2012 Twins: God Awful or Unbelievably Shitty?
What does my view of the Twins' future have in common with Stevie Wonder?
Neither of us sees any bright spots.
This team is just awful. I actually found myself hoping we were going to get no-hit again, because if we are going to be sad and terrible, i want these guys to be downright humiliated. It's hard to see us getting to 62 wins if Iron-Man Morneau keeps up his current pace to play in 100 games, and play badly in 90 of them, we have one guy hitting over .300, and only one other guy even close, and it's not our marquis player we pay $20 million a year for six more years, and our pitching staff is made up entirely of pitch to contact "experts" who's only value is to force you into the sophie's choice of sports- whether you'd rather they put guys on base by walking them or put them on base by letting them get hits.
We've gone - in two short years - from being a world series contender to a team that looks like the kids they let shag fly balls in batting practice.
Neither of us sees any bright spots.
This team is just awful. I actually found myself hoping we were going to get no-hit again, because if we are going to be sad and terrible, i want these guys to be downright humiliated. It's hard to see us getting to 62 wins if Iron-Man Morneau keeps up his current pace to play in 100 games, and play badly in 90 of them, we have one guy hitting over .300, and only one other guy even close, and it's not our marquis player we pay $20 million a year for six more years, and our pitching staff is made up entirely of pitch to contact "experts" who's only value is to force you into the sophie's choice of sports- whether you'd rather they put guys on base by walking them or put them on base by letting them get hits.
We've gone - in two short years - from being a world series contender to a team that looks like the kids they let shag fly balls in batting practice.
3 Comments:
It's almost comical at this point. I am with you, if we're going to suck, let's suck epically. The only silver lining here is that perhaps we can trade Willingham (and perhaps a pitcher or two) for some young assets.
BTW- what happened to the user interface of this blog?!? Booo, google.
May 7, 2012 at 1:09 PM
I just read in the ESPN power rankings (where the Twins are appropriately ranked last), that they set a modern-era record last week for fewest hits (9) in a 4-game stretch. P.U.
May 7, 2012 at 3:00 PM
Remember when you guys did not want to start a fantasy baseball league out of loyalty to the Twins? Well, fantasy baseball is now what keeps me going as well as helped me turn the corner as a Braves fan. They are still a distant second but at least now I have a rooting interest.
9 hits in games is horrendous. How many total bases was that? I bet it was less than Josh Hamilton's 18.
May 10, 2012 at 8:53 AM
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