Category: Sports

  • Tuesday Night: Twins Vs. Bad News Bears

    Wow. That game featured a dozen different kinds of ugly. It was ugly enough –particularly if you happen to be one of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays’ 117 fans– that it almost managed to make Big Sid Ponson look pretty. You know, pretty in a greasy, WWF bad guy sort of way. But, what the…

  • Playoff Three-Pointer: Speed Is Killing

    1. Warriors in Command The big news of the first round of the NBA playoffs is obviously Golden State’s 3-1 lead over 67-win Dallas, a series that would have any neutral observer pulling hard for the Warriors even if he/she didn’t know they were enormous underdogs. Golden State epitomizes the coming out of FUN in…

  • Thus Far, A Season Without A Script: The Weekend

    The Twins have now lost three of Johan Santana’s last four starts, which would be disastrous were it not for the surprising performances of Ramon Ortiz and Carlos Silva. Everybody, of course, is just figuring that anything positive that Santana can give the team in April is gravy, given his slow starts in recent seasons.…

  • Serious Weirdness: Wednesday Night/Thursday Afternoon

    Four runs is the magic number in baseball. If you look at the way things break down year in and year out, the team that scores four runs or more wins the vast majority of its games. The Twins have now scored three or fewer runs in four straight games (all losses), and are on…

  • The Sky Is Falling! The Sky Is Falling!

    What the hell is up with these ridiculous two-game series? And what the hell happened to that team that swept three from Seattle on the road? Beats me. After stumbling in Kansas City over the weekend the Twins came home and, facing 23-year-old Cleveland pitchers on back-to-back nights, looked anxious and undisciplined at the plate.…

  • Ugly And Slouchy

    Ok, that was brutal. And long. Jesse Crain may have taken the loss –and he was awful– but you can pin this one on the offense. Here’s the ugliest fine print from the boxscore, and the best indication of the difference between the the two teams in terms of hitting approach: Minnesota pitchers threw 236…