Joe Paterno apparently watched the Twins-Jays series
Posted on May 15th, 2008 – 4:00 PMBy Michael Rand
Sorry, that’s a cheap headline — JoePa’s feeling of nausea should not be taken lightly. But hey, how about those Twins! Is everyone as fired up as they were following the Red Sox series? Sadly, we kind of saw the step back coming. But we saw it coming in a “maybe lose 2 of 3″ kind of way, not in a getting swept kind of way. All back to squares at 20-20, a record that always reminds us of Dwane Casey (seriously).
12 Responses to "Joe Paterno apparently watched the Twins-Jays series"
Sounds like there was more of the same shoddy play leading to this loss. Two more runs thrown out at the plate. Kubel ran through a stop sign at third in the seventh and was out by a mile. John Gordon said he didn’t even look at Ullger.
Life is unpleasant. Or maybe that’s just Jason Kubel.
Swept at home, with all the losses by one run? That’ll derail the bandwagon a little bit.
It occurs to me that a bandwagon doesn’t run on rails. I apologize for the mixed metaphor.
I have been asking in this forum for a trade of Jesse Crain for probably over a year.
He stinks. Let’s package him up and get something for him. Maybe some sucker out there still thinks he’s “closer material” like they did three and a half years ago…
Dave: Hate to break it to you, but your declaration of Crain’s talent and your declaration that he would fetch something in a trade and somewhat contradictory.
Poor Dave has fallen victim to the same thinking that’s informed every fan-suggested trade since the dawn of time: “Every other team is run by subhuman idiots who haven’t the capability to do any scouting.”
Of course, then there’s the Jim Edmonds thing, which gives some hope for the trade-Crain bandwagon.
Rand, I’ll explain myself in order to eliminate the contradiction.
I don’t think Crain is all that talented. I think he’s limited. He suffers from Kyle Lohse syndrome. “All potential, disappointing performance” Crain had 1.5 good seasons and has used the Twins’ love of potential against them since that time (a la Kyle Lohse). After those 1.5 good seasons, teams around the league considered Crain to be “closer material”. I wish they would have traded him about 2.5 years ago when he was actually worth something. Now I think they’d be lucky to get a career minor leaguer in trade for him, unless they can find themselves another Krivsky to take up their castoffs.
So the only way Crain will fetch anything in a trade now, is if some other GM deludes himself into thinking that Crain is actually going to be something more than he is (a reliever with a decent fastball, so-so control, and a proclivity for giving up runs and leads).
He was worth so much more before he revealed what he was. I just want him gone because I hate to have to cringe every time that he enters a game, because I know that, more often than not, the Twins will be behind when he leaves.
Jon, I don’t really think that any other team’s management is stupid enough to give the Twins anything for Crain. So I’m sure I’m stuck cringing for years to come.
I THINK THE TWINS SHOULD TRADE LAMB & CRAIN TO THE YANKEES FOR AROD AND JOBA THAT WILL SOLVE TWO HOLES AT THE SAME TIME, AND THE YANKEES AREN’T USING JOBA RIGHT ANYWAY THEY SHOULD BE STARTING HIM I LIKE PUNCTUATION
VIKINGS ACCESS COMMENTER: You aren’t a real ACCESS VIKINGS commenter. You know how I know? Because you knew how to make an ampersand…
Scott Ullger apparently doesn’t know the difference between baseball and softball, as the two guys he got thrown out at home today MIGHT have been safe if they were running around a softball diamond.
