It all comes to this: Regular Season Game 163. Minnesota Twins visiting the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field.
After yesterday’s game I’m sure some fans are wondering what the weather will be like in Chicago for tonight’s game. So here’s whats expected:
Image from accuweather . com
Game Time: 7:30 EST on TBS.
Probable Pitchers:
Twins: Nick Blackburn whose tRA+ is 98 and xFIP is 4.55. Blackburn has had a pretty good year for the Twins regardless of his numbers compare to other pitchers. Most Twins fans wish that Scott Baker was scheduled to pitch this game, but suffice it to say: I’m glad Glen Perkins or even worse Livian Hernandez is not pitching in this game. Blackburn was effective in his start against the White Sox last week: heres hoping he can repeate that performance tonight._________
White Sux: John Danks whose tRA+ is 124 and xFIP is 3.94. Dank’s career ERA is 6.88 versus the Minnesota Twins. This largely due to the fact that the 3-4-5 hitters in the Minnesota batting order have destroyed him. Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau and Jason Kubel are a combined 18-for-35 (.514 average) with 7 extra-base hits against Danks over the past 2 seasons. Again hopefully this trend continues tonight.In a sentence: We need a big game from the middle of our lineup. Go Twins! Lets get to the playoffs!
I am here just in case…
Haha nice.
Nice writeup, Yickit.
don’t get too comfortable yet. Server is getting dodgy.
On the whole the server is holding up pretty well though. On a usual night there would be about 400 server errors so far.
Or should I say 404.
Yeah, Its just a bunch of traffic, you don’t really know how you’ll hold up until you get which is unfortunate.
No TV for me. Did AJ make a great play on that or is Dazzle overselling it?
Griffy made the good throw. AJ just held on.
it’s pissing me offffffff
The bar is beckoning…
dw!!!
stellar inning by Blackburn
Alright D-SPAN2, lets see some action.
are you guys locked out of SBG as well? re: the bar, I hear you, FTLT. London Porter is calling my name.
C’mon Laddie!
I am. I will keep trying but it is so F’n frustrating.
By the way- this really says something about us. This game is so important to us that we have a back up site in which to post our comments. I love this.
Where we at…I can’t get on the WGOM so I came over here…
are you guys locked out of SBG as well?
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I am
At least Danks had to work a bit that inning
crax. would have been nice to have stolen a few bases off of AJ….
maybe Dreamhost owns stock in Yickit.com??
I think Dspan’d have two if not for timely swings by Lexi.
We have Mauer coming up next inning. Danks has to be tiring a little. He is at 85 pitches on 3 days rest. If we can take them down 1-2-3 here I like our chances in the bottom of the inning.
I like your optimism FTLT, I’m on board with that.
I mean top. Yickit, how about an edit button buddy!!
Man, this game is like Sarah Palin vs the international terrorists. Who will blink?!
Smalls, you’ve gotta stay positive.
brianS, you’ve gotta be thrilled. You can talk politics!
Morny!
Politics?? I was talking Moose hunting!
Moose hunting has to be encouraged on a conservative site, right?
another great inning for Blackburn
way to go blackie!
1-2-3. Now comes the meat of the order.
Nick F-ing Blackburn!!! He’s channeling Black Jack tonight!
hopefully momentum as swung to our side
3-4-5 hitters up. I smell runs
Lets see if my call for meat is answered…
He’s prolly in the bathroom draining some Blue/
bunt?
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How long do you ride Blackburn tonight? He’s “dealing” and has a low pitch count but he’s always one pitch away from have a ball turned inside out.
bunt?? Jeepers, Joe!
Really?
Damn! Sorry about the lack of an edit feature.
It just takes oooooone mistake to Morny.
C’mon Mountie.
LETS GO CUDDY!
blarg
do it yourself, Cuddy.
I was just busting your chops Yickit. Thanks again for having us here.
that wasn’t what I had in mind.
NUTS!
ditto what FTLT said, yickit. your moms got any snacks upstairs in the fridge?
Alright, time to play Hold Steady on repeat in between innings.
Gordo hit it right on the head (!!!) Danks got out of the inning on minimum pitches…6
I think she has some Labatts.
I keep Blackburn in as long as he’s dealing. If he looks tired or gets away with some mistake pitches, then go to Mijares/Nathan
I am with Beau.
@brianS We’ve got chickin in the biscuit and cold brew. We have to be quiet so we don’t wake mom up though
He has not thrown a lot of pitches.
FUCK
oh, crap.
Shit.
shit
I blame Dreamhost.
Yeah, what did I say?
Dazz and Gordo are practically celebrating that blast.
I don’t mean to curse on New Years and all but, a name may be taken in vein soon.
Alight, back down to business for Blackburn
Dazz and Gordo are practically celebrating that blast.
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Well, if someone hits a ball as far as they said, I would sort of celebrate that too
just eat an extra donut to make up for it, FTLT.
That ball was absolutely crushed. I would guess 480 feet
or maybe blow the damned shofar to wake up our offense. We need some help against Danks.
If Danks comes back out for the 8th expect a Delmon dinger.
Ken Griffey Jr is a stiff, except when the Twins comes to town
/channeling new guy/
who is up in the bullpen?
Hope the pen is active
Have you got a shofar handy? Maybe the kids made some in school this week?
Crain and Mirjas
Mijares coming in most likely
ooooh, Dazz going off my lawn at Junior. He’s a first-ballot HOFer and you were barely over replacement level Dazz, so you give him the what for!
I would much prefer Mijares.
I give Blackburn a double tip of my hat
hell of a game by him
No shofar, FTLT. But I’m contemplating some Young’s Ram Rod Ale
No question about it. If only he had a little bit of offense to support him.
Well, Mijares, get us out of this and we got a shot
Yea, no blame for Blackie. He pitched great tonight.
Mijares has gotta start this with a positive jam!
Tremendous effort by Blackburn. If you’d told me before the game he’d go six scoreless, I’d have taken that in a second. We just need to hold them here and hope to get a couple runs.
I would rather have it happen now then see a walkoff jack in the 9th (or extras) tonight.
2 outs. Lets go TWINS!
If they’re pitching around Uribe, I wouldn’t.
I like that we are keeping Mijares in. Lets do this Twins!
Gordo was scared on that Delmon catch. lol
lets go offense!
hey guys! I was mentally willing my flight to get home faster.
What a great game! Blackburn was excellent; not to sure about this ploy to make the Sox feel like they could win, but I’ll give the benefit of the doubt.
Whew! Delmon on his horse
wow. i’m never confident when it’s hit to Delmon.
Gordo’s gonna give me a heart attack.
You can’t rollerskate in a Buffalo herd, but you can in LF. Whew!
DDDDDDD ELLLLLL MONNNN!
Hearing “A line drive to the gap! Delmon Young chases!” did not fill me with confidence, but he caught it. Now we just need a couple of runs.
Switched to Rum and Coke . . . Go Twins!
we need baserunners
I would not be offended if the Twins were to bat around this inning.
brianS, for the record, I have both champange and Fin Du Monde on ice tonight.
sh!t! We didn’t need an Uno! there.
champagne of beers?
FTLT, you are a good man.
I am on pins and needles.
could use a well-placed Sox error right about now
No, no. Actually, it is sparkling wine left over from my girlfriend last night. Girls drink the weirdest stuff.
past a stationary Uribe!
a hit! look at that!
WTG HARRIS!
a hit starts it off.
Punto 0-for-12 against Danks? Sounds like “due” to me
Catchers doing a good job of not allowing any wild pitches today
pooooooooop
All right, who pinch hits for Gomez?
We deserve better (offense) than this.
oh, crap. Not happening tonight, I’m starting to sense.
Well that sucks.
PH for Gomez? KUUUBBBEEELLLL
this may ruin the rest of my day.
Hola folks.
All right, who pinch hits for Gomez?
Kubel!
If we hold them here we have Kubel (fingers crossed) then the top of the order. We are still in this.
I say the Dude has to PH for Gomez. Move Span to center and insert Kubel in right if you extend the game.
Can someone let SBG know I got an error message at 7:41 tonight…
PLEASE bring in Bobby Jenks
2 more to go.
Getting zip from M&M is killing me tonight. When they’re productive, we win a lot of games. When they aren’t, not so much.
The worst part of this is the sox fans will be saying that the twins were pwnd tonight, which just isn’t true.
@twayn: so, two-man offense, you are saying
bringin in Nathan
If we have Mijares during the first week of August, are we playing this game tonight?
I am fine with Nathan coming in now.
We still got this.
Nathan hasn’t given up a homer to a right-hander all year
It’s hard to PH for GoGo. You know you’d like his speed on the bases, down by one run.
I don’t mind Nathan getting the win tonight.
bS, I’d take a slow trot around the bases to a bunt-scamper to first at the moment
I am actually talking myself into GoGo batting here.
tony, screw “top AMERICAN closer”, Joe’s the top closer, period.
prerequisite base runner, check.
Shit. Why did they pull Mijares?
Actually, Soria may be better than Nathan by this point
you’re killing me, meat! heh.
nah, Soria’s numbers look better because he gets to face the Twins
COME ON NATHAN!!!!!!
Well, here we go. Do or die time.
Gordo enjoyed that Gomez catch, cutting in front of _elmon.
Here we go. This is sort of an important inning.
“Waiter – baserunners, please! A whole plateful.”
Okay folks, remember, no matter the outcome we have had a hell of a season. A hell of a season. And dick just told us to strap it on. That’s just too fucking funny.
Well, Gardy managed the game as well as he could. This one’s on the players and I’m happy with that. Now let’s have some abidement
Nice rally flashback, TBS. Hoping for deja vu
Time to Abide.
Dick? Strap on? What’s this site rated?
Come on Dude.
Kubes, Jenks pissed on your rug.
did. not. abide.
Filthy stuff by Jenks
aw, crap.
DSPAN!! DSPAN!!
D’oh.
D-SPAN2, time to enter the pantheon.
C’mom Span, I’d take another walk here!
Shit.
c’mon. Let’s not go out with a whimper.
boy, nice if ‘lexi could hit a “bite me!” about now
Well, good season all
Thanks for coming folks.
good season boys.
sorry, had to turn off the TV
awwww.
sounds like a nice catch by Anderson.
Why does Gordo sound like we won?
hope there’s a bright spot in this, like AJ injuring himself in the celebration or something
I forgot it was Anderson out there. I’m thinking, no way Junior is getting to that. Duh.
thanks again for saving our bacon, Yickit.
guys, this was just a little too close to the plot from “Little Big League” for me.
Why does Gordo sound like we won?
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He has got a golf tee time tommorrow..probably. No Twins = good golfing
Anderson didn’t need to dive
Bright spot? Rays in 3.
I watched Little Big League yesterday too.
I’m torn. I really want Jim Thome to get a ring. I just hate the Bitch Sox so much.
That was a great game and a great series. Too bad it had to end.
F!#$% coin flip…
At least Thome was a class act: Complimenting Blackburn. I’m sure AJ will act like he always does.
Oh and by the way, thanks for stopping by guys and making sure the game log continued.
Not sure you can blame this one on the venue. Thome’s homer would have been gone in Braves Field, and the rest of the plays seemed pretty standard. I have a hard time believing having your fans behind you makes a huge difference
Thanks again Yickit, I suppose that I will see everyone tomorrow at the WGOM, or here.
Thome IS a nice guy. I wish he didn’t light up on the Twins all the time, though
@RR Agreed. But there is no way I root for a SuckTown team. GO Dodgers! Go Rays!
Im not complaing about having to play in Chicago for this game.
If the Twins wanted to win the World Series, they would of had to win a few games on the road during the playoffs. Why not start that tonight
It just didnt happen
I agree with DWatts, and games like tonight are a reason I’m a baseball fan. But just not a WhiteSux fan.