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It's a long season with 162 games. Not every game thread can be 12 pages long. When it's nice outside, go outside and enjoy it! Glad you liked the poll!

Oh come on stringer … lol … it’s NEGATIVE NELLIE … all caps and spelled correctly ? Dont poop on it.

That 2nd inning in the White Sox game … fly out, fly out, single, lotta walks, WP … 1 hit, 3 runs

Gio … wow … tough call for POTG … Gio or Ryan

O!M!G! GIO!!!!!!!

Uh, you know what goes into hotdogs? I mean, even if they say all-beef, what parts are really in there? And yes, they are lumped together because, well, they are all wieners in a generic sense.

What’s going on with all the late time calls?

What for?

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Okay, that's a start ... keep it going!

Okay ... guess I'll have to repost this every couple of innings ...

Okay, Twins ... time to put up a GOOD number! Enough of this 1 and done piddling around!

Says it all

Must be if it made 3 lists as 'the best' when every other stadium all had different choices for 'the best'. One of the lists mentioned the Indian food at Target Field ... guess that would be a 'no' for me ... for one, not a big fan of Indian food, and for two ... I just cannot get into that as baseball food ... same with I'd have issues with sushi at a ballpark, I guess and I like sushi. Speaking of which, @PDX Twin, likely a vegetarian option there, but then, you aren't in MN, so ...

Now that lineups are in ... gonna try and run an errand before game time ... catch up with y'all later Go Twins!

I thought for sure you'd have chosen the ice cream in a helmet option because I think you've mentioned it more than a few times in these threads

In my 'research', which got too convoluted and complicated, reading 3 different lists at a time, all choosing 'the best' in all the stadiums, and all 'the bests' being different depending on the writer ... the one thing I found interesting ... the 3 lists I was looking at all chose the Cuban at Tropicana as the best. Thankfully so few fans turn out there so the line to get one is probably manageable.

I thought that looked odd ... and no, I don't really want to go back in time ... thanks, I'll fix it

I'm sure you could find a scotch somewhere in the park ... Typically I'm a pop or water person ... depends on if I"m with a group, by myself, driving or on public transportation.

I realized my poll above had the wrong settings so you could only choose one thing ... it's now set so you can choose multiple items. All if you want ...

This was asked and answered in thread, here:

It's tough being a fan, especially one with vertigo. All the ups and downs make me nauseous. But, for better or worse, the Twins are still on top in the AL Central. Okay, so that doesn't say a whole, heckuvalot when their winning percentage puts them 2nd, 3rd or 4th in every other division in baseball. The good news? It's May 15 and we're running a marathon. Standings really mean very little to me at this point in the season, so yeah, doesn't really say a whole heckuvalot when the finish line is still distant. Perspective is everything. So, let's focus on today. As of this writing, still waiting for lineups (they will be posted when available) and still waiting to see what transactions are being made today, if any. When your team has 11! players on the IL, wow, players are in flux and each day brings a new announcement. (For a little perspective, we knew that Dobnak and Maeda would be out for most if not all of this season, so, really, it's only 9. Eh, that's still a lot. And then 4 of those 9 are on the 60-day. So, really, we are waiting on and hoping for the remaining 5 to get healthy and rejoin the active roster.) So, what do we know today, right now, for certain? Yesterday's loss was yesterday, it's over and done, can't take it back, let's move on to today. It's a fresh day where anything can happen. Joe Ryan is pitching. His last outing wasn't so stellar but I'm hoping that he's learned some things and has made some adjustments. Even though Joe has certainly been fun to watch and has been a great story early in the season, he's still just a rookie. He's going to take his lumps from time to time in this process of becoming 'seasoned' so some expectation managing is probably called for. But I'm hoping he's made the adjustments from his last outing and we have the good Joe for today. And, back to no lineups yet, no transactions yet, what's left? Food and drink. You're heading to a game, you're there, vendors and concessions are everywhere, it's a beautiful day - what to you get? Do you go standard, or do you go 'exotic'? In 'researching' this topic, I found a couple of lists of 'the best' in each stadium, and then a list of 'most popular standards.' I didn't know what to do with all that information, so ... created a poll. (If while at a game, you eat or drink nothing, then you can skip the polls and go right to commenting.) The poll is 'standard fare' so if you have some kind of 'exotica' you like, have tried, do tell! EDIT: I edited the poll so you can actually choose more than one thing, as I said you could. Next thread I do, maybe I'll make lists of 'the best' in all the stadiums with all the non-standard choices ... from lobstah rolls in Fenway to the Dilly Dog in Texas (think turducken ... a hollowed out large dill pickle with a hot dog in it, then battered and fried like a corn dog) to Oakland, who has limited concessions so food trucks are the answer, but they do manage to have alcohol popsicles that looked interesting. And I started this thread claiming nausea and then went on to talk about food? Ups and downs. Okay ... with dog and beer in hand (it's brunch, not breakfast, anything goes!) ... batter up! LINEUPS: Guardians 1. Myles Straw (R) CF 2. Steven Kwan (L) RF 3. Jose Ramirez (S) 3B 4. Owen Miller (R) 1B 5. Amed Rosario (R) SS 6. Franmil Reyes (R) DH 7. Andres Gimenez (L) 2B 8. Richie Palacios (L) LF 9. Luke Maile (R) C Triston McKenzie (R) P Twins 1. Byron Buxton (R) CF 2. Luis Arraez (L) 1B 3. Jorge Polanco (S) 2B 4. Max Kepler (L) RF 5. Gary Sanchez (R) DH 6. Gio Urshela (R) 3B 7. Nick Gordon (L) LF 8. Ryan Jeffers (R) C 9. Royce Lewis (R) SS Joe Ryan (R) P

I'm not sure where I heard it (it wasn't a quote from the FO so was probably more 'supposing'), but because he was out so long last season with the hip thing, they don't want him to push it this early on in the season when he's experiencing soreness. It's still kind of a non-answer because then you just want to say, okay ... put him on the IL then. Then I ask, why bother with that? There is no one to come back up to take his place other than Godoy or Kirilloff, and neither of them needs to be here. So ... you treat Buxton as if he's injured, but have him play every so often. It's kind of an in between solution between IL and active roster. Maybe call it 'work hardening', which is something my industry does with players returning from injuries. But I don't know. Yes ... it's irritating, especially since this team does so much better with him playing. At this point I just never expect him to play and it's surprising when he does. But putting him on the IL does absolutely nothing when there is no one to come back up in his place.

Damn … good play

Okay, Sanchez … do it!