Here are the best tweets from the longest, dumbest delay in Twins history

July 26, 2017 at 5:26AM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

I don't care what the official explanation is for the 20-minute delay in the bottom of the sixth inning of Tuesday's Twins-Dodgers game, and neither does anyone who watched the unbearable, interminable mess.

All that matters is that it was triggered by a double-switch (!) and it slowed down an already glacially paced game. If it was the night baseball died — and it very well could be — the only saving grace we can take from the experience is that it produced some very good tweets.

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Narrator: It did not.

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That's a 2003 NFL Draft callback from Brauer, which is the kind of obscure humor we crave at midnight on Twitter.

No ice cream for Dave Roberts, either.

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EVEN THE TWINS WERE CONFUSED.

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Don't tempt me, Jimmy.

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No! That was the worst part. We still had three innings to go.

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And that's the real story here. Between Dodgers starter Kenta Maeda taking approximately 17 minutes between every pitch in the third inning — Manfred: get and enforce a pitch clock, like, yesterday — and a double-switch delay that even a golf fan would think was long and pointless, this was an extreme but relevant example of baseball's biggest problem. The game moves too slowly and takes to long in a world where everything else is trending toward efficiency.

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Michael Rand

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Michael Rand is the Minnesota Star Tribune's Digital Sports Senior Writer and host/creator of the Daily Delivery podcast. In 25 years covering Minnesota sports at the Minnesota Star Tribune, he has seen just about everything (except, of course, a Vikings Super Bowl).

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