Giving up on the Twins

I have a complaint mixed with an attack for some certain mouths flapping about the Twins in this painful two months of a season. Many are upset at the management and players for the problems that have happened. Some of these are particularly inappropriate.

First. Don't hate on Gardy, Smith and the crew managing. I'm not just gonna say that the worst set of injuries in the past 8 years is the whole story, we are just plain playing bad baseball to go with it all. And every time a piece of the puzzle looks good, like the hitting in the last two weeks, something else comes up way flat, the bullpen over the last two weeks. But look at the last 9 years and what we have had. Not being set for a naturally large baseball market, the Twins worked out 6 division titles. That is up against five other teams, so in a Marxist playing field we should take home a 5th, or 2 of those titles. Within those teams have we are against naturally bigger markets such as Chicago (2.7 million) and Detroit (700,000). Two really bad months happens and is no reason to jump off the wagon and start chucking stones at the organization that has given you so much good. Without that you would not know to be upset with what is going on.

Second. Don't call the players out for being pansies. You don't know that. You have no way of knowing that. And your theories, conjectures, and mental CSI work are not impressive enough to say that it is probably true. You are mad, and chucking stones at your players. Respect them, and assume they are doing the best they can because you have no way to say that they aren't. If these are members of the team you put your faith in, then shut up and put your faith in the only vehicle you have to make your dreams of cheering your team to a world series come true. Taking your anger and arguing for the worst when it isn't here is just gonna feed your anger. If that's your method, go cheer for the White Sox.

Let's see that some of these players that are on the worst team in baseball still got game by waiting for them through the year. If some of these guys don't start to come around at the same time we will be the worst twins team since 1907 (we're at .321, that year we were .305 for W%). That is very very unlikely, so wait for at least a good month or two, maybe we'll finish fourth, maybe third, but at this point just about any sunshine will be reason for us all to feel pretty good. Stick around.