I was listening to the RedSox - Yankees game until this one got underway. 14-0 Red Sox now. Now that's a blow-out. Me, I'm willing to settle for a 6-3 win. That doesn't seem like asking for much. Oh, and I'd like a Chicago loss too.

Win Twins.

Gardy says that Joe's knee is still sore. I'm not nervous though. Nope, not me.

Couple more games though ...

The Rangers-Chox game is in a rain delay.

They're just trying to postpone the inevitable loss.

Gopher: Joe's knee is sore? It's the groin, right? Or am missing something?

Twins @ SkyDome? Slow down...Boston and New York aren't the only teams in MLB? Woah...

I bet FOX is so glad to have such an exciting game. Thank GOD for the blowout. I always like watching the Yanks suffer.

Oh no...be okay Lohse. You can't go on DL when you're starting to turn it around.

Alright Lohse! I won't be around much...got work to do on the other comp in the house. I'll be watching.

Go Twins, and go Not Yanks/Soxes

I think Kyle's just fine. And he looked pretty good in the first inning. If we are indeed seeing a new Kyle (and we just might be), I like it.

My bad. You're right. I'm an out-of-towner, so I don't get all the info, and I thought that they said in the pre-game that it was Joe's knee. But they just said that it was the groin.

That's good to hear; I just wanted to be sure.

Nice job by us of taking advantage of the error!

Is there anybody here?

I just popped in, holy small game thread.

Im just following the game on Gameday and peeking over here occasionally to see if anyone's around.

Apparently no one else is trying to procrastinate writting a paper today. It's sad-- no game updates from very funny people.

Sorry, I'm cleaning my house and popping in over here. And I'm not extremely witty anyway

I've been thinking of making Castro my 2nd boyfriend, and that helped.

Yeah, I'm around the apartment today, doing some cleaning, though I did just catch the almost HR/HR by Castro!! And yay Stewie!!

Of course, some of our best are on their way to Toronto, too.

hell if he keeps that up, he can be MY boyfriend!

Wow....way to go boys! Now that's some fun baseball to watch!

Sadly, I don't get to watch it. Was it pretty?

Castro...wow. Apparently he REALLY wanted that homerun. And then Stewie.

Poor Morneau. Apparently part of Stewie's Victory is taking over the HR lead.

Come on Doc...you can't let him get away with that.

Considering it was on three days rest, Busch's outing wasn't that horrible. But I'm glad to see we took advantage.

I'm going out for a run, but once I get back I'll pop in. I hope we can get some chatter going!

Could someone tell me what happened on the Castro play, please? I'm not even getting gameday right now.

All Gameday says is Castro homered to left. I dont get to watch the games, myself.

Castro hit the pitch prior to HR one just as far and as hard --- but it was also just foul.

am i the only one getting my hopes up that the REAL lohse has decided to resurface? maybe he was motivated by keeping his spot. 1-3 in the rotation are set, and mays looks solid; not to mention that gassner's one start was very effective.

a friend & i are crashing US Cellular for the last three games of the 4-game series in September (9/23-9/25). my major goal is to yell, "you can put in on the booooarrddd..... YES!" when our boys hit homeruns. HAWK SUCKS. you can still get great seats for these games. let's dial up the TWINS presence at these games, since chicago doesn't come out to support the sox, too busy watching the cubs lose.

Hey peeps. Castro hit a homerun to left-center, I think. I only caught the replay. Apparently he had just missed a homerun foul right before that. Then Shannon hit one just over the fence, and Toronto's bullpen found itself jumpin'.

When does Lohse usually run out of gas? 90 pitches? He's at 64 now.

Thanks. I appreciate the recap.

So Dick and Bert are saying that Johan was tipping his pitches in the games when he wasn't doing as well. Apparently that means the hitters knew which pitches were coming, and that's why he had a bad game against Toronto last time.

Even more ridiculously, to Dick and Bert, Toronto then announced this to everyone, allowing Johan to correct this before everyone else got to him. Why would Toronto voluntarily give up this advantage? Did Corey rat them out one way or the other?

So was Lyle ever given a proper funeral?

Stacy, I hope that's a good question, but I'm afraid he might find a way back if we assume he's gone for good.

Still, we haven't seen much of him for a few starts, have we?

lohse is scary after 90-95 pitches. i'd like to see him finish this one.

Actually, that news ran in one of the newspapers or other news outlets. I read it yesterday somewhere. They apparently spent a lot of time reviewing his tapes and corrected the tipoffs.

Aw, c'mon Kyle! You can finish the 7th!!

the blue jays' radio announcers are falling all over each other in a love-fest for torii. they're doing everything but asking for his phone number.

Yeah, JimC, I just read that in yesterday's STrib game write-up, actually, so good spot on that.

Kyle's starting to look human; his first few innings of ground ball outs have given way to fly balls. I think this inning will be it for him.

"Kyle Lohse with 7 superb innings this afternoon!" -Bert Blyleven

That's music to my ears.

Kyle out of the inning on a pop up to the mound. Nice. And he just hit 90 pitches. I hope they give the ball to Boo and the VP to finish this one up.

I missed the last couple of innings until that last pitch. If that's it for Kyle, he did a hell of a job. Our starting pitching of late has been awesome, and it's wonderful to see Kyle playing a big part in that.

Yeah, Kyle gets some love today. And he just got the "good job, kid" handshake that means his day is likely done.

Excellent performance by Boo. It's good to see him come back and pitch very well.

I just got here. Whats the story?

Ok, now that's creepy. I just got here too.

New Yawkahs IN... DA... HOUUUUUUUUUUUSE!

yeah, this place today is just kind of a low-key Twins pitcher lovefest, eh?

Speaking of pitchers, that Batista guy just struck out the side. He looked pretty good doing it, I must admit.

You New Yorkers...

The Twins got two early unearned runs after the Toronto 1B dropped a throw. They put together a few hits to make the Jays pay. Then, Castro and Stewie (our two big power hitters as of late) hit back-to-back solo homers. Lohse pitched an excellent game, allowing just one run, which I believe was unearned. And now the VP is on for the save with the score 4-1, one out in the ninth.

People could start talking if you two come and go together yanno

Game not on TV here. Just XM Radio.

Oh dear. C'mon, Joe. Let's do this...

My back totally went out today. A beautiful day outdoors, I had planned. WASTED. I've been flat on my back all day (although a few hours were spent heartily enjoying what went on at Yankee Stadium today. The time just FLEW by!)

Cuddyer "panics" was right on.

Now let's see how Nathan responds. . .

ok I'm back.

OK, the very last thing I want right now is for this game to get interesting. Clean it up, VP.

Hey Aurora

Is it me or does Nathan recently seem afraid to throw strikes?

It's not you.

Dear God. COME ON, Nathan. Tying run on second with one out...

ass-crap.

Say it ain't so Joe!!

Can we call him Aaron F'ing Hill?

Oh, absolutely

Oh wow

sucky sucky sucky pants.

Alex, you're right on.

Hey Joe, throw strikes, K?

his mojo....is gone

No one wants to be in Joe's pants today

cmon joe. . . bear down!!!

Didn't this Hill character just come up because Koskie broke his thumb? That has to be significant somehow...

Now that was the old joe. . .

How bad was Cuddy's error? (Go on, I can take it)

YAY VEEP

Laurie, it was pretty bad, but I don't think he had a chance to get the runner anyway, so it's probably of no consequence.

"Didn't this Hill character just come up because Koskie broke his thumb? That has to be significant somehow..."

I don't want to malign anyone, but does that mean it's Carrie's fault?

I can't believe that Adams fool just swung at that bad high fastball for the strikeout. that's the gift Joe needed to have a chance to get out of this inning.

You can do it!

K. thank you. now let's bring it home for kyle.

one strike away. .

NA-THAN, NA-THAN, NA-THAN

thank god. . .

Have a good memorial day everyone. . .

Great site. . glad I found it. .

Thanks to the article in Rake magazine. . .

*sigh* you guys are faster than my feed, and I got all excited cause they called a strike and you say one strike away.

Woot. That was more stressful than it needed to be, but I'll take the W.

And yes, if indeed Hill came up because of Koskos' injury, it would have been Carrie's fault had we lost. :)

And Cuddy saves his own a$$.....

The VP got it back there in that last AB, I think. Twins win. Now I can go back to my afternoon stupor.

Wheeeeeeeeeeew!

well, that was interesting

He just had to make it interesting. Maybe the game was just moving along too quickly. Sure didnt help his ERA any. In the end, it's a W.

There was an article in the Rake magazine?

Whew....Joe was doing a pretty good Eddie Guardado imitation today.

Nice win boys! Time for a sweep.

yikes. i guess we'll take it but i hope last-month's joe comes back soon.

You know, things were going just fine until you New Yorkers showed up. ;)

Boy did Carrie get lucky then.

Laurie, do you have AIM?

Geez, Brian, get with the program!

Our pitching is really incredible. . .we're basically a light hitting team like the braves were a few years back. . .

but every game we have an incredible starter. . .

>You know, things were going just fine until you New Yorkers showed up. ;)

I knew it! I knew I was a jinx. :(

I think so

I should point out that the Nathanest went through a period of sucktitude last year around the time he blew that save against the Yankees. Then he got his mojo backed, and kicked butt the rest of the year.

Article in Rake about Batgirl going to the game and meeting the team. . .that's how I found this site. . .

*Searching for the program*

We're just bad luck.

Brian, the Yahoo one?

Rake article.

http://www.rakemag.com/angle/detail.asp?catID=40&itemID=20777

was the eddie guardado with the save today again?

You could break the chain of bad luck by sending out some of those bottles of booze you have stockpiled Laurie....

Pretty funny that the thread picked up in the last inning.

Nick - right on about Nathan. . .it's clearly all about Mojo for him. . . once he blows a save it takes a while to get it back. . .

same thing happened to him in the playoffs. . .

The best closers are like that, though. . .even mariano

No, the AOL one. Thats the only one I can get at work.

Gee, SDave, to whom shall I send them?

To me Laurie, TO me.

Just send them all to my office - I'll be happy to redistribute them to all the batlings!

Yes, Brian. Norwaythecat.

I may hang on to any of the finer single malts, though

Oh how GENEROUS of you SDave! I have not the slightest doubt you would do that! LOL

Laurie, I'd love to have some of your fine liquors as well. :)

SDave, how about a big bottle of Jim Beam Black?

Always happy to help Laurie!!!!

What I want to know is how to get a job whereyou get liquor. All I ever get is yelled at by clients.

Man, I didn't Twins fans were such lushes... ;-) I guess after that inning...

Its the only way we can cope with our beloved MN sports teams (and the winters)

Hmm. Says youre not available.

I get plied with liquor and I don't even drink. Isn't that always the way?

Laurie why are hotel rooms in NYC so expensive!! Argh!

yes Laurie...that IS always the way.

let me fiddle around with it, Bri. (Behave, all of you...)

Nope, won't behave. You both show up together... all you talk about is drinking and now you're fiddling?? At least invite us to the party.

But I'm signed on, Bri!

Mark, everything here is crazy expensive

Wait a minute...I thought I was at bat-girl.com.

All this alcohol talk and now Laurie's fiddling with Brians....did I hit the wrong URL?

And wow, doesn't that make me sound voeyeristic.

I didnt say anything about drinking!

Hmmmm.....still says not available

Laurie did.

yeah...like you said Aurora

As if you would ever behave, Aurora...

You didn't say anything about fiddling around either, Brian, but that didn't stop Laurie!

who me? Innocent I tell ya.

Not to encourage these PHILISTINES any more, but give me yours, Bri... (HAHAHA)

TheatreBrian75

Excuse me, isn't there a game we should be discussing???

Hold off on that shipment Laurie...I'll just pick it all up with Aurora and I show up to watch

Sounds like you and Bri are starting a new game. And yes, we ARE discussing it.

How 'bout them Twins?

Id feel wrong discussing the Mets game here... :)

hee hee. Ok fine. game stuff.

Castro earned himself another point in the bf for aurora race.

you're now showing Bri your "twins"?

Wow.

I don't have an appropriate comment for that...

that's never stopped anybody here aurora

game stuff, game stuff. umm. game stuff.

B-Sox playing yet, or are they still using rain to avoid a loss?

still delayed

and now my company is here so I'm signing off.

You know, with all the rain we've been getting in the cities...how many home games would've been rained out/postponed in an open air stadium?

OK, coming into this one waaaaay late, but I have to say if we're going to blame Carrie for Koskie's injury (and Hall's promotion), then I have to say she's already done her penance by watching the giant injury bug go 'splat' all over her beloved Orioles.

Just sayin'...