So, big series with Cleveland coming up.
Are the Twinkies for real???
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Not exactly Twins related but no position players have been suspended this year for PED’s. Home runs are through the roof and “juiced balls” and launch angle is all the rage.... this reminds me more of the Sosa/McGwire years than anything else. Drugs are always in front of testing, looking at the players hitting HR’s at the rate they are screams cheating.
Ratings and attendance rule, all else be damned....
Oh, my Cardinals are in first so this isn’t sour grapes.
And...... I left Target Field at 10 pm last night, it was the top of the 6th! 3 hours to play 5+ innings? Cripes, I miss Bob Gibson!
Ratings and attendance rule, all else be damned....
Oh, my Cardinals are in first so this isn’t sour grapes.
And...... I left Target Field at 10 pm last night, it was the top of the 6th! 3 hours to play 5+ innings? Cripes, I miss Bob Gibson!
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I think most fans appreciate good pitching. There just isn’t enough of it.
Games Verlander starts draw larger than average crowds away from Houston. So has Kershaw, Scherzer, and Baumgartner in the past. No one wants to see Oderizzi throw 102 pitches in 5 1/3 innings.....too many pitchers like that....far too many. The Twins killed their bullpen with 4 of 5 starters who can’t pitch 5 innings....and a manager who lets them get away with that. I would make Odorizzi throw 6 no matter if his arm fell off. Throw strikes!
The Twins were beaten the last two nights by better starting pitching. Great pitching beats great hitting every time.
Games Verlander starts draw larger than average crowds away from Houston. So has Kershaw, Scherzer, and Baumgartner in the past. No one wants to see Oderizzi throw 102 pitches in 5 1/3 innings.....too many pitchers like that....far too many. The Twins killed their bullpen with 4 of 5 starters who can’t pitch 5 innings....and a manager who lets them get away with that. I would make Odorizzi throw 6 no matter if his arm fell off. Throw strikes!
The Twins were beaten the last two nights by better starting pitching. Great pitching beats great hitting every time.
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@elliott70 I love me some TWINS but tired of the Polad's cheap operations an absurd penny pinching practices.
Case in point NOT adding a stud starting pitcher at the deadline!
Cleveland has the edge on arms for the Central race.
Sad to say it is what it is.
On brighter note the Twins club has sure been fun to watch this season. We are still talking them up in August which has not happened in quite a while.
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For winning we get the Yankees! As Nate Silver points out, the Twins have lost the last 13 post season games against the Yankees, which is basically the same (gulp) as the Washington Generals record against the Harlem Globetrotters.
There is always the scene from Dumb and Dumber.....so you’re telling me there is a chance.....
There is always the scene from Dumb and Dumber.....so you’re telling me there is a chance.....