Twinkie Town: All Posts by Tawny JarviAn online community of Twins fans mourning the death of Prince Rogers Nelson.https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/52554/tt_fav.png2023-09-28T16:11:33-04:00https://www.twinkietown.com/authors/TawnyJarvi/rss2023-09-28T16:11:33-04:002023-09-28T16:11:33-04:00A’s 2, Twins 1: Relief Practice
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<p>Twins successfully do not hurt themselves!</p> <p id="J3QPuy">In preparation for next week’s regular post season opener, Minnesota continued September Training today against a team generated on the fly by artificial intelligence. Staring opener Sonny Gray struck out Ryan Noda to begin the game, and then gave up a single.</p>
<p id="CKOLMJ">Wait, who is on first? </p>
<p id="hpWPk1"><em>-Gelof is on first. </em></p>
<p id="72TeNY">No, not asking who is off first, who is on it?</p>
<p id="gckMLZ"><em>-Gelof.</em></p>
<p id="GiQ3iw">No. Who is ON first?</p>
<p id="OMhonW"><em>-Zack Gelof!</em></p>
<p id="5I1xhe">The guy from Gremlins?</p>
<p id="sBWXDJ"><em>-No that’s Zack Galligan</em></p>
<p id="3o1BdC">Zac Gallen? That’s a pitcher for the Diamondbacks. How is he on first?</p>
<p id="34MY29"><em>-No, Gelof is on first!</em></p>
<p id="rr7g2f">Anyway that joke is over and doesn’t actually go anywhere, just like Gelof who never scored. (RIP) In the next inning, equally real man JJ Bleday would however score thanks to Nick Allen’s base knock. A few innings later Sonny Gray remembered he left the oven on, so Rocco’s modern Baldelli went into “starters relieving practice” mode and Kenta Maeda came in for the 5th. </p>
<p id="dlYXZL">In the 6th, the Twins loaded the bases with no outs, miraculously Matt Wallner bounced into a double play, which scored a run and somehow oddly was better than the outcomes I tend to expect when the Twins have the bases loaded with no outs.</p>
<p id="0tscaY">The game remained tied until the 8th when Ryan Noda Nobunaga took Maeda deep, which triggered Louie Varland’s turn to pitch, which he would do for the rest of the game. </p>
<p id="u1vaRR">Happy 49th Win 2023 Oakland A’s!</p>
<p id="9cFlMe"><strong>STUDS: Louis VIII of the land of Var.</strong></p>
<p id="MODwwF"><strong>DUDS: The AI’s ability to generate believable human names.</strong></p>
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https://www.twinkietown.com/2023/9/28/23894836/oakland-as-2-minnesota-twins-1-mlb-relief-practiceTawny Jarvi2023-09-28T11:52:37-04:002023-09-28T11:52:37-04:00Game 159: Athletics at Twins
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<p>A game in which players simply try not to get injured</p> <h4 id="O55IC0">First Pitch: 12:10<br>Reversed Pitch: 12:10 but on rewind.<br>Thirst Pitch: My DMs<br>Cursed Pitch: Last 18 Playoff Games<br>Wurst Pitch: Also my DMs<br>Fred Durst Pitch: 12: 10 (Air Raid Vehicle)<br>Worst Pitch: TBD<br>TV: FSNO<br>Radio: The usual suspects<br>
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https://www.twinkietown.com/2023/9/28/23894348/game-159-athletics-at-twinsTawny Jarvi2023-09-14T22:44:37-04:002023-09-14T22:44:37-04:00Twins 10, White Sox 2: Twins Morb out and unleash the bats
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<p>Big Bats</p> <p id="eAVR9H">After the end of the Third, Sox starter José Ureña was perfect gaming the Twins. And yeah, that felt about right. Why wouldn’t the 90 loss White Sox suddenly perfect us? That would be an incredibly Twins thing to let happen. Our precious boi Kenta Maeda was pitching almost as well, having given up just one hit, but well what can you do when no o-</p>
<p id="eKPEbT">Oh Julien just lead off the 4th with a homerun? I was trying to brood here, Ed. Very rude. 2 outs later Royce Lewis did the same thing, hitting roughly his 89th homerun in the last 2 weeks. (The Roy in Royce stands for Rookie of the Year, specifically the year of my alternate Tawny calendar that somehow no one has adopted yet.)</p>
<p id="9z6ZU5">More hot bat on ball action happened in the 7th when Matt Walnut conked in 2 with a single, and then scored when Kyle Farmer smashed a ball over the fences.</p>
<p id="MUAYyX">Maeda finally gave up a run in the bottom of the inning due to a 2 run dunkaroo off the bat of Andrew Vaughn. He finished the inning, and that was it for him.</p>
<p id="zrPNuR">The Twins padded the lead in the 9th, thanks to an overturned call at first that became a Jorge Polanco single, a later bases juiced walk by Roy from super smash brothers, and a 2 run single from Alex Kiriloff, who wanted to keep up with the other rookies.</p>
<p id="NCVmwH">Meanwhile Josh Winder and Brent Headrick each pitched scoreless innings and the Twins won. Next stop, World Series.</p>
<p id="5wGEqr"><strong>STUDS: Just everyone!</strong></p>
<p id="YBTxyB"><strong>DUDS: Nah</strong></p>
<p id="i8vTYl"><strong>COTG: Something Joey said </strong></p>
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<p id="jYYEqY">Smell ya later, dorks</p>
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https://www.twinkietown.com/2023/9/14/23874583/twins-10-white-sox-2-twins-morb-out-and-unleash-the-batsTawny Jarvi2023-09-14T18:40:00-04:002023-09-14T18:40:00-04:00Game 147: Twins at White Sox
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<p>One of the games of all time</p> <h4 id="9XfdMo">First Pitch: 6:40<br>TV: Bally Sports North<br>Radio: TIBN, WCCO 830, The Wolf 102.9 FM, Audacy</h4>
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<p id="HbuIuX">Hello it’s me, I’m back after roughly 20 years of no games on Thursdays. Are you ready to watch your first place Minnesota Twins take on the 90 loss having White Sox who are somehow not last place in this hilarious division? What a time to be alive in the Midwest.</p>
<p id="vcoXOw">Am I the only one who kinda wants the Twins to start losing like every game so they win the division below .500 and everyone gets mad?</p>
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https://www.twinkietown.com/2023/9/14/23874364/game-147-twins-at-white-soxTawny Jarvi2023-08-24T22:20:33-04:002023-08-24T22:20:33-04:00Twins 7, Rangers 5: One True Outcome (Happiness)
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<p>Dong your way to inner peace</p> <p id="QvhI51">The Twins like their Homers or Bust approach (Dongs or Dust appraoch?) almost as much as they like baffling roster decisions and corner outfielders. But what happens when your opponent is also all aboard the dong train and your pitching staff that was basically the figurehead of a beautiful ship nobly staring up at the unforgiving sun while the rest of the ship drowns beneath it starts to also go under?</p>
<p id="qB5XfW">What do you do when you are tired and mixing bad metaphors?</p>
<p id="0oqqBr">You lose to the Brewers like 8 to 7. But today against the Rangers? They actually went and stuck the landing, those mad lads.</p>
<p id="AkntnD">Pablo Lopez, boots wet from the salt-spray, pitched not particularly well, giving up a homerun to Marcus Semien in the very first at-bat of the game. That really set the theme for the day. So here we go, take a deep breath aaaand</p>
<p id="16wR65">LET’S RECAP SOME LONG BALLS</p>
<p id="Y5PLbG">(side note: how do you make a sphere long? It either stops being a sphere or just becomes a larger sphere. Like a football I guess?)</p>
<p id="lCgL2O">Bottom 2nd: Kyle Farmer - The Dongs of Wrath(1-1)</p>
<p id="FOiVQ5">Top 3rd: Corey Seager - Are you there Dong, it’s me, Corey. (1-2)</p>
<p id="xlBGwb">(Travis Jankowski singled in two runs here, but this ruins my lazy format joke so let’s ignore that)</p>
<p id="H3vYAz">Bottom 3rd: Michael A Taylor - I keep forgetting this guy’s a power hitter now for real though. (2-4)</p>
<p id="loqhjS">Top 4th: Leody Tavera: Flowers for Algerdong (2-5)</p>
<p id="qOE4Si">Bottom 5th: Michael A Taylor - Oops I Donged it Again (3-5)</p>
<p id="BOdHC3">Bottom 6th: Royce Lewis - Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Dongs (4-5)</p>
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<p id="mk3WjN">All Umpires are Bastards. Robot Umps Now! Vote for me for president and I promise you Ed Julien will never receive a strike call again.</p>
<p id="9P5szZ">Anyway, so in the bottom of the 8th, down by one, and roughly 400 homers already on the books you would have been forgiven for thinking this was a repeat of the Milwuakee series. Alas, Matt Walker lead off with a single, and Carlos “Double Play Bouncer” Correa bounced into an RBI double to tie the game, succesfully doubling during a play and fulfilling his destiny in some sort of reverse Monkey Paw shenanigan.</p>
<p id="2FHRXH">After Royce Lewis walked, Max Kepler also doubled his play by bouncing into an actual double play, but who even cares because god damned Hero Ryan Jeffers then smashed a ball over the fences and into our hearts. The score was now 7-5, which you will notice is also the score in the headline and thus nothing else happened. Good work on the 9th Griffin Jax!</p>
<p id="xdPIi9"><strong>STUDS: M.A.T, Jeff, Jax</strong></p>
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https://www.twinkietown.com/2023/8/24/23845215/minnesota-twins-7-texas-rangers-5-one-true-outcome-happinessTawny Jarvi2023-08-24T18:10:00-04:002023-08-24T18:10:00-04:00Game 128: Rangers at Twins
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<p>Stop losing games now pls</p> <h5 id="oUCUUS">First Pitch: 6:10<br>TV: FSNO, MLBN<br>Radio: TIBN, WCCO 830, The Wolf 102.9 FM, Audacy<br><a href="https://www.lonestarball.com/">Know: Lone Star Ball</a>
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https://www.twinkietown.com/2023/8/24/23844894/game-128-rangers-at-twinsTawny Jarvi2023-08-10T16:45:01-04:002023-08-10T16:45:01-04:00Tigers 3: Twins 0: WAKE ME UP INSIDE (CAN’T WAKE UP)
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<p>How is a first place team this loathsome?</p> <p id="k92nHD">Kenta Maeda is a very good pitcher, whom I love. The Twins starting rotation are all special bois who are not including in my criticism of this team that makes me want to kidnap a bunch of baby moles and dig a whole and live in it as the mole queen where baseball is banned and can no longer hurt me.</p>
<p id="CykTky">So yeah, Maeda made one mistake, a home run off the bat of Riley Greene in the 6th (his last inning btw) but that was enough for the Tigers and their apparently world-class pitching staff to overcome the Twins anemic offense that once again forgot to take their iron-supplements and achieved 2 entire hits.</p>
<p id="4oIUc1">(The Tigers also got 2 more runs in the 7th off of Dylan Floro thanks to a Double RBI Double Bagger from Zach McKinstry. Cool only deadline pickup, yo.)</p>
<p id="GipiGo">Anyway, Fire Gary.</p>
<p id="dS4vrr"><strong>STUDS: Kenta</strong></p>
<p id="Ry3uVs"><strong>DUDS: Bats</strong></p>
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<p>Twins stop losing against the worst teams challenge</p> <h4 id="8q0ypi">First Pitch: 12:10 C<br>TV: BSN<br>Radio: TIBN<br><a href="https://www.blessyouboys.com/">Know Thine Enemy: Bless You Boys</a>
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https://www.twinkietown.com/2023/8/10/23827329/game-117-tigers-at-twinsTawny Jarvi2023-08-03T22:36:25-04:002023-08-03T22:36:25-04:00Twins 5, Cardinals 3: Bad Team slightly better than worse team
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<p>Still above .500!</p> <p id="otQXmP">Sonny Gray is a good pitcher who always gives the Twins a chance to win. However, Cardinals starter Matthew Liberatore is one of the left handed pitchers of all time, which against the Twins means he’s basically Kenny Kawaguchi from Backyard Baseball 97.</p>
<p id="mz9tOv">Still, someone forgot to inform the 2nd inning Minnesota batsmen of this so they didn’t remember to be awful, and two two-run ding-a-dongs later (thanks to Ryan Jeffers and Michael A. Taylor) the Twinks had a nice 4-run lead.</p>
<p id="uhMPZc">St. Louis, patron saint of, let me check my notes, barbers apparently, got one run back in the bottom of said inning due to a double off the bat of Dylan Carlson.</p>
<p id="It7JZl">The score stayed the same until the 6th when the Twins managed to load the bases. Liberatore was<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2AxpaH56WY"> delivered from his hell </a>and replaced by Drew VerHagen who commited one of the classic blunders and walked M.A.T to bring in a run, revealing the only way the Twins can score with the bases loaded is when the opposing team forces them to. They obviously did not score any more that inning.</p>
<p id="bZGvET">Sonny the Gray also allowed a run in the 6th, giving up a homer to Alec Burleson before becoming Sonny the White and promising to return on the first light of the 5th day and leaving to do some vague wizard shit.</p>
<p id="Kskud8">The Cardinals continued to not really hit, with the exception of 9 hole hitter José Fermín whose 2 hits managed to go nowhere, proving his paradox is solved by the Great Filter of Saint Louis’s top of the order, thus preventing the Cards from becoming a Type 1 Baseball Team.</p>
<p id="qROnz5">I guess they scored in the 9th sometimes but for the life of me I can’t figure out where on this gameday app it says that happened. I dunno, look it up yourself. I’m not your mother.</p>
<p id="1cWMUt"><strong>STUDS: Gray, Taylor, Solano, Jeffers</strong></p>
<p id="vK59xL"><strong>DUDS: Do not even ask, you aren’t a part of this Turbo Team. Until you are a part of this Turbo Team, DON’T. ASK.</strong></p>
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https://www.twinkietown.com/2023/8/3/23819615/minnesota-twins-5-cardinals-3-mlb-bad-team-slightly-better-than-worse-teamTawny Jarvi2023-08-03T18:33:13-04:002023-08-03T18:33:13-04:00Game 110: Twins at Cardinals
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<p>basbal</p> <h4 id="KaYVka">First Pitch: 6:45<br>Telebimbsion: Bally Borts North<br>Rado: TIBN, WCCO 830, The Wolf 102.9 FM, Audacy<br><a href="https://www.vivaelbirdos.com/">Website (Enemy Version:) Viva Birbs</a>
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<p id="y46oZB">Dumb team.</p>
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<h3>Today's Lineups</h3>
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<th align="left">TWINS</th>
<th align="left">CARDINALS</th>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Carlos Correa - SS</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Lars Nootbaar - LF</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Kyle Farmer - 3B</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Paul Goldschmidt - DH</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Donovan Solano - 1B</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Nolan Gorman - 2B</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Jorge Polanco - DH</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Jordan Walker - RF</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Edouard Julien - 2B</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Alec Burleson - 1B</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Ryan Jeffers - C</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Tommy Edman - SS</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Willi Castro - LF</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Andrew Knizner - C</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Michael Taylor - CF</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Dylan Carlson - CF</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Matt Wallner - RF</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Taylor Motter - 3B</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Sonny Gray - RHP</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">M. Liberatore - LHP</td>
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https://www.twinkietown.com/2023/8/3/23819452/game-110-twins-at-cardinalsTawny Jarvi