sampleSizeOfOne

So... we lost? Golly gee whiz dagnamit! Sorry i was lying down on the job.

Yup. I missed that.

It was the nominal theme of the intro. Seriously taking of things. But that's purely optional.

Sounds like a good game so far!

Simmons!!

Criminy, i missed more than i meant to... What all did i miss?

As April enters on a day of silliness, it stands to reason it ends on a day of seriousness... seriosity? seriodom. It ends on a serious day, irregardless the propper noun form of seriositude. You may well ask "but sampleSize, if we can't tell if someone is sarcastic, how can we tell their being serious???" That is where you are wrong. The truly serious are emphatic and use expletives. And to cut it off at the source, sure all the boring, easy to use ones are banned and even filtered by this site. That just makes it more interesting. Beat the shift, by gum! Dagnamit, hit it where they ain't! Zounds! It is easy if you just go with the goldarn pitch! Now that's out of the way, on to the game. 8-15 team playing a 15-8 team? Looks like we're plum done fur already, eh? A million to 1 shot eh? Well as anyone who's read a discworld story knows, million to 1 shots come out right 9 times out of 10. And welcome back to the squad, Kepler and Garlick! And Rortvedt... Yeah Rortvedt! Is Sano the odd man out? Jumpin' Jehosephat, we got ourselves a line up! Royals: 0. Brady Singer (R ) P 1. W. Merrifield (R ) 2B 2. Carlos Santana ( S ) 1B 3. Salvador Perez (R ) C 4. Jorge Soler (R ) RF 5. Ryan O'Hearn ( L) DH 6. Hunter Dozier (R ) 3B 7. A. Benintendi ( L) LF 8. M. Taylor (R ) CF 9. Nicky Lopez ( L) SS Twins: 0. Michael Pineda ® P 1. Luis Arraez ( L) LF 2. Josh Donaldson (R ) 3B 3. Byron Buxton (R ) CF 4. Nelson Cruz (R ) DH 5. Alex Kirilloff ( L) 1B 6. Jorge Polanco ( S ) 2B 7. Max Kepler ( L) RF 8. A. Simmons (R ) SS 9. Ben Rortvedt ( L) C I tuckered myself out with all that serious speakin'. I'll let you all have a go at it.

Begs the question, how do you wear a mask on your inside?

Glad we didn't give up that lead... Sorry i only here spuratically...

But he typed it, didn't he?

And Polanco is a croquet player, threading two wickets(!). (been some time since i played...)

2Ks, 3 pitches? That's 1.5 pitches per K. Now that is talent!

It was about a half an hour. But it felt longer...

But he had two more inheritted runners he wasted.

Well, at least now we know how many runs we need to score this inning. Here's to seeing Alcala pitch another inning!

Holy Smokes! That coulda gone a lot worse... As could the other one have...

Colome knows how to keep things interesting...

Ninja'd perhaps.But you still deliver it with style.

XTON!?

Keep the Clevelanders from scoring! Fielding (clap, clap) fielding!

Cover your ears and hum?

Yup.Our limit against the Pirates was 2.

Doesn't that take talent?

Once more into the batter's box, Garver.