Trout DH Pujols 1B Trumbo 2B Kendrick 3B Callaspo C. Iannetta RF Cowgill SS Aybar Things to think about today: 1. Think about a Sweep... The Twins could sweep the series and leave happy as they head to Seattle. 2. Think about Chris Herrman... A Grand Slam... How happy is he today. Only in the lineup because Joe's wife has a poor sense of timing. 3. Think about Ryan Doumit... He wasn't hitting all that well and I told him to knock it off yesterday... He listened. 4. Think about Mike Pelfrey... He's …

Twins: SP Kyle Gibson 2B Dozier 3B Carroll C Mauer 1B Morneau RF Doumit DH Colabello LF Thomas CF Hicks SS Florimon Angels: SP Tommy Hanson LF Shuck CF Trout DH Pujols 2B Kendrick 3B Callaspo 1B Trumbo C Conger RF Cowgill SS Aybar Things to think about for tonight's game: 1. Think about Kyle Gibson... When going through a struggling season such as this one. Rookie pitchers with potential become our dreams. Let's hope this dream is a good one. 2. Think about Pacific Time... I'm supposed to be watching baseball at 7:10 Central at the latest. I'm supposed to be in bed around 11PM. California messes up everything. 3. Think about Tommy Hanson... A shadow of…

Twins: SP Samuel Deduno Angels: SP Joe Blanton Things to think about for Tonight's Game 1. Think about Deduno... He's doing well... Let him continue doing well. We could use him in 2014. 2. Think about Blanton... He's not doing well... Pitchers who are not doing well present opportunities for the offense to do well. 3. Think about our offense... Our offense is not doing well... It may not matter if Blanton is not doing well... A struggling offense can be the tonic Blanton is looking for. 4. Think about Plouffe... Many players need to get it going... Plouffe perhaps needs to get it going more than anyone else on the roster. 5. Think about unexpected gifts…

Indians: SP Justin Masterson CF Stubbs SS Cabrera 2B Kipnis DH Swisher C Santana 1B Reynolds LF Brantley RF Raburn 3B Aviles Twins: SP Scott Diamond 2B Dozier C Herrmann DH Mauer 1B Morneau RF Doumit 3B Plouffe LF Thomas CF Hicks SS Florimon Things to think about today: 1. Think about 4 Wins in a Row... If this was the ALCS Championship... We would be able to rest our starters while we wait to see who we face in the World Series. 2. Think about Chris Herrmann... Batting #2 in the lineup... Not Just in the lineup... But... Placed With Priority in the lineup. 3. Think about Doug Bernier... Still waiting for that chance to get some dirt on his new #17 Jerse…

Indians: SP Corey Kluber CF Bourn SS Cabrera 2B Kipnis 1B Swisher LF Brantley C Santana DH Giambi 1B Reynolds 3B Chisenhall Twins: SP Kevin Correia 2B Dozier 3B Plouffe C Mauer 1B Morneau RF Doumit DH Colabello CF Hicks LF Thomas SS Florimon Things to think about Today: 1. Think about -- The 3 Game winning streak... When you reach 3 in a row... It's a winning streak! Come Ride the Train... Hey Ride It. 2. Think about -- We out played them yesterday... We watched the well paid Swisher drop a ball at first... We watched the elite SS Asdrubal Cabrera fail to move one foot to his right and one foot forward to retire a hitter. We watched Drew Stubbs lay up on a b…

Cleveland: SP Scott Kazmir Bourn - CF Cabrera - SS Kipnis - 2B Swisher - 1B Brantley - LF Santana - DH Chisenhall - 3B Gomes - C Stubbs - RF Minnesota: SP Mike Pelfrey Dozier - 2B Plouffe - 3B Mauer - C Morneau - 1B Doumit - RF Colabello - DH Hicks - CF Thomas - LF Florimon - SS Things to think about for tonight's game: 1. Think about baseball being back... You never know what you got until its gone. It's been 4 days of not knowing what to do with myself and the ideas I actually came up with for doing with myself. Were not good! 2. Think about the rotation... We just had 4 days off from baseball... So everyone is basically ready to start. Gardenhire can res…

Minnesota: Brian Dozier 2B Joe Mauer C Justin Morneau 1B Ryan Doumit RF Trevor Plouffe DH Aaron Hicks CF Clete Thomas LF Jamey Carroll 3B Pedro Florimon SS (Kyle Gibson P) New York: Ichiro Suzuki CF Zoilo Almonte LF Robinson Cano 2B Travis Hafner DH Vernon Wells RF Lyle Overbay 1B Eduardo Nunez SS Luis Cruz 3B Chris Stewart C (CC Sabathia P) Things to think about for today's game: 1. Think about a win yesterday. If we win one today... That's two in a row... If we win one on Thursday... That's called a winning streak!!! 2. Think about the all star break that starts tomorrow. Mauer and Perkins have something to do. Everyone else... can take s…

Twins: SP Sam Deduno 2B Dozier DH Mauer 1B Morneau C Doumit 3B Plouffe RF Parmelee CF Hicks LF Thomas SS Florimon Yankees: SP Phil Hughes CF Gardner RF Suzuki 2B Cano DH Wells 1B Overbay LF Almonte SS Cruz 3B Gonzalez C Romine Things to think about for todays game: 1. Let's think about Arcia on the bench. He needs to sit after 11 K's in the past 3 games and failing to break a bat over his knee in frustration. 2. Let's think about this Yankees lineup. If the Yankees lineup was ours. We'd complain about it. 3. Let's think about Sam Deduno... OK... Just a quick thought about Sam... Now move on to #4 4. Let's think about Phil Hughes... The Yankees are …

Minnesota: SP Scott "Screech" Diamond 2B Dozier RF Parmelee C Mauer 1B Morneau DH Doumit 3B Plouffe LF Arcia CF Hicks SS Florimon New York: SP Hiroki "Pick a Nick Name" Kuroda CF Gardner RF Suzuki 2B Cano DH Wells LF Almonte 1B Overbay SS Nunez 3B Cruz C Stewart The Twins have lost 11 out of 12... Big Deal... I need new Windows in my house and I've been losing money on my heating and cooling bills as a result for years. That losing streak makes the Twins current streak look like a walk in the park. The Twins have plenty of left handed hitters to take a shot at the short RF porch and a right hander on the mound. Of course... Not striking out in double dig…

Twins: SP Mike Pelfrey Rays: SP Matt Moore 1. Joyce LF 2. Myers RF 3. Scott DH 4. Longoria 3B 5. Loney 1B 6. Johnson 2B 7. Lobaton C 8. Fuld CF 9. Rodriquez SS

Twins: Clete Thomas RF Jamey Carroll 2B Joe Mauer DH Justin Morneau 1B Ryan Doumit C Oswaldo Arcia LF Aaron Hicks CF Eduardo Escobar 3B Pedro Florimon SS (Kevin Correia P) Rays: Desmond Jennings CF Luke Scott DH Ben Zobrist 2B Evan Longoria 3B James Loney 1B Wil Myers RF Kelly Johnson LF Jose Molina C Yunel Escobar SS (Jeremy Hellickson P)

Twins: Brian Dozier 2B Joe Mauer C Ryan Doumit DH Justin Morneau 1B Trevor Plouffe 3B Oswaldo Arcia LF Chris Parmelee RF Aaron Hicks CF Pedro Florimon SS (Kyle Gibson P) Rays: Desmond Jennings CF Luke Scott DH Ben Zobrist 2B Evan Longoria 3B James Loney 1B Matt Joyce RF Kelly Johnson LF Jose Lobaton C Yunel Escobar SS (Chris Archer P)

Twins: Brian Dozier 2B Joe Mauer C Ryan Doumit DH Justin Morneau 1B Trevor Plouffe 3B Oswaldo Arcia LF Chris Parmelee RF Aaron Hicks CF Pedro Florimon SS (Samuel Deduno P) Rays: Desmond Jennings CF Luke Scott DH Ben Zobrist 2B Evan Longoria 3B James Loney 1B Wil Myers RF Matt Joyce LF Jose Molina C Yunel Escobar SS (Roberto Hernandez P)

Twins: Brian Dozier 2B Joe Mauer 1B Ryan Doumit C Justin Morneau DH Trevor Plouffe 3B Chris Parmelee RF Clete Thomas LF Aaron Hicks CF Pedro Florimon SS (Scott Diamond P) Blue Jays: Jose Reyes SS Jose Bautista RF Edwin Encarnacion 1B Adam Lind DH Mark DeRosa 3B Rajai Davis LF Colby Rasmus CF J.P. Arencibia C Maicer Izturis 2B (Todd Redmond P)

Twins: Brian Dozier 2B Jamey Carroll 3B Joe Mauer C Justin Morneau 1B Oswaldo Arcia LF Trevor Plouffe DH Chris Parmelee RF Aaron Hicks CF Eduardo Escobar SS (Mike Pelfrey P) Blue Jays: Jose Reyes SS Jose Bautista RF Edwin Encarnacion 1B Adam Lind DH Colby Rasmus CF Rajai Davis LF Maicer Izturis 3B Josh Thole C Munenori Kawasaki 2B (R.A. Dickey P)

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)

Three cheers for... Aw, screw it. *pours a drink* Gibsons: Brian Dozier 2B Joe Mauer C Oswaldo Arcia LF Justin Morneau DH Trevor Plouffe 3B Chris Parmelee 1B Aaron Hicks CF Clete Thomas RF Pedro Florimon SS (Kyle Gibson P) The Enemy: Ichiro Suzuki CF Zoilo Almonte LF Robinson Cano 2B Travis Hafner DH Vernon Wells RF Lyle Overbay 1B Luis Cruz SS Alberto Gonzalez 3B Austin Romine C (David Phelps P)

Sigh. Twins: Brian Dozier 2B Joe Mauer DH Ryan Doumit C Justin Morneau 1B Trevor Plouffe 3B Oswaldo Arcia LF Aaron Hicks CF Clete Thomas RF Pedro Florimon SS (P.J. Walters P) Yankees: Brett Gardner CF Ichiro Suzuki RF Robinson Cano 2B Travis Hafner DH Zoilo Almonte LF Lyle Overbay 1B Chris Stewart C Luis Cruz SS David Adams 3B (CC Sabathia P)

Three cheers for the Twins bullpen. Lineups: Twins: Brian Dozier 2B Joe Mauer C Ryan Doumit DH Justin Morneau 1B Trevor Plouffe 3B Oswaldo Arcia LF Chris Parmelee RF Aaron Hicks CF Pedro Florimon SS (Samuel Deduno P) Yankees: Brett Gardner CF Ichiro Suzuki RF Robinson Cano 2B Travis Hafner DH Zoilo Almonte LF Lyle Overbay 1B Chris Stewart C David Adams 3B Alberto Gonzalez SS (Phil Hughes P)

No series preview against the Yanks, sorry. I was just too cramped for time to do it last night or this morning. Lineups: Twins: Clete Thomas CF Brian Dozier 2B Ryan Doumit C Josh Willingham DH Justin Morneau 1B Trevor Plouffe 3B Oswaldo Arcia LF Chris Parmelee RF Eduardo Escobar SS (Scott Diamond P) Yankees: Brett Gardner CF Jayson Nix SS Robinson Cano 2B Vernon Wells RF Travis Hafner DH Zoilo Almonte LF Lyle Overbay 1B Chris Stewart C David Adams 3B (Andy Pettitte P)

Lineups: Twins: Clete Thomas CF Joe Mauer C Ryan Doumit DH Justin Morneau 1B Trevor Plouffe 3B Oswaldo Arcia LF Chris Parmelee RF Eduardo Escobar 2B Pedro Florimon SS (Kevin Correia P) Royals: Alex Gordon LF Alcides Escobar SS Eric Hosmer 1B Billy Butler DH Salvador Perez C Mike Moustakas 3B Lorenzo Cain CF David Lough RF Johnny Giavotella 2B (Ervin Santana P)

Gibson time! Lineups: Twins: Clete Thomas CF Brian Dozier 2B Joe Mauer C Justin Morneau 1B Trevor Plouffe DH Oswaldo Arcia LF Chris Parmelee RF Jamey Carroll 3B Pedro Florimon SS (Kyle Gibson P) Royals: Alex Gordon LF Alcides Escobar SS Eric Hosmer 1B Billy Butler DH Salvador Perez C Mike Moustakas 3B Lorenzo Cain RF Miguel Tejada 2B Jarrod Dyson CF (Wade Davis P)

Lineups: Twins: Clete Thomas CF Joe Mauer DH Ryan Doumit C Josh Willingham LF Justin Morneau 1B Oswaldo Arcia RF Trevor Plouffe 3B Brian Dozier 2B Pedro Florimon SS (P.J. Walters P) Royals: Alex Gordon LF Alcides Escobar SS Eric Hosmer 1B Billy Butler DH Salvador Perez C Mike Moustakas 3B Lorenzo Cain CF Elliot Johnson 2B David Lough RF (James Shields P)

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It's an early one today. Lineups: Twins: Clete Thomas CF Brian Dozier 2B Joe Mauer C Josh Willingham LF Oswaldo Arcia RF Trevor Plouffe 3B Chris Parmelee 1B Eduardo Escobar SS (Scott Diamond P) Marlins: Justin Ruggiano LF Ed Lucas 2B Giancarlo Stanton RF Marcell Ozuna CF Logan Morrison 1B Placido Polanco 3B Adeiny Hechavarria SS Jeff Mathis C (Tom Koehler P)

So let's get one of these started. How bout that. I made a sticky... I'm powerful now!