Twins (Festa) vs Red Sox (Fitts): 9/20/24, 7:10pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Technically, one of these teams must win tonight. I know neither wants to do it, but one must.

[mvp 78]

I'll watch to see if Fitts can continue to pitch well. He needs to get the k/9 a little higher though. 3.4 isn't going to do it with his stuff. Festa should rack up a few k's of his own in this one. 

[ashbury]

Twins fan here.  If there's a critical mass of Sox fans taking part, we could have some fun watching the game together.  May the least worse team win!

Because I'm totally ignorant of how moderation works here (I do have a pretty good inkling at TwinsDaily), I'll throw out this provocative question: does anyone here have to suppress a snicker when they see the name Richard Fitts?  What were his parents thinking?

(Am I about to earn my first warning point on my first day?)

[mvp 78]

Sox are down so bad that a lot of people that typically post lineups on Twitter just don’t do it anymore.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

3 hours ago, ashbury said:

Twins fan here.  If there's a critical mass of Sox fans taking part, we could have some fun watching the game together.  May the least worse team win!

Because I'm totally ignorant of how moderation works here (I do have a pretty good inkling at TwinsDaily), I'll throw out this provocative question: does anyone here have to suppress a snicker when they see the name Richard Fitts?  What were his parents thinking?

(Am I about to earn my first warning point on my first day?)

I shared a class in high school with a student named Richard Liss.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 minute ago, mvp 78 said:

Sox are down so bad that a lot of people that typically post lineups on Twitter just don’t do it anymore.

A police line-up would do better offensively than this SOX line-up.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

3 hours ago, ashbury said:

Twins fan here.  If there's a critical mass of Sox fans taking part, we could have some fun watching the game together.  May the least worse team win!

Because I'm totally ignorant of how moderation works here (I do have a pretty good inkling at TwinsDaily), I'll throw out this provocative question: does anyone here have to suppress a snicker when they see the name Richard Fitts?  What were his parents thinking?

(Am I about to earn my first warning point on my first day?)

Your favorite team was very cruel to the White Sox this season (12-1).

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

5 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

A police line-up would do better offensively than this SOX line-up.

Wednesday night a Rays' pitcher had an immaculate inning against the SOX. Three K's on nine pitches.

Last night one hit by the SOX prevented them from having a combined perfect game pitched against them.

[ashbury]

37 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Your favorite team was very cruel to the White Sox this season (12-1).

Which is the only reason the Twins are not below .500 themselves.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 minute ago, ashbury said:

Which is the only reason the Twins are not below .500 themselves.

What we have tonight is a match up of two mediocre teams. Neither deserves to make the PO's, but, obviously, deserves has nothing to do with it.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 minute ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

What we have tonight is a match up of two mediocre teams. Neither deserves to make the PO's, but, obviously, deserves has nothing to do with it.

Btw, you being a Twinkies' fan probably are not aware of this, but if the SOX finish the season at 2-7, they will be 78-84. It would be the 3rd season in a row where they finished at 78-84. I seriously doubt a team having the same W/L record for 3 straight years has ever happened before. So there's that.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

6 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Btw, you being a Twinkies' fan probably are not aware of this, but if the SOX finish the season at 2-7, they will be 78-84. It would be the 3rd season in a row where they finished at 78-84. I seriously doubt a team having the same W/L record for 3 straight years has ever happened before. So there's that.

There are some party poopers here that want the SOX to win 79.

And there's one Angry Bird here who doesn't want the SOX to win any more games, so they can get a better draft pick.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

21 minutes ago, ashbury said:

Which is the only reason the Twins are not below .500 themselves.

You seem to be a realistic fan. Cheers!

[ashbury]

19 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Btw, you being a Twinkies' fan probably are not aware of this, but if the SOX finish the season at 2-7, they will be 78-84. It would be the 3rd season in a row where they finished at 78-84. I seriously doubt a team having the same W/L record for 3 straight years has ever happened before. So there's that.

Over at TwinsDaily we have a year-long Fun With Numbers thread.  This would qualify.  😀

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

6 minutes ago, ashbury said:

Over at TwinsDaily we have an annual Fun With Numbers thread.  This would qualify.  😀

Your great state has produced some of the greatest music artists ever. I love music, so thank you Minnesota.

[ashbury]

8 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Your great state has produced some of the greatest music artists ever. I love music, so thank you Minnesota.

Dylan, Prince - who else makes your top list of MN musicians?

Boston area has too many to list.  My adopted town of Natick (2015-21) has Jonathan Richman of Modern Lovers fame - I enjoyed knowing that the Stop & Shop I bought groceries at was involved in one of his songs, if I recall correctly.

[ashbury]

Correa with a nice base hit there.  He's having a standout season, when healthy.  "When healthy" could be the defining characteristic for a lot of the roster our front office has assembled.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Just now, ashbury said:

Dylan, Prince - who else makes your top list of MN musicians?

Boston area has too many to list.  My adopted town of Natick (2015-21) has Jonathan Richman of Modern Lovers fame - I enjoyed knowing that the Stop and Shop I bought groceries at was involved in one of his songs, if I recall correctly.

The Replacements, to name another. There was also a surf band from your state, The Trashmen. I'm also a big fan of the John Sandford novels.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

3 minutes ago, ashbury said:

Dylan, Prince - who else makes your top list of MN musicians?

Boston area has too many to list.  My adopted town of Natick (2015-21) has Jonathan Richman of Modern Lovers fame - I enjoyed knowing that the Stop and Shop I bought groceries at was involved in one of his songs, if I recall correctly.

I'm not from Mass, but a great Boston band was The Pixies.

[ashbury]

Fortunate to hold Devers to a single on that swing.

[ashbury]

Any nostalgia for watching Vazquez behind the plate for the Twins?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 minute ago, ashbury said:

Any nostalgia for watching Vazquez behind the plate for the Twins?

I liked him when he was with the SOX.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

8 minutes ago, ashbury said:

Fortunate to hold Devers to a single on that swing.

He had to reintroduce himself to the 1st base coach.

[ashbury]

4 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

He had to reintroduce himself to the 1st base coach.

I hadn't done my pre-game scouting*, but just checked and yep, Devers has been cold for the last 4 weeks or so. I've always considered him pretty reliable.  Dinged up a little?

 

* Full disclosure, I never do.

[ashbury]

Over at TwinsDaily we're big believers in jinxes, but I'll go ahead and say anyway that I haven't watched Festa before but he's locating really, really well tonight.

[ashbury]

Base knock for Vazky!  Not his first game back at Fenway, of course, but it must make him feel good.

[ashbury]

Really nice catch by Duran!

[FredLynn]

Rafaela makes contact!

Take down the date!

[FredLynn]

Better send Duran here

[FredLynn]

Missed him entirely