Carlos Lee kinda cracks me up. the baggie was really giving them a tough time at first...you'd think they'd never played here before.
I'm so sad Tyner was the only one without a hit...besides Tiffee, i think, but he doesn't count.

After the sideburns contest, can we vote on which player has the best/worst hair-do right now? Tyner's hair looks so soft and silky. or maybe that's just sweat.

Castillo didn't get a hit either.

You aren't taking the bat-kitties with you ?

But.... Why ....?

You've never tried to travel with cats before, have you p.e.m.?

Batgirl is doing the RIGHT THING here.

Doesn't really feel like a playoff chase right now. Twins beat up the Rangers, and the White Sox punch the hapless Royals. I must admit a chortle at the Tigers losing to the D-Rays. You know what time it is? It's the Sucking Time of Year for Camera-shy Kenny Rogers! His ERA will be near 5 the rest of the way out, meaning I CAN foresee a post-season of both the Sox and Twins!

Those of you who wouldn't want to see a Twins/Sox pennant match-up raise your hand. (note: over the internet, counting by hand-vote is impossible) S'right.

mmm...batkitty puke...i know the feeling.

at least we scored 15 points in the first 6 innings...

i think they wanted to show "sweetcheeks" how much they missed him.

HOTTTTTTT!

I call dibs on the milk jug.

I came home and turned on the game when it was 11-0 and laughed for joy. I knew the lovely win Sunday would keep this thing going. Hooray for Newton's Laws of Physics!

Good luck with the move, Batgirl. This weather has been no kinda moving weather.

You have extreme empathy, BG. It almost sounds like we're living in the same apartment! But where you are moving East, I am moving West, and have to decide whether Vlad or Chone (pronounced CHO-n) should be my new [local] boyfriend. Best of luck in the move, and don't worry about the Tigers. I have seen the future, and they're goin' DOWN. I mean...what would happen if they won a series? Ivan "Crackboy" Rodriguez would just end up selling that big old ring for more rock, and it's just not a pretty scene. Good shall triumph. It has been written.

Incidentally...did anyone else notice an eerie resemblance between our friend Rangers' relief pitcher Joaquin Benoit, and the Count von Count from Sesame Street? Especially in his mugshot. Benoit's, I mean, not the Count's.

One base hit! Ah-ah-ah. TWO! TWO base hits! Ah-ah-ah...

For what it's worth, I'm guessing Beeg and Jeb are going ahead to set things up and will, in short time, bring the BatKitties along as well. Moving is hectic and there is no reason to put them through it when BatMom has catnip to spare.

As for the Twins, my buddy and I were watching ESPN last night, not so much for the Red Sox/Cleveland game* but for the ticker underneath which kept showing the Twins getting more and more runs...

YankeeFan

*Incidentally, not to pick at an old scab, but we were watching the Giambi home run game (yes, Giambi "moments" are so few and far between that we have to watch that game over and over again on YES) and we saw Ortiz in a Twins uniform. My buddy says "you know, he just doesn't look so scary in that uniform." And he was right, for some reason, he just didn't. Perhaps it is because he kept trying to spray the ball to all fields, rather than just hit the crap out of the ball... Anyway, the man truly is amazing, as last night proved yet again. We are lucky to be watching him...

Club soda works really well on BatKitty puke.

Great writeup. Fun game. Let's keep it going, shall we?

When they crossed the 14-run mark, I told my wife they'd just scored more points than the Vikings probably will in Week 1. So take THAT, Unnecessary Training Camp Coverage In The Middle of Baseball Season. :-)

I had to wash the shirt, yes, but damn if LNP's 4/4 with four runs scored and a triple didn't make it worth the spin cycle.

Question for Bat Girl:

Are you going to take in a baseball game en route east? You gotcher' choice of Milwaukee, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, or even Toledo or Buffalo for a low-stress, cheap-o experience. I can endorse a baseball stop as a fine way to break up the monotony that is the Interstate Highway System in the Midwest.

Yours,
Joe B in Massachusetts

Darling readers,

Batgirl would never go anywhere without the BatKitties. We are all sleeping at the BatParents House while Casa Batgirl is inhabitable.

Horrified,
Batgirl

So it's the second inning and the Rangers are making a pitching change and I go to refill my glass and when I come back my wife, who is splitting her attention between the game and a crossword puzzle, says this:
"Dick and Bert are talking about Ben Wa balls."
I listen to the television for a few seconds, trying to mentally process what I've just been told, the skeptic in me stirring (even though I have personally heard Bert make homoerotic shower jokes with that pretty-boy singer Adam from American Idol), and I quickly correct her.
"No," I say, "They're talking about Benoit throwing balls."
"Oh," says my wife, whom I love very much, as she returns her attention to the crossword. "It was more interesting the other way."

And is it just me or did Bert tell an elephant with three balls joke?

Yes, he did.

And he used the wrong punchline.

The correct version is, "What do you do with an elephant with three balls? Walk him, and pitch to the rhino."

Much funnier than giraffe...

You could hear Bert kind of reaching for the word "giraffe." I think he drew a blank on "rhino."

Having recently "completed" (as in all the stuff is now at the new place, not as in all the stuff is unpacked) my own move, you have my sympathies, Batgirl. I hope you do not have to come East before it cools down a bit over here.

Love,
Redbird

JP rules the world!

You know, one gets the feeling that the 8th inning on Sunday made the Twins feel invincible. Plus, they got Torii back and lost Lohse so they felt even more invincible. And I have noticed over the years that if anything is contagious in baseball it is good pitching. For Silva to shut down the very tough Rangers team was beautiful--maybe Baker will say, "If he can do it..." And maybe, just maybe, the Twins will look at Adam Eaton and say, "Who is he?"

And we all know who's going tomorrow for us. Any votes that say The Franchise will be in the top three in K's before the year is done? Me, me, pick me!!!!

Dear BG, a housekeeping tip: Scotchguard everything you have and then the kitty vomit will roll right off.

Yay for promotion of all things 3M. BG, you think you are running on tape fumes? I'm working at the 3M tape plant this summer. Yeah. I get to sniff that pungent smell 40 plus hours every week. Not to mention that I inhale cardboard dust constantly because I'm on the converting end of the tape processs - cut it, pack it, and ship it out.

Sorry, we don't make packing tape, just foam mounting tape. We do have packing tape which we use to seal up those lovely cardboard boxes but it isn't that nice tear by hand stuff.

It's a good job. When I'm on the afternoon shift we listen to Twins games as we work. Which I could have watched last night's game though. Welcome back sweetcheeks.

Random fact of the day provided by the PP: LNP's favorite cereal is Frosted Mini-Wheats. Teehee. MINI-Wheats.

Anybody notice that the twins are undefeated since trading Lyle? I think they are so happy to be free of him, it's like having a weight lifted off their shoulders. They don't have to constantly look over their shoulder to see if he might be coming in to make things interesting.

LTLC

Three cheers for a blow out!! They're fun to have once in a while.

In my 16 years of existence I have never had to move from my small town (and when I say small- I mean a population of 90 people small) of Lake Henry, but you have my sympathies anyways BG. And it's not like you're moving down the street, it's all the way cross the country!

Just curious, will we still get the wonderful daily recaps that we do now, or will we just have to sit tight for a while? Either way, Good Luck!

Wait a minute.....where's Batgirl moving to? How did I miss this?

I don't know what's going on around here, but I'm pretty sure I don't like it. And I suspect Kyle Lohse is somehow responsible. Damn you Kyle Lohse!!

The Chairman's a coverboy!
http://www.startribune.com/509/story/588541.html

Actually, it's only halfway across the country (since we're smack dab in the middle)

Mauer's on the cover of SI?!?

EEEEEEEEEEK!!

*picture of the cover on the strib main page*

First Batgirl is leaving and now the Chairman is on the cover of Sports Illustrated?

Why not just erect a ladder over his locker and toss a black cat in the whirlpool with him?

I guess I'll be spending the afternoon performing all the reverse hex rituals in my playbook instead of working. Thanks SI!

You'd think they'd rather get the opportunity to write a story on the guy that hit .400 than throw his season under the bus in August, but whatever.

Dearest BG,

Why do we never get pictures like that when Cuddy is BOD? Just sayin'...

Lustily,
Laurie

PS: I know his nickname ain't Sweetcheeks, but I live in hope.

Haha Mauer looks so cheesy on the SI cover... classic chairman.
Don't get too nervous about the SI cover jinx. Big Papi was on it a month ago and he seems to remain unjinxed. Even better than that he's been more clutch than ever.

BG
Good luck on the move.

The game was great. Welcome back Sweetcheeks indeed. Maybe he finally believes this is the team and the year where he can play deep in October?

Go Twins!

RE tonight's game:

Should I be hoping that Little Nicky Punto gets Eaton?

:)

Is the Joe SI on newsstands yet?

Oh no...no, no, no....

There it goes. Wow.

Bullpen, please. PLEASE.

All right...come on Sideshow Pat ;-) Let's resurrect this game stat.

Anyone see Johan's hair?! Oh my word, I laughed so hard!

And just when I got to thinking "Hey, maybe Baker isn't so bad after all!"

What's with the hair? I'm listening to Gordo and the Dazzle Man.

Let's show 'em the lumber, boys.

Liriano might not pitch tomorrow. click on my name for the link.