The Morning After: Funny, when you think about it

I’m laughing on the outside, but sobbing on the inside.

Comedy is tragedy plus time. In that vein I think I’ll be able to laugh about this once Bill Smith is gone and/or(I’m hoping for and) when an M&M led Twins win the World Series.

where Nuke is describing to Annie Savoy how the road trip went:
“God I’m tired. What a trip I was lousy. I was worse than lousy. Everytime I pitched—it was like throwing gasoline on a fire. Kaboom.”
The Twins pitchers just need to play a game of catch in the backyard… and wear garter belts.

Even though this is only a 3 game skid, but because the way they lost them it feels like it’s been a month long losing streak

The starting pitching is not getting the job done. They were bad in Oakland & Anaheim and putrid this past weekend against the Angels. It looks like BP out there.

Smith can be faulted for the bullpen’s follies in the middle of games & for the offensive black holes at SS & 2B (to be fair, we thought Casilla was up to it).

“GM Performance” (gee, think about that for a moment ….) is far from the only problem, though, and Smith ought not be cast as the scapegoat.

Kids get to run the bases after the game
Moms and Dads get to pitch during it! Sign up and join the Twins bullpen.

I’m not saying we don’t need urgent help (the subject of my next blog post). But the Angels were indiscriminate in dismembering pitchers. They hit good pitches. They hit bad pitches. They took tough pitches. They ran around the bases like fiends. They were very good. My guess is we pitch better starting on Tuesday simply because we won’t be playing the Angels.

Sorry, still not funny. Even if this happened to the CWS, I’d think, “Wow, sucks to be a Chicago fan this year”. I’m not blaming solely the pitching staff though. Amazingly were still only third.
This might be funny if Ueck was saying, “Juuust a bit outside” and Wild Thing was on the mound.

They should have gotten Delmon the live chicken

Okay, the promising pitchers have to step up. Considering that they are all solid 3-4-5 starters, we need soemthing at the top of the line. Looks like Liriano won’t be it.

Don’t blame Gardy. I have heard many frustrating comments from him when the front office calls up or sends down someone. Sure, I may disagree with his lineup construction (thank god he got past the right-left-right thing) and happy that a worthy #2 hitter is there so Mauer can hit third, which is a better spot for him if he has a great #2 hitter in front of him., We still have two sure outs at the bottom of the lineup most of the time (glad we don’t have a pitcher there, too).

Say bye-bye Bill Smith and get a baseball man instead of a business man in that hot seat.

Prospects! They either make the team shine, or are used to get pieces needed when youa re a competitive team. When a team is a losing team, they sign retreads and aging vets and trade them for mid-level prospects during the season. When a team is in contention, they part with a few bodies to add those previous pieces. If a team wants to appear competitive, they maybe sign a ahs-been or two during the August/September waiver-wire days. But you only draft so many players, only protect so many after three seasons, so many more after five seasons. I think if you looked, roughly 80% of the guys currently in the Twins farm system won’t ever play in the majors and become eligible, in any way, for the pension plan. That’s a lot of bidoes to trade (boy, with free agency, baseball is still a game of trading souls).

The stadium! Shut-up about otudoor baseball. Here’s hoping that after the very dry summer of 2009, the Twins Cities experience 60-days of rain come 2010. God will speak to the Twins way of doing things!

What I like is that with Cabrera on board (an error machine, supposedly why we can’t use Harris at 2B), Young and Harris are both benched (and, according to LaVelle, nobody wanted a piece of Young before the deadline.) Oh, well, at least we should get another Phil Humber for Mauer . . .