Minnesota @ Oakland GameThread, Apr 23, 2008 10:05 PM EDT

Game 21: Twins @ Athletics

by Jesse on Apr 23, 2008 11:15 PM EDT in Game Threads

Minnesota @ Oakland

Boof Bonser VS Chad Gaudin

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2008 - Boof Bonser	1-3	4	4	0	0	0	0	23.0	26	14	12	2	4	12	4.70	1.30

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2008 - Chad Gaudin	1-1	3	3	0	0	0	0	17.0	16	11	9	2	6	15	4.76	1.29

GO TWINS!!

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Whoo boy, nothin doin’ with the bats tonight. Bonser was flawed, but gave up only 3 hits and two runs over six at the end of the day. Gaudin is not that good of a pitcher. Between having Monroe in there against a righty, Denard Span as our leadoff hitter, and Cuddyer still gone, there just isn’t a lot to save the Twins from making mediocre pitchers look great.

"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all."
~ Earl Weaver
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by AdamOnFirst on Apr 24, 2008 1:02 AM EDT 0 recs

Bonser...

...hasn’t been brilliant this season, but he’s been decent; he certainly doesn’t deserve a 1-4 record for his efforts.

The radio guys mentioned that the Twins have scored six runs in Bonser’s five starts; that’s unlikely to make any pitcher look good.

Howard Sinker likes to refer to Bonser as ‘Oof Onser’, but for the moment I think I’ll call him ‘Bf Bnser’, since there’s no ‘O’ when he’s in there.

by dwintheiser on Apr 24, 2008 1:26 AM EDT 0 recs

Span in the leadoff meant trouble

Wow; that line-up lacked everything.

"I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. See, my mule don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughing at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it . . ."

by Skippy tastes better than Jiff on Apr 24, 2008 6:10 AM EDT 0 recs

This is all Jesse's fault

Twins record when Game Thread post includes “An Empty Widget”: 1-0
Twins record without “An Empty Widget”: 9-11

I am willing to nickname one of the Twins’ players “Empty Widget”, if necessary.

"There are only two things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

by BeefMaster on Apr 24, 2008 10:04 AM EDT 0 recs

I take full blame.

I even said Sweeney was primed to hit his first homer of the year against us.

I need to watch my mouth.

by Jesse on Apr 24, 2008 10:36 AM EDT up 0 recs

Even though you said it...

Even though you said Sweeney was due, we all knew in our thearts that he would go long on the Twinsand probably drive in the crucial runs…..I guess we can’t handle the truth.

by Skippy tastes better than Jiff on Apr 24, 2008 9:00 PM EDT up 0 recs