congratulations, Doctor! it was a successful Clemens-ectomy!

hahahahahahaha

ROGER CLEMENS IS THE LOSER!!!!!!

Aww, I was hoping it would be 'the kid.' Okay well, then Liriano gets honorable mention. But I can't fault the good doctor, the winning run is the winning run.

And I'm with you kafumbly, Roger Clemens losing just puts a huge grin on my face! :-)

The only good thing about the hype surrounding this game is the fact that I got to watch it on TV and see Liriano make Clemens look average.

Let's see, the good Dr. ended up with a double, a HR, and a single. I'm relieved he didn't ask Joe to blow another save for him just so he could get a shot at a triple later on.

What a good doctor he is!! :)

Francisco was outstanding.
Morneau brought his big stick to the ball park again.
The rookies (Bartlett/Kubel) stayed hot.
The only disappointment was Mauer not taking advantage of the big stage to garner more All Star votes.

Awww..ESPN is still bsbying Clemens. Even though he blew a game against the team he hand picked to play...

Liriano's so good, I forget he's not Johan Santana. How lucky are we to have a fireballer lefty as refined as he is at just 22? Wow. Pray he shies away from injuries and a dead arm and we'll need shades for as bright of a future he is looking to have.

Once again, thank you (Giants GM) Brian Sabean!

Rocket flames out but the odd stat of the day is that Houston had its largest crowd on record. Bigger than a World Series game?! Strange.

I feel like smoking my first-ever cigarette. It was THAT good for me.

Super game! One thing that bugged me however was espn's take on how the game turned out.
Liriano was fantastic, but from looking at the highlights one wouldn't have been able to tell who won... well, practically!
It was like clemens , clemens, clemens, and oh! by the way, the other team showed up and won or something....
But now lets talk about Clemens....
G - R - R .... spells grrr!!
My consolation is that we all know how good he is, and the rest of the country will just have to catch up by osmosis I guess..

I got to see Cisco pitch; thank you Roger Clemens! Best part of the ESPNcast, JM: "Kid is a good name for a baseball player." If only he had realized the Kid was on the mound.

Oh and the Bat-manifesto has been embraced of late: 13 of 14 with 4 runs or more.

Very sweet win for the Twins. All the ESPN hype made me glad that I don't have cable. Yeah, it sucks not having FSN, and it sucks not being able to watch most of the World Cup matches on ESPN, but that's partially offset by not having to flip through the third showing of the Red Sox-Yankees highlights on SportsCenter.

Nice that baseball finally has a Liriano who doesn't suck! Remember Nelson Liriano, the gawd-awful second baseman who played for the Twins in '90, just before Knoblauch's rookie year? That Liriano made Luis Rivas look like Ryne Sandberg.

Not surprising that the post-game ink is still going to Clemens, despite the kid's performance. But the results are what matters and anyone who saw that game knows who the best pitcher was in that game :)

I'm located in a zone where ESPN had the game, and not FSN. By then end Joe Morgan was absolutely gushing about how brilliant Liriano was. He even made the 2 run HR sound like a positive, talking about how Liriano has been so good he hasn't had to work through tough spots, and seeing him work through pressure like that was even more impressive. At one point he said something like "oh yeah, and Clemens pitched pretty well too," but mostly he just raved about Franchise-K-o.

Sad that I had to sleep through Santaninho's performance. And Justin's. As much as we all knew Liriano was going to come out and be the real story, I also had a felling 33 was going to be greater than 22.

The dimensions are odd, but it's a hell of a great place to watch a ballgame.

Just a thought, but how many of the guys in our lineup last night had ever faced Clemmens?

Because I was just kinda thinking...isn't it quite possible that the Twins that had never hit against him did quite well because they had nothing to fear.

Whereas somebody who has a history with Clemmens (Hunter) didn't do as well because they were kinda psyched up/psyched out.

Dear Mr. Hu,

BG thought the same thing. They managed not to be psyched out by reputation, but Torii seemed clearly to have psyched himself out.

Thoughtfully,
BG

Shouldn't the good Doctor have 12 BOD's instead of 11?

Oops. Yes. Thank you.

Torhu:

Joe Morgan actually made the claim that Clemens was familiar with all the hitters he would face before the game so, since Joe Morgan usually just makes stuff up, I checked:

(Prior to last night's game.) Fact: Never faced Kubel, Morneau, Mauer, Punto, Bartlett, Tiffee, Rodriguez, Redmond, Ford. That's 9/14 of the Twins offense and 5/8 of the starting starting position players.

"It's a stupid, stupid park and there should probably be prosecutions."
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It's probably just me, but the irony tickles me to hear all of Twins Territory this week sound like Frank Thomas after a series in the Cheat Dome. For what it's worth, I think the Lane HR would have been a legit RBI double if not a homer in any other yard. It was a good line-shot over the fielder's head. Oh, well. An excellent outing by Liriano, just the same.

Soon to be 13 BOD's if he keeps this up...