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July 27, 2014: Nobody’s Listening Anyway

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Man, it's quiet around here on the weekends yesterday, but with a third fourth straight year of these Twins it's getting to be a ghost town sometimes.

29 thoughts on “July 27, 2014: Nobody’s Listening Anyway”

  1. The Twins have now reached double digits in pitchers who have started at least one game this season. Can you name them?

    Woof SelectShow

  2. Yesterday, I bought a tablet.
    Anyone have a suggestion for cool apps I should be downloading?

    1. he's a borderline case for me, but man what a scary hitter. His extra-base power was insane

      2. yep. his degenerative hip cut his career shot, but if he could have lasted 4-5 more years, its an open and shut case

    1. I'm sensing you're not completely satisfied with your purchase. Let me get the manager on the line for you.

        1. The last four years of futility have certainly tempered my enthusiasm for the team, and for baseball all together. while this is nothing new around these parts, I find it increasingly difficult to pay attention to a team who's fans boo the best, and most standup, player, and who's front office has looked overmatched for the better part of five years. It may be that we moved to a NFL town, but I find myself without even a passing knowledge of which teams are playing well this season. If the twins were even a .500 club I think I'd at least know who was in first place in the central.

          1. The team in first is the one you think it is.

            But yeah, I find myself glancing here and there at the standings and not a lot else. Once the World Cup started we weren't watching baseball here in the store, and the local team is so awful they're not worth watching either. In the last month I've seen a ton of Dodgers games, but that's about it.

          2. I'm having almost the opposite reaction. The actual baseball being played is much more often watchable than it has been in the past couple years, even if the outcomes aren't too different. (This year, current run differential (after a really bad series against Chicago, in which they had a -13) is -42. Last year at this point: -46. 2 years ago: -95, 3 years ago: -83). I'm having a lot more fun with them than in previous years, and tune in several times throughout a game.

            1. If the Twins would just admit it's a rebuild and go with the young guys, I'd be paying a lot more attention. However, their insistence on signing the Pelfreys and playing the Florimons and not trading the WIllinghams- well, by the time August rolls around, my attention has waned.
              I did think the Twins have been in quite a few more close games this year than the last couple seasons, nice to see that the run differential seems to back that up.

    1. Ditto. I'm so old I've been through the '70s Twins, the early-to-mid '80s Twins, and the mid-to-late '90s Twins. I'm disappointed in this year's club, but I don't think I'll be going away any time soon.

      1. I'll agree the early 80s and much of the 90s were very bad. The 70s were hardly torturous, though. The Twins had only three losing seasons and the worst was "just" 16 games under. I'm guessing the seasons were made worse by Griffith making sure the Twins didn't make any real attempt at contending.

        1. They never had awful teams in the '70s, but they were torturous in their own way. The early part was spent seeing past heroes fade away. The latter part was seeing new heroes traded away or allowed to become free agents. They contended for a while in '77 because Carew was batting .400, and they contended for a while in '79 because Smalley had an unbelievable first half, but you knew they weren't actually trying to build anything.

  7. Nothing like coming out of church to a flat tire on a 100-degree day. Glad I have a spare (I wasn't sure when I realized I needed it). At least I came home to a Twins win.

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