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Johan Who?
Santana, you idiots. 7IP, 8K’s…we’re going to go ahead and call that The Usual. Goodness gracious, who needs that every five days? (Damn it.)
But…our new favorite player managed to start the season like hot hot electricity was coming out of his heinie…and that makes this morning just a little bit better than all the other mornings since Johizzy was sent to the land of hookers and blow.
Official New Nickname Announcment:
We love Howard Sinker. We really do. And his take on Joe Mauer seems delightfully similar (and more G-rated) to ours:
joe-the-local-hero@babyj.org sent this to his cyberdiary: Dear Diary, I really like having Gogomez bat leadoff. If he’s on second base and I hit a grounder to second, guess what? He goes to third base. That happened twice tonight. Last year, whoever was batting ahead of me would probably still be on first base and those grounders probably would have been double plays. And one time, when Gogomez was on second, I smacked a single to center and he scored. I’m tied for the team lead in RBI right now Cool, huh?
But we’re officially killing the nickname Go-Go on this site, and replacing it with…C-Button. (Props to Smitty)
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It was a little disappointing that none of my predictions for C Button came true yesterday, although it was quite amusing to see him overrun two balls in the outfield. He's clearly too fast and that will be a liability down the road.
Pining for Lew Ford?
I just love the fact that the new guys had to take fielding practice after the game. I get that feeling from about six years ago when I was a first time season ticket holder watching a then young squad. Get To Know Them Re-visited.
I think I missed too much for that dog; but it provided some good in-game banter.
Well, I've never seen Lew Ford over run a ball in the outfield...have you? Box.
Off topic: Can we get Dairy Queen to buy the naming rights to the new Twins Stadium so we can call it "Blizzard Park"? I think that would have clearly been appropriate for last night...
But you know what sucked about the genesis? If you wanted to play Super Street Fighter Two: Turbo: The New Challengers: Special Edition Hyperfighting, you had to get the damn 6-button. Ain't nobody hitting start to do a Hurricane Kick.
But as a nickname for Gomez... that's good stuff.
:: We're hoping that by bracketing the nzal and merely writing Go[m]ez we can avoid having Mel Blanc roll over in his grave. But we'll see how this develops!
God I love baseball
Well, unfortunately the twinkies have a game lead over my Tigers.
The good news is Cabrera is on pace for 162 homers. That should be a record. What a sweet deal!
Tim
RK, my bad. I wasn't aware of the grammatical implications of the bracket. Well done. I fear we're both late to the party, as Sinker's GoGo seems to have caught the imagination of Twins Nation already.
Tim, they have access to baseball coverage (ie. internets) in grizzly bear and fly fishing country?
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