6/30/08

6/30/08

Wheeeeeeew!!! Daddy's back!!

I just crawled out of an early Summer coma aka I've been hanging out with my girlfriend a lot. That will be the last time this year I use that excuse for anything baseball or anything sports related for that matter. I can't afford to miss much more especially because of how well the Twinsies are playing. How appropriate that the last time I published a post it was the first day of June. Today? The last day of June. In case you were buried the last few weeks like me, the Twins finished Interleague play with the best record in baseball. They went 14-4 against the likes of Randy Johnson, Brandon Webb, Jake Peavy, Greg Maddux and Ben Sheets. That is some quality stuff. During that stretch, the Twin managed to rip off a 10 game winning streak

Tonight they are playing the Tigers in their first Intraleague game in quite some time. On a side note, I first learned the difference between the prefix inter and intra in my Quantitative Methods class back in college. Thank you Professor Morie.

8:02pm The Tigers pitcher facing Joe Mauer intentionally threw behind him on pitch 1. On pitch 2 he tried to hit him again and missed. What the hell is this dude doing? Throwing at Joe Mauer is like rooting for Rudy not to get in his final game at Notre Dame. By the way, Gardy just got tossed for standing up for Mauer.

Now, the Twins have been playing great, but they can't seem to catch the White Sox who also have it going on right now. They currently trail the Pale Hose by 1.5 games in the Central. I was watching the White Sox v. Cubs on Saturday afternoon and the announcer says, "no matter how much you think the Twins might be out of the race, you can never count them out". So sweet coming from Ken "Hawk" Harrelson!!!

Lets keep a good thing going and take another month off from blogging....joking....I'll be back soon to report on the recent happenings of the Twins.

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