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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:12 pm
by OGEE OGELTHORPE
Torii who? Great catch by Gomez in the 9th
Twins win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:47 pm
by Joey (nine toes) Marcoux
In a week
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:05 am
by jancze5
Everyone is psyched now, let's wait until AFTER the Royals.
Re: In a week
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:33 am
by Govs93
jancze5 wrote:Everyone is psyched now, let's wait until AFTER the Royals.
Let's wait until AFTER the White Sox.
If... IF... it comes down to the last series, I think I'd rather take my chances with the Royals over the Indians. The Sox are going to have to deal with a team that is at least .500 and on Sunday a pitcher who will be trying to lock down his Cy Young award.
But let's wait until after the Sox to deal with that....
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:40 am
by UpNorthStars
Here's my prediction. Twins finish the sweep tonight, but lay an egg against KC while the sox sweep the tribe.
Hows that for optimism? Just seems the minnesota way lately

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 9:16 am
by packerboy
Remember, thats what KC did to DET in 06.
Kansas City Royals: The Ultimate Factor
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 9:22 am
by Govs93
packerboy wrote:Remember, thats what KC did to DET in 06.
Good times.
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 9:29 am
by OGEE OGELTHORPE
packerboy wrote:Remember, thats what KC did to DET in 06.
Kansas City Royals: The Ultimate Factor
Part 4
The Ultimate Factor ya gotta be kidding me
The Factor lives...........again.
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 9:33 am
by Bash Brother
Not the Factor again
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 9:34 am
by packerboy
Last night Gardy made some great moves with his pitchers. Short leash on Blackburn, good idea. Using the pitchers who have doing the job lately to hold the lead, excellent.
However, I did not understand Gov's best buddy batting 5th vs Buehrle
Kubel had a great game vs the right hander. Leave it at that.
Ozzie has come out and said he wil not let Morneau beat them.
The best guy right now to protect Morneau or to make them pay for putting him on is Delmon Young if they start a lefty.
Tonight will be fun.
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 9:49 am
by Govs93
packerboy wrote:Last night Gardy made some great moves with his pitchers. Short leash on Blackburn, good idea. Using the pitchers who have doing the job lately to hold the lead, excellent.
However, I did not understand Gov's best buddy batting 5th vs Buehrle
Kubel had a great game vs the right hander. Leave it at that.
Ozzie has come out and said he wil not let Morneau beat them.
The best guy right now to protect Morneau or to make them pay for putting him on is Delmon Young if they start a lefty.
Tonight will be fun.
I agree that Gardy came out smelling like a rose, but at the time, you can't tell me you weren't getting itchy when he brought in Boooooof with a 1 run lead. And then he brings in Jose boofin' Mijares to back him up with the potential division title on the line?! Ya gotta be kidding me. Beyond the fact that it actually worked last night, that has got to be a HUGE confidence boost for a kid like Mijares which will hopefully help out the bullpen in future years.
Young is 6-7 batting 6th in the order this series - you can't move him. I think you have to leave Kubel at 5 or plug Cuddyer in there, but Young isn't broke and doesn't need fixing.
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 9:51 am
by Indians forever
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:09 am
by Govs93
The Tigers announced that if they have to play Sox on Monday, they'll start Freddy Garcia... who has pitched in 2 games this season because he was injured for the first 5 1/2 months.
There's more incentive for the Twins to take care of business tonight.
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:13 am
by packerboy
Govs, I was right along with Gardy on every move with the pitchers.
Boof has been a consistent performer out of he pen lately. Same with Mijares and Breslow. They are the only guys he can rely on.
I thought he might bring Boof back for another inning but I really like Mijares. He has some velocity and a nasty breaking ball. If they make the playoffs , he should be on the roster.
Crain, Guerrier , Guardado and Reyes can sit until its 8-1 either way.
As far as Young goes, I dont attribute his hitting success to where he is at in the order. I dont think it makes any difference with him. His appraoch is the same no matter what. He goes up hacking. Reminds me of Puckett alot.
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:08 pm
by EREmpireStrikesBack
Where's that GW character now? Giving up on them? Get outta here!
Nice win by the Twins last night, the Dome was rockin'. Ordered my playoff tix last Saturday so hope they make it, I'd like to skip school again.

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:59 pm
by EREmpireStrikesBack
Alexi Casilla... my boy!
Great game from the Twins tonight, able to overcome a big deficit. White Sox just looked dejected before the game was even over, what a game.

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:01 pm
by sinbin006
WHOA NELLY!!!! Gonna be a huge weekend....Go Tribe

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:11 pm
by Joey (nine toes) Marcoux
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:26 pm
by UpNorthStars
Ok, so there's a new goat in chi-town.
Just before the Twins started scoring i checked my facebook, only to see my brother in law (no good Sox fan) had written "happy the Sox won tonight and the magic number is now 3." I replied it was a bit early for that and then it all started. I'm really savoring this. Poor guy, i think he's convinced he really did jinx them! LOL
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:30 pm
by UpNorthStars
Qoute of the day: "I'll take a bottle of sleeping pills tonight and a glass of vodka"
--Ozzie Guillen

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:38 pm
by Govs93
I don't think I'm going to get my voice back for a week. My throat is sore. my head hurts, my ears are ringing, but I can't think of the last time I felt so great.
How the hell am I going to be able to sleep?!
CNT... tell me one of your jokes, that should help.
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:48 pm
by Irishmans Shanty
Hawk Harrelson was so quiet as Span pumped his fist standing on third I could here my goosebumps popping through my skin.
Span, Gomez, Kubel, all delivered chunks of bases in this series. Multiple bag hits I tell ya, multiple bag hits are the Cat's caboose.
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:59 pm
by UpNorthStars
So if the Sox and Twins both win out they will be 90-72 each. The tie breaker will be played on Tuesday. Where is it played and how is it decided?
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:08 am
by Govs93
UpNorthStars wrote:So if the Sox and Twins both win out they will be 90-72 each. The tie breaker will be played on Tuesday. Where is it played and how is it decided?
It'll be played in Chicago and was decided by a coin toss a couple of weeks ago.
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:09 am
by UpNorthStars
hmm, i guess i missed that somehow. Thanks.