Episode 99: The Twins are Bad at Baseball

There hasn’t been a lot of good things to talk about with this ball club. That doesn’t mean we don’t have things to talk about, and we even got into a couple of spirited conversations this week, most notably about the coaching staff and their uncertain future in Minnesota.

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Mike Trout and the league leading Angels came to town and swept our hometown heroes, but at least Target Field faithful were reminded what winning baseball looks like.  We also discussed what it is like to watch bad baseball, and talked about the great article, “The Truth of Rooting for a Terrible Team” from The Hardball Times’ John Paschal.

The Twins released their minor league hitting coordinator, Bill Springman. What does that mean, if anything, going forward? The front office cited “organizational differences” which could mean just about anything and everything. We speculate exactly what it means.

We also talk about Jay Corn’s adventure with beer steins, and the upcoming MN Oktoberfest. And don’t forget about the #TwinsHelmetChallenge happening on Monday the 15th at Target Field.

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GameChat – Royals @ Twins, 7:10pm

I’m going to call JC’s earlier post from today a quality pre-game assessment so I’m going to skip it. Just go read the earlier post and I think you are definitely ready for tonight.

 

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Getz, 2B   Revere, CF
Cabrera, Me, CF   Casilla, A, 2B
Gordon, LF   Mauer, C
Butler, DH   Cuddyer, RF
Hosmer, 1B   Valencia, 3B
Francoeur, RF   Young, D, LF
Moustakas, 3B   Plouffe, DH
Pena, B, C   Hughes, L, 1B
Escobar, A, SS   Nishioka, SS
  Chen, P     Liriano, P

 

 

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Not sure any of us predicted a win that big when this game first started.. it was an ugly first inning for Liriano and a bit of some ugly fielding besides. But Delmon & Mauer did their part to get the bats going and they both get donuts (Young’s should be the health concious variety) for their excellent efforts!

The real highlight of the game was welcoming Trevor Plouffe back to the big leauges and his version of saying thank you with a MONSTER homerun to the left field upper decking was a thing of beauty. It also came at a key moment in the game that really changed the momentum the Twins way.  For that reason, he gets today’s BOD!