Attack of the Metrodome: Twins 6, Tigers 2

It’s like Leyland “wants” to lose. Why, why, why do you even put Kelly in the game???? I thought he was going to stick with the guys that put us in first place!!!! That has to be the worst move of the year. We had this game. Until Kelly literally “lost” it for us. I just don’t get it.

The Tigers went 8-1 in Minneapolis that year. Hell, even last year they managed to win 4 games there.

The Royals have had THREE players leave their game with injuries. We can’t have that!

when I read “And sure enough, the axe goes right into the head.” Hilarious.

Henning had a rare, entertaining line as well:

The Twins Torment continued in ways that were purely sadistic at the torture rack otherwise known as the Metrodome.

Also. There was a question of whether or not anyone has won their division with a negative run differential. In 2007, Arizona won the division with 90 wins by a half game with -20. It’s reassuring, if nothing else. But that was the Mets’ infamous year as well.

Bringing up the Mets really isn’t helping, is it? Here, try what I’m doing and listen to this.

we are not scoring runs in any fashion. Not hitting homers. Not bringing guys in. Not scoring on passed balls or errors. We cannot score. At all.

And we are apparently gripping so hard that it’s going to take a flukey game or a truly horrendous starting pitching performance to get us out of it. You can’t say we aren’t hitting. We had 11 hits today. We aren’t hitting with guys on. At all.

It’d be nice if we didn’t draw (or create) any more career-making pitching performances for awhile.

I heard an interview, a few years ago, with one of the men who worked on “The Birds” with Hitchcock. He was describing one of the last scenes, where the blond actress (Tippi Hedron?) goes into the attic alone and is almost pecked to death.

He said that Hitchcock looked at him for a few moments (after the interviewee was describing the scene), and said “so, let me understand this. It’s after the attack, all is quiet, everyone else is asleep, and she hears a noise upstairs and goes up to the attic alone to investigate. Is the woman daft or what?”

In movies, there are those destined to get the proverbial or actual axe to the head. :(

So that the damn building has no power or water or something essential to its function (but without anyone getting hurt, of course), so that they’d have to postpone tomorrow’s game and only make it up “if there are playoff implications?” Or better yet, force the Twins to move to a “neutral site” for the rest of the season, like Miller Park?

It was a bad day and tomorrow may be just as bad. However, the Twins are as bad (or worse) on the road as the TIgers and they have a 10 game road trip coming up. If Detroit is in the lead or tied for the lead at the end of this road trip (7 more games) they will win the division.

Road House is on. It’s actually making me feel better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8L9WSJi4hc&feature=related

Dusty Hughes left with “nerve soreness” in his elbow.
David DeJesus left with a sore right ankle.
Miguel Olivo left with a “stomach disorder.”

Dusty Hughes left with “nerve soreness” in his elbow.
David DeJesus left with a sore right ankle.
Miguel Olivo left with a “stomach disorder.”

our playoff odds skidded to 62.6 percent today. I would guess they will be right at 50% if we fall tomorrow.

minimal leads. This was a very crucial game. Jim Leyland is an idiot. We have to win tomorrow.

however, it’s not them I am concerned about, the twins are nipping at our heels like Chihuahuas. It’s frustrating and I am truly disgusted by this whole series.

Pavano was gone by the time I got home, so I did not see anything the Tigers did against him for myself. All I have to go on are the assessments of Dan & Jim on the radio, and their observation seemed to be that none of the 11 hits were hit very well. All of them seemed to be either bloops or ground balls that found holes (or infield singles). Perhaps that is how you strand nine? The odds of getting five bloop hits in a row are almost impossible (though the Twins certainly find a way to do it).

And also, I should probably know this, but is Scott Baker the type of guy you can create havoc on the bases against? You know, steal bases, bunt for hits, hit-and-run, etc? Our boys need to get energized. Right now they look like they’re running on fumes. Perhaps we should investigate their in-season conditioning and training regiment?

I left the house right when this game ended and forced myself to not think about it most of the evening, which was probably a good thing. getting emotional over baseball feels even more ridiculous when I have no friends that understand it.

am I reaching the acceptance stage of this supposed grief process? heh.

I’m tired of trying to figure out why things happened or how. this loss was triggered by the lost ball but it was JV who gave up the hit, and we also couldn’t score any of our runners. same shit, different day. I hope we can hold on and get into the playoffs but my hopes are fading and it makes me pretty sad. I guess I’d rather this fall apart now than at the very end of the month.