Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Probably Jinxing Things But...
I haven't blogged about the Twins recently because, well, there has been no reason to. The promise of a good season has never been realized. First it was erratic pitching, then it was losing player after player to the DL (including three of their five starting rotation pitchers) and the Twins have basically hovered around .500 all season. It's been a disappointment since there are so many talented players on this team. I'd lost interest lately when the team fell six games under .500. I'm not getting my hopes up now, mind you, but it has been fun this last week seeing the team win some games. These are games the team should be winning. And it's a lot of scrapping by (which is almost always the Twins way), fighting from big deficits and clinging to one-run leads. But they are winning (six of their last seven and five-in-a-row) and with the White Sox losing four-in-a-row and Detroit not pulling too far ahead, the Twins still find themselves in some sort of contention.
I'm under no illusions that if by some miracle the Twins made the postseason they wouldn't be at a monumental disadvantage against the other teams that get in. But it's nice to see them not just rolling over and playing dead. That's the one things the Twins never do. I just hope next year they find a way to play better in their new stadium. They are going to need more than pitchers with 5.00+ ERAs, power hitters whose bad back keeps them out of games left and right and .200 batting 2nd basemen.
