Limbo, Limbo, Limbo

Question: How low can you go?

Additional question: When was the last time a Major League baseball team played so many games that so closely resembled World Cup soccer matches?

Another question: Who wants to weigh in on this team’s chances of finishing above .500?

One final question: What the hell?

And, further food for thought: Has anyone else noticed how oddly taboo David Ortiz’s name has become in any analysis of the strengths and failures of this organization? I mean, I know people have whined plenty about missing him, but that goes without saying. What really needs to be explored is how the hell this team let one of the most dangerous hitters in baseball –exactly the kind of hitter the Twins so desperately need– simply walk away just when he was entering the prime years of his career (and money, of course, had absolutely nothing to do with it)? How could they not have recognized his potential?

Just who the hell was the Twins’ hitting coach when David Ortiz was here in Minnesota? Help me out here, because I’m having a hard time remembering the guy’s name.