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Twins 9 - Royals 8 (10) [seriously? cool!]

Well that was unexpected. And cool. And … wow! Nice work, Mr. Monroe and Mr. Morneau.

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I have to admit that I didn’t see very much of the game. I got home when the score was 6 - 2. I hung around until the score was 8 - 3, then sighed and thought “oh well, can’t win ‘em all”, and turned to a rerun of CSI: NY to kill time until the news came on. (I know, I know, I need to work on my loyalty and optimism skills, but I was tired.) Anyhoo, I flipped back during a commercial break, and the score was tied. (What??? How did that happen?) Fortunately, I’m dorky enough to record every game with my DVR (I **heart** my DVR), so I simply rewound it and saw everything.

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Just wondering: is “rewound” the correct verb to use while talking about a DVR? There’s no tape, so no actual “winding” is occurring. Hmm.

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Monroe’s homerun reminded me of something my kids would pretend in the back yard:
It’s the ninth inning, two on, two out, full count. And here’s the pitch - it is high, it is deep, it is GONE!
However, they’re usually pretending to win the World Series with an at-bat like that.

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The best part of Monroe’s homerun: Dick’s reaction. He was so happy and excited and thrilled and gleeful; it was like he was a big kid. It was so fun to listen to him.

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And finally, the “Does He Get a Royalty Check for That?” moment of the day: Proof positive that when first-basemen and base runners talk, they don’t really say anything: Yesterday, my son was playing first, and I noticed he talked to everyone who reached. Later, I asked him what he was saying, and he said that he was singing the FreeCreditReport.com jingle. Why? Just to bug them.

 

Twins 7 - Rangers 8
Series split 2 - 2

In the spirit of “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all”, I am only going to talk about the positives of yesterday’s game. As tempting as it would be to complain about starting pitchers giving up four runs in the first, relief pitchers committing throwing errors that should have been easy outs, and batters leaving about 146 runners on base, I won’t. I also won’t go into how, even though Go-Go would love to carry the entire team on his back, he’s pretty little to actually expect him to, because who really needs all that negativity?

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So, keeping with the strictly positive theme:

• YAY! for Go-Go for going 4 for 5 with a homer and an awesome catch.
• YAY! for Justin for driving in two to tie the game.
• YAY! for Brendan and Cuddy for being patient at the plate and allowing the pitcher to walk in runs.

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It was interesting listening to Dazzle while the Ranger pitchers were, as he put it, “walking the world.” He was absolutely aghast, as if they committing crimes against baseball — which they pretty much were. He was also in a snit (my absolute favorite word) about the pitching matchups - they left the right-hander in to face Morneau. John said something like, “but this guy’s pretty good at getting lefties out,” to which Dan replied, “but why do they have Eddie Guardado? Why do they have [the other left-handed pitcher, whatever his name is]?” I could practically see him marching around the booth, just itching to go down to the field and put a stop to the madness.

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I’m off to the lake this weekend. I hope the weather behaves as predicted. Maybe I’ll pay attention to the Detroit series, maybe I won’t. And if I do, maybe I’ll blog about it, maybe I won’t.
 Have a great weekend!

Livan had another good game.  And so did Tolbert, Span, Go-Go, and Justin. At least that’s according to the box scores.  The game wasn’t on tv.  But I didn’t mind, because the Wild were on.  Playoff hockey is pretty fun, especially when the Wild win.  It was a pretty cool game, but a little too roller-coaster for me. I’d like it better if the Wild got the lead early and kept it.  I like when the Twins do that too, which they did.

Since there wasn’t a game to watch, I don’t have a moment of the game.  However, I do have a substitue…

And finally, the “You’d Think the Twins Would Keep Closer Track of Their Players” moment of the day: Earlier today, I visited the Twins website, and off to the side, they had a video clip of Kubel’s grand slam on Wednesday.  Too bad he hit it against the Red Sox while the rest of the Twins were playing the White Sox.

 

Well, at least the Twins won the series this time, which is better than the Tigers can say (har har).  Boof did a nice job, but the bats were just a little too quiet - except for Justin’s - to give him a chance. Did it seem like the Twins struck out looking a lot today?  I thought so, but maybe I overreacted.

Clearly Justin finally got pissed off about everyone asking him about his slump, because he’s sure hitting the snot out of the ball lately. Just a reminder: hitting the snot out of the ball is a good thing, so keep it up.

Now that the first week has passed, I have a couple opinions: 

• Carlos Gomez is a lot more fun to watch than I thought he would be.  I sure hope it lasts.  I was bummed to hear that he doesn’t qualify as a rookie.
• I’m really bummed about Cuddy’s hand. The descriptions of the injury sound really icky.  I hope he heals quickly.
• I’m impressed with Delmon’s arm.  I *heart* outfield assists.  He needs a nickname. Hmmm - I’ll have to put some thought into it.
• For some reason, Matt Tolbert reminds me of David Eckstein, only bigger.

              

And of course, Happy Birthday to Bert!  I think he likes his birthday almost as much as I like mine. But I never get to go to a baseball game on my birthday.  *pout*

And finally, the “I’m the Umpire and I Don’t Like Dodge” moment of the game:  With one out in the bottom of the ninth, the third-base umpire requested that the advertising banner behind home plate be changed.  Reportedly, he didn’t like it because it was white (it was a Dodge ad). Umm, I don’t think there are that many different ads rolling through that banner, so it was probably there off-and-on for the whole game.  Whatever.