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Picture Pages-Milwaukee Brewers
Friday:
Twins 7 Brewers 6
Joe Mauer had it all. A #1 draft pick, former High School All-American, and hometown hero to millions of kids in St. Paul, MN (yes, there are millions of kids in St. Paul...have you been lately?) But his lack of power despite being 6'5", 240lbs drove him from the game he loves. He spent years working as a warming house attendant on Lake Phalen, trying to forget all those 4-3 put-outs. As he's finally coming to terms with abject failure, something drives him from his self-imposed exile. He learns his long-estranged son is taking an interest in baseball, and that his favorite player is Ryan Howard. Joe sends his son a letter asking, "How can a .215 hitter with a .310 on-base percentage be your favorite hitter?" He waits an agonizing three weeks before finally receiving a postcard as reply. It's a picture of a pile of money and on the back is written:20. Home. runs. In June.
Joe is enraged! He immediately goes through a fifteen minute training montage complimented with inspirational music by Tim Mahoney, rejoins the Twins, and begins dominating baseball like no one has ever seen...culminating in his crushing of a Guillermo Mota fastball into the folded up football seats that pass for centerfield in the Metrodome to power the Twins over the Brewers.
Twins win 10 in a row. Joe Mauer regains the love of his son.
Saturday:
Brewers 5 Twins 1
Finding the National League utterly ridiculous, the Twins decide to play Saturday's game with one Nick Punto tied behind their backs. The Brewers prove that not even National League teams lose to teams with Nick Punto hitting second. We heart you Alexi Casilla!Sunday:
Twins 5 Brewers 0
Kevin Slowey eats the worm...finishes what he started. Believe it or not, Delmon Young hits another home run. No word yet on how he feels about Susan Sontag or long, slow deep kisses that last three days. The streak is at one.
9 comments:
Will we do our best 2006 Twins impression and finish out the 19-1 stretch? Resurgent Tigers everywhere say no...
We don't need to have a run like 2006...the division isn't as strong. I don't think the Tigers are going away, but I don't think they'll continue to improve. If you want to crown their ass, go ahead and crown them.
Ah, but you forget. I don't want a run like that merely to win the division. I need it for my sanity. And my fanaticism. And for pure entertainment value. Limping to a 1.5 game division lead and getting crushed in a D.S. doesn't do a lot for me at the moment...
Aside:
Some praise from Posnanski (best baseball blogger out there IMHO - link coming soon to the sidebar) for Gardy.
*Even if the Twins are playing otherworldly ball right now — why do you people (especially you people in Minnesota) keep arguing with me about Gardy’s genius? I don’t get it. That Twins team has Livan Hernandez and Boof Bonser pitching every fifth day (yes, as pointed out Boof is NOW in the bullpen, but the guy has started 12 games this year). They have Michael Cuddyer’s 90 OPS+ hitting fifth. I misspoke earlier about the DH as you brilliant readers pointed out, Jason Kubel is there most games (though Craig Monroe has played 25 games at DH) but in that case they have Delmon Young’s 90 OPS+ in left. The Twins have hit 51 homers ALL YEAR AS A TEAM … and they don’t lose. What the heck did Gardy ever do to you people anyway? I mean, OK, I know what he’s done, I’ve received plenty of emails about bizarre moves and managerial decisions the man has made. I don’t disagree with the specifics. But in the bigger picture I say this: So he gave Nick Punto a few too many at-bats last year, whatever, we’re at that point of the year again where people across America are noticing the Twins are winning and we outsiders have NO IDEA how they’re doing it. It seems like that’s a Gardy trademark.
I think Gardy's doing a great job this year. But to be fair to whoever is hammering Mr. Posnanaski, he seems to be handling his younger players differently this year...he's much more likely to let them play through slumps. Along the same train of thought, he's been much LESS likely to lean on a mediocre veteran (*Cough* MikeLamb)this year.
I was actually pissed off last night when he got himself kicked out so damn early in the game. This is an important series, Gardy...stay in the f'ing game. (I don't like what Ulger did in the 8th...but i can't really say Gardy would have done it differently0
Or that Gardy made the move from the clubhouse last night? There HAS to be communication there still, don't you think?
Yeah, probably. But maybe there's a tampering rule?
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/downloads/y2008/official_rules/09_the_umpire.pdf
That's a link to the section on umpire's in the offcial MLB rulebook. It doesn't say anything about what happens after the manager is kicked-out...but it does say the ump can pretty much do whatever he wants.
Here it is...rule 4.07
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/downloads/y2008/official_rules/04_starting_ending_game.pdf
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