The flight attendant didn’t grab my Crackberry last night even though I ignored the first couple of warnings to turn off all electrical devices because the plane was going to take off soon. I was getting the 15-second refresh on mlb.com and the Twins had the bases loaded … and I figured that a 2-0 start was a good thing even though Jose Morales grounded into that double play. Unfortunately, the Gamecast gave no sense that Delmon Young’s bases-loaded single was anything other than a routine hit, so I didn’t know that the Twins would have led 5-0 in a ballpark if they hadn’t been playing in Comerica’s  jumbo-sized center field.

Then, as soon as the wheels hit the ground in the Twin Cities, I fired up the C’berry and …

DET 7 , MIN 2 (seventh inning)

$#!+The bad news was what happened, the good news was that I didn’t have to watch Carl Pavano serve those meatballs to Inge and Ordonez and the others.

Because  it’s pretty unfair to comment of what I didn’t see go down, I will let Joe’s game story and Jim’s column stand in for me.

For now, I’ll say out loud what I suspect most of us understand: Missing their first baseman, third baseman and 60 percent of their anticipated rotation and having underperformers playing daily in left field and at second and third bases, the Twins dragged out this thing for a long, long time in September. You can win with a cobbled together and mirror-filled lineup for a period of time. But not indefinitely.

And that definitely has caught up with the Twins this week.

Now, there’s nothing but hope.

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