Off Day Discussion: Your Personal Record in 2009

I go to mostly road games and my record for the home team the last several years has been crazy. Came into this year with home teams being 7-1 since the game 2 loss in the 04 ALDS, ugh. Twins were 2-4 including a win at the dome. This year has been better. The Twins are 2-1 for me this year. They lost the A-rod walkoff in Yankees Stadium, ugh. Won the 2 games at Wrigley. Hope to grab a win in Cleveland in September.

Got to see a Sunday home win in the Detroit series.
Also got to see an away loss to the Angels in Anaheim (Doubly depressing it was the blown save/Jessie Crain game).

I went to the series at Safeco in early June. Haven’t made it up to the dome this year.

In MN on travel last month. They lost the Thursday noon game to the Yankees but beat the White Sox the next evening. Both were 6-4 scores, just one was the wrong way.

Coming off a 14-5 2008.

The last season I saw the Twins lose more than they won at the Dump was 2000. That stretch includes a fortunate ’07, when I recall the Twins were about .500 at the Dome. I saw them go 14-9. Carlos Silva always seemed to be the starter, and he really came through on that football field that year. Ramon Ortiz helped offset being witness to three Matt Garza starts that year.

By the way, Matt – a sub.-500 pitcher this year for a winning team (no, it’s not the run support) – is 1-10 under the Teflon for his career.

I had been a lifetime 1.000 over 30 games going into this year. Lost to the Astros though, and the perfection ended.

Was to D.C. – I did check the Nationals schedule and luckily for me they were away that weekend!

I was there last Monday, the 4-3 victory over Chicago thanks to Cuddy’s big blast.

Was able to watch the 1st game of the White Sox series on July 27th while back in MN. Had to watch them blow the first game against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium. Melky hit a bloop single to win the game off Nathan.

I was 5-1 last year

Amazingly, the only game we chose to go to of the three game series in Oakland recently was not the Monday night 14-13 comeback-from-behind embarrassment, or the 16-1 Wednesday afternoon drubbing, but the Tuesday evening 3-2 victory in ten innings. Frankly, too scared to go to any more after that for fear of destroying great karma achieved through attending solely that game this season.

0-3 the first three games. Then 7 victories. Now one loss, so 7 and 4 (only 11 appearances at the Dome this year…sigh).

… So I have a great excuse. Although it probably wouldn’t hurt their chances if I plopped down in Section 220 for a game or two.

so its been pretty nice. Two favorites were kicking the Whities (against Buerly) and the Morneau grand slam against the Brewers.
Worst game by far was yesterday. I still feel like I got punched in the gut by that game.
We have tickets to 3 more games, the last one being against the Royals our last series. People keep asking me if I am going to steal a seat. I do not think they understand that the Vikings still play there..besides, the dome seats really suck. I would not want one anyway.

Saw Indians get smacked by Slowey (the game where Asdrubal Cabrera had an extremity explode sliding into 2nd).
I also saw the Blackburn disaster at Kaufmann Stadium in June. After this game I was reminded that I’m lifetime undefeated watching the Royals away from the dome, including 2-0 at Kaufmann. My other game at Kaufmann was the night Curt Schilling came back after the bloody sock WS game and they tossed 12 runs up on the board.

which is depressing on a number of levels.

2-0
But you’ll have to get them to come back to St. Louis.

August 1st…11-6 blowout by Angels. Morneau homered though and I got to see the Twins debut of O-Cab! I realized just how much Punto and Delmon sucked. Good grief, the Twins should hire all of us to evaluate their team and tell them which ones to get rid of…aka Delmon Punto.