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Game Thread: Twins @ Tigers, 6/2/22, 12:10PM CDT (10:10AM PDT)

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Good morning! Welcome to yet another day game in a week full of them. Six day games in eight days, though most all Twins’ games are day games in my time zone.

Today the Twins finish up a five-game set at Comerica Park, which is located less than a mile from Canada, to which most of the team will escape after the game. Presumably a centerfielder chasing a hypothetical 5,000-foot fly ball today would have to be vaccinated to go into Windsor to catch it.

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Before we get to the Twins and their desperate quest for runs, I have a question to throw out to all of you: What sports did you play growing up and what sports do you play now? From past banter, I know that tennis and golf are popular among TD folk and that many played baseball in high school, but what else? 

My own baseball career maxed out about the time my age reached double digits. Back then, we had a somewhat organized playground league of two stable teams (with daily comings and goings just like the Twins!). We played nearly every non-rainy day all summer in a vacant field next to a neighborhood playground. Twins vs. Tigers, every day. My team lost the coin toss at the beginning of the first season, so we were the Tigers and the #6 in magic marker on the back of my tee-shirt was Al Kaline, not Tony Oliva. Once every couple of weeks one of us would bike downtown to the hardware store to buy a new baseball. I still remember the rapture of throwing around a clean, white ball for a few minutes before we started smashing it into the weeds and mud puddles on its way to becoming the inevitable soggy, brown mess.

I played at football and basketball in junior high, but being short, slow, and not particularly strong, I wasn't very successful. By the time I reached high school, the unanimous consensus of my coaches was that my best sport was pep band. (Though I did earn three varsity letters in golf.)

Nowadays? As a lazy, novice retiree I mostly just do my daily training for the superannuated pentathlon: (1) the 100-meter stroll, (2) the 10000-meter drive, (3) the hands-free stair climb, (4) the sock put (into the laundry basket, my favorite event!), and (5) the treacherous free-standing underwear don.

So tell us a little about your own sports stories, then and now.

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On the mound for the Twins today is Chris Archer, who is 0-2 (partly because he’s never allowed to get a win by pitching the fifth inning even if he’s ahead) with a 4.19 ERA. 

For the Tigers, it’s Alex Faedo. That’s a familiar name for Twins’ fans with long memories: Lenny Faedo was a Twins’ first-round draft pick in 1978 who accumulated 529 AB for the Twins from 1980 to 1984. He was a shortstop who batted .251 with no power or on-base skills, and was out of organized baseball by 1987 after a couple of minor-league seasons with the Royals and Dodgers. Alex, who is Lenny’s second cousin, takes the ball for the Tigers today. Alex was a first-round pick and former CWS MVP (Florida). He debuted less than a month ago for Detroit and is making his 6th MLB start, with a 1-2 record and a 3.00 ERA. How long can he continue the Twins’ scoreless inning streak that is at 20 and counting?

Today’s starting lineups are below. It does not look like a getaway-day lineup for the Twins. I guess maybe Rocco wants the team to score a run today.

Twins: 
1. Arraez, 1b
2. Buxton, cf
3. Kepler, dh
4. Polanco, 2b
5. Larnach, rf
6. Sánchez, c
7. Gordon, lf
8. Urshela, 3b
9. Palacios, ss
SP: Archer (R)

Tigers:
1. W. Castro, cf
2. H. Castro, ss
3. Schoop, 2b
4. Cabrera, dh
5. Torkelson, 1b
6. Clemens the Younger, lf
7. Candelario, 3b
8. Haase, c
9. Cameron, rf
SP: Faedo (R) 

In place of the traditional "Go, Twins" ending, I offer something from my memory banks. Sing along if you remember!

We're gonna win, Twins.
We're gonna score (I hope). 
We're gonna win, Twins.
Watch that baseball soar.

Crack out a homerun.
Shout a hip-hooray!
Cheer for the Minnesota Twins today!

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Good morning! Welcome to yet another day game in a week full of them. Six day games in eight days, though most all Twins’ games are day games in my time zone. Today the Twins finish up a five-gam

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Probably won't post much today, but we're at the ballpark.

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Enjoying the left field stylings of Nick Gordon.  Hope you all are too.  

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Loving the questions about our backgrounds around TD lately. I played baseball from the time I could walk until the arm finally gave out at the age of 30 (or at least that's when I accepted it had given out and nobody wanted to put up with me in the dugout anymore). Played football and basketball through high school. Now days it's just an embarrassing round of golf or game of softball from time to time for me.

Twins are due for an 8 spot today. So let's hope they get to at least 2.

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I played baseball through high school and was on a couple of the traveling summer teams.  Kept playing softball through college.  I also played basketball until I was a freshman in high school.  Being short pretty much ended that for me, despite being fairly athletic.  I picked up golf somewhere around age 12 and am still an addict.  I don't play as much as I'd like, but that's the story for many a working stiff like myself.  

With a more formidable lineup than yesterday, I'm optimistic that the bats can show some life today and pull this one out.

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Good game thread intro! To answer your question: I'm old and broken...I only play golf now, and even that's gradually going away. I used to play 4-5 times a week and was in a couple leagues. Won a few company tourneys over the years too. Played to a 4 hdcp. They're pricing me out of it, and the body is pretty much shot now anyway. The knees are toast. Way back when, in H.S., I played baseball, football, basketball, and golf. I went to a small H.S. in NJ, so even though I wasn't very good, I got to play. Played golf in JUCO. That was it for my youth. I had a good teacher...my dad played minor league ball in the Phillies organization back in the 50's. He was a second baseman. He also went to a couple try outs for the NY Yankees, but didn't make it. He could see the writing on the wall and gave all that up. He taught me how to play golf too. He's been gone for over 30 years and I miss him a lot. I just played low level, slow pitch softball for a long time after I got out of college. Been playing golf for almost 60 years though. Love being out on the course with my brother and/or my son. My ashes are to be spread on a golf course when I croak. 

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Played baseball through little league, then quit due to being too busy in the summer (per my parents). Played football, basketball and track through high school.

Picked wood bat baseball back up about 2015ish for two seasons only to learn that I can't really hit a breaking ball or really field, or just generally not liking to be out of the shade. Also did curling for one season and loved it.  Life reasons made me hang both up. Now I'm looking to get back into curling and maybe try to find a slow-pitch softball team that needs a first baseman or something

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I grew up at a rural boarding school and only had soccer, basketball and track available for organized sports.  I was terrible at basketball, so I played soccer in the fall and did some track and intermural softball in the spring.  When I was 12-13, I started getting really into watching and following MLB baseball. I decided to try Babe Ruth League, and that went about as well as it did for the guy who drank from the wrong cup at the end of Indiana Jones 3.

These days, I like to climb plastic inside and rocks outside, when I have the time.  Covid put a big damper on the indoor climbing for quite awhile, so I'm hoping to get back into it more.  Unfortunately, all my kids moved onto other sports (lacrosse and volleyball), because that's what their friends play.  The kids and the job are the priorities now, so I'm sure it will be awhile before I'm climbing as much as I'd like.

PTC: Larnach

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48 minutes ago, CRF said:

My ashes are to be spread on a golf course when I croak. 

I’m giving my body to science. Can’t stand the idea of being buried or having my whole body being put into a furnace. Would rather be cut up and dissected in some anatomy class and then turned into ash.

Morbid talk. Kind of how I feel about the Twins today.

But go Twins! ?

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5 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

I’m giving my body to science. Can’t stand the idea of being buried or having my whole body being put into a furnace. Would rather be cut up and dissected in some anatomy class and then turned into ash.

Morbid talk. Kind of how I feel about the Twins today.

But go Twins! ?

As an old guy, I'll  have to look into that. I need to checkout if it affects being a donor.

Geesh, let's get back to baseball!

 

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1 hour ago, PDX Twin said:

So tell us a little about your own sports stories, then and now.

Well, girls sports weren’t as well funded or organized back in my day. I remember playing volleyball in 9th grade … 1st time there was a team for it and we didn’t play anywhere but against each other. I didn’t continue with it beyond that point. I did play summer softball from the time I was 9 through high school, but never went out for the sport in h,s, because I was usually too busy with music activities. But our summer league team had a lot of the h.s. team and we won a championship one year. That year I played 2nd. But I also pitched occasionally and caught some games. (Guess I was a utility player.) I did play tennis and was on the team in h,s,, but not varsity. I stopped playing softball several years ago due to injuries and getting too old for that. Tennis I still play regularly … once/twice a week as my work schedule allows.

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