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Cave with a dinger... As expected.

Man, Buxton's hit was a thing of beauty!

Remember the words of mother Jaguar? Because it was an obscure reference, i feel i must footnote the reference... It is to The Beginning of Armadillos from Kipling's Just So Stories: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2781/2781-h/2781-h.htm#link2H_4_0007 Relevrnt quote being: ‘Now attend to me,’ said Painted Jaguar, ‘because this is very important. My mother said that when I meet a Hedgehog I am to drop him into the water and then he will uncoil, and when I meet a Tortoise I am to scoop him out of his shell with my paw. Now which of you is Hedgehog and which is Tortoise? because, to save my spots, I can’t tell.’ ‘Are you sure of what your Mummy told you?’ said Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog. ‘Are you quite sure? Perhaps she said that when you uncoil a Tortoise you must shell him out the water with a scoop, and when you paw a Hedgehog you must drop him on the shell.’ ‘Are you sure of what your Mummy told you?’ said Slow-and-Solid Tortoise. ‘Are you quite sure? Perhaps she said that when you water a Hedgehog you must drop him into your paw, and when you meet a Tortoise you must shell him till he uncoils.’

My feed was behind enough this thread told me what was about to happen.

Remember the words of mother Jaguar?

Now i have to think of another game thread intro theme... On the one hand, i am pleased to know it would have been appreciated....

Watch out. The Pirates have warning track power...

I have seen the South Park Dune parody, and cannot unsee it.

It is times like this i remember my Weebl & Bob... (double checked it, as W&B occasionally are explicit)

Rumor has it correlation and causation are different. Live life to the fullest, whichever direction that takes ya! For me, 'tis also a delicate question, but seeing as i said weeks ago i'd introduce this thread, my foot is already in my mouth. And seeing as i introduced the game threads on the last 2 wins, i'd at least appreciate the company should this game go sideways...

I don't think so. But even if you were crazy, that's fine too! You'll fit right in here. I'm also okay with easing Gordon into the thick of things.

In a hole in the ground there lived... a Gopher. (Well, this is Minnesota we're talking about) It was neither filled with great green gobs of... nor was it a dry sandy hole where TC the bear might be hibernating. It was gopher hole with no gopher, which can only mean one thing: some one hit a gopher ball! (cue the 2019 Twins promo... oh right... i'm trying to parody great literature, and they didn't do multi media back then) So much for trying to play off shorter attention spans... Which is my way of saying i'm lazy. And all that by way of saying give the young ones a chance to find their feet. I'd like to have made it to the scene where Rocco answers a bunch of doubting dwarves amongst the fans that if he says Colume is a closer, a closer he is, or will be when the time comes. We've had a run of hard luck, and are still weathering it, what with so many on the various injured lists. It will be fun to see how we manage (in a Lawrance of Arabia sort of way, perhaps...) And i postulate that convergent strike calls in MLB is another way to generate the Mandelbrot set. If this is true, it would explain a great many things, not the least of which is fan confusion. And while this was in a different thread, i felt it was too good a straight line to not find its way into a game thread... A tiny bit, in the same sense that I can play Hamlet a tiny bit? which evoked this clip (at least the opening 40 seconds): And if Ash gets to play Hamlet, i wanna be the green egglets! The question i wish to ask isn't of the "with a goat, in a boat?" variety, rather the "Pittsburgh, i know what you're thinking... did i crack a dozen into that omelet, or only 11. In all the confusion, i lost track myself, but seeing as these are chickens, the most ruthless poultry in the barnyard... You gotta ask yourself, do feel lucky?" Pittsburgh Pirates 0. JT Brubaker (R ) P 1. Adam Frazier ( L) 2B 2. Phillip Evans (R ) LF 3. Bryan Reynolds ( S ) CF 4. Colin Moran ( L) DH 5. Erik Gonzalez (R ) 3B 6. Todd Frazier (R ) 1B 7. Jacob Stallings (R ) C 8. Wilmer Difo ( S ) RF 9. Kevin Newman (R ) SS Minnesota Twins 0. J.A. Happ ( L) P 1. Luis Arraez ( L) 2B 2. Josh Donaldson (R ) 3B 3. Nelson Cruz (R ) DH 4. Byron Buxton (R ) CF 5. Alex Kirilloff ( L) LF 6. Jorge Polanco ( S ) SS 7. Mitch Garver (R ) C 8. Jake Cave ( L) RF 9. Willians Astudillo (R ) 1B and the obligatory "they have begun to arrive." comment goes here for this unexpected party...

What does Wichita State have to do with this?

Meh. It is but one loss. Counts no more than the 8-0 loss the day before. Wait... in emphatically counts less, as that was 2 games. Some day, we shall hit lefties again.

You are wise behind your ears!

Well... no chicken for me.

I myself was thinking of the Yankee's game in 2018, where Aaron Hicks got to make a difference in the outcome. But this was special. At least it was team work that made this possible. There will be company for misery.

Odd... Neither can i.

More please.

Would it take too long to explain it right now?

Simon didn't say.

Ok, let's get the extra inning monkey off our backs!

He battles his tail off.

Oh good. I didn't jinx him...

I hope we don't find out what it takes to pry him away...