It was a very pleasing Sunday afternoon for Minnesota sports fans.
I refuse to get too excited about the Wild just yet. They advanced to the second round of playoffs last year, too. (And the Blues have now lost in the first round for three years in a row...) So everything, to this point, is going pretty much as expected.
The Blackhawks are a totally different story. The Wild never get past the Chicago bad boys. Dubnyk has been the secret weapon of the Wild's success this year, and it's his continued success in which the Wild's hope lies. THIS IS THE KEY SERIES. We're better than we've ever been. The Hawks aren't what they once were. That's a nice place to be in if you're the Wild. I can't smell the Stanley Cup just yet, but I'm starting to do some real sniffing...
Joe Mauer had three hits again, yesterday, including the game-winning two-run triple in the 11th inning. Pitching has been good for the Twins lately. Hitting has been good enough. And Joe has managed to stay near the .300 mark so far. If Trevor May's elbow is okay and Kyle Gibson keeps looking this good, the Twins will at least be worth watching for a while longer.
The Nimble one sent me a link to an article yesterday about Molitor actually talking about the metrics of perhaps batting Mauer first in the line-up. Just knowing that Molitor is acknowledging that metrics exist is a step in the right direction as well. That he might be using them is more than my heart can take...
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