Toronto 6, Twins 4
Toronto 7, Twins 0
9 games back. My dad and I discussed a division run the other day, but we agreed on one thing: we don't believe it's going to happen.
Now don't bite my throat for saying this, considering I hate number-crunchers and all those sorts of people, but the way we've been playing has been so degrading and hard to watch (I was really not wanting to watch the end of today's game) it's like we're not going to pick up our pace. My father and I both said that it was possible our Twins would pull through - I mean, look at last year. It's hard to say "we're done for" looking back at what we accomplished last year, but still. It just doesn't look like we're headed for the play-offs right now. It can change, and I hope it will change, but it's just not there. The spark. The magic. I don't see it right now.
The offense isn't clicking. Pitching was great, but lately we've fallen a bit. I mean, Johan giving up four homers in one game? Poor guy. At least we put up a few numbers., though. I really didn't want to watch a game where home runs ruled out the game. It's always good to see a refreshing home run, but that was just too many. Slugfest in all the wrong ways.
There's no airing of the game tomorrow. Awesome, really. If I feel up to it, I'll listen to it on the radio, but I really doubt that's going to happen. I can't stand baseball games on the radio. I want to fall asleep when I listen to them, just because they aren't fun, and I can't visual what's going on. I know, I suck.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Thursday, July 19, 2007
It Had To Be Done
Alright, time for a real update.
As we all know the Twins were SWEEP'D. By the team we're trying to catch for the division title. And, we all know that most Twins fans are frustrated by all the errors, offensive difficulties, and just poor play by our hometown Minnesota Twins.
All I can say is I'm absolutely sick of it all. Not the poor baseball - the poor fans. All the number crunchers and people who statistically say we cannot win our division. That Nick Punto sucks and shouldn't be in the line-up all the time. That Jason Bartlett is a bad shortstop because he makes errors; that we have to rely on all the big guys in the middle of the line-up to win us a game because nothing else clicks because our starting pitching started out badly, since we were young and now we suck. So on and so forth.
First off, I'd like to see those number-crunching fans who nitpick about our boys. I'd like to see you on the field. Can you play under the pressure that is "we're 9 games back behind the Tigers, we're at home, we can't let our fans down." Or the pressure that's put on Nick Punto at third? "I can't make an error because my career's in jeopardy. I can't bring my burned-out offense on the field because otherwise I'd be out for good. Traded, sent down for a big third baseman who can hit 50 homers a year. I can't do this. I can't strikeout anymore."
I'm a cross between a regular joe Twins fan and a major fan. I watch all of the games and I have a jersey or two. A couple of bobbleheads, an autograph or so. I get as frustrated as anyone about losing a few games. I don't like it when we make errors or our offensive slumps to the degree it's been at for the last few games. I don't like how our major at-bats crumble when the pressure's on. But it's okay. It's okay because they are the same guys. Playing on this team is a pasttime and a job for them. Do you like being criticized when you're doing a shitty job at work? The pressure's always on you to perform well otherwise you're gone.
It's the exact same for our boys. The exact same, just to a greater potential.
Sure, maybe it hurts a bit when you get cut from your job. Your friends, old employees, and family know. So what? You'll get over it. But imagine all that to such a degree where the whole United States - or, the whole world - would know you got cut, traded, or even worst: sent down to a lesser company just because or your poor performance. That would suck a bit, wouldn't it? Yeah, it would. That's life for the guys. That's every single day of their life. Am I going to get sent down to AAA or am I going to ensure my stay here on the team for a few more months? How about in the case of Kevin Slowey? Have one bad outing with the Yankees in the "House of Pain" (thank you, Fever Pitch) and get sent back down? Sure, I know he'll be up sooner or later if he keeps performing like he was, but look at it. Isn't that just worry enough to quit with your job?
But these guys, they keep going. The criticism either makes you or breaks you, and with all the criticism from 'fans' that our guys have been getting, I'd crumble under the pressure too. Of course we have the ability to whine about losing. Oh, God, we lost. Again. Are we ever going to win? Nope, Morneau's had a horrible series. We aren't going to win because Joe Mauer's struck out three times in these past games.
There are more guys than Morneau, Mauer, Hunter, and Santana on this team. As much as I like the main guys, the MVPs and the award winners, I love the whole team as a 'whole' more. Sure, they have a reason they're most valuable and they win multiple Golden Gloves and Cy Youngs. Sure, they deserve a bunch of fans. They deserve all the money they're getting paid. They deserve getting inducted into the Hall of Fame. They deserve it all. But there are a bunch of other things this whole team deserves, too. And that's real fans who like them regardless of the game outcome. Who look at the positives instead of bitching and moaning about how we got swept three games and how the assbats are coming back. Sure, I love me some Batgirl and I love complaining about how the guys aren't doing so well and we should have this record instead of the one we have right now. But put yourself in the team's shoes. Those are some really big shoes to fit, and for you, that shoe might be a few sizes too big.
I just had to get this out somewhere because I hate looking at all of my daily-stop blogs to see what I could have come up with myself: People complaining about how we're so bad as a team and our offense is horrible and our line-up sucks and etc.
I don't care if I'm illogical in the baseball world. I don't care one bit. It won't stop me from being a Twins fan. Maybe I don't fully understand the mechanics of pitching and putting all the numbers together and crunching them and calculating how bad or how good our team is. Maybe I don't understand that at all. At least I'm a true blue fan who'll root for the boys through thick and thin. At least I'll keep track of them in the winter time, and at least I'll whine to my dad as much as possible about how we should go to Spring Training, even though I know as a fact flying out to Florida just for baseball is out of the question for us. At least I can give possible praise to the team, and not the "BOO YOU SUCK" attitude that's flying around. If you wanna be like that I'll put you in a box with no holes and send you to White Sox nation, because that's where you belong.
As we all know the Twins were SWEEP'D. By the team we're trying to catch for the division title. And, we all know that most Twins fans are frustrated by all the errors, offensive difficulties, and just poor play by our hometown Minnesota Twins.
All I can say is I'm absolutely sick of it all. Not the poor baseball - the poor fans. All the number crunchers and people who statistically say we cannot win our division. That Nick Punto sucks and shouldn't be in the line-up all the time. That Jason Bartlett is a bad shortstop because he makes errors; that we have to rely on all the big guys in the middle of the line-up to win us a game because nothing else clicks because our starting pitching started out badly, since we were young and now we suck. So on and so forth.
First off, I'd like to see those number-crunching fans who nitpick about our boys. I'd like to see you on the field. Can you play under the pressure that is "we're 9 games back behind the Tigers, we're at home, we can't let our fans down." Or the pressure that's put on Nick Punto at third? "I can't make an error because my career's in jeopardy. I can't bring my burned-out offense on the field because otherwise I'd be out for good. Traded, sent down for a big third baseman who can hit 50 homers a year. I can't do this. I can't strikeout anymore."
I'm a cross between a regular joe Twins fan and a major fan. I watch all of the games and I have a jersey or two. A couple of bobbleheads, an autograph or so. I get as frustrated as anyone about losing a few games. I don't like it when we make errors or our offensive slumps to the degree it's been at for the last few games. I don't like how our major at-bats crumble when the pressure's on. But it's okay. It's okay because they are the same guys. Playing on this team is a pasttime and a job for them. Do you like being criticized when you're doing a shitty job at work? The pressure's always on you to perform well otherwise you're gone.
It's the exact same for our boys. The exact same, just to a greater potential.
Sure, maybe it hurts a bit when you get cut from your job. Your friends, old employees, and family know. So what? You'll get over it. But imagine all that to such a degree where the whole United States - or, the whole world - would know you got cut, traded, or even worst: sent down to a lesser company just because or your poor performance. That would suck a bit, wouldn't it? Yeah, it would. That's life for the guys. That's every single day of their life. Am I going to get sent down to AAA or am I going to ensure my stay here on the team for a few more months? How about in the case of Kevin Slowey? Have one bad outing with the Yankees in the "House of Pain" (thank you, Fever Pitch) and get sent back down? Sure, I know he'll be up sooner or later if he keeps performing like he was, but look at it. Isn't that just worry enough to quit with your job?
But these guys, they keep going. The criticism either makes you or breaks you, and with all the criticism from 'fans' that our guys have been getting, I'd crumble under the pressure too. Of course we have the ability to whine about losing. Oh, God, we lost. Again. Are we ever going to win? Nope, Morneau's had a horrible series. We aren't going to win because Joe Mauer's struck out three times in these past games.
There are more guys than Morneau, Mauer, Hunter, and Santana on this team. As much as I like the main guys, the MVPs and the award winners, I love the whole team as a 'whole' more. Sure, they have a reason they're most valuable and they win multiple Golden Gloves and Cy Youngs. Sure, they deserve a bunch of fans. They deserve all the money they're getting paid. They deserve getting inducted into the Hall of Fame. They deserve it all. But there are a bunch of other things this whole team deserves, too. And that's real fans who like them regardless of the game outcome. Who look at the positives instead of bitching and moaning about how we got swept three games and how the assbats are coming back. Sure, I love me some Batgirl and I love complaining about how the guys aren't doing so well and we should have this record instead of the one we have right now. But put yourself in the team's shoes. Those are some really big shoes to fit, and for you, that shoe might be a few sizes too big.
I just had to get this out somewhere because I hate looking at all of my daily-stop blogs to see what I could have come up with myself: People complaining about how we're so bad as a team and our offense is horrible and our line-up sucks and etc.
I don't care if I'm illogical in the baseball world. I don't care one bit. It won't stop me from being a Twins fan. Maybe I don't fully understand the mechanics of pitching and putting all the numbers together and crunching them and calculating how bad or how good our team is. Maybe I don't understand that at all. At least I'm a true blue fan who'll root for the boys through thick and thin. At least I'll keep track of them in the winter time, and at least I'll whine to my dad as much as possible about how we should go to Spring Training, even though I know as a fact flying out to Florida just for baseball is out of the question for us. At least I can give possible praise to the team, and not the "BOO YOU SUCK" attitude that's flying around. If you wanna be like that I'll put you in a box with no holes and send you to White Sox nation, because that's where you belong.
This Sucks.
Tigers 3, Twins 2
Tigers 4, Twins 3
Dear Minnesota Twins,
please win soon. please.
Yeah, that's all I got right now. Excuse me, I have to go to a doctor's appointment.
Tigers 4, Twins 3
Dear Minnesota Twins,
please win soon. please.
Yeah, that's all I got right now. Excuse me, I have to go to a doctor's appointment.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Torii, We Gon Party Like It's Your Birthday
Tigers 1, Twins 0
Unfortunately for us Twins fans, after a promising start to the second half (A's = SWEEP'D), they let us down with a 1-0 loss to the Tiggers. Well, Garza didn't let us down. The offense did, which isn't what I wanted to see.
I felt bad because in the 6th inning everything was smooth sailing until my Jason (Bartlett) made a costly error. At the time it didn't seem like it'd amount to much, but a wild pitch and a few bats later, boom! 1-0. So I felt horrible, seeing as how it was almost like J. Bart's fault we lost the game.
It's okay though. So Jason, if you're reading this, I still love you very much and I will be seeing you during Caravan.
Today is Torii's birthday and all I can say is I hope we win in honor of him. He's a nice guy, but sometimes he comes off as cocky to me. Which is a good thing, but I've heard things about him, and I'm wondering if we're going to resign him. I really want to, but I'm unsure, considering nobody's hinted at anything and it's an incredible amount of money for one player. But that's baseball for you.
Tonight's game is anybody's game, I'd say. It's just that it's more of a chance Minnesota will come out on top. You don't agree with me and all I'll do is hold up a picture of Johan Santana. Johan + 2nd Half = success. Plus, Twins > Tiggers. Simple math. Even simpler considering I passed Algebra last year. I know, I'm amazing.
Unfortunately for us Twins fans, after a promising start to the second half (A's = SWEEP'D), they let us down with a 1-0 loss to the Tiggers. Well, Garza didn't let us down. The offense did, which isn't what I wanted to see.
I felt bad because in the 6th inning everything was smooth sailing until my Jason (Bartlett) made a costly error. At the time it didn't seem like it'd amount to much, but a wild pitch and a few bats later, boom! 1-0. So I felt horrible, seeing as how it was almost like J. Bart's fault we lost the game.
It's okay though. So Jason, if you're reading this, I still love you very much and I will be seeing you during Caravan.
Today is Torii's birthday and all I can say is I hope we win in honor of him. He's a nice guy, but sometimes he comes off as cocky to me. Which is a good thing, but I've heard things about him, and I'm wondering if we're going to resign him. I really want to, but I'm unsure, considering nobody's hinted at anything and it's an incredible amount of money for one player. But that's baseball for you.
Tonight's game is anybody's game, I'd say. It's just that it's more of a chance Minnesota will come out on top. You don't agree with me and all I'll do is hold up a picture of Johan Santana. Johan + 2nd Half = success. Plus, Twins > Tiggers. Simple math. Even simpler considering I passed Algebra last year. I know, I'm amazing.
Friday, July 6, 2007
What A Slugfest
Wankees 7, Twins 6
Right now: Middle 8th, Twins 20, Bitch Sox 10
I don't get it. I really don't get it. The same tennis game is on two different channels, Nascar is on (who watches Nascar?), as is some random program on FSN. So I am stuck here 'watching' the GameDay and listening to the game on the radio. Seriously now. I don't understand why we kick Bitch Sox ass when I can't even watch the amazing game on TV.
All I know at this point is that the world is crumbling. 21 hits in one game? For God's sake, what is going to be left for tonight's game? Matt Garza, I'm sorry, but your team might not even be behind you.
I can only imagine what that dugout sounds like right now. Little Nicky Punto is squealing, "Yay, I've gotten some hits!"; Kubel's sitting there doing that signature eye twitch; Castillo is complaining about how his knees are going to dislocate themselves because it 'hurts so much!', Morneau and Mauer are doing a signature handshake and speaking in a foreign language only they understand. Tyner's beating himself up, while the rest of them are just grinning because today is great.
Can we just get this game over? It's already 4 when they'll be playing in like 4 hours. I seriously am wondering if either team will be able to walk, let alone play, at 8:11 tonight.
I'm going to go continue listening to the Twins and eating my Sweettarts. This whole thing is confusing to me. I'm wondering how we as a team go from like 4 hits to like 21 hits. And Nicky P has 2 hits. I'm feeling good about this.
I love how we're rehabbing against the White Sox the same way the Yankees rehabbed against us.
My dad just called and the conversation went like this:
Kayla: Hello?
Dad: Hey, can I talk to Mom?
K: Yeah, but guess what? Twins are winning.
D: Well that's good.
K: ... 20 to 10.
D: You're kidding.
K: No. 21 hits.
D: What a slugfest.
Right now: Middle 8th, Twins 20, Bitch Sox 10
I don't get it. I really don't get it. The same tennis game is on two different channels, Nascar is on (who watches Nascar?), as is some random program on FSN. So I am stuck here 'watching' the GameDay and listening to the game on the radio. Seriously now. I don't understand why we kick Bitch Sox ass when I can't even watch the amazing game on TV.
All I know at this point is that the world is crumbling. 21 hits in one game? For God's sake, what is going to be left for tonight's game? Matt Garza, I'm sorry, but your team might not even be behind you.
I can only imagine what that dugout sounds like right now. Little Nicky Punto is squealing, "Yay, I've gotten some hits!"; Kubel's sitting there doing that signature eye twitch; Castillo is complaining about how his knees are going to dislocate themselves because it 'hurts so much!', Morneau and Mauer are doing a signature handshake and speaking in a foreign language only they understand. Tyner's beating himself up, while the rest of them are just grinning because today is great.
Can we just get this game over? It's already 4 when they'll be playing in like 4 hours. I seriously am wondering if either team will be able to walk, let alone play, at 8:11 tonight.
I'm going to go continue listening to the Twins and eating my Sweettarts. This whole thing is confusing to me. I'm wondering how we as a team go from like 4 hits to like 21 hits. And Nicky P has 2 hits. I'm feeling good about this.
I love how we're rehabbing against the White Sox the same way the Yankees rehabbed against us.
My dad just called and the conversation went like this:
Kayla: Hello?
Dad: Hey, can I talk to Mom?
K: Yeah, but guess what? Twins are winning.
D: Well that's good.
K: ... 20 to 10.
D: You're kidding.
K: No. 21 hits.
D: What a slugfest.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Fireworks? Nah, I Got The Twins
Wankees Series Thus Far:
Yankees 5, Twins 1
Yankees 8, Twins 0
Twins 6, Yankees 2
Well, hello all. Apologies once more. I was down at the lakes for about a week, and have just been downright busy. I have, however, been voting for Pat Neshek non-stop like you should be. I really encourage everybody, Twins fan or not, to vote for him. He's really deserving of an All-Star visit, and he's got such a loyal fan base behind him, it's crazy.
The game today was pretty fun to watch. Johan was amazing as per usual, Kubel and Rodriguez each had 2-run homers, and we saw some absolutely STELLAR defense by Nick Punto at second base. He never ceases to amaze me, really. Little Nicky P. is my hero! :)
It worries me, though. He's just having a tough time with his at-bats.. they're changing up his swing and all that jazz. Basically, he's just trying to adjust to change... which isn't what I'm willing to do. Experience change, I mean. I want Nick Punto at third/second base. I really want him around because he's absolutely amazing defensively and has the ability to be great offensively. Nick Punto is the Minnesota Twins.. and I'd cry if he left us.
Anyways.. what the heck is up with all of these day games? Day games are good occasionally, since nothing else is on in the afternoon, but what am I to do? I have a job which involves babysitting children who don't have cable! To make matters worse, they play the Bitch Sox in a double header on Friday - which is when I babysit. I think I'll bring the twerps over here, because there's no way that I'll be missing that. Ever.
Besides... watching the same game twice in the same day gets annoying. But I do it. Because I am a true fan.
Yankees 5, Twins 1
Yankees 8, Twins 0
Twins 6, Yankees 2
Well, hello all. Apologies once more. I was down at the lakes for about a week, and have just been downright busy. I have, however, been voting for Pat Neshek non-stop like you should be. I really encourage everybody, Twins fan or not, to vote for him. He's really deserving of an All-Star visit, and he's got such a loyal fan base behind him, it's crazy.
The game today was pretty fun to watch. Johan was amazing as per usual, Kubel and Rodriguez each had 2-run homers, and we saw some absolutely STELLAR defense by Nick Punto at second base. He never ceases to amaze me, really. Little Nicky P. is my hero! :)
It worries me, though. He's just having a tough time with his at-bats.. they're changing up his swing and all that jazz. Basically, he's just trying to adjust to change... which isn't what I'm willing to do. Experience change, I mean. I want Nick Punto at third/second base. I really want him around because he's absolutely amazing defensively and has the ability to be great offensively. Nick Punto is the Minnesota Twins.. and I'd cry if he left us.
Anyways.. what the heck is up with all of these day games? Day games are good occasionally, since nothing else is on in the afternoon, but what am I to do? I have a job which involves babysitting children who don't have cable! To make matters worse, they play the Bitch Sox in a double header on Friday - which is when I babysit. I think I'll bring the twerps over here, because there's no way that I'll be missing that. Ever.
Besides... watching the same game twice in the same day gets annoying. But I do it. Because I am a true fan.
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