Game 163 '08: Twins vs White Sox

BUNT! BUNT!

rod gardenhire will make you!

DOUBLE PLAY! DOUBLE PLAY!

"In a game like this, there is a sense of urgency."

Oh, Harold, how I have missed you.

Nick Blackburn is hittable, folks.

Nice scrappy DP guaranteeing move, OC.

McClelland behind the plate again? How does this shit happen?

damn that's some fundamental baseball right there

JIM THOM

Thanks Thome for reminding everyone this isn't an NL game.

Sorry, Twins. You won 10 of your 18 regular season games against the White Sox, but your fate had to be sealed by a 19th game where the home team was determined by a fucking coin flip.

Sorry, Twins. You won 10 of your 18 regular season games against the White Sox, but your fate had to be sealed by a 19th game where the home team was determined by a fucking coin flip you could only get two hits against pitching ace John Danks

yadda yadda 10 of 18 yadda yadda 19th game because YOU STUCK WITH LIVAN HERNANDEZ 10 STARTS PAST HIS FRESHNESS DATE WHILE FRANCISCO LIRIANO TORE SHIT UP and you got exactly what you deserved you cross-eyed penny-pinching clowns

Seriously, if this team (under Terry Ryan or their current GM) didn't take 2 months too many to evaluate well-done veterans -- Mays, Koskie, Batista, LIVAN -- that actually cost them games through their ineptitude and took a more aggressive approach w/ promoting players within and acquiring QUALITY players without (i.e. not Shannon Fucking Stewart), then they'd probably have more in the last 5/6 years than a few ALDS appearances under their belt.

SUB-.300 OBP CARLOS GOMEZ HITTING LEADOFF THROUGH LATE JULY, PLAYING IN A LOUSY DIVISION ETC ETC ETC.

(Nine wins more than 2007 and without Hunter, Santana, Neshek.)

No sleep loss over this... but still... a coin flip? A best-of-seven Gomez-Owens potato sack race would've made more sense.

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Yeah, the coin flip is silly, esp. given (as noted in some BP write-up) how other tie-breakers are handled (i.e. BY CHECKING THE HEAD-TO-HEAD RECORDS).

then they'd probably have more in the last 5/6 years than a few ALDS appearances under their belt.

That's if they STILL HAD a belt, but they acquired seasoned DH/shoplifter Craig Monroe, so they no longer have one.

(That joke never gets old.)

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or just keeping C Gomez in the minors woulda done it (XP). They were lucky: 3rd-order record was 83-80, 5 behind Chi.

I have no love for the Chisox -- someone punch Pierzynski again, please -- but I LOL that from the point Steve Phillips clucked in Game 162 that "you can't rely on the home run in the playoffs," the Sox won their final 2 games with HRs.

At least there's only one jokedome in the postseason.

Craig Monroe & Ruben Rivera should team up like Bonnie and Clyde to terrorize stadium food courts across the nation.

Tatum Bell can be their driver / procurer of undergarments.

Morneau ended season 1-for-20, so Buster Olney can add him to the "fix" list too.

David R. OTM all around.

^^^ going on the resume

yadda yadda 10 of 18 yadda yadda 19th game because YOU STUCK WITH LIVAN HERNANDEZ 10 STARTS PAST HIS FRESHNESS DATE WHILE FRANCISCO LIRIANO TORE SHIT UP and you got exactly what you deserved you cross-eyed penny-pinching clowns

But Hernandez won 13 games this year -- more than any Minnesota starter did -- so maybe if they'd stuck with their winningest pitcher instead of dumping him on the Rockies then they'd be the ones about to get whipped by Tampa Bay ... HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM?

ESPN HR is not walking through that door.

Aw, you know I'm just taking the piss, you big lug.

BRING BACK THE COIN FLIP

or just contract the twins

hmmm, different opponent, need new thread.