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Game Thread: June 11, 2008 - 9th Futile Inning

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Minnesota Twins @ Cleveland Indians


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I want to hire the new game thread. Please, offense, let me hire the new game thread.

Il faut d'abord durer.

by CU Adam on Jun 11, 2008 9:55 PM EDT   0 recs

Nope, fired

by Roger Dorn on Jun 11, 2008 9:55 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

hahaha futile is right on

There's always next year...and the next year...and the next year...

by HireRockyColavito on Jun 11, 2008 9:55 PM EDT   0 recs

Balls

Burn on, big river, burn on...

by Turkmenbashi on Jun 11, 2008 9:55 PM EDT   0 recs

Did Francisco give up on that ball or is it just me?

Despite all of my best intentions, I have not, in fact, grown up to be a debaser.

by zempf on Jun 11, 2008 9:55 PM EDT   0 recs

Double no matter what

by Roger Dorn on Jun 11, 2008 9:55 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

just you. nobody catches that

by mpstable on Jun 11, 2008 9:55 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Yeah, you guys are right. He did the smart thing in not overrunning it & turning it into a triple.

Despite all of my best intentions, I have not, in fact, grown up to be a debaser.

by zempf on Jun 11, 2008 9:56 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

primero

by tabler84 on Jun 11, 2008 9:55 PM EDT   0 recs

JoeBlow.

I'll regress to my career numbers if you do too!

by Fire Slider on Jun 11, 2008 9:55 PM EDT   0 recs

Fire new game thread.

Il faut d'abord durer.

by CU Adam on Jun 11, 2008 9:55 PM EDT   0 recs

Really?

by afh4 on Jun 11, 2008 9:55 PM EDT   0 recs

well…there goes my prediction

by APV on Jun 11, 2008 9:55 PM EDT   0 recs

I said it in the last game thread, I’ll say it again in this one. There is so little I like about this team right now. Ugh.

Despite all of my best intentions, I have not, in fact, grown up to be a debaser.

by zempf on Jun 11, 2008 9:55 PM EDT   0 recs

i like the facial hair

There's always next year...and the next year...and the next year...

by HireRockyColavito on Jun 11, 2008 9:56 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

GODDAMMIT.

Hard truth: Your eyes lie.

by AngG on Jun 11, 2008 9:56 PM EDT   0 recs

Ugggggghhhhhh.

I'll regress to my career numbers if you do too!

by Fire Slider on Jun 11, 2008 9:56 PM EDT   0 recs

Overreaction:

A semi-fire sale would actually be kind of exciting.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Jun 11, 2008 9:57 PM EDT   0 recs

Right now, I’m totally game.

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Have to wake up bats!

by vbc3 on Jun 11, 2008 9:59 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Hey, as Chuck would say, Borowski sucks, but at least he’s not Hafner!

by tabler84 on Jun 11, 2008 9:57 PM EDT   0 recs

Good thing he laced it hard enough that it was up long enough for Gutz to catch

by Roger Dorn on Jun 11, 2008 9:57 PM EDT   0 recs

This seems like the worst of all possible outcomes…we lose, but the Sox lose too. So we stay in limbo.

by APV on Jun 11, 2008 9:57 PM EDT   0 recs

and the Twins and Tigers win.

The 2008 Cleveland Indians: Home of the Triple Steal, Unassisted Triple Play, and not a heck of a lot more.

by westbrook on Jun 11, 2008 9:57 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

There’s no limbo if we lose. We don’t have a wide window, and if we’re not winning the Sox are irrelevant.

by tabler84 on Jun 11, 2008 9:58 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Okay, I’ll say it: I can’t wait to have Hafner back in the lineup.

by tabler84 on Jun 11, 2008 9:57 PM EDT   0 recs

Who?

I'll regress to my career numbers if you do too!

by Fire Slider on Jun 11, 2008 9:58 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Some guy. Kinda big.

Hard truth: Your eyes lie.

by AngG on Jun 11, 2008 9:59 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Big guy?

I'll regress to my career numbers if you do too!

by Fire Slider on Jun 11, 2008 10:01 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

About yea high.

Hard truth: Your eyes lie.

by AngG on Jun 11, 2008 10:02 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

He any good?

I'll regress to my career numbers if you do too!

by Fire Slider on Jun 11, 2008 10:02 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Eh.

Hard truth: Your eyes lie.

by AngG on Jun 11, 2008 10:03 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Me too. At least we’ll know. Hope is the enemy of the Cleveland Sports Fan.

Il faut d'abord durer.

by CU Adam on Jun 11, 2008 9:58 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

For all of the Marte discussion that goes on here, it is amazing there aren’t more questions like “What the hell happened to Hafner?”

by Roger Dorn on Jun 11, 2008 9:59 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Are you kidding? That horse is deader than a Derby runner up.

by tabler84 on Jun 11, 2008 9:59 PM EDT to parent up   1 recs

No real answer I guess is what I meant

by Roger Dorn on Jun 11, 2008 10:00 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Too soon?

Il faut d'abord durer.

by CU Adam on Jun 11, 2008 10:00 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Yeah, probably. Fwiw, I love animals. It’s just the first analogy that came to mind.

by tabler84 on Jun 11, 2008 10:00 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

If you have to ask, it was probably funny.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Jun 11, 2008 10:06 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I think we all got that out of our systems. Plus nobody could figure out what the hell it was.

Despite all of my best intentions, I have not, in fact, grown up to be a debaser.

by zempf on Jun 11, 2008 10:00 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Just nothing more to say on that.

by Jay on Jun 11, 2008 10:00 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

What are you doing at RAND, Turk?

by afh4 on Jun 11, 2008 9:58 PM EDT   0 recs

Bullshit. I’m just an admin assistant. Work for some cool people, though.

Burn on, big river, burn on...

by Turkmenbashi on Jun 11, 2008 10:01 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Okay. I’m gonna go finish this cleaning stuff.

TAKE NOTE, BASEBALL GODS.

Hard truth: Your eyes lie.

by AngG on Jun 11, 2008 9:58 PM EDT   0 recs

It didn’t work when Wile E. Coyote would pretend to not look at the roadrunner.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Jun 11, 2008 9:59 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I really do need to, like, hang clothes up to dry and stuff.

Hard truth: Your eyes lie.

by AngG on Jun 11, 2008 9:59 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

ironically, unfortunately, (surprisingly?), those are the first runs borowski has given up since his return. this is his sixth game since he’s off the DL.

by xrickx on Jun 11, 2008 9:58 PM EDT   0 recs

those were very un-borowski-like runs too. it was much more wickman-ish

by mpstable on Jun 11, 2008 10:02 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Luckily we have Blake/Gutierrez/Carroll up in the ninth. Wow, we’re fucked. Any word in the last game thread on what happened to Martinez’s elbow? It’d somehow be a fitting topper to this season if we managed to lose him, too.

Despite all of my best intentions, I have not, in fact, grown up to be a debaser.

by zempf on Jun 11, 2008 9:59 PM EDT   0 recs

So is Garko hurt?

The 2008 Cleveland Indians: Home of the Triple Steal, Unassisted Triple Play, and not a heck of a lot more.

by westbrook on Jun 11, 2008 9:59 PM EDT   0 recs

me: idiot. nm

The 2008 Cleveland Indians: Home of the Triple Steal, Unassisted Triple Play, and not a heck of a lot more.

by westbrook on Jun 11, 2008 10:00 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

They pinch ran because he’s very, very, very slow.

Il faut d'abord durer.

by CU Adam on Jun 11, 2008 10:00 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I realized Barf was PRing, but didn’t know for whom. Tx.

The 2008 Cleveland Indians: Home of the Triple Steal, Unassisted Triple Play, and not a heck of a lot more.

by westbrook on Jun 11, 2008 10:00 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

No, just slow so they put in a pinch-runner.

Despite all of my best intentions, I have not, in fact, grown up to be a debaser.

by zempf on Jun 11, 2008 10:00 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Joe Nathan.

Great.

by afh4 on Jun 11, 2008 9:59 PM EDT   0 recs

Remember when Pronk took him deep last year and we came back and won? That was awesome

by Roger Dorn on Jun 11, 2008 10:01 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Remember last year in general? That was awesome.

Despite all of my best intentions, I have not, in fact, grown up to be a debaser.

by zempf on Jun 11, 2008 10:01 PM EDT to parent up   1 recs

I miss last year.

Hard truth: Your eyes lie.

by AngG on Jun 11, 2008 10:01 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

How great would it feel for us to end up with one of those ass-kicking, young, bulletproof closers?

Speaking of which: Fernando Cabrera can burn in hell.

by Jay on Jun 11, 2008 10:01 PM EDT   0 recs

;_;

RUN FERNANDO. RUN.

Hard truth: Your eyes lie.

by AngG on Jun 11, 2008 10:02 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Long live the legend of Tony Sipp

by APV on Jun 11, 2008 10:02 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I LOVE TONY SIPP AND HE WILL BE AWESOME

by tabler84 on Jun 11, 2008 10:03 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

That guy made me look so stupid. I was telling anyone who would listen that he would dominating for years. YEARS.

by tabler84 on Jun 11, 2008 10:02 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Fernando Cabrera made us all look stupid.

Or, well, me too.

Hard truth: Your eyes lie.

by AngG on Jun 11, 2008 10:03 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

All of us.

by Jay on Jun 11, 2008 10:04 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Not just you, man. He had those stretches where he was absolutely dominant, then he’d turn into shit for a month.

Despite all of my best intentions, I have not, in fact, grown up to be a debaser.

by zempf on Jun 11, 2008 10:04 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

AND I HOPE THEY BURN IN HELL

by afh4 on Jun 11, 2008 10:03 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

YES HE DESERVES TO DIE

by Jay on Jun 11, 2008 10:04 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

NOW YOU HAVE GONE TOO FAR.

Hard truth: Your eyes lie.

by AngG on Jun 11, 2008 10:05 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

“I’ve only taken to an extreme that which you haven’t even dared to take halfway.” — Dostoevsky

“Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.” — Santayana

by Jay on Jun 11, 2008 10:11 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I find the last one especially appropriate.

Hard truth: Your eyes lie.

by AngG on Jun 11, 2008 10:12 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Wasn’t Rafiki singing about Santayana in the Lion King? Something about squishing bananas too….no? Nothin?

by supermarioelia on Jun 11, 2008 10:18 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Wedge is on crack. Gutierrez is out of the game, but Carroll will bat?

by xrickx on Jun 11, 2008 10:02 PM EDT   0 recs

Don’t you hate when that happens?

Il faut d'abord durer.

by CU Adam on Jun 11, 2008 10:04 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

The whiff

by Roger Dorn on Jun 11, 2008 10:03 PM EDT   0 recs

Choo is the new Francisco. Or the old Francisco. Or the expected Francisco.

by afh4 on Jun 11, 2008 10:03 PM EDT   0 recs

Mrs. Tabs changed the channel so I don’t know if this is good, but I can’t believe it is.

by tabler84 on Jun 11, 2008 10:04 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Jamey “Probably should have gone to John Carroll” Carroll. The man, the myth, the legend. Three hits.

I'll regress to my career numbers if you do too!

by Fire Slider on Jun 11, 2008 10:04 PM EDT   0 recs

TWO OUT RALLY BITCHES

Burn on, big river, burn on...

by Turkmenbashi on Jun 11, 2008 10:04 PM EDT   0 recs

Wedgenius.

by afh4 on Jun 11, 2008 10:04 PM EDT   0 recs

FIRE GRADY

I'll regress to my career numbers if you do too!

by Fire Slider on Jun 11, 2008 10:05 PM EDT   0 recs

Christ, nevermind

Burn on, big river, burn on...

by Turkmenbashi on Jun 11, 2008 10:05 PM EDT   0 recs

BOOOOOOOOO

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Have to wake up bats!

by vbc3 on Jun 11, 2008 10:05 PM EDT   0 recs

Are we watching Chicago now?

by Jay on Jun 11, 2008 10:05 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Uggggghhhhh. I would totally care if I thought we had a chance.

I'll regress to my career numbers if you do too!

by Fire Slider on Jun 11, 2008 10:06 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

BOOOOOO joke.

by Jay on Jun 11, 2008 10:11 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs