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Not a bad catch by Rosario there... Hicks tries to bring that one back into the yard, but alas, to no avail... 1-0 Oakland, and still battin'...

Onto the 7th inning, no score. CBU

Er, yeah. CBU says 0-0 after 5.

The Plouffe giveth and the Plouffe taketh away... Fields a hard grounder w/ one out and runners on 1st and 2nd, steps on 3rd and fires to first for an inning ending double play.

CBU No score after four.

Perhaps. MLB.com says he's tied for second with 15 behind a Miami 3rd baseman with 16, and i expect it's not immediately updated, so 2 could well put him there. He could do worse...

CBU End of the second inning, no score.

Nice Dozier play. But runners are on 2nd and 3rd with 2 outs...

You mean "7000 Coliseum Way, Oakland, CA 94621"? Or "most politely"? Can't take credit for that. I'm pretty sure i was sayin' "don't think of it" which is kinda the opposite, more akin to what Chief is advocatin'. Though not quite... Anyhow, game time is almost upon us! Play ball! (Come on, hurry up!)

I agree with that sentiment. It's what gives his posts that added depth and resonance, or something. Though if/when Brian gets to the thread, i'm sure he'll let us know himself.

True that. And you can cook/eat one bean as a taste test. If ya don't like it, dump it out, and eventually it may amount to a hill of beans...

Concur! (Wish i'd thought of that...)

Twin batterers 1. Brian Dozier {R} 2B 2. Torii Hunter {R} RF 3. Joe Mauer {L} 1B 4. Miguel Sano {R} DH 5. Trevor Plouffe {R} 3B 6. Eddie Rosario {L} LF 7. Aaron Hicks {S} CF 8. Kurt Suzuki {R} C 9. Eduardo Escobar {S} SS Athletics batterers 1. Billy Burns {S} CF 2. Stephen Vogt {L} C 3. Ben Zobrist {S} 2B 4. Josh Reddick {L} RF 5. Billy Butler {R} DH 6. Ike Davis {L} 1B 7. Brett Lawrie {R} 3B 8. Mark Canha {R} LF 9. Marcus Semien {R} SS Now that they're there, i suppose you can think of 'em... It is an Escobar night.

Game Thread, Twins @ A's, 7/18 @ 8:05pm CT weather: Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 73. West wind 5 to 10 mph. Line up (not to be taken lyin' down) Twin Phil Hughes hurlin' rightly. Twin batterers: tbd A Scott Kazmir hurlin' leftly. A batterers: tba Alas, i'm not RiverBrian. As he offers things to think about, well, not bein' him, i figured, i should offer things not to think about... What not to think about? 1. The batting orders, respectively. They're not out yet, so don't think about 'em. Don't think about how well Sano's doing considering his youth and inexperience, or how Dozier can just turn on anything up and in, or how Hunter deals with forks. Or that i'm jinxing them. 'Cause i'm not. You also don't have to think about the A's line up, how they got the allstar catcher, or Billy Butler (if i know anything about mysteries, Butler did it) or Sam Fuld. But that's easier to do, 'cause they only play in like 6 or 7 Twins game a year, whereas the Twins seem to play in all of 'em. Strange, but true. Also not really worth thinking about. 2. Road trip! For some reason, i associate west coast road trips for the Twins with cruel and unusual punishment. I think it involved the occasional 1-9 trip, though some good can come of them. one such trip was when gardy pulled Morneau into his office and got his mind right (well, that's my interpretation of the article i read about it back when, with a sort of unwarranted Cool Hand Luke slant to it) but to belabor a point, we don't have to think o' that: we done won one game already! 3. Elephants. There be elephants on their jerseys! and not just the new ones... No one should think about the elephants in the ball park. If you want to complain this takes away your best joke, see me after class. I suppose if it has to, it can be grandfathered in, but that's a slippery slope, and elephants and slippery slopes are a bad combination. Don't believe me, ask Hannibal. 4. H's. In particular, i always want to drop the last one in Phil's name. Come on, wouldn't it be fun to call him Huge? Or rather Huges... Which isn't as funny, and it sets a bad example to misspell names in general. That's why we don't think of that. Scott Kazmir has no H's in his name, so feel free to think about him, and figure out how we can knock him for a loop. In general, dropping h's is supposed to be a distinguishing feature between gentry types and non-gentry? Which, if baseball is a sport of the people, dropping h's should be encouraged, no? But it would be artificial if you thought about it, so well, don't. 5. No matter what anyone else may tell you, today is not opposite day. Really. But this, i suppose you can think about it, if you must. Don't hurt yourself though. Enjoy the game!

I feel i shoulda gotten that reference. (Though i fail getting a chance to guess after seeing the image url) I guess just did realize the scope of "anything you want at Alice's restaurant... (excepting Alice)"

Wow. Sounds nice! Probably too lazy for tonight. I should perhaps bookmark this thread or something, and try everything over the next week. Someday, i shall no be lazy...

Too tired to argue. Here's to getting runners in from third! Nice job there, Plouffe.

Maple syrup idea shows real promise. Too lazy to deal with coffee. There were plenty o' other good ideas (especially more ice cream and floats) Personally i'm a sucker for caramel/butterscotch, though i think i'm out, which is why i was askin'... Never could figured out what distinguished sprinkles from jimmies, and i'm not sure i have either either... Sorry i nodded off for a moment. The grand slam jarred me awake briefly, though it took me a while to realize the bases were loaded. Thanks all!

Where do i get one of those?

Top of the order a-comin' up for the third time. Speakin' of desserts, i got lots of vanilla ice cream, and while it's plenty good on its own, if i'm feelin' like something more, what can do to or with it?

Woops, i missed something. I didn't realized Bigfoot was an A...

Oh yeah... 1-0 start of 4th. Dozier Dinger Difference. A DDD CBU

A's now average a runner per inning stranded...

I think Dozier gets to bat this inning... Won't that be nice.

Play ball.