Thank God That's Over
Wow... what a series and what a way to start a road trip. I don't care how much of a "the glass is half full" guy you are, to lose in that way, that many times in a row has got to be deflating and exhausting. Silver lining being they didn't roll over last night after giving up 6 runs in the first and having your starting pitcher pulled. Loved to see them battle in the 8th and 9th and actually threaten to tie it up. So much for starting over in the New Yankee stadium... Twins just don"t like that town I guess.
5 Comments:
LH - Thanks for the post, I didn't even want to mention it. What a humiliation that was. Don't you feel like a "loser"?
May 19, 2009 at 10:50 AM
I do, but it isn't because of that (it's because I can't get that McCain/Palin sticker off of my bumper)... thanks for bringing that up again.
May 19, 2009 at 1:52 PM
Highlight of the weekend on the sports front was getting a text from MCA that said: "Je*us fu**ing bloody hell christmas on a godda**ed popsicle stick. What is your major malfunction against the Yankees?"
Pretty much sums it up. Gut wrenching. I'm just glad it happened in May and not September.
May 19, 2009 at 3:15 PM
The good news is that the data MCA put together last year regarding how bad the Twins suck when facing the Yankees is still valid.
May 20, 2009 at 11:42 AM
Oh, lord, don't get me started again.
This was as predictable, through the lens we have as Minnesota sports fans, as the sun rising in the East and jan cowering behind the couch smoking during the 4th quarter of Vikes games. Our teams are always, ALWAYS, the opportune and timely cure for any bad mojo befalling their opponents. Always. Why any of us even bothered to follow this series is the real mystery. The outcome was predetermined, and as obvious to predict as the fact that Moonlight Graham would never get to flop face first into third base.
Consider the circumstances: "Why can't the Yankees win at their new ballpark?!?!?!" has been Media Hyperventilation Metastory Numero Uno thus far on the season. They got smoked 10-2 in the home opener of the new Yankee Stadium. A week later they gave up 22 runs (!) to the Indians (!) at home. The mystique hasn't carried over. Everyone's hitting homer after homer after homer against the Yanks in their own backyard. I mean, my god, there was a front page story in the Weekend section of the Wall Street Journal centered around the question of "Could the new Yankee Stadium fail?"
What did the Yankees, reeling, desperate, fans booing them, empty seats in a brand new 2 billion dollar stadium, need more than anything else in the whole world?
Enter our Twins. It would have been enough to simply help get the Bombers back on the right path by, for instance, dropping three of four. But, no. That's just not real Minnesota Nice enough now, is it there, gosh darnit? Better to lose all four, helping them keep up with the red hot Jays who were trouncing the ChiSox all weekend.
And (and this is where Minnesota franchises separate themselves from all other "cure to what's ailing 'ya" teams), better yet to lose three of the four in dramatic, jump up and down at homeplate, plastered all over SportsCenter for three consecutive days fashion. Wherein we've effectively turned around the entire trajectory of the Yankees' season and launched them into a new level of comaraderie, confidence and success. Yeah sure, you betcha.
Pussies.
May 20, 2009 at 7:40 PM
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