.500

Perspective means a lot. If someone at the beginning of the season would have told me the Twins would be in second place with a .500 record at his point of the season, I would be overjoyed.

As it is, not so much.

Twins and Vikings

Let's face it. The Twins season ended at the All-Star break. They've lost 10 of 15 since then, including 8 of their last 10. Starting pitching rich, they were forced to call up a new guy this week, when they decided to keep Trevor May in the pitching poor relief corp.

And that new guy was NOT good last night. Not good at all. Sano looked good again, though.

The Vikings play their first pre-season game of the year against Pittsburgh on Saturday night. It's the annual Hall of Fame  which usually gets a pretty good audience. The Vikes should be good this year. My Pack is ranked number one in the rankings, the favorite to win the Superbowl. The Vikings are ranked 16th. Right in the middle. That's about right. They have room to move up and surprise that way.

I still think they'd be a much better squad without an aging Peterson, but he has much to prove to the fans and himself this season. And at least that's something.

Twins Have Just Two Hits

Again.

I'm not watching.

Twins

The Twins were 10 games over .500 a couple of weeks ago. Now, we're all wondering if they'll even finish above .500 for the season. Perkins has become Ron Davis, just as he does every year after the All-Star Break, and suddenly, good opposition pitching makes the whole lineup inept at hitting.

Trevor May is like the only bright spot in an otherwise awful bullpen, so even with Milone now going on the injury list, the Twins are going to leave May in the bullpen.

No hitting. No bullpen. Average starting pitching. And fielding that has suddenly tanked.

I'm just having a hard time watching this team anymore this season.

I'm glad the Vikes are starting soon. In the meantime, I'll just watch more movie marathons.

And wrestling. There's always wrestling.

Top of the Eleventh

sigh

Bottom of the Ninth

We were watching a movie last night, but I kept track of the game on my iPad. Movie finished, we watched the bottom of the ninth.

YESSS!!!

Great finish.

Roddy Piper

Hulk Hogan lost a great deal of his reputation this past week when racist remarks he made, on tape, were released to the public. Commentators were saying he was personally responsible for the wrestling boom of the 1980's.

I beg to differ.

Hulk Hogan was the "Real American" hero that got people to watch of course. But every hero needs a villain and Roddy Piper was THAT villain. Without Roddy Piper's smarmy attitude, and heelish behavior, most fans would have never given the great cheers to Hogan.

Batman would never have been as popular if the Joker had never existed either.

Hogan AND Piper put Vince McMahon on the map and set the course for his billion dollar empire.

Roddy died last night in his sleep. He was 61.

Here's a drawing I recently did of him.