LaBombo

Thanks, fellow Bombo! It's the healthy kind of guilt that we Minnesotans enjoy. It's like... high fiber for the soul. ? Didn't track this one down til now, but I'll throw it in anyway...

Based on the size of the crowd in some shots, I would've guessed that the Royals were playing an exhibition game tonight for someone's private birthday party. I missed the seventh inning stretch; were there pony rides?

I feel like this game is putting us on the verge of a breakthrough corollary to Murphy's Law which will state that the chance of an absurd amount of instant replay delays increases in proportion to the insignificance of the game.

Hmmm...Not sure if compliment or invitation to be overwhelmed with crushing sense of guilt...?

Umpire: <'Throw looked like it was just in time, I'll call him...'> Wallner: 'You don't need to call me out' Umpire: <'I don't need to call him out'>

Fortunately for Gilbert and other Twins 3b coaches, they have the advantage of being judged against the highly imaginative decisions of Gardy fave Scott Ullger... the only 3b coach in MLB history to base his decisions on in-game readings of tarot cards...

That's how much interest I've lost in the Twins. I didn't even realize until I read your post that MLB is making up the missing games from the 2020 season by tacking on 102 more to the end of this one.

And he really didn't even do all that much while he was here to make his moving on seem like a big loss. But going to the Yankees and being every bit as much of a dink as you'd expect a Yankee to be has really made it feel like addition by subtraction. (Sort of) well done, Josh D.

As a consolation prize, it's a little break from the mental fatigue of watching him play at an All Star/HoF level and telling ourselves not to think about how great he and the Twins could be if he could stay healthy.

Rocco's dirty uniform fines really cutting into that Twins stolen base success rate of 40%.

There's a joke about Ash somewhere in this, but I'm too busy finishing the facepainting for the Wild game.

One way to overcome concerns about descending into the roll of 'lefty specialist' is to get righties out. Given that they're hitting .391/.417/565, Thielbar may be opting for the less desirable way, failing to get lefties out.

It's a nice tribute and all, but a pink and baby blue catcher looks like an MC at a gender reveal party that's expected to turn ugly.

At least the Twins finished the loss efficiently with that GDP...

Tomorrow is World Creativity and Innovation Day... But don't let that make you feel pressured to be... I dunno... creative or innovative or whatever.

That's just your sanity's sense of self-preservation kicking in.

My interest declined significantly after the chance of a rainout slipped away from the Twins.

Depends on whether it's two lanes or four.

Sano has looked bad at the plate in April before, but his swing & miss on fastballs seems slower and more lumberjack-y than other times he's struggled.

The Twins' bats helped the Kershaw relive his prime, so it wouldn't be surprising if they helped make Lynch the next Koufax.

The B-52's were right: The Staaay-shack is a little old place where foes' bats get much better...

Just a lucky one-timer off the assist. It's a miracle I was even awake after eating so much Easter ham, which it turns out was actually turkey this year. Free range organic turkey too, which has even more of that sleep-inducing stuff, terspi... tippy... better google it... okay, it's tryptophazzzzzzzzzzz.

I'm just going to pretend the Twins let the Sox win as a symbolic victory for the citizens of Ukraine and leave it at that.

After this inning the bullpen has cracked the top three in fWORd.

I'm starting to feel like the top of the 8th was a bad time to turn the game on. The good news is that after eating two meals' worth of Easter dinner I'm probably going to fall asleep before the Twins get the last out of the 8th.