Category: Twins

That one felt…I don’t know, it felt bad, I guess, like a game in late September with hope sliding away with every pitch and a cold autumn rain beating the leaves from the trees along the boulevards (cue Barber’s “Adagio for Strings”). Maybe that’s just because it was a Friday night, and Friday nights don’t…

The first two games of the Mets series were a perfect snapshot of the Twins’ see-saw season to date: An 8-1 loss and a 9-0 victory in the span of 24 hours. Five hits one night, thirteen the next. Go figure. Actually, if the season ended today, you could put the last eleven games in…

I don’t have the energy to write an entire entry in Irish or Cockney slang, but that’s what I feel like doing every time this team slips into its offensive (and I do mean offensive) imitation of a World Cup soccer team, which lately seems to be several times a week. I just took a…

You can’t explain or make sense of so much of the shit that happens during the course of a baseball season, the streaks and slumps and befuddling momentum shifts, the steady supply of wholly unexpected developments of both the pleasant and the not-so-pleasant variety. All those things –the day-to-day intangibles– are what make the sport…

I say it all the time, but baseball’s a beautiful game when it’s played well, and when everything clicks it looks so easy. Time and again this season, however, the Twins have demonstrated just how hard the game really is, and how ugly it can be. The thing is, though, is that after Tuesday’s win…

This here is the latest phenom to make the Twins look sick, a guy who hadn’t even made it into the fifth inning –the fifth stinking inning— in any of his previous starts. What the hell? Seriously, what the hell? Where do you want to lay the blame? At this point I can say only…