When I think of Twins, I think of boobs…so here are a whole bunch of pictures of boobs! Oh wait, all that “NSFW” crap…yawn. OK, I’ll just post one picture of boobs. This slightly saggy pair is 55 years old today…Happy Birthday!
The Twins have a hell of a team this year. Not too many crappy OPS+ in that lineup. They only had two selected for the All-Star Game, Jake Odorizzi and Jorge Polanco. Odorizzi pitches tonight which puts him on turn for Sunday, so he’ll most likely be replaced, quite possibly by either Jose Berrios or closer Taylor Rogers, both of whom have the stats to justify it.
All right-handed starters for both clubs:
Tonight at 7:05: Daniel Mengden vs. Jake Odorizzi
Wednesday at 6:05: Tanner Anderson Mike Fiers vs. Kyle Gibson
Thursday at 1:05: Mike Fiers Tanner Anderson vs. Jose Berrios
Boy, I hope Anderson throws his best game because that’s a heck of a long wait for fireworks if he puts the A’s down by half a dozen by the third inning. A bad pitching performance by the home club plus a fireworks night adds up to a night of “The Wave” hell. (in Roseanne Roseannadanna voice, “never mind”)
I’m dropping by to post this thread but, like any sane Tahoe local, I’ll be evacuating tomorrow morning, in my case for the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. It’s Fourth of July, I don’t expect solitude, but I’ve seen enough of the drunken stupidity or even sober assholery over this weekend in the past that I prefer to get away. If I stick to plan I’ll emerge briefly from the wilderness on Sunday at T-Mobile Park, and that’s actually a good place to find some peace and quiet this year.
Sorry AV
at least it was an interesting game.
you can still see the througline of brasil’s national style. those couple moments when they seem to be one or two frames ahead of everybody else in the movie. that dani alves goal was spectacular that way. yes, the dani alves goal. he scored by bouncing it off two other guys.
argentina’s style is lost. no trickery left. no telepathic understanding between passers. and messi, there were a few moments he straight up actually, actively fucking sucked. offset by those other moments when he looked like daniel craig parkouring into the perfect position… to shoot it into the third stands.
well, there’s the complaining the next day about ghost penalties. that’s still part of the national style.
and when the fusillade around minute 56 (?) didn’t go in, well, you’re just to meant to win that game.
go perú!
Did they ever.
just caught up. the final’s gonna be pretty good. chips on perú.
Yeah, good sum up. The goals were wonderful. Your guys just looked behind and a little overwhelmed on both. I understand Messi’s complaining. The ref let Brazil get away with a lot.
watching replays just now. i didn’t realize last night the play with the second goal *starts* from that possible alves on agüero — but we’ll never know because they didn’t VAR — penalty.
fosse’s hand doesn’t fit in a glove anymore
So we must acquit then.
Monte Moore looks good.
I hope I’m that sharp at age 85. Not counting on it though.
he was owning the tv booth
Like that’s difficult.
Terrible pitch
Mengden’s velocity seems kinda low to me.
Hit 90 on that last fastball. Should be enough for him if the location is perfect.
91 on that inning-ending punchout. Is it possible he just adding and subtracting?
Hopefully, but I feel like he usually hits mid 90s a few times and I haven’t seen anything higher than 92.
I don’t quote get this baretto full time thing.
Profar trade on the cards?
He’s got nothing left to prove at AAA, either he sticks or it’s time to give up. Like Carlos Peña
We could use a Ted Lilly.
so we play hatteberg?
Beau Taylor could have done that.
Melvin, perhaps with Kaval or Giles yelling at him, has switched T. Anderson and Fiers. The MLB.com schedule had it the other way around but with the off day Fiers can jump ahead. Ken pointed that out to me and it’s confirmed in the game notes. It could still go bad but that eliminates my worst concern about fireworks night.
Fiersworks!
Damnit, I’m likely going to the day game on the 4th.
Fly ball Fiers in the warm day game could have been problematic also.
Enjoy the leg kick.
A rocket off the bat of franklin.only!
That was unexpectedly pleasant. Also apparently the Coliseum is now RingCentral Coliseum?
yes. I hope to never sind out what ring central does. Kinda like I don’t know what salesforce does, despite going to a game with Pam who works there.
Or Dazn who had their name all over every park this season.
“RingCentral is the leading provider of global enterprise cloud communications and collaboration solutions”
I still don’t know what they do.
Call Center stuff. Never used them but seem them around enough that I knew the name when I heard it.
If you know what vonage is, you know what ringcentral is. I literally only know anything about them because we do surveys for them.
2Barreto
I think I’ll have another Oly!
They needed to shift someone on top of the Budweiser stand to get that one.
Uh oh?
That can’t be good
I’m trying to think of who they would have to get in the trade for it to be “good”.
Trout with slegnA picking up some salary.
it doesn’t mean anything, but radio silence so far
I used that exact same scary phrase.
The no smoking sign has been turned off at Casa de Aces.
I saw that afterwards
GMTA
Maybe Luzardo’s got innings 2-3-4 behind an opener in Seattle Friday.
A couple of people have suggested that. I really want it to be that.
So Manaea, Cotton, Luzardo all shut down while rehabbing with non-arm issues. There’s your 2019 injury of the season. I noticed Gossett in the dugout last night; he may make it back before any of the others.
neat
Just shut him the FK down.
Someone is complaining to A’s twitter about the drums.
I suppose its like us complaining about the trop. We know its there, but we forget
you know, cricket mics up the batting area to see if there is a tip on replay
i am going to pencil in a double play for and A’s catcher
Time to break out the eraser!
(I was thinking the same thing since the first guy got on base that inning.)
i can just color in the box
And give yourself a save.
New guy!
Profar would’ve held onto that ball.
Damn, that was a helluva throw.
it was, he was out by 10 feet, though
Sure was, had to perfect from the carom to the throw to the tag. Can’t blame Williams for sending him.
I agree. No matter what Ed says.
I mean, one out, with thee robbie grossman coming up?
I said, out loud “no” before gonzalez picked up the ball
Erubial Durazo AND Olmedo Saenz references in one night.
S’all good, man
In A’s colors no less.
that’s not gold.
and i can’t believe we’re endorsing swalwell.
Pass the torch!
From FK endorsement to dropping out in less than a week. Impressive.
@FSU they just need Matt Stairs and I hit the trifecta worth $8.47!
Bat dropping season it looks like.
there have been 4 balls that have fooled me, the two fly outs this inning, semien and the HR by Canha I thought was a pop up
Your accuracy rate is still well ahead of Glen’s.
I like that the A’s have role players that hurt their old teams too
Get some runs, Morins!
tell franklin to stop doing that
that was a crazy block by hermann
My predicted implosion by Liam Hendriks, Closer, has yet to occur…though that one didn’t miss by a whole lot.
5th best record in the AL, at long last!
The Dodgers somehow just tied and won a game by walking 5 times with 2 outs in the 9th.
Throw fkin strikes indeed.
Of course
Ok at this point I’m almost ready to endorse a bloodless military coup
Fiers is pitching effectively again.
He got tagged for two absolute screamers in the first, one foul, one line out. I assumed a long night to follow. Good to be wrong (so far).
4 innings in 76 minutes, they might have to wait extra for fireworks until the sun is down.
Mulder/Buehrle would be in the 6th or 7th by now.
Alas
nice one phegs
I like having laureano’s arm pay off
He had a similar chance last night he failed to make and you could tell he was pissed.
best laureano game?
Surely we won’t regret all these missed chances to add on.
Not a good game for Barreto.
This is a great way to blow your chance, Franklin.
safe everywhere
And Braden apparently has no idea how the rules of baseball work.
Thank you Rocco.
That may have been one of the very stupidest managerial calls ive ever seen
Runners on 2nd and 3rd, no outside, run already in… just fucking ridiculous
That was one of the least offensive GBAs I’ve heard.
didn’t listen. But national holidays get a pass. Its ok then, not preferred, but meh
I’m ok with that but also no way I’m removing my cap
Grade 2 lat strain for Luzardo, “no timetable for his return,” per Vince.
Learning of this right as Polanco crushed Soria was not great.
Severino has the same grade strain right now, and he injured it back in April and isn’t expected back until after the ASB. It’s a 2-3 month injury.
Sounds like spring training to me.
Canha has donned a balaclava since the game started. It’s like 60° here. I’m still in a tee shirt.
JUST a tee shirt.
Thanks, and go As.
Anyone who lets their bare ass touch a Coliseum seat is braver than I can imagine.
I dunno, a hot day game, a skirt, a thong, I could see it.
CHRISTIAN PULISIC. THAT IS ALL.
Thanks, and go As.
AGAIN. NOW THAT IS ALL FOR REAL.
Thanks, and go As.
trivino for mop up duty?
Which of Chapman, Olson, Davis is going to go deep here?
The last guy looked unhittable so it’s weird that they took him out with less than 10 pitches.
Chapman seemed to go pretty far out of the base line there.
baseline is made by the runner, he is only out if he is avoiding a tag and veers too far from the line he is running in
Challenge it!
no sense in not, but he looks out to me
No way this gets overturned.
maybe grow the beard?
Why do I feel like Profar in the DH slot is gonna come back to bite us?
trivino gets out of this and barreto walks it off, no problem
cool
Throw fking strikes
x2
Which one of Grossman, Barreto, Phegley, shit never mind.
Winning now would be nice because there’s going to be no one left behind Tanner Anderson tomorrow.
come on bob, no
I’m curious about the pitching in AAA because it looks like Barreto has never seen anything offspeed before.
which trienen is showing up?
So ridiculous that they brought him back so quickly.
The quick hook makes me feel like Bob doubted the decision immediately
Rodney
Why pitch out with a guy who isn’t throwing strikes?
Yeah, Bob seems to be uncharacteristically overmanaging in extras tonight.
Segundo here, who doesn’t much follow baseball, is excited because the pitcher warming in the Twins pen is a well known Fortnight streamer
Does he come in via parachute?
And now the Twins lead and he sat down. Everybody loses.
That went to schlit in a hurry.
Come on. Win one for the Schlitter.
If you’re going to go for it there, you absolutely have to be safe.
I agree it was a poor risk, but he also kind of got screwed by the rules on that play. If they’re going to going to use replay to call guys out for losing contact with the bag after being safe initially, I think they should have a broader interpretation of what constitutes being forced off by the fielder.
Inside they only showed one replay and it cut off before Profar (apparently) came off the bag. Maddening.
He came way off the bag, because as the fielder held the tag he also had his leg in a spot that made it almost impossible for Profar to keep his hand on the bag as he continued his slide.
Yeah, it just feels wrong for the runner to be out in that situation. And replay makes the situation worse not only by revealing the loss of bag contact, but also by incentivizing fielders to hold tags longer and more forcefully.
that was an ugly game all around.
That Chapman double play was awesome though.
Fireworks recap: A solid C. The A’s have set a high bar for the last 10 or so years, they put on a solid show, reasonable duration and many big volleys. Decent finale. Better than many but by our standard a C. The music always sucks. And goddamn I’d kick down big to pay to abandon Journey’s tired Lights Go Down intro. Fucking Giants band. We hates them.
Watched from the lot and I dunno but I’d swear the view was objectively better than from inside. Low ceiling, northward drift. Salvagable debris actually came down near us. The acrid burnt cheap gunpowder evoked 4ths gone by.
and they’re bad to boot
That loss stunk. But Luzardo turning into Rich Harden before even making it to Oakland is more depressing.
it’ll be like getting a rookie of the year at the deadline
First inning, Anderson loads the bases, run scores on a catcher’s interference, no more damage but man, this could be a long day.
real patriotic bunch
Two of three from a good team. These W’s keep adding up.
and a botched play away from a sweep
BOOBIES!
Also, nice (series) win, bitches.
And my man boobs turned 56 yesterday.
happy birthday
Good to see ya! You must be slipping as you age, you accidentally posted in the current thread.
Good!