Sano!!! (Off disabled list)
WIN!!!
Saturday, September 30, 2017
Friday, September 29, 2017
Twins Recovering, Indians Still Fighting for Home Field Advantage
The Twins can actually relax and set their starting rotation for the upcoming play-offs.
I kind of think that's smart. Just so they're ready for that one all important game...
Sports as a whole lately is hard to watch. Football players think they are doing the "right" thing by having some type of protest "as a team" during the National Anthem, while conservative fans think they are misguided puppets of the left (at best) or complete idiots and traitors to America (at worst.)
I'm still not sure why ALL the teammates must take the SAME stance and be united on what they are doing. Most, when interviewed individually, don't even have a good answer for why they are doing anything. Answers range from "police brutality" and "racism" to not liking President Trump's statements on the matter. It's kind of funny actually, they are protesting the President's right to free speech. The irony escapes their collective mindset...
NFL viewing is down by about 10% so far this year, and some link it to conservative fans being sick of stupid football players making horribly bad political judgements.
Me? I just don't seem interested in the product yet. I don't watch the beginning of ANY games anymore just to avoid the controversy. I've also stopped watching all news shows and sports shows because they can't stop talking about it.
In other sports news...
College basketball is being rocked by a huge scandal. It seems assistant level coaches and higher may have been accepting big money payouts from sports agents to direct their student athletes toward said agents. If this was happening at any other department in college, or at other area of life (a trusted friend encouraging someone to make a lot of money legally and how to do it) no one would bat an eye. But it's college sports, and student athletes are fragile adults...
More sports...
The NBA has stated that they have it in the players contracts that they MUST stand for the National Anthem, so that they don't seem disrespectful of America. That's always been their policy.
I can't wait to see what happens next THERE, this season...
In America you are free to do as you wish as long as it's not illegal or in your contract. Please realize other folks can do what they wish as well, based on YOUR actions.
It's called consequences.
The Packers won easily last night but lost some good players to injury. I didn't watch the game. Too much controversy.
And it was a blowout and I was tired so I went to bed.
I kind of think that's smart. Just so they're ready for that one all important game...
Sports as a whole lately is hard to watch. Football players think they are doing the "right" thing by having some type of protest "as a team" during the National Anthem, while conservative fans think they are misguided puppets of the left (at best) or complete idiots and traitors to America (at worst.)
I'm still not sure why ALL the teammates must take the SAME stance and be united on what they are doing. Most, when interviewed individually, don't even have a good answer for why they are doing anything. Answers range from "police brutality" and "racism" to not liking President Trump's statements on the matter. It's kind of funny actually, they are protesting the President's right to free speech. The irony escapes their collective mindset...
NFL viewing is down by about 10% so far this year, and some link it to conservative fans being sick of stupid football players making horribly bad political judgements.
Me? I just don't seem interested in the product yet. I don't watch the beginning of ANY games anymore just to avoid the controversy. I've also stopped watching all news shows and sports shows because they can't stop talking about it.
In other sports news...
College basketball is being rocked by a huge scandal. It seems assistant level coaches and higher may have been accepting big money payouts from sports agents to direct their student athletes toward said agents. If this was happening at any other department in college, or at other area of life (a trusted friend encouraging someone to make a lot of money legally and how to do it) no one would bat an eye. But it's college sports, and student athletes are fragile adults...
More sports...
The NBA has stated that they have it in the players contracts that they MUST stand for the National Anthem, so that they don't seem disrespectful of America. That's always been their policy.
I can't wait to see what happens next THERE, this season...
In America you are free to do as you wish as long as it's not illegal or in your contract. Please realize other folks can do what they wish as well, based on YOUR actions.
It's called consequences.
The Packers won easily last night but lost some good players to injury. I didn't watch the game. Too much controversy.
And it was a blowout and I was tired so I went to bed.
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Twins In!!!!
For the very first time in the history of baseball, a team with 100 or more losses the previous season has made the play-offs THIS season. That team? OUR team.
In the history of baseball only 13 teams with 100 losses have even had a winning record the next season.
The Twins traded their all-star closer, Brandon Kintzler, just after the all-star break, and most Twins fans, including me, thought THAT was the season.
Molitor thought differently. He was still determined to win it.
And they did.
They now have won the opportunity to lose more game to the Yankees this season.
Anything other than that will be a most pleasant surprise.
Go Twins!!!
In the history of baseball only 13 teams with 100 losses have even had a winning record the next season.
The Twins traded their all-star closer, Brandon Kintzler, just after the all-star break, and most Twins fans, including me, thought THAT was the season.
Molitor thought differently. He was still determined to win it.
And they did.
They now have won the opportunity to lose more game to the Yankees this season.
Anything other than that will be a most pleasant surprise.
Go Twins!!!
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Monday, September 25, 2017
New Star Trek?
Not impressed. The re-imagined Klingons are hard to look at and even more difficult to listen to. Those full metal costumes that are impossible to move in and those ugly masks with their false teeth are all that is wrong with TV science fiction today.
And what is it with the Star Fleet High command? Anyone above the rank of first officer is either stupid, evil, or both. Just how did they ever achieve those ranks? And why should I root for the Federation?
I think I'll pass.
And what is it with the Star Fleet High command? Anyone above the rank of first officer is either stupid, evil, or both. Just how did they ever achieve those ranks? And why should I root for the Federation?
I think I'll pass.
No Bradford? No Problem!!!
Keenum 25/33 369 yards 3 TDs and a 142.1 RTG!!!!
Devin Cook 27 rushes 97 yards, 5 catches 72 more yards and a TD!!!
Stephon Diggs 8 receptions 173 yards 2 TDs!!!!
Lions lost on a last play TD reversal decision!!!!
Devin Cook 27 rushes 97 yards, 5 catches 72 more yards and a TD!!!
Stephon Diggs 8 receptions 173 yards 2 TDs!!!!
Lions lost on a last play TD reversal decision!!!!
Twins Sweep The Tigers In Four Game Series!!!
Magic number is three with 6 to play!!!
Escobar homer number 20!!!!
Mauer batting .389 over his last 43 games!!!!
Escobar homer number 20!!!!
Mauer batting .389 over his last 43 games!!!!
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Twins!!!!
Santana!!!
Big Rally!!!! (Eight runs in the eighth)
Granite!!!! (two runs scored in the eighth, including a three-run homer)
4 1/2 game lead for the last wildcard slot with 7 games to play!!!!!
They play early today.
The Vikings? Bradford's knee is still a problem. Until he plays, I've lost all of my enthusiasm for the Vikings...
Big Rally!!!! (Eight runs in the eighth)
Granite!!!! (two runs scored in the eighth, including a three-run homer)
4 1/2 game lead for the last wildcard slot with 7 games to play!!!!!
They play early today.
The Vikings? Bradford's knee is still a problem. Until he plays, I've lost all of my enthusiasm for the Vikings...
Saturday, September 23, 2017
Twins!!!
Gibson!! (Quality starts in 6 of the last seven)
Buxton!! (3 hits, 2 RBI)
Dozier!! (Home run number 32)
Kepler!! (Home run number 19)
3 1/2 game lead in Wild Card Race with 8 games to play!!!!
Buxton!! (3 hits, 2 RBI)
Dozier!! (Home run number 32)
Kepler!! (Home run number 19)
3 1/2 game lead in Wild Card Race with 8 games to play!!!!
Friday, September 22, 2017
Twins Kick Detroit 12-1!!!
2 1/2 game lead in the the last wild card spot!!
Mauer three hits!
Polanco three hits!
Whoo!!!
Mauer three hits!
Polanco three hits!
Whoo!!!
Thursday, September 21, 2017
I Greatly Dislike the Yankees (Part 3)
Every single good year we are having usually ends because of the Yankees.
Yesterday was just another good example of that.
sigh
Yesterday was just another good example of that.
sigh
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Monday, September 18, 2017
Mauer!
Gibson got off to a rocky start yesterday, but the Twins bats made a huge comeback. Mauer's grand slam was the highlight, but Rosario's two home run's were nothing to sneeze at either.
It sure was more fun to watch than the Vikings.
It sure was more fun to watch than the Vikings.
Bobby "The Brain" Heenan
Bobby Heenan died this weekend.
To wrestling fans from my era, he was probably the greatest of all-time. No, he wasn't much of a wrestler, but as a manager and color-commetator he probably put more "butts in the seats" for more promotors than any wrestler ever did.
He was funny and he played the roll of the chicken (or weasel) better than anyone.
Bobby was 73.
To wrestling fans from my era, he was probably the greatest of all-time. No, he wasn't much of a wrestler, but as a manager and color-commetator he probably put more "butts in the seats" for more promotors than any wrestler ever did.
He was funny and he played the roll of the chicken (or weasel) better than anyone.
Bobby was 73.
Sunday, September 17, 2017
Saturday, September 16, 2017
Seventh Inning
The Twins played eight strong innings last night.
Colon was great except in the seventh.
Cleveland's streak came to an end as well.
And Sam Bradford is having trouble with his surgically repaired knee for the Vikings.
Colon was great except in the seventh.
Cleveland's streak came to an end as well.
And Sam Bradford is having trouble with his surgically repaired knee for the Vikings.
Friday, September 15, 2017
Buxton!!
Walk-off homer in the 10th!
Berrios!! (5 plus innings. 1 earned run.)
Cleveland won in the 10th as well. That's 22 straight wins.
Here are the standings that matter:
Berrios!! (5 plus innings. 1 earned run.)
Cleveland won in the 10th as well. That's 22 straight wins.
Here are the standings that matter:
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Rosario!!!!
No team has ever lost 100 games one season and then made the playoffs the next.
NONE.
I'm not saying the Twins are going to, BUT...
...they have put themselves into position to do so.
I just wish we didn't have to play the Yankees and Indians in the next two weeks...
Oh, and for those of you who may have missed it, Rosario hit a walk-off two-run homer in the 10th last night!!!!
WHOOO!!!!!!
And Cleveland won their 21st straight game yesterday. No team in the history of the American League has done that, either...
The record? 26 straight by the New York Giants back in 1916. Baseball was in its infancy, and nobody alive remembers that streak. Nobody.
NONE.
I'm not saying the Twins are going to, BUT...
...they have put themselves into position to do so.
I just wish we didn't have to play the Yankees and Indians in the next two weeks...
Oh, and for those of you who may have missed it, Rosario hit a walk-off two-run homer in the 10th last night!!!!
WHOOO!!!!!!
And Cleveland won their 21st straight game yesterday. No team in the history of the American League has done that, either...
The record? 26 straight by the New York Giants back in 1916. Baseball was in its infancy, and nobody alive remembers that streak. Nobody.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
16-0? 16-0!!!
Gibson was great!
Relief was great!
The Twins hit a home run in 7 consecutive innings!!!!!
No other team in the history of baseball has ever done that!!!!!!!
Castro hit two of them!!!
And Cleveland won their 20th straight game yesterday and are getting all the headlines.
sigh...
Relief was great!
The Twins hit a home run in 7 consecutive innings!!!!!
No other team in the history of baseball has ever done that!!!!!!!
Castro hit two of them!!!
And Cleveland won their 20th straight game yesterday and are getting all the headlines.
sigh...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Vikings!!!
Bradford! (27-32, 3 TD, 346 yards)
Cook! (127 yards on 22 carries, most ever by a Viking rookie in debut game, broke Adrian Peterson's rookie record)
Thielen! ( 9 receptions, 157 yards)
Diggs! (7 receptions, 93 yards, 2 TD)
DEFENSE!
I'd be more excited if this didn't happen against the Saint defense. But the O Line looked real good all night.
so...
O Line!!!!
Cook! (127 yards on 22 carries, most ever by a Viking rookie in debut game, broke Adrian Peterson's rookie record)
Thielen! ( 9 receptions, 157 yards)
Diggs! (7 receptions, 93 yards, 2 TD)
DEFENSE!
I'd be more excited if this didn't happen against the Saint defense. But the O Line looked real good all night.
so...
O Line!!!!
Monday, September 11, 2017
Football!
Twins got kicked six ways from Sunday yesterday.
That made it much easier to watch whatever NFL games were available.
Detroit, Green Bay, and the Cowboys all looked great in their wins. Of course, for Vikings fans tonight's game will pretty much determine the course of the season.
I have no expectations. A good young running back and Sam Bradford won't make much difference if the O Line hasn't recovered from last season.
And the defense will be on the field too much if the O Line is still bad.
We'll see what happens. At least the game is early.
That made it much easier to watch whatever NFL games were available.
Detroit, Green Bay, and the Cowboys all looked great in their wins. Of course, for Vikings fans tonight's game will pretty much determine the course of the season.
I have no expectations. A good young running back and Sam Bradford won't make much difference if the O Line hasn't recovered from last season.
And the defense will be on the field too much if the O Line is still bad.
We'll see what happens. At least the game is early.
Sunday, September 10, 2017
College Football
Number two, Ohio State, lost last night.
If that would have happened a couple of seasons ago before the college playoff system started, a loss like that would have literally ended their season. THAT game would have meant so much more.
As it is, it's only one loss, and by the end of the season if they still find themselves in the top eight, and play two great games at the end, they could still make the 4-team play-off.
Don't tell me college football is better with the play-off.
Last night's loss should have been a big deal. It could have been like a championship game.
Now, it's just a loss. And I went to bed early, knowing that.
How come nobody else sees this?
If that would have happened a couple of seasons ago before the college playoff system started, a loss like that would have literally ended their season. THAT game would have meant so much more.
As it is, it's only one loss, and by the end of the season if they still find themselves in the top eight, and play two great games at the end, they could still make the 4-team play-off.
Don't tell me college football is better with the play-off.
Last night's loss should have been a big deal. It could have been like a championship game.
Now, it's just a loss. And I went to bed early, knowing that.
How come nobody else sees this?
Cleveland Wins 17 Straight
I'm told that's only the second time since 1961 that a team has done that.
The Twins? They were good for 7 1/2 innings last night.
sigh...
The Twins? They were good for 7 1/2 innings last night.
sigh...
Saturday, September 9, 2017
Whew!!!!
Admit it. If you watched that game last night, you were tense as soon as Santana had that rough inning. And you stayed that way until the final out.
Anyway, the Twins won!
Cleveland won their 16th straight last night so I'm thinking a division crown is no longer in any of our sights.
And how good are the Dodgers? They have lost 12 of their last 13 games and they STILL have the best record in baseball. Cleveland's 16 straight still has not caught them.
Best? We're still in it.
AND we're going to a four man starting rotation.
Go Twins!!!!
Anyway, the Twins won!
Cleveland won their 16th straight last night so I'm thinking a division crown is no longer in any of our sights.
And how good are the Dodgers? They have lost 12 of their last 13 games and they STILL have the best record in baseball. Cleveland's 16 straight still has not caught them.
Best? We're still in it.
AND we're going to a four man starting rotation.
Go Twins!!!!
Friday, September 8, 2017
NFL
The Patriots got surprised last night. After getting off to a pretty good start, they played the role of the Falcons in last year's Super Bowl the rest of the way.
The Chiefs ended up killing them 42-27.
Football is back. Vikes play Monday against the Saints and Adrian Peterson.
Can't wait.
The Chiefs ended up killing them 42-27.
Football is back. Vikes play Monday against the Saints and Adrian Peterson.
Can't wait.
Thursday, September 7, 2017
10-6!
Finally.
The three game skid ended and the Twins now cling to half game lead in the last slot for wildcard.
How?
Dozier! homer
Adrianza! homer
Escobar! 3 hits, 3 RBI
Still in it!!!
The three game skid ended and the Twins now cling to half game lead in the last slot for wildcard.
How?
Dozier! homer
Adrianza! homer
Escobar! 3 hits, 3 RBI
Still in it!!!
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Colon!
I don't normally give exclamation points for losses, but Colon was his old, fat, brilliant self last night again. We didn't lose because of him.
The Red Sox scandal has baseball talking so much more. I can't wait to see how this compares to deflate gate. Those New England teams and their cheating...
The Red Sox scandal has baseball talking so much more. I can't wait to see how this compares to deflate gate. Those New England teams and their cheating...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Brock Osweiler
Do you remember a couple years ago when Osweiler led the Broncos to the playoffs when Manning was hurt? Manning came back and won the Super Bowl that year.
This year, Osweiler signed a huge contract with the Browns taking Jonny Football's place as the Cleveland QB.
Well, guess what? The Browns cut Osweiler before this season began still owing him about $15 million in guaranteed money over the next 4 seasons.
The Broncos took advantage of that, re-signing Osweiler to a one year deal worth $775,000. The Browns will have to pay him the rest.
So the Broncos basically borrowed Osweiler to the Texans and Browns for a little more than a season and then got him back at a bargain basement price.
Elway, the Bronco's GM is looking more and more like a business genius. Even if Osweiler is a complete bust, he's not costing the Broncos anything.
With the Twins now in a fade pattern themselves, I'm kind of getting pumped for football.
Go Vikings!!
This year, Osweiler signed a huge contract with the Browns taking Jonny Football's place as the Cleveland QB.
Well, guess what? The Browns cut Osweiler before this season began still owing him about $15 million in guaranteed money over the next 4 seasons.
The Broncos took advantage of that, re-signing Osweiler to a one year deal worth $775,000. The Browns will have to pay him the rest.
So the Broncos basically borrowed Osweiler to the Texans and Browns for a little more than a season and then got him back at a bargain basement price.
Elway, the Bronco's GM is looking more and more like a business genius. Even if Osweiler is a complete bust, he's not costing the Broncos anything.
With the Twins now in a fade pattern themselves, I'm kind of getting pumped for football.
Go Vikings!!
Monday, September 4, 2017
Sunday, September 3, 2017
17-0? 17-0!!!!!!!!!
Gibson!!! (6 shutout innings, no walks)!!!
Escobar!!! (2 Homers and a triple)!!!
Mauer!!! (4-4, now hitting .303 in SEPTEMBER)!!!
Dozier!!! (3-Run Shot)!!!
Wow!!!!!!!
Escobar!!! (2 Homers and a triple)!!!
Mauer!!! (4-4, now hitting .303 in SEPTEMBER)!!!
Dozier!!! (3-Run Shot)!!!
Wow!!!!!!!
Saturday, September 2, 2017
Disappointing Starting Pitching
You just KNEW the Twins were going to lose last night. Gee was awful in the first, worse in the second, and then collapsed early in the third.
On a brighter note, the 50 home runs the Twins hit in August were the most home runs any Twins team had ever hit in August before.
It's not the batting that's letting us down.
On a brighter note, the 50 home runs the Twins hit in August were the most home runs any Twins team had ever hit in August before.
It's not the batting that's letting us down.
Friday, September 1, 2017
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