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I speak for everyone, when I say way, way too soon.

The prospect rankers clearly felt he had Arraezted development.

There is dialogue in Chinese with subtitles, but I think the majority was in English. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I was able to understand.

There are all sorts of problems with this theory, I can’t even begin to enumerate them all.

It’s charming and funny. The main character is the same actress who played the very quirky cousin in Crazy Rich Asians. Takes a very different role here, in a good way.

The fact that he is (legitimately) in the conversation for this is kind of the point, and, in and of itself, quite remarkable. All that, and no one can really pronounce his name, either!

I thought The Farewell was excellent.

Ok, then good. Things back where they are supposed to be.

I pulled the time-honored anti-jinx out for this evening.

Am I the only person wondering how Cleveland is going to pull out the win tonight?

Lots of teeth gnashing around these parts over falling into second place after having an 11.5 game lead. Allow me to note this: The Twins are one of five teams in baseball to have over a .600 record. Obviously, Cleveland is one of them. The other three have leads of 9, 10, and 18.5 games. Unfortunately the Twins are in the only division that happens to have two .600 win teams. The Twins are a good team. Cleveland is a good team. Minnesota started out hot, and then Cleveland got hot. I think it’s gonna be a dogfight down the stretch. Buckle up!

I was wondering when someone was going to mention this

Today is Tuesday, August 13. The Twins have fallen into second place in the central for the first time since, I believe, April 19, nearly four months ago, when the Twins were 9-7 and Cleveland was 11-7. Let’s hope this is a short-lived stay in second place, and after tonight, the team re-emerges in their rightful spot atop the central division.

No.

Actually it’s about 65-70% likely that they score a run with runners on second and third with one out. The average run expectancy with that situation is 1.4 runs.

The toughest thing to stomach is that it would have been such a huge boost to walk off that game after being down two in the ninth against Hand. It’s almost like blowing a 9-3 lead to the Yankees.

Minor a quibble with the recap. I don’t know if the catcher would have been going for lunch after filling his car with gas. Maybe a blue plate special dinner?

That was tough. That was as close to a two-game error by Tony Diaz imaginable. How do you turn an amazing rally with a huge chance for a walk-off victory into a fizzle?

How exactly are you going about learning to code in R?

If Berrios is the team ace, the Twins need him to come up big in this game, in a big way. I mentioned this in another thread—the Twins were 100-1 to win the series in the off-season, which dropped to about 75-1 before the season started.

Do they start extra innings with a runner on second in the minors now?

Thank you Brian, that was an excellent summary of the season race between the Indians and the Twins. The one stat that jumped out at me was the team going 9-15 (now 10-15) with Buxton out.

I was out of the country for four days, and the four run lead is gone. On the bright side, I’m back! So they can get back to winning. Going against Clevinger and Bieber is tough. Looks much better against Plutko and Civale. It really hurts to have Cruz and Buxton our fir this series. Let’s hope for at least a split over today and tomorrow, maybe even two. The was a tough week with seven games against the Braves and Indians. 1-6 would be bad. 2-5 would be unsurprising, 3-4 would be fine.

Don’t we need the flip-side now? They have a tough schedule down the stretch.

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