Category: Sports

All right, the Twins are now 1-5. That’s not good. That changes things considerably on the attitude front around here. So I say –pledge or no pledge– let the bitching begin. And it’s not just that the Twins are 1-5 that so offends, of course; it’s how they’ve played in going 1-5. Which is terrible,…

The Twins are 1-3. So are the White Sox and the Yankees. The Detroit Tigers are 4-0. Should we draw any conclusions from this information? We should not. Of course we should not. Surely there is not one among us who is that foolish or that rash. I have promised myself that I will not…

Sixteen hits, thirteen runs, three home runs, a grand slam, a nice recovery by Brad Radke, and a swell 2006 debut for Francisco Liriano. Very encouraging, I’d say. But this is what I really want to know: Rogers Centre? What the hell kind of name for a baseball park is that? Seriously, that is just…

I guess this is really it, huh? My God, it doesn’t seem possible. One of my problems with baseball of late is that everything that could conceivably be said about the game in its past and present incarnations has already been said. I feel like I’ve said plenty myself, and the older I get the…

I recognize that it’s likely ridiculous to hope for anything resembling consistency from the Twins at this point, but that doesn’t, of course, stop me from hoping all the same. And that –the continued, irrational investment of hope– is what makes a game like yesterday’s so damn frustrating. The two steps forward, five steps back…

Maybe it’s finally time that we all relaxed, kicked back, and found this sorry, sweet-and-sour spectacle of a season as amusing as it really is. Because it truly can’t get any funnier than what we saw tonight. It’s not likely, in fact, that we’ll ever see anything quite like it again: a walk-off victory that…