Oh well.

The “Positives”

Watching the after-game shows, it was apparent that all Twins broadcast crew had become bitten by the nasty little critter referred to as the ‘optimism’ bug. Everybody had commentary about the optimistic angles of the Minnesota Twins loss tonight.

Granted, they did score 5 runs tonight. That alone is pretty cool. Some nights, going into a game, it’s pretty much a toss up as to whether the Twins will actually score more than a couple (and I mean only a couple) or less runs.

Morneau

Grand slam for Morneau. Can’t complain. Great stuff.

Liriano

Regarding yesterday’s game, Liriano. I still think that Liriano will come around eventually and be a pretty good, if not great, pitcher. I mean, the guy just had major surgery. This isn’t exactly Joe Mays coming back from surgery. This is Liriano.

I found this to be an interesting recap of the return of Liriano:

Francisco Liriano became the first Twins starter since Brad Radke on May 20, 2002, to fail to survive the first inning, and the Twins lost their second straight game. Liriano, 0-3 with an 11.32 ERA since returning from Tommy John surgery, allowed six runs in two-thirds of an inning against the Athletics.

Gotta win

The Twins need a nice little winning streak of about 4 games.

The Twins need to lock this one up. C’mon, just one run.

It was fun to watch the Twins try to hit good old Eddie Guardado, but now it’s time to knock in a run or two and keep this game from going into extra innings.

I assume that the Twins will not allow Texas to score in the bottom of the 9th. That is just flat out blind confidence on my part.

On a good note, Mauer’s average is now back over .300, let’s hope he can keep it there, or maybe even drive his average higher.

I’ll take a lead-clinching home run though, too. That would be nice.

Nope, guess we won’t get that, just a pop-fly. Oh well. C’mon bullpen.

This is great. Just….. flat out great Twins baseball marketing.

Believe me, this is not a consistent situation.

I’m on my second Olde English Forty in two days. It’s kinda cool. I guess I’d talk it up if it came up during a casual conversation. I just like drinking malt liquor while watching Twins baseball, what can I say?

I should drink one of these every night. Maybe I shouldn’t. It’s hard to say. It probably depends on the evening more than anything.

As an afterthought….

Last night after I finished off my Olde English HG800, I browsed eBay and ended up dropping 14 bucks for an Olde English 800 baseball cap. I hope I receive it soon. It’s being delivered to my office. That will be some good subject material for office conversation, that is for sure. Guaranteed.

New Rally Cap?

I can’t wait until I receive my hat. That is going to be awesome. I’m going to wear it while I disc golf. That should be fun. I’ll probably wear the hat at other time as well. Maybe during Twins games. Maybe the hat will turn out to be one of those mythical rally caps for Twins baseball.

I could only hope.

Yes, I do own a 75 gallon marine aquarium. 2 clownfish, 1 firefish, 1 blue tang, and some crabs and snails. It’s a good fish tank setup.

I’ve moved all my fish tank blogging over to lukesquarium.com. My fish tank blogging deserved it’s own web site. I thought so.

The web site can be viewed at: http://lukesaquarium.com

Check it out

Yeah.

Yeah!

Base hit to left field.

It’s the top of the 8th inning and the Twins are getting shut down 2-0 by the A’s. This sucks. C’mon Delmon Young, see the ball, hit the ball. See the ball, drive in some runs. See the ball, hit a home run.

I think this current Twins team will be a fine offensive team, better than most Twins fans are used to. It’ll just take some time. These guys have to gel a bit.

There are a lot of new faces, and as a collective whole, the Twins need to hit their stride.

In another month, it’ll be interesting to look at the Twins stats.

The Oakland A’s Defense

On another note, the A’s defense has been pretty funny the last couple days. Dropping balls, balls rolling between legs, it almost seems derogatory. Haha. Yeah. The the Twins know how to capitalize on this stuff.

Twins Win Tonight?

They’ll probably end up winning 3-2 with a save by Joe Nathan tonight.

About 30 more minutes and I’ll find out if that prediction was correct.