It all depends on how you look at things. Is he levitating? Is he falling? Is he tricking us and being held up by some piece of wire that has been eliminated from the final edit of the picture?

Sports are about what is accomplished; they are also about how you frame that accomplishment. And that leads us to some questions about the Twins. How do you view their season-to-date? Is it the levitation, the 88 wins and all sorts of pleasant surprises that led to vast over-achievement in an overall sense? Do you look at the picture another way and decide that in spite of the great turnaround, and with the exception of three spine-tingling wins last week against the White Sox, their sub-par play in the past 30-35 games cannot be overlooked because the squad had proven the stakes were changed with its earlier play? Are you ecstatic that, worst-case scenario, they’ll be in a one-game playoff during a season that many predicted fourth place, or can you not get past the feeling that they could have made this a lot easier with even average play down the stretch?

What do you focus on? The 9 home runs or the batting title? The 129 RBI or the late-season slump? The development of the young pitchers or the way many of them faltered in September? Levitating, falling or suspended?

And isn’t if funny how your answers could change wildly depending on whether another team loses one of its next two games.

But is that fair?

Fasola-link! Pro rasslin’ in Alabama.

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