NDagri

This is like a 9 man football game in rural ND. You Lose key players and you run out of options.

Molitor has to leave Erv in the game. We cannot compete with the Yankees bullpen to bullpen. See if he has anything to start the 2nd.

God knows I was. Even if we lose out this weekend and end up 83-79, the Padres have the distinction of the worst record making the MLB playoffs at 82-80. (added later) in 2005

Nothing good about this series. Worst case scenario after today .5 game(s) ahead of LAA.Texas within 2.5 games. Oihers at best 3 games behind. Twins cannot win in NY, it is carved in stone somewhere.

My brother who lives on Long Island does not expect the game will happen. I hope deciders choose to call it soon instead of a "wait and see".

Joe, the CLUTCH machine.

There is Foxtrax. Bad call. robo ump.

How about eliminating the SAVE opportunity. Only a W matters.

The rally cap worked.

Benefit of two TVs, Women's tennis tonight at US Open has been spectacular. All USA semi-finals. Venus vs Slone Stephens superb match. No grunting until the third set. 2nd match not as close at this point. Since I am forced to listen to KC announcers who are more homerific than Dick and Bert, I muted the BB game. In NW Arkansas 4 teams claim your region broadcasting rights. Astros make no sense, I am OK with Rangers, also OK with Royals. Cannot remember when Twins last played the Cardinals. Oh yeah 1987.

Total agreement, and job well done. KG has probably earned serious consideration for a spot next year. I never could have seen myself saying that in July.

OK Dozier HR now!!

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OK

Dozier stats against Shields should have made Molitor pause, and consider a more strategic line-up position. He is crushing Shields.

Well, he is impressing me. So Erv must be getting noticed somewhere.

Ervin wants to stay a Twin.

Ok, how about some run scoring to get Berrios in position to win. Not that he really deserves it.

This game is turning out to be some fun.

If Gibson can get trough 6 innings with less than 2 earned runs, I will start to say his name without a preceding expletive ending in ...ing

Pumped I stayed awake for the long ball. And back to back pitches.

...and Levon Helm. Oh yeah you are The Band fan. Have all the vinyl, Have not pulled them out lately. Will do soon.

Thanks John. Yesterday and carried over to today the discussion Re: MLB blackout rules interested me. After 32 years in North Dakota I retired to NW Arkansas. The closest neighboring team is KC. Quick search Kc to my home 257 miles, Next closest is Arlington, TX 338 miles. and Houston is 554 miles. Only the Texas teams "claim" NW Arkansas and I am blacked-out of Foxsports North on the MLB X-tra inning pkg. Of course with the unbalanced schedule I m Pleased that KC does not try to control NW Arkansas. I will add.... more Cardinal clothing and caps than any other team here. I do like the crew for Ranger games, probably due to some non-familiarity. The announcers on Ranger broadcasts make an attempt to discuss Twin happenings and issues.

That is really funny. OK first post, are there any Arkansas residing fans on TD?