Article: Game Thread: Twins@Angels , 6/1@9:07pm CT

[Riverbrian]

It’s off to California for a 4-game series with the Angels. The next 3 nights the Twins will be playing past my usual bedtime so they will need to perform well enough to justify me slapping my face and duct taping my eyelids open to stay awake and watch them. The Sunday game is an afternoon game and because of Pacific Time, it will also be close to past my bedtime.

It’s also a brand new month kicking off tonight, and all the Twins have to do is keep winning each month. Their record was 12-11 in April and 14-12 in May, so far so good. June is the big month, June is the month that separates the buyers from the sellers. June is Super Tuesday; June is Moving Day; June is the one who raised Wally and the Beaver.

Here are some things to think about:

 

1. Los Angeles of Anaheim – This is usually where I make of fun of the city and type all the information I know about it. I apologize but I can’t this time… I don’t know where Los Angeles of Anaheim is. I know where Los Angeles is and I know where Anaheim is but I don’t know where Los Angeles of Anaheim is.

2. Our Twins – The bullpen has been getting some attention lately and that’s because fireworks are hard to ignore. Twenty-eight runs allowed in 3 games is like the finale of the big fireworks show. So where are we now? Alex Wimmers and Randy Rosario are joining the bullpen, Ryan Pressly was optioned to Rochester and Jason Wheeler was DFA’d. The day before that Boshers replaced Drew Rucinski, who was quickly returned to the minors after FalVine realized that Molitor won’t throw him with a 6-run lead in the 8th inning.

3. The Angels – Mike Trout is hurt so that times out well for us. The Angels will hardly skip a beat because they have Ben Revere who can slot into everyday playing time in response. Albert Pujols has 599 career home runs so he has a chance of breaking 600 against our Twins. But… that probably won’t happen because the Astros may have hit them all and there may be no more left.

4. Today’s Joe M Conversation

McCarthy: Hey guys… I have bad news.

Maddon: What’s up, Joe?

McCarthy: It says in the paper that the United Arab Emirates is going to colonize Mars.

Mauer: Cool

McCarthy: Not Cool… we are the United States!!! We are supposed to do it.

Montana: According to this article, they have set a goal for 2117. That’s 100 years from now.

Maddon: Stephen Hawking says we have 100 years to colonize Mars before it’s too late for us all.

Mauer: I’ll still be under contract with the Twins.

5. Acme - I was thinking about this question last night. Where did Wile E. Coyote get all that money to pay for his purchases plus the shipping costs? Then I realized… he's an actor and famous. They always have money... unless they blow it all on bad investments or frivolous purchases like rocket launchers and stuff from Acme.
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Lineups:

TWINS
Brian Dozier( R) 2B
Robbie Grossman(S) DH
Joe Mauer(L) 1B
Miguel Sano( R) 3B
Max Kepler(L) RF
Jorge Polanco(S) SS
Eddie Rosario(L) LF
Byron Buxton( R) CF
Jason Castro(L) C

Adalberto Mejia P

ANGELS
Andrelton Simmons( R) SS
Kole Calhoun(L) RF
Albert Pujols( R) DH
Yunel Escobar( R) 3B
Jefry Marte( R) 1B
Martin Maldonado( R) C
Danny Espinosa(S) 2B
Eric Young Jr.(S) LF
Shane Robinson( R) CF

Alex Meyer P

Weather: 71 deg F, clear and sunny, because it never rains in Southern California.

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[Blake]

Well, according to Molitor, the Twins have built up a ton of character these last few days. Let's hope the Twins stop building character in Anaheim. 

[FunnyPenguin]

Alex Meyer on the mound for the halos today too....this could be sweet or painful

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Well, according to Molitor, the Twins have built up a ton of character these last few days. Let's hope the Twins stop building character in Anaheim.

 

Yeah, hopefully heavy lifting is done, and only finishing touches are left. Maybe soon we can enjoy the character they have built.

 

Road games... we seem to be more on top of them this season.

 

Like it's okay to wear t-shirts and flipflops and loaf about the sofa that is Target Field, but we're on our best behavior at other folks' place so they know we were raised right.

 

Here's to a good game!

 

Oh. Yeah i could be wrong, but Los Angeles just might be The Angels in Spanish.

[Vanimal46]

Little known fact about Wile E. Coyote...He's actually the person who's behind all of the "I made $67k last month working from home! Click on the link below to learn about the secrets of making a TON of money from home!" posts you see on every comment section ever. 

 

It's a pretty lucrative gig! 

[Vanimal46]

You may also see Wile E. on the streets as your local Uber driver... That dude knows how to GRIND for his cash! 

[Winston Smith]

I'm thinking that Brian has a little Eddie Haskell in him. 

[Craig Arko]

Pretty sure Wile E. is actually a Nigerian prince.

[Jerr]

Sucked at their last home stand series and now West Coast games, which I fall asleep to by the time they end....sucks again!

 

Well, I hope Twins get back on their winning ways, which I can enjoy, on the morning after  

 

An opening with June and her boys, has to be a good sign!!!!!

[Dave The Dastardly]

Okay, let's look at it this way; we don't know where Los Angeles of Anaheim is and game time is way past our bedtimes so if the Twinks fail in their mission we can disavow all knowledge of their assignment. Just like the Front Office, the coaching staff, the bull pen and Mr. Phelps. This post will self-destruct in three seconds.

[twinsnorth49]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3d0OsPeri6A/UKCGgMnw-pI/AAAAAAAAAfA/uixzDCl4yBc/s1600/Wile+E.+Coyote3.jpg

 

Twins bullpen vs Astros.

[snap4birds]

Game Thread: Twins@Angels , 7/1@9:07pm CT

 

This should have quite a few comments by the time this game starts a month from now......

[gocgo]

"Gee Wally...."  Not sure how many times I heard that watching Leave It to Beaver....which made me think of one of the top Angels of all time - Wally Joyner...which got me thinking to the greatest Twins of all time....

[Squirrel]

Little known fact about Wile E. Coyote...He's actually the person who's behind all of the "I made $67k last month working from home! Click on the link below to learn about the secrets of making a TON of money from home!" posts you see on every comment section ever. 

 

It's a pretty lucrative gig!

 

Game Thread: Twins@Angels , 7/1@9:07pm CT

 

This should have quite a few comments by the time this game starts a month from now......

The two things I missed on my edits of the original. I flat out missed the wrong date. Heh. And the spelling of Wile. I knew it didn't look right in my first pass through and was going to check, then events at home made me forget.

[Jerr]

 

"Gee Wally...."  Not sure how many times I heard that watching Leave It to Beaver....which made me think of one of the top Angels of all time - Wally Joyner...which got me thinking to the greatest Twins of all time....

Greatest/top angel of all time???? Farrah Fawcett HANDS DOWN!!!!!

Edited June 1, 2017 by Jerr

[Vanimal46]

So Trout is getting all of the praise these days for being the best player on the planet... BUT, how quickly we forget that not too long ago, Albert Pujols was literally the perfect baseball player for the first 10 years of his career. His stats were unbelievably consistent where his lowest BA was .299 (his 10th full season) 30+ HRs and 100+ RBI every year. 

 

I'll always remember when he broke Brad Lidge psychologically for years because of this monster bomb... 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fntuc9cmy4
 

[IndianaTwin]

 

So Trout is getting all of the praise these days for being the best player on the planet... BUT, how quickly we forget that not too long ago, Albert Pujols was literally the perfect baseball player for the first 10 years of his career. His stats were unbelievably consistent where his lowest BA was .299 (his 10th full season) 30+ HRs and 100+ RBI every year. 

 

I'll always remember when he broke Brad Lidge psychologically for years because of this monster bomb... 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fntuc9cmy4
 

 

I've always been a big Pujols fan, but that is one of the defining moments of his career in my mind. I wish the clip would continue to show the Astro dugout reaction. Andy Pettitte's mouth drops wide open as you see him just say, "Wow." Clemens sits there speechless.  

 

Of course, the reason I've always been a big fan of him is this. My auction fantasy league has a rule that you can keep a player from year to year by increasing his price by $5, as long as you want (with a minimum of $12 on the first keep). I bought him as a $1 rookie and then had him at $12, $17, $22, $27, $32, $37, and $42. First eight years of his career at an average cost of $24 in a $260 league, when he was putting up $40-$45 stats. 

 

(Unfortunately, I usually parlayed the savings on Albert into bidding $15 on the likes of Luis Rivas, but Rivas isn't the subject of the game thread, so we'll ignore that part.)

 

[Vanimal46]

 

I've always been a big Pujols fan, but that is one of the defining moments of his career in my mind. I wish the clip would continue to show the Astro dugout reaction. Andy Pettitte's mouth drops wide open as you see him just say, "Wow." Clemens sits there speechless.  

 

Of course, the reason I've always been a big fan of him is this. My auction fantasy league has a rule that you can keep a player from year to year by increasing his price by $5, as long as you want (with a minimum of $12 on the first keep). I bought him as a $1 rookie and then had him at $12, $17, $22, $27, $32, $37, and $42. First eight years of his career at an average cost of $24 in a $260 league, when he was putting up $40-$45 stats. 

 

(Unfortunately, I usually parlayed the savings on Albert into bidding $15 on the likes of Luis Rivas, but Rivas isn't the subject of the game thread, so we'll ignore that part.)

 

There's so many little things to point out in that monster HR clip... Lidge immediately knows he messed up and goes down to his knees devastated. The Astros catcher immediately asks for a new game ball and runs out to calm down Lidge. Frankly, what on Earth could he have said in that moment to make Lidge not feel an inch tall? 

The crowd was going wild and after that moon shot, you could hear a pin drop. 

[wsnydes]

 

So Trout is getting all of the praise these days for being the best player on the planet... BUT, how quickly we forget that not too long ago, Albert Pujols was literally the perfect baseball player for the first 10 years of his career. His stats were unbelievably consistent where his lowest BA was .299 (his 10th full season) 30+ HRs and 100+ RBI every year. 

 

I'll always remember when he broke Brad Lidge psychologically for years because of this monster bomb... 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fntuc9cmy4
 

The Cards are my favorite NL team, so I remember this bomb very well.  I remember laughing hysterically at the reactions of pretty much everyone there.  I also remember how quiet it got so quickly.  

 

Tom Verducci had a nice interview a week or two ago with Trout and Pujols and how they help each other.  It was pretty good insight between how two of the games best hitters learn from each other.

[wsnydes]

 

In the famous words of June Cleaver to her husband Ward - "Don't you think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night?" . Which got me thinking about... 

how long it'll take to colonize Mars?  

 

[Craig Arko]

 

how long it'll take to colonize Mars?  

"By (Elon) Musk’s admittedly loose estimates, buying yourself a single ticket to Mars right now (using non-existent tech) would probably cost around $10 billion. The same amount of cash could buy you a few square blocks in Midtown Manhattan. But once the so-called SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System is fully operational, he estimates that a person will be able to travel to the Red Planet for around $200,000, roughly the same as a two-bedroom in Madison, Wisconsin. The ITS—Musk says the name needs some workshopping—would accomplish these cost cuts primarily with lighter materials, stronger rockets, and reusable technology."

 

https://www.wired.com/2016/09/elon-musk-colonize-mars/

[Mike Sixel]

 

"By (Elon) Musk’s admittedly loose estimates, buying yourself a single ticket to Mars right now (using non-existent tech) would probably cost around $10 billion. The same amount of cash could buy you a few square blocks in Midtown Manhattan. But once the so-called SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System is fully operational, he estimates that a person will be able to travel to the Red Planet for around $200,000, roughly the same as a two-bedroom in Madison, Wisconsin. The ITS—Musk says the name needs some workshopping—would accomplish these cost cuts primarily with lighter materials, stronger rockets, and reusable technology."

 

https://www.wired.com/2016/09/elon-musk-colonize-mars/

 

Sigh. Wish I was younger. 

[ashbury]

 

"By (Elon) Musk’s admittedly loose estimates, buying yourself a single ticket to Mars right now (using non-existent tech) would probably cost around $10 billion. The same amount of cash could buy you a few square blocks in Midtown Manhattan. But once the so-called SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System is fully operational, he estimates that a person will be able to travel to the Red Planet for around $200,000, roughly the same as a two-bedroom in Madison, Wisconsin. The ITS—Musk says the name needs some workshopping—would accomplish these cost cuts primarily with lighter materials, stronger rockets, and reusable technology."

 

https://www.wired.com/2016/09/elon-musk-colonize-mars/

Or, just have one of the Twins relievers throw you toward home plate and let an Astros hitter launch you there for free. We have the technology.

[Vanimal46]

Or, just have one of the Twins relievers throw you toward home plate and let an Astros hitter launch you there for free. We have the technology.

Little did we know they have a couple of Billion Dollar arms on staff! Impressive!

[wsnydes]

 

Sigh. Wish I was younger. 

And much richer to be able to afford such craziness.

[wsnydes]

 

Or, just have one of the Twins relievers throw you toward home plate and let an Astros hitter launch you there for free. We have the technology.

Probably get there faster too.

[Mike Sixel]

 

And much richer to be able to afford such craziness.

 

I'd pay 200K right now. It would hurt a lot, but I'd do it.

[Craig Arko]

I'd pay 200K right now. It would hurt a lot, but I'd do it.

The price of my house, more or less.

[wsnydes]

 

I'd pay 200K right now. It would hurt a lot, but I'd do it.

If I could scrounge it up, I'd be buckling in right next to you.  

Edited June 1, 2017 by wsnydes

[twinsnorth49]

Mollie considering his next bullpen move.

 

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