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May 1, 2011
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Fellas,
I am depressed. This is the worst the Twins have looked in 10 years. Honestly, what the H*** is going on?!? I can't take it...and in fact, I'm hardly paying attention at this point, because it dulls the pain and makes me care less.
Vikes draft was worrisome. I understand what Siefert is saying (we had no choice and had to address the position), but why reach so much!? I would rather have gotten the TCU QB Dalton. I still think they're going to try and grab Carson Palmer or McNabb or Kolb as a 2 year band aid while they (try to) develop Ponder.
May 3, 2011 at 3:03 PM
Well, big news last night, I guess. Probably the sloppiest no-no in years, but we'll take it and hopefully this helps shed the doldrums the team's in. I haven't been paying much attention compared to most seasons myself, but bottom line, BG, is three things have happened simultaneously, none of which one would have expected:
1. injuries. Thome hitting the DL today to join the parade.
2. Kubel and Span are the only guys hitting worth a damn.
3. pitching's been atrocious - when even the Wall Street Journal is taking note of your staff being 26th in the majors in walks given up, after being first in the league for the prior decade by about 10% over the next team, something's wrong. Liriano's been a big part of that, obviously.
The question is whether any of those problems will last. If they all go away, there's still time, but we need to start clicking pretty soon.
The good news is we still apparently own the White Sox, and I don't see them going on a 26-3 tear this year like they did last year. They're in serious trouble, too.
May 4, 2011 at 10:51 AM
Just echoing what everyone else has said, they have been bad all the way around. The Royals outscored them 25-8 over the weekend. I think that about sums up the season through last night. The pitching reminds of the late 90s, where they were down 5 runs after 3 innings with no chance of coming back.
I remember people ragging on the Milton no hitter. It was a day game and the Angels rested most of their stars. Still it counts and bet most people don't even remember how it happened anymore.
If I had come on here and no one had said anything about last night, I was going to declare the blog dead. Good to see MCA get the ball rolling.
May 4, 2011 at 2:20 PM
RTS - You can't declare this blog dead, it takes a majority to do something like that. I must say that after my "Jive Ass Turkey" award fell flat, I was concerned. If you're looking to start a splinter blog, I'm in.
The no hitter was, as MCA is apt to say, the cherry on a bowl full of shit.
May 4, 2011 at 2:55 PM
My first reaction upon hearing the Liriano had a no-no going through 7 innings was: "let me guess, it's a scoreless tie"...I wasn't too far off. We had a AAA lineup out there, for the most part. When did Tolbert start playing shortstop?
Like RTS said...if I had logged on to ZERO chatter about a no-hitting, I was going to be verrrry worried about this blog.
May 4, 2011 at 7:22 PM
To be fair to the Twinks, Mauer's been hurt for a while now, Nishioka played like a week before having his leg broken or whatever it was by Nick f'ing Swisher, Delmon's on the DL, now Thome's on the DL, and we can't reasonably have expected much from Morneau early. So the lineup is significantly banged up. Regression by Valencia was also probably to be expected.
The funny thing is, the pitching, on second look, really hasn't been that awful. It's mostly just Liriano-no and Pavano (Nathan's been terrible but hasn't had many save situations to blow). Baker's having his best Spring ever, and Duensing's pitching very well - they're just getting no run support from the AAA offense.
Shockingly, Kubel's 5th in the AL in OPS right now. He's gotta be the team MVP through the first 18% of the season.
May 5, 2011 at 3:58 PM
Let me amend. I just looked and we actually have the highest team ERA in the American League, so, yes, the pitching actually has been that awful. But, Blackburn, Duensing, and Baker are all below or well below the team ERA. So the other two starters and the bullpen are f'ing killing us.
Also, our offense has scored 17 fewer runs than OAKLAND, who's second to last in the AL. Wow. And our team OPS is .025 behind the Mariners for last in the league.
Again, thank god for the White Sox and our inexplicable mastery of them, or we'd be the worst team in the majors right now. It's weird to say that and then turn around to say, because it's Cleveland we're chasing, that I still think we might get back in this thing at some point.
May 5, 2011 at 4:07 PM
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