Game Thread: Twins v White Sox, 9/1 @ 7:10pm CT

Go Twins!

INIGO: I'm going to do him left-handed.
VIZZINI: You KNOW what a hurry we're in!
INIGO: Eh- it's the only way I can be satisfied. If I use my right... over too quickly.
VIZZINI: Oh, have it your way.

 

INIGO: I'm going to do him left-handed.
VIZZINI: You KNOW what a hurry we're in!
INIGO: Eh- it's the only way I can be satisfied. If I use my right... over too quickly.
VIZZINI: Oh, have it your way.

Inconceivable we lose this series to the Sox.

 

Inconceivable we lose this series to the Sox.

I hope that word means what you think it means.

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As a fellow lefty, I have to love a sport that really appreciates that lefties are wonderful people. 

 

It just so happens that I want these three particular lefties (Sale, Rodon and Danks) to fail miserably in the three days to come as the Twins pound the pitches thrown their direction all over the field, sending the White Sox back to the windy city to where they can cry in their deep dish pizzas and hot dogs.  

You guys are mean.  I like it.

 

 

 

P.S. - Extra credit for anyone who can capture and post a sound bite of the Hawk after Sano hits a skyscraper.

 

You guys are mean.  I like it.

 

 

 

P.S. - Extra credit for anyone who can capture and post a sound bite of the Hawk after Sano hits a skyscraper.

Here's the telecast:

{Crack}...crowd roars...silence..."dadgummit"...sound of shuffling papers, door closing.  Fade to commercial.

Pictured: Chicago White Sox rotation after the Twins beat up on them all weekend

 

"More Left Hand -- Around 10 years ago... I invented a left-handed hammer and I was sure that I was going to get rich. Turns out there were no left-handed nails and the venture failed miserably."

Reminds me of when my brother tried hanging a picture.    He put the head of the nail against the wall and started hitting the point, obviously with no success.    He said " A real idiot made this nail.   He put the head on the wrong end"    I said "You're the idiot.    That nail was made to go on the opposite wall".

We can all talk about playoff contention for the Twins because it's so obvious just being 1 game back. However... it's not like the White Sox are out of it.

From a purely mathematical standpoint, the Sox may be in it if they win all their games.

 

I look at it this way. With 32-33 games to go for most teams, some team in the AL is going to get hot and go 23-10. We just don't know which one, but it happens every year. It could be some first place team that proceeds to run away with the regular season title, or some last place team that gets hot and salvages a near-.500 record.

 

If it happens to be the White Sox, it will put their season record at 84-78. I don't think that's going to be enough wins. So for my purposes, the Sox are out of it. It would take more than just a hot final month, but a miracle.

Do any of the pitchers happen to have six fingers on their left hand?

I hope that word means what you think it means.

As you wish.

 

Do any of the pitchers happen to have six fingers on their left hand?

There's actually a word for that: pterodactyl. Some of them have wings, too!

I can hardly wait to throw some shapeless, nameless slab of meat on the grill for tonight's game. Extra E is bringing Big Bend tonight. Can he actually make the ball curve all the way back to his glove? That's what I heard..!

 

 Extra credit for anyone who can capture and post a sound bite of the Hawk after Sano hits a skyscraper.

The Sox radio guys are great. How did they come to have such a buffoon doing TV for all these years?

 

I can hardly wait to throw some shapeless, nameless slab of meat on the grill for tonight's game. Extra E is bringing Big Bend tonight. Can he actually make the ball curve all the way back to his glove? That's what I heard..!

sounds like you just invented the boomerang ball.

 

The Sox radio guys are great. How did they come to have such a buffoon doing TV for all these years?

Broadcasters needed a bar by which they are all measured and decided to set the bar very low?

 

sounds like you just invented the boomerang ball.

Back in the day, when they discovered that a person was left handed, they would chop their left hand off and make them a regular person. Cruel, but true story.

Looking at a comparison between the two teams:

 

BA - .248, .251

OBP - .303, .305

SLG - .401, .380

 

Twins are the first number, Sox are the 2nd.  Fairly even there, but the runs scored give the Twins a 564 to 493 advantage.  Not a lot of pop in the Chicago lineup as the Twins have 65 more extra base hits than them, but they have 24 more hits than us.  A bunch of singles hitters.

 

Our pitchers have the worst BAA in the league at .272 with the Sox at .261 and our fielding percentages are nearly even at .986 and .984.

 

So, anyone thinking that we will run away with this series should think again.  Keep the ball in the park and make them hit a bunch of singles to score runs.

The Twins with more XHB than the White Sox? What a strange year 2015 is.

2 out of 3 is the absolute minimum to win in this series.  Gotta keep the heat on Texas.  At this point, the goals are the same -- win your games and root against the team that you're chasing.  Pointless to worry about the Angels or the Rays or anyone else because if they catch the Twins, that means the Twins are losing and if the Twins are losing, they're not going anywhere.

 

You guys are mean.  I like it.

 

 

 

P.S. - Extra credit for anyone who can capture and post a sound bite of the Hawk after Sano hits a skyscraper.

Interesting Lineup Tonight

 

Dozier

Mauer

Plouffe

Sano

Hunter

Rosario

Escobar

Suzuki

Buxton

 

Hard to believe but Harrelson was once the GM of the White Sox to. 

 

Not as hard to believe -- he once hung upside down as the undead haunting ball fields everywhere.

 

The Twins did very well against left handers early this year, but not so much lately. Their power is basically all right handed, but the power hitters haven't put up big platoon splits.

Hard to believe but Harrelson was once the GM of the White Sox to.

Player to announcer to GM and back to announcer. Strange.

 

Harrelson served as a Chicago White Sox announcer from 1982 to 1985 and briefly left broadcasting during the 1986 season to become the White Sox's General Manager. During his one season as GM, Harrelson fired field manager Tony La Russa (who was soon hired by the Oakland Athletics) and assistant general manager Dave Dombrowski (who became baseball's youngest general manager with the Montreal Expos just two years later). Harrelson also traded rookie Bobby Bonilla, later a six-time All-Star, to the Pittsburgh Pirates for pitcher José DeLeón.

Not the best 1-year stint.

Why can't Hicks come back early?

 

Facing 3 lefties this series, kinda could use his bat, not in Rochester.

Back in the day, when they discovered that a person was left handed, they would chop their left hand off and make them a regular person. Cruel, but true story.

You're right, that was a cruel story! . Fortunately they discontinued this barbaric practice, or the instruction, "left turn Clyde" would not have had anywhere the same comedic (and jaw) impact!

Interesting Lineup Tonight

Dozier

Mauer

Plouffe

Sano

Hunter

Rosario

Escobar

Suzuki

Buxton

I like how we upgraded the 5 hole!