First pitch: 12:10 CDT
Beat the drum and hold the phone
The sun came out today
We're born again
There's new grass on the field
I've always tried to be optimistic, but my choice of rooting interests often makes that incompatible with reality. For the first time in their last 9 attempts, the Twins won a game of baseball yesterday. And we need to celebrate that. The Buddha tells us the root of suffering is desire. The Twins losing so frequently drives me crazy because I want them to win. It's the wanting that causes the suffering, not the losing. So I've swapped my optimism for appreciation. I live in a major league city and get to watch a major league team try to play baseball almost every day. I can attend a home game anytime I have the hankering. That's way more than I had growing up. So maybe we're looking at 100 losses this season. You can't say the boys aren't finding interesting ways to lose.
Tyler Duffy and Trevor Bauer on the mound today.
Play ball!
On the board!
Centeno!
Juan Centeno is clearly the next Johnny Bench.
It's raining catcher extra base hits
Jorge Polanco?
JORGE POLANCO!
Arcia needs to work on that bat speed.
That is the greatest thing I have ever seen.
so, this is interesting.
Another pretty nice start by Duffey.
I've decided that I'm going to start using my MLB tv account to watch the cubs, not that I'm going to cheer for them, but I need something positive to see on a regular basis. Today's start was a sight for sore eyes.
Now that I don't work in Illinois, I'm much more open to the Cubs winning it all. I had concerns that some of the people I worked with would go the way of 2004 Red Sox fans.
Great start by Duffey.
there goes the shutout
Up next, the win.
That was predictable.
Looks like some discord between our outfield and our infield on that pop up.
You'd think they'd be in the same page what with their similar backgrounds and all.
RUNS!
Who are these guys?
To be fair, they did that against a former Twin.
What are Jepsen's numbers with 2 outs?
A winning streak? Is that allowed?
Only against the Indians and Angels, apparently.
Twins are 9-4 against the Indians, Angels and Brewers and 1-22 against everybody else. But hey, double-digit wins!
The Duffman does it again. I guess there's two ways to look at it. Either the Twins were idiots for not including him in the rotation based on his results in spring training when they asked to work on his third-best pitch and told him that he pretty much had a rotation spot locked up until deciding to make his last start make or break; or the Twins were right on what he needed to work on and he's just a quick learner in AAA.
this should be the TWINS WIN gif everyday.
YES!
What about this?
Or this?
Perk looks like he's gonna hurl.