Double Header Game Thread Twins @ Tigers 12:10pm cdt 8/28/2020ad

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Fezzig game thread:

 

Think of something clever?

Well, i never...

 

Someone said

a rhyming thread

would be mostly dead

so here's your first head...

 

Of a double header*

 

Minnesota (under the new guard)

 

0. Randy Dobnak (R ) P

1. Jorge Polanco ( S ) SS

2. Miguel Sano (R ) 1B

3. Nelson Cruz (R ) DH

4. M. Gonzalez ( S ) RF

5. I. Vargas ( S ) 2B

6. Eddie Rosario ( L) LF

7. Ehire Adrianza ( S ) 3B

8. Max Kepler ( L) CF

9. Alex Avila ( L) C

 

Detroit (under the old Gard)

 

0. Matthew Boyd ( L) P

1. Victor Reyes ( S ) RF

2. J. Schoop (R ) 2B

3. Miguel Cabrera (R ) DH

4. J. Candelario ( S ) 1B

5. Niko Goodrum ( S ) SS

6. JaCoby Jones (R ) CF

7. C. Stewart ( L) LF

8. G. Greiner (R ) C

9. Willi Castro ( S ) 3B

 

*slant rhymes are okay too.

[Craig Arko]

Good to see Kepler is back.

[Squirrel]

Rain rain go away,

Come again another day!

 

How's that for rhyme?

 

Game is in rain delay.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

hey...

 

"Event is in weather delay."

 

Doh.

 

What rhymes with ninja'd?

[Craig Arko]

 

  On 8/28/2020 at 5:18 PM, sampleSizeOfOne said:

hey...

"Event is in weather delay."

Doh.

What rhymes with ninja'd?

Binge-duhed.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

(Now that is gonna bug me the whole day...

i had something to say

but was beat to the punch like i was out to lunch.

 

if i went to oz

after a pause

i'd find myself straw headed, lion nosed, and tin jawed.

 

what it is to be ninja'd...

[Craig Arko]

 

  On 8/28/2020 at 5:29 PM, sampleSizeOfOne said:

(Now that is gonna bug me the whole day...
i had something to say
but was beat to the punch like i was out to lunch.

if i went to oz
after a pause
i'd find myself straw headed, lion nosed, and tin jawed.

what it is to be ninja'd...

Burma Shave.

[Diesel]

Looks like all of today will be rained out as well, which means 4 games on Saturday and Sunday. I feel bad for the pen

[sampleSizeOfOne]

  On 8/28/2020 at 5:37 PM, Craig Arko said:

Burma Shave.

I wanna say i might have

come across a Burma shave

sign or two as a wee knave,

but i don't think me old enough

for that stuff...

 

but on i90 to south dakota,

does one still note a

lot of signs that plug

wall drug?

[denarded]

Back to back double headers really suck. Odds are we leave town with a split instead of an optimistic sweep. It's really going to screw our pitching staff against the upcoming white hot White Sox series. Bad Moon Arising

[SteelDodo]

Ummm... genuine question. 

Why is Kepler batting 8th? Even if he is slumping, I'm sure he's still better than Vargas, Adrianza, and Gonzalez. Am i missing something?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Is all of today postponed?

 

I see a flood warning in effect through 4am.

 

Looking at radar, stuff just passed, but another one is rolling east on i94 currently south of Lansing.

Otherwise, to quote Schultz

I know nothing.

[twinbythebay]

 

  On 8/28/2020 at 5:56 PM, denarded said:

Back to back double headers really suck. Odds are we leave town with a split instead of an optimistic sweep. It's really going to screw our pitching staff against the upcoming white hot White Sox series. Bad Moon Arising

Why would playing two double headers instead of four single games benefit the Tigers? I guess I could see a slight shift in the odds due to playing fewer innings, but it still seems like a bit of a stretch to assume it would change a sweep into a split...

[Squirrel]

 

  On 8/28/2020 at 5:16 PM, SQUIRREL said:

Rain rain go away,

Come again another day!

 

How's that for rhyme?

 

Game is in rain delay.

 

Did j'ya?

[twinbythebay]

 

  On 8/28/2020 at 6:02 PM, SteelDodo said:

Ummm... genuine question. 

Why is Kepler batting 8th? Even if he is slumping, I'm sure he's still better than Vargas, Adrianza, and Gonzalez. Am i missing something?

The lineup as posted does seem like one of those "drawn out of a hat" lineups...

[sampleSizeOfOne]

  On 8/28/2020 at 6:02 PM, SteelDodo said:

Ummm... genuine question.

Why is Kepler batting 8th? Even if he is slumping, I'm sure he's still better than Vargas, Adrianza, and Gonzalez. Am i missing something?

Perhaps...

 

Just the pitcher we are facing?

 

Or if it results in 1 less at bat, 'twill be just that little bit kinder on his foot?

 

or maybe today 8 is his lucky number?

 

I shall consult the bones!

 

(the bones tell me nothing)

[shortround81]

I'm sure my gut-feeling is apocryphal, but I feel like ballplayers back in the day used to play quadrupedal headers!

 

"Let's play two!" -Ernie Banks

[sampleSizeOfOne]

  On 8/28/2020 at 6:04 PM, SQUIRREL said:

Did j'ya?

Not sure why, but this makes me think of the sweet condensation of justice.

one of the empanelled might call it...

"did jury" dew.

[Craig Arko]

If it rains tomorrow, they can just play a hydra-header Sunday.

[twinbythebay]

 

  On 8/28/2020 at 6:12 PM, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Not sure why, but this makes me think of the sweet condensation of justice.
one of the empanelled might call it...
"did jury" dew.

I would just like to take the time to thank you for all of your confounding yet delightful wordplay. It reminds me that I shouldn't be taking the game of baseball so seriously.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

You're welcome!

 

One piece of weirdness i got going for me...

 

And i apologize for not paying much attention.

 

Today is Jackie Robinson day!

[PDX Twin]

Looks like they have officially postponed. Wouldn't you know this would happen after they chose not to get a game in last night. Some kind of karma there...

[Craig Arko]

 

  On 8/28/2020 at 6:34 PM, PDX Twin said:

Looks like they have officially postponed. Wouldn't you know this would happen after they chose not to get a game in last night. Some kind of karma there...

Or, just the weather.

[wavedog]

Mother Nature getting in her social justice boycott today.  She had to one-up the team's Thursday action and get a 2-fer in.   Let's play 2x2!    The Twins are shaving 8 innings off what they have to play  4 7 inning games instead of the original 4 9 inning games.  Be interesting to see how they approach the games pitching-wise. If the starters can go deep hopefully it won't impact the bullpen too much but will impact the rotation going into next week unless they use 1 or 2 bullpen games in the double-headers. 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

  On 8/28/2020 at 6:14 PM, Craig Arko said:

If it rains tomorrow, they can just play a hydra-header Sunday.

Ah, some modern baseball equivalent to Ol' Harryhausen's Jason and thr Argonauts.

 

To end it, not only must Twins bullpen pitch their heads off, but we need some red hot gloves to effect a "caught-yer-flies" strategy and prevent the game from growing back...

 

(sorry that was ssoo clumbsy)

[sampleSizeOfOne]

  On 8/28/2020 at 7:02 PM, Craig Arko said:

Or, just the weather.

(Warning: Gratuitous G&S reference)

 

Yes.

 

Yes.

 

Let's talk about the weather!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

And some day i may reuse the Fezzig game thread idea...

 

But it is dangerous.

 

I am so tempted to just start rhyming what anyone else said if they didn't rhyme, but i could see that way led to... a insanity? a banning? getting old fast at the least. May i never find out where it would lead!

 

Thanks all for a little company.

 

Gonna celebrate Fraggle Friday. I promised to finish watching the original series with a friend before they move cross country next week. We are half way through the final dvd set (which i think means early in the 5th season as they don't quite line up) so it is inherently possible.

[Craig Arko]

 

  On 8/28/2020 at 7:13 PM, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Ah, some modern baseball equivalent to Ol' Harryhausen's Jason and thr Argonauts.

To end it, not only must Twins bullpen pitch their heads off, but we need some red hot gloves to effect a "caught-yer-flies" strategy and prevent the game from growing back...

(sorry that was ssoo clumbsy)

Careful you don't get fleeced.

[ashbury]

How much time between games, in these double headers?

 

Suppose Game One is sufficiently not-close, and a pitcher capable of multi-innings happens to be the game finisher? Is it feasible to let him pitch an inning or two of Game Two, serving as Opener, if he's unlikely to be available for the next day's double header anyway?

 

/ edit - oops, sorry, this isn't about the weather, except to the extent that weather has brought the situation to us

[IndianaTwin]

No double doubleheader. One game will be made up on Sept. 4 in Minnesota.