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Every Thursday, the Getting Blanked crew makes a prop bet of sorts with one another having something to do with baseball games over the weekend. Of the three competitors, whoever wins the prop bet is able to dole out a punishment on the colleague of their choice. This week’s punishment was watching and recapping Monday night’s Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals game. We call this #PropHate.

The Narrative

Ugh. It kind of sucks to watch a game between the two bottom feeders in the American League Central. It really sucks to be the two bottom feeders in the American League Central. I mean look at this starting pitching match up: Will Smith vs. Cole DeVries.

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Every Thursday, the Getting Blanked crew makes a prop bet of sorts with one another having something to do with baseball games over the weekend. Of the three competitors, whoever wins the prop bet is able to dole out a punishment on the colleague of their choice. This week’s punishment was watching and recapping Tuesday night’s Minnesota Twins and Chicago White Sox game. We call this #PropHate.

The Flowery Languaged Narrative

As the Chicago White Sox dig their malnourished and calcium depleted claws into the American League Central standings with the hope of remaining relevant enough to play meaningful games three months from now, the Minnesota Twins’ expectations for this season have already been snuffed like a candle put out by its own melted wax.

Could this rag tag roster, constructed for its grit and determination, find redemption for their lost season with a single heroic effort against the White Sox and starting pitcher Gavin Floyd?

A.J. Pierzynski knew first.

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Every Thursday, the Getting Blanked crew makes a prop bet of sorts with one another having something to do with baseball games over the weekend. Of the three competitors, whoever wins the prop bet is able to dole out a punishment on the colleague of their choice. This week’s punishment was watching and recapping Monday night’s Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins game. #PropHate

The Narrative

Don’t look now (read: do actually look), but the Cleveland Indians are in first place in the American League Central division with a two game lead over the favourite Detroit Tigers. However, this status has been threatened of late, with the Tribe coming off losses in five of their last six games, including failures in three straight matches. Not wanting to flush another good start to their season down the toilet like last year, the team needed this series against the god awful Minnesota Twins more than a neutral observer would need a drink to get through watching last night’s game.

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Every Thursday, the Getting Blanked crew makes a prop bet of sorts with one another having something to do with baseball games over the weekend. Of the three competitors, whoever wins the prop bet is able to dole out a punishment on the colleague of their choice. This week’s punishment was watching and recapping Monday night’s Boston Red Sox  game. #PropHate

Pregame

While the Boston Red Sox of 2012 have continued an underachieving trend that began approximately September first of last year, the Kansas City Royals scoff at such pretensions of futility, already with an 11-game losing streak on the books this year, and coming off 16 sub-.500 seasons in the last seventeen. But that’s not what tonight was about. Tonight was about punishment– a war of attrition among my brain cells as a pair of guys who can’t stop giving away free passes– Boston’s Felix Doubront and KC’s Jonathan Sanchez– set themselves to try to bore their opponents into submission.

The notoriously slow-working Sox provided one element of what looked to– and indeed did– make this contest colossally tiresome, but the real star was Sanchez. Acquired from San Francisco for Melky Cabrera this winter, Sanchez was a kind of upside play for the Royals– a guy who might be alright if he could ever fine tune his command– y’know, despite the fact that he doesn’t throw particularly hard (averaging 89.7 on fastballs in 2011, per FanGraphs), has long exited his prospect years (he’ll turn 30 in November), and couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn with an electromagnetic barn broad side hitting machine (he walked 14.9% of batters faced in 2011). But… shit, it’s Kansas City– they’ve been running Luis Mendoza out there every fifth day. How bad could Sanchez really be?

Pretty bad, actually.

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Every Thursday, the Getting Blanked crew makes a prop bet of sorts with one another having something to do with baseball games over the weekend. Of the three competitors, whoever wins the prop bet is able to dole out a punishment on the colleague of their choice. This week’s punishment was watching and recapping Monday night’s New York Mets vs. Houston Astros game. #PropHate

I know what you’re thinking: Parkes got off light in his punishment for ridiculously underestimating the number of runs that would be scored in an April series between the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees. A close game that was won in the eighth inning by one of the two recognizable players on the Houston Astros hitting an RBI single? It could’ve been far worse.

People making such a suggestion are in the majority in that they didn’t watch the game.

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