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.

Dropping two in a row to the Tigers? It’s becoming obvious that the Tigers won’t continue to struggle much longer. Unless their pitching sucks all year.

But, I’d hate to think that it was two games dropped by the Twins in late innings that gave the Tigers their jump start on the year. If the Tigers go on a roll now, it’s too bad that the Twins helped to get that ball rolling.

At least the Twins offense made a nice showing. It’s good to see Morneau sitting with 4 home runs on the season already.