Wednesday afternoon April 17: Orioles go for sweep of Twins

[Philip]

Wow.

settle in and bang

[86this]

The smokin' Gunnar!

[spleen1015]

I thought that cop in the dugout stood up to high five him too.

[Moose Milligan]

That was a bullet.  Damn.

He couldn't have put that ball any better in the center of the plate.  Good lord, that was a nuke.

[Bemorewins]

Remember when someone said Gunnar wasn't a super star? And some one else inferred that watching him wasn't entertaining?

[justD]

On a 1-2 count, the 4th pitch runs right back over the plate, center cut, clobbered into the bleacher seats by leadoff hitter Gunnar Henderson.

What a beautiful swing. 

Edited April 17 by justD

[spleen1015]

Just now, Moose Milligan said:

That was a bullet.  Damn.

He couldn't have put that ball any better in the center of the plate.  Good lord, that was a nuke.

108 EV

[Sanfran327]

11 minutes ago, justD said:

Rich Dubroff:      Do you think this team could be better, or is better, than last year's?

O'Hearn:             C'mon, Rich.   I mean, it's April 16? or 15?   We've got a really good team; we had a really good team last year.     Yeah, I'm not gonna compare teams at this point, but thank you for the question, Rich.

 

Wow. 

That's what I thought I heard. LOL. Yeah, kind of a dumb question for April 17.

(even though the answer is yes, even if we don't win 102 games)

[Goober Noodles]

That was crushed - good lord Gunnar is on fire right now.

[Moose Milligan]

1 minute ago, spleen1015 said:

I thought that cop in the dugout stood up to high five him too.

I would if I were that cop.

[Moose Milligan]

Just now, Bemorewins said:

Remember when someone said Gunnar wasn't a super star? And some one else inferred that watching him wasn't entertaining?

Who said that?  Mr. Mail Order Bride?

[Philip]

Every time I watch him, I marvel that he was the 42nd pick in the draft. I need to sit down and calculate the accumulated WAR of the previous 41 guys from that draft.

Edited April 17 by Philip

[elextrano8]

I like these Twins hats in principal, but my brain keeps seeing a Miami Marlins hat from a distance.

[Moose Milligan]

1 minute ago, Philip said:

Every time I watch him, I marvel that he was the 42nd pick in the draft. I need to sit down and calculate the accumulated WAR of the previous 41 guys from that draft.

Well, Adley and Bobby Witt Jr will throw a monkey in that wrench.  But outside of those two, Gunnar might have the rest beat.

[Tony-OH]

12 minutes ago, justD said:

Rich Dubroff:      Do you think this team could be better, or is better, than last year's?

O'Hearn:             C'mon, Rich.   I mean, it's April 16? or 15?   We've got a really good team; we had a really good team last year.     Yeah, I'm not gonna compare teams at this point, but thank you for the question, Rich.

 

Wow. 

Gotta love O'Hearn! I think he's becoming one of my favs, especially after he said, "I was going to go full Brett if they took that home run away!"