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2016 Twins Game Logs

Game 67. Yankees at Twins. 7:10 (weather pending?)

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So, between long hours at work and OMG A SOCIAL LIFE for the first time in what feels like 10 years AND west coast games, I haven't paid much attention to the Twins this week. The big hullabaloo is Oswaldo Arcia being DFA'd. Am I supposed to offer a hot taek about this? I don't know I supposed. But really I just don't care. I want players to succeed. Arcia probably plateaued his success as a Twin (in their eyes) and let him go. I do hope he does well. Maybe on a Danny Valencia path of success. I will not boo him. Also, I will not criticize the Twins 15 years later when Arcia is an almost HoFer like David Ortiz.  Because that argument is boring. Its baseball, life moves on.

Or, maybe the 2016 Twins are being Nihilists and want to see how far the boundaries can go before everything snaps.

 

 

2016 Twins Game Logs

2016 Game 64: Twins at Angels

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The Twins continue to deliver a Gabriel like message to the Angels of Los Angeles:  Thou shall get your ass kicked by those feisty Gemini of the north.  Erv Santana on the mound looking for his 2nd win of the season. Late start but unless your interests lie in watching Argentina drop 5 goals on Boliva, not much else on tonight.

2016 Twins Game Logs

2016 Game #62: Scarlet Hosiery (36-25) at Matched Pairs (18-43)

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First Pitch 1:10 p.m.

Rick Porcello (7-2, 4.04 ERA, 68 K, 1.084 WHIP)
Pat Dean (1-2, 4.75 ERA, 22K, 1.484 WHIP)

The Curse of 2016 continues for the home team with news that Phil Hughes actually suffered a compression fracture of the femur from a wicked line drive smash to the knee and not just a bruise and will be out six to eight weeks. Trevor May was also sent to the DL with a sore back, and Glen Perkins was moved to the 60-day DL after experiencing very slow progress in his rehab.

I've never in my day seen a team as snake-bit as this year's constitution of the Twins. I don't even know what to say about this team and the size of the hole they continue to dig anymore. We have 100 games left after today, and we're on pace to go 47-115 for the season, according to my Indiana algebra. For perspective, the worst season in franchise history belongs to the 1904 Washington Senators, who lost 113 games out of 157 for a .252 winning percentage. The worst Twins record on record was the 102 loss team of 1982. I guess the good news this year is we're only slightly under-performing our Pythagorean of 20-41.

The Red Sox are going for a sweep today in what will be David Ortiz's last game against the Twins. If there's any more appropriately symbolic indictment of the perennial mismanagement of the Minnesota Twins, it's David Ortiz and his career numbers (.286/.379/.551/.931/141 OPS+) standing at the plate today against a ragtag collection of Twins players struggling to prevent an historically bad losing record.

Rick Porcello on the hill for Boston against left-hander Pat Dean for the Twins. Normally I'd say "Play ball," but...

Fuck it, Dude. Let's go bowling.

2016 Twins Game Logs

Game 60. Red Sox at Twins.

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Oh goody. Its going to be a weekend of "woe is me" from everywhere because its David Ortiz's last games in Minnesota (barring playoffs!). Because something that happened in 2003 (There are about two generations of Twins fans that never saw Ortiz play in a Twins uniform. I mean, David ortiz once played in a game where Bob Tewksbury was the starting pitcher and Terry Steinbach was catching. Ortiz has been around forever) is affecting the current state of the Twins now.

 

Makes me wonder what would happen if Joe Mauer was let go or traded and then has a couple of banner seasons. Would the Boo Joe Mauer crowd boo the Front Office for letting a good player go? I dont know.

I do now I get tired about the Twins blunder. Why can't people let go ?

 

 

2016 Twins Game Logs

Game 59: Florida at Minnesota

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Last week, I suggested that with a long home stand facing a few teams with losing records, attendance at games could result in fans seeing some wins. The team from Tampa, FL had a losing record and came into town having lost 10 of 12. They promptly lost the first game of the series against the Twins. Since then, they still own a losing record (27-31), but have won 5 of 6 including the final 3 against the Minnesota. Their lone loss? Facing Zack Greinke...

On the other hand, the team from Miami, FL came into town with a winning record (30-27), and recent fair-to-middling series' against the Mets and Pirates. Today, the Twins send Ervin Santana (1-5, 4.50 ERA) to the mound to face righty Tom Koehler (3-6, 4.50 ERA) with a chance to sweep the Fish.

It feels like the pattern for this year is feast or famine (emphasis on the latter), with lots of L's punctuated by a 'W' here and there, with the odd sweep/winning streak thrown in to tease us. I'm past believing that a couple of wins signifies a return to competence or competitiveness, but I'll be at the game tonight with a groups of classmates - celebrating the conclusion of our Policy Fellows program, so I'm hoping for a repeat of the power we've been treated to in recent weeks, if not an outright WIN!