White Sox 7, Twins 0: Swept by Chicago
by Jesse on Aug 7, 2011 6:46 PM EDT
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PrintJake Gyllenhaal awakes on a train with a start. It soon becomes obvious that he doesn't know where he is, but he's very perceptive. He notices a can of soda being opened, watches coffee drop on his shoe, hears random snippets of conversations and sees a bag in the upper level of the train carriage he's riding. Sufficiently flustered he stumbles around for eight minutes (this is film minutes by the way, not real minutes), notices his reflection isn't of himself, and then he blows up along with the rest of the train.
I was actually going to write a review/synopsis of Source Code instead of a game recap, but after putting down that first paragraph it seems sort of apt. The Twins awake two months late into the 2011 season, stumble around for a bit and manage to look competent yet still lost, and while still trying to find out who the hell they are they explode. In a firey, mushroom cloud explosion. BOOM! Just like that.
It would be unfair to talk about which guys didn't look good today and who did, because nobody really looked good. Jake Peavy was great, holding the Twins to three hits over eight innings. Brian Duensing wasn't terrible but he really wasn't good, either. Carlos Quentin, Alex Rios and Brent Lillibridge (who, seriously, is batting .265/.344/.507 this year) all had multi-hit afternoons.
That's all for tonight, folks. Get on with your lives and enjoy your Sunday evenings. The Twins season may be all but over, but if you're like me at least you have the Vikings to look forward to. For some reason I'm much more excited about the upcoming football season than I usually am.
To cheer us all up, after the jump there is a video of cats doing funny things. The best one is around the 2 minute mark, as I'm not really a cat person and would love to have seen this happen.
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Ugh, I have no interest in talking about this game
So I will ask this, is Source Code any good? Would it be worth the $10 to see it in the theater? or should I just wait for red box to get it?
Jesse
At the Present time, I wish I knew your middle name so I could use it in the middle of your first and last names.
Anyway the reason for that is because I honestly think you are trying to get me to spend some money and I don’t have much. Anyway Source Code or the one I seen today, “Horrible Bosses,” would be much better than baseball at this point in the season. Heck, watching the Cowboys would be better than watching Twins Baseball. In any case, I am going to be rooting for the Brewers for the rest of the season and I hope they can bring a World Championship to Milwaukee because the Twins certainly aren’t going to do it this year. Don’t get me wrong, I am still a Twins fan, but if the Twins can’t win a championship, hopefully Milwaukee will do so.
I'm a proud fan of the Minnesota Twins and Dallas Cowboys!
"Life is precious and time is a key element. Let’s make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own." – Harmon Killebrew
Maybe
Seriously, Milwaukee is playing good baseball right now while Ron Gardenhire is clearly the Wade Phillips of baseball managers. I honestly mean it. I lived the Cowboys December 2008 meltdown that ended in disaster in Philly.
I'm a proud fan of the Minnesota Twins and Dallas Cowboys!
"Life is precious and time is a key element. Let’s make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own." – Harmon Killebrew
Winning season
Well I’m still going to see if they can get 82 wins. Man, if Chicago takes the division they’ll have this series to thank.
Do you want to know the terrifying truth, or do you want to see me sock a few dingers?
by natetheskate on Aug 7, 2011 10:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Don't get your hopes up.
Us getting an 82 win season this year is about as good as 100 degree tempertures in Minneapolis in mid-January.
I'm a proud fan of the Minnesota Twins and Dallas Cowboys!
"Life is precious and time is a key element. Let’s make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own." – Harmon Killebrew
The instant you think about it....
…Source Code collapses into a tangle of stupid. Sorry. I know don’t think about it too hard is good advice for any movie but Source Code is more brazen than usual.
fun fact
it’s directed by David Bowie’s son. Check out his first film, “Moon,” it’s awesome!
Do you want to know the terrifying truth, or do you want to see me sock a few dingers?
Moon was pretty darn good!
Really liked it and the soundtrack especially!
by twinscrazy_german on Aug 7, 2011 7:51 PM EDT up reply actions
It's out on via Red Box now
Worth the $1 for sure. Watched it last night with the wife. Not too bad a movie.
All hope has died
I was holding out, with a tiny glimmer that maybe, just maybe…..now I’m officially writing this one off.
The beard abides.
by Jason Kubel's Beard on Aug 7, 2011 7:48 PM EDT reply actions
I hope that cat at 2 min lived
Twins are already dead. sigh
Well, I guess I'll just not be enjoying pennant race baseball
But I still get to see a game against the Orioles in two weeks and as long as they play well then I am going to be happy.
And I guess I could just go down to Mankato, so I don’t have to think of the fact that the Twins are playing bad baseball right now and get excited about the Vikings instead.
by twinscrazy_german on Aug 7, 2011 7:53 PM EDT reply actions
Well I am in Minnesota already, so I can go earlier than that.
by twinscrazy_german on Aug 7, 2011 8:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh, ok
Here is the schedule if you are interested: http://www.vikings.com/schedule/training-camp/2011/camp-schedule.html
You know the season is going into the toilet when...
Lil’bitch hits two homers against you in consecutive at bats.
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
True
If there is anybody happy about this weekend, it is Hawk. I mean it seriously. Here is a weekend that is meant to be a joyous celebration of the 1991 World Series team, and it turns into a mo**erf***ing mess. For goodness gracious, we are talking about a team that we owned at home for the last several years, and coming into this series, we had one loss against them all year long and that one loss was a 9th inning walk-off at the cell just prior to the all-star break. Heck, our last loss at home vs the White Sox was last year in what could be called a fluke. Then they come in here and sweep us and do so in dominating fashion? Yes, Friday night’s loss was a relative squeaker, but last night and today was uncalled for in the game of baseball. There is no freaking way that Glen Perkins and Joe Nathan should have given up four runs in the 9th inning. And there is Jake Pevey today. Last time we faced him, we owned him. For crying out loud, he is an average pitcher who pitched eight innings of four hit ball. This team is horrible. Gardy, just do the right thing and follow Nathan’s example, when he gave the closer spot to Matt Capps, and resign. The sooner you do so, the better because this club needs ample time to find their next manager.
I'm a proud fan of the Minnesota Twins and Dallas Cowboys!
"Life is precious and time is a key element. Let’s make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own." – Harmon Killebrew
Giving his closer spot to Matt Capps was the worst thing Joe Nathan has ever done for the Twins
Do you want to know the terrifying truth, or do you want to see me sock a few dingers?
by natetheskate on Aug 7, 2011 10:24 PM EDT up reply actions
True
But it was a no-brainer decision at the time because Joe Nathan wasn’t ready to close games on a regular basis.
I'm a proud fan of the Minnesota Twins and Dallas Cowboys!
"Life is precious and time is a key element. Let’s make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own." – Harmon Killebrew
don't push the button this time
let it all blow up
The beard abides.
by Jason Kubel's Beard on Aug 7, 2011 10:54 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
this year has been like season 2
where out of nowhere two new characters appeared. Let’s hope sucking and losing die at the end of this season.
Yeah, it was 3
The only two new main characters from season 2 who were introduced and died were Ana Lucia and Libby. One of my favorite scenes from the show is when they get shot.
When you said "Nicki and Paulo"
those names sounded Italian enough that I was hoping you meant the Shore was getting new castmembers. And you said “bury it alive”, and I was excited…
Then I realized you…weren’t talking about it.
I was trying to think of something positive about the game
You know, on the lines of Kubel got 100 HR, Cuddy got to pitch, etc.
All I can come up with is: there was a nice strike-‘em-out-throw-’em-out in the 6th.
Playing “The Glad Game” is hard sometimes.
Ooooh, I can hear chants of “Yankees suck” at Fenway. That always brings a smile to my face, even if it’s not related to the Twins at all.
by ColossusOfRhode on Aug 7, 2011 10:25 PM EDT reply actions
Now that there really is no hope for the Twins.
I just want them to start cleaning house. We need to do whatever we can now for the future. I don’t want to see us end up reverting back to the 1990’s. The first order of business is fire Bill Smith.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!!!
this!
I think there are many many people who would like to think that the suck-a-tude of the mid 90’s would never return to the Twins.
I hope they are right b/c I don’t remember the baseball gods ever promising that the Twins would be good forever.
Wormer dropped the big one!
by z-squad on Aug 7, 2011 11:46 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
It's Over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ARE YOU READY FOR FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO COWBOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm a proud fan of the Minnesota Twins and Dallas Cowboys!
"Life is precious and time is a key element. Let’s make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own." – Harmon Killebrew
Football Excitement
You’re excited about football this time because that words means something decidedly more pansy-assed on the side of the Atlantic you’re leaving.
"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
"In God we trust. All others must provide evidence."
~ Billy Beane
And football season did just start up again in Germany for example
So I am guessing the Premier league isn’t far off either (or already running)
by twinscrazy_german on Aug 8, 2011 9:32 AM EDT up reply actions
I think we all are excited about football this time around
I mean it when I say that this year because the Twins are sucking like they never sucked before.
I'm a proud fan of the Minnesota Twins and Dallas Cowboys!
"Life is precious and time is a key element. Let’s make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own." – Harmon Killebrew
If you're really not a cat fan, rent "Gummo."
"Don't take life for granted, because tomorrow isn't promised to any one of us." -Kirby Puckett
"There is absolutely no connection between me, Emo Phillips, and 'emo' music." -Emo Phillips
by less cowbell, more 'neau on Aug 8, 2011 10:51 AM EDT reply actions
Monticore
Worked on “Source Code” (marketing), worse than I thought. Gardenhire and Smith have to go. It was they who frittered away Hardy, Ramos, and spent $14 million dollars for a SS that my cat *Brandy could outclass.
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