David HK

Whoa, man, does this Marlins reliever have an awesome name, or what? We gotta get some guys with awesome names!

Hm. Kind of nice when the Twins' BP actually means bullpen, and not batting practice.

Moment of silence, perhaps? https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/07/kimbo-slice-dead-mma-pioneer

I don't want to beat a dead horse, but.... Come on, Molly, at least break these two up-- how can you put Plouffe and Men-Dozier back to back again and again? Not exactly back to back homers going on, here...

Guys are hitting this cat HARD. Let's go, Joe.

Thank you, Jobu. And Robbie!

Jeepers, Pressly-- nice slider there. He and Rogers, and even Gulfa have looked good tonight. (Can somebody pass this note to Molly in the dugout---) No Jepsen tonight, please. Unless this game goes 17 bloody innings or something.

OK, I'm back from class, now. Time for the bats to wake up.

Wow, I've not seen much of Rogers, but what a bender he has. That's good stuff.

Welp, is Molly gonna try to get 2 innings out of Gulfa tonight?

Nah, he's one of those one-name folks, like Madonna, or Donovan, or a soccer player, like my all-time favorite, that Brazilian defender "Fred."

"You watchin' the Twins? You watchin' the Twins? Cuz I don't see anybody else out here watchin' the Twins..."

Just getting in to the game here. I was even typing out my congratulations (and astonishment) about getting a lead, then a zero, last inning. Ah, well...

Heh-- I like that ad: "BD wants to give you the shirt off his back!" ---you mean, while it still says "Twins" on the front?

Hmmmmm. Guy was recently in Florida. Knows a lot of Florida trivia...... Serge? That you?

It's global warming.

Yes, Sano needs to get out of the OF. He needs to not have been there in the first place, but that's water over the dam. And good observation on the hammy issue- it's entirely possible it was set up by that play in right. I was surprised he didn't come up lame on that play. A month ago, (against all sound reasoning for the over-50 set), I was out on the rugby pitch, against a touring side from the UK. Since it's off-season for us, we didn't have a very full complement of players, and many of us went the full 80 minutes. 5 minutes left in the match, same thing- I had to change direction quickly, and even after warming up and playing nearly 75 min of crashing and bashing, a short, simple lateral move like the one Sano made, and suddenly *pop*, and the hammy was done. So it's conceivable that little move in RF may have contributed. A guy that big, having to do all that extra sprinting from a standing start in the OF is not a recipe for delicious brownies. Disaster brownies, more like. I respect Trevor Plouffe- he didn't succeed in his original position, got moved around a lot, and worked hard to make himself a competent 3B. But the situation with the club dictates this move, and it should have been made long ago.

My guy this season, and most of last, and hopefully sometime soon in Mpls- is that Granite kid. I mean, he deserves promotion based on that name alone. But wow, he's been a Ricky Henderson type of leadoff hitter so far in his minor league career. I hope he'll be in Roch later this year, or at the start of next.