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6-0. My son says episode one of the new season of The Boys is incredible.

Dear God… these balls are dropping where there ain’t anybody I think God hates us. Maybe I’ll just rewatch the extremely satisfying part of the John Wick 4 movie where he kills 26 people during the grueling ascent of the 222 steps leading to the Sacré-Cœur Basilica in Paris.

Base is loaded no outs. Run scores on a past ball or wild pitch. I don’t know what. This is not my beautiful house. This is not my beautiful wife. Oh my God what have I done?

Fewer balaclavas than yesterday.

Keith 1B McGonigle 3B Torres DH Carpenter RF Greene, R LF Dingler C Vierling CF McKinstry 2B Báez, J SS

Wow, in the opening slot w/ Jason and Andy, it’s sunny and the weather looks nice. It’s probably still nippy. Right now it’s 52° and feels like 45°. That could happen at Comerica.

Well, I’m a Moran. I thought this was a three game series not a four game series. This is what you get when you have dispassionate robots creating schedules.

I can’t believe they’re playing another night game. The Twins don’t do afternoon getaway games? The people of the Twin Cities certainly can’t all be taciturn Norwegian bachelor farmers who love the cold.

A few of you have mentioned the absence of @Jim Cowan who was also Charles Liston on the old board and wondered what he was doing and if he was OK and I reached out to him through email and he said he’s doing just fine but that he finds his general interest in being a part of a message board on a daily basis to have waned and that it only has its greatest value as an all consuming passion which has for the time being ebbed. He said that he’s excited about McGonigle and the starting pitching and sent his best to a number of you. Since it’s a personal message, I don’t feel comfortable relaying too many of the details, but my own concern was that something healthwise had happened to him - we are both 74 so that can be an issue - and it hasn’t. Anyway, that’s the scoop.

I remember the World Series and Tim McCarver’s announcing and not being a very objective observer, but I didn’t realize until a few days ago he died three years ago, and I feel bad about speaking ill of the dead. I remember about a year ago recounting how badly 1968 must’ve affected him and relishing it and now I’m not particularly proud of my remarks.

Last place in the Central… The only place to go is up!

Loss. Oh well

The umpire is just awful

Kevin McGonigle doubles (5) on a line drive to right fielder Matt Wallner. Javier Báez scores.

Carp Ks. Sigh…

Ladies and gentlemen, Connor Seabold has entered the building! Ladies, please do not throw your room keys at him. Act your age, not your shoe size.

Kevin McGonigle singles on a line drive to left fielder Austin Martin. Spencer Torkelson scores. Parker Meadows to 2nd. We got our run for the game.

This is the second game in a row where a Twins starting pitcher has thrown over 100 pitches. I can’t remember the last time I saw that.

I think this is a bad streak and they’ll start doing something that we would consider normal before long, but that insight doesn’t make the present situation any more palatable.

Welp! 3-0.

This is sort of The Game of Living Dangerously for Skubal but he’s up for the challenge. It sure would be nice to give him some runs to work with.

You’d think people in Minnesota would be used to the cold. 40° isn’t that bad even for baseball, but I’m still surprised the stands are so empty. It’s not like everybody has to bring an unswaddled baby with them or anything.

We need a quick DP with runners on first and third and only 1 out please.

Load the bases and don’t score. Bah!