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  • Game Thread: White Sox@Twins 4/11 3:10PM

    Riverbrian

    By Riverbrian

    These are the days that test who you are as a Minnesota Twins Fan. Rough Start... Expectations not being met... and a small sample size. Do you start throwing babies out with the bath water or do you just keep washing this baby.

    All I know is that many of you have got the baby by both ankles and are looking for a place to dispose of it.

    I'm saying not yet because that's what Molly Ringwald would have done.

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    1. 0-6 -- I like to keep things loose. I'm not the type of guy who likes to focus on the bad stuff and I am constantly in search of the good stuff. It's just the way I am... I don't like feeling bad... I like feeling good. I like people who are happy and that's the table I want to sit at. If the other tables are complaining about things. I'd rather sit somewhere else. So here is what I have to say about an 0-6 start. Nothing... I'm going to stay quiet and whistle past the graveyard. I actually don't know how to whistle and that is a little awkward because everybody seems to be able to whistle at the table I sit at. So in order to keep up... I bring an actual whistle to blow into and this does get the waiter/waitress to the cool kids table faster.

    2 0-6 (Part 2) -- I didn't do any research on it but I'm willing to assume that nearly every team has gone through a 6 game losing streak at some point during a 162 game schedule since the beginning of time. We just got ours out of the way early. When the Twins go 100-56 the rest of the way. I was talking about this at the cool kids table and even the cool kids want me to sit somewhere else.

    3. What has gone wrong -- Well... It's all players that we were dying to see. Sano, Park, Buxton,Rosario and Dozier. The players who were supposed to lead us to the promised land can't make contact with the baseball. Those 5 have struck out 49 times in 6 games.

    4. Trucking -- When you go to Best Buy and purchase a new 98 foot television. This is possible because of truckers. Truckers are the backbone of America... they keep the economy moving and in order for you to buy that TV. Someone has to be willing to leave their family for extended periods of time... sleep in a small space in the back of the cab... shower when you can in a truck stop and walk out in the cold to get back to truck with your hair all wet... give up your home court advantage when using the bathroom... eat truck stop food... and I would imagine you spend a lot of time talking to yourself because of the solitude of mile after mile. I'm thinking about trucking because I got me a 16 foot Budget Truck and I'm driving that thing through Northern Michigan, Upper Michigan, Northern Wisconsin and Northern Minnesota today and tomorrow. I'm gonna stop at the truck stops along the way and share my story of the road with my trucking brethren and I'm sure that they will except me as one of their own. Hopefully.. they can give me some advice on how to get this 98 foot television into this 16 foot truck. I'm struggling with that right now.

    5. The White Sox win the World Series!!! -- And when this happens... the first thing that the White Sox fan will do is... Turn off the Play Station.

    One last thing... North Dakota. National Champions in Hockey!!! Woo Hoo!!!

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    Lineups:

    WHITE SOX

    Adam Eaton(L) RF

    Jimmy Rollins(S) SS

    Jose Abreu(R ) 1B

    Todd Frazier(R ) 3B

    Melky Cabrera(S) LF

    Brett Lawrie(R ) 2B

    Avisail Garcia(R ) DH

    Dioner Navarro(S) C

    Austin Jackson(R ) CF

    Quintana P

    TWINS

    Brian Dozier(R ) 2B

    Joe Mauer(L) 1B

    Miguel Sano(R ) RF

    Trevor Plouffe(R ) 3B

    Byung-ho Park(R ) DH

    Eddie Rosario(L) LF

    Eduardo Escobar(S) SS

    Kurt Suzuki(R ) C

    Byron Buxton(R ) CF

    Gibson P

    Game-time forecast: partly cloudy, 40 deg F (brrrr!), winds from the NW at 18mph (more brrrrr!)

    Go Twins!

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    ashbury

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    I was more keeping myself from commenting on sitting the German......what is he up for here, exactly? Is this how you develop your best hitting prospect?

     

    stuff like that......

    While pondering an answer to your question I missed how a Sox runner got to third. Thanks a lot. :)

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    Danchat

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    Can anyone watching the game let me know what the attendance is like?  Listening on the radio it sounds EXTREMELY quiet.

    I sometimes find the crowd is quiet when the weather is cold outside. They seem to get more into the game once it warms up and also when it gets later in the game.

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    Aggies7

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    Why did they have the infield in with 1 out a guy on third in the 2nd inning?  Just get the out and deal with giving up the run. 

     

    I'm assuming it has something with the twins averaging a hefty 2 runs a game.

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    SwainZag

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    Why did they have the infield in with 1 out a guy on third in the 2nd inning?  Just get the out and deal with giving up the run. 

     

    I didn't see the hit, but would it have mattered if they were playing back?

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    Loosey

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    I didn't see the hit, but would it have mattered if they were playing back?

    They would have gotten the out at 1st but still given up the run.  Ended up not mattering, but still. . . .

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    Cap'n Piranha

    Cap'n Piranha 5,641

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    Cory Provus is already beaten down by the Twins, as he declared Rollins is still a good player.  I guess he really liked that .224/.285/.358 slash line last year.

     

    To be fair, that would be our 4th best hitter so far this year, so maybe he's on to something.

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    ScrapTheNickname

    ScrapTheNickname 3,577

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    Park is starting in a small sample size that these International Free agent signings of players that are supposed to be major league talents is something the Minnesota Twins should just stay away from.

    Park looks like he is guessing and has no idea or a plan once he he steps into the box every at bat. I get that he is a major league rookie other than his age, but he is looking more and more like a Nishioka re-dux. 

    I would rather have Mastroianni up from AAA then continue to watch Park flail away at bad pitches.

    I look forward to more Park, no Mastrionni. Park is at least fascinating. (my opinion only, of course.)

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    Foghorn Leghorn

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    Park is starting in a small sample size that these International Free agent signings of players that are supposed to be major league talents is something the Minnesota Twins should just stay away from.

    Park looks like he is guessing and has no idea or a plan once he he steps into the box every at bat. I get that he is a major league rookie other than his age, but he is looking more and more like a Nishioka re-dux. 

    I would rather have Mastroianni up from AAA then continue to watch Park flail away at bad pitches.

    Got Byung Ho Strikeout instead of bullpen help.. #TerryRyanThings

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