TBWAIN - AKA Jeff Svare's Blog

Today, 31 October, a few minutes after 10 in the morning, our Miniatute Schnauzer passed away. She had two seizures on Monday, the last one continuing for over an hour and a half. When we finally got her to a vet, her temperature was over 110° F. She continued to seizure during the night, and the high temperature probably caused brain damage as well as ruptured several organs as she hemmoraged during the night. We took her to her regular vet in the morning, and we were with her when she passed away. We got Asta from county animal shelter in 1991, when she was only a few months old. She was a dear family member who grew up with our kids. We have lots of fond memories of her and will always remember that she had the softest fur of any dog, and was the most beautiful Schnauzer we had ever seen. She was called lots of things by us over the years. Ai-ai, "The Protector from the farm", schnozzler, nostril, dingy dog, Astro, paranoid pooch, and other names. Thanks for being a...

What was Gardenhire thinking? Santana had struck out 8, the Twins were down by 1 run. Santana had great stuff going, but his pitch count hit 107. Evidently that means his arm is in immediate danger of falling off. Maybe Gardy was afraid that Frank Thomas was going to homer off Johan again. So, showing no confidence in his ace, he pull him for Jesse Crain. Who immediately serves up a home run pitch to Thomas. This reminds me way too much of Game 4 of the 2005 Division Series when he pulled Grant Balfour at the beginning of the eighth inning. Santana started that game too. Johan gave up one run through five innings, and was relieved by Balfour. Balfour didn't allow a hit, and struck out two in his two innings of work. The Twins were up 5-1, and Balfour was smokin' the ball past the Yanks. What happened? Sheffield singled. Rincon throws a wild pitch allowing Sheffield to go to second. Matsui walks. Williams singles, scoring Sheffield. Posada strikes out. Ruben Sierra (remember him...