#-1: Twins (Last Week: -2). Once again, they are falling into a predictable pattern of winning the first two games and losing the last game of a three-game series. Losing those games, at Oakland and to Kansas City tonight (Thursday night) by a single run salves partially. What doesn't are the injuries up the infield middle, Hudson and Hardy. The good news is this happening while the second-place Tigers are backsliding; their loss today (Thursday afternoon) to the White Sox puts them 4 1/2 games behind the Twinks, I think.
They start what I think is still an intriguing thing: The interleague portion of their schedule. They host Atlanta this weekend and Colorado during the week. Ooh, wanna see if Ubaldo Jimenez is throwing.
#-2: Lynx (Last Week: -1). Oh my God these people are so fucking bad. A complete 0-3 week, the most embarrassing of which is a 38-point -- re-read that, a 38-point -- shit-kicking at home against Indiana. They finally got Seimone Augustus back after about a year tonight (Thursday night) but lost at Phoenix by 11. Oh, and the Bastard Detroit Shock beat them in Tulsa by 13. Although it seemed like it happened when the regular season began, right now they have become the worst team in the WNBA. Christ. They have four first-round picks they drafted themselves, plus two second-rounders and a third-rounder, and yet they still suck donkey dick???
They have only one game this week, Sunday afternoon against the Los Angeles Sparks, the team that just leapfrogged the Jynx out of the Western Conference cellar.
#-Infinity: Gopher baseball (Last Week: 0). They had it. They had their chance. They caught a bolt of lightning and they couldn't hold on. The 4-seed Gophs went into Fullerton, Calif. and upset 1-seed and hosts Cal State-Fullerton in the first game of the regional, then beat New Mexico (who themselves upset 2-seed Stanford) to stay undefeated. Until they saw the Titans again, and they weren't able to match their opening-night feat, getting eliminated by consecutive scores of 7-2 and 9-5.
And so a late-season surge that had some people thinking they could make some noise in the postseason ends with yet another humbling of the Big Ten in a sport they are very much an also-ran in. I don't want to take away from their season; after all, they were the best team in the conference. But if you haven't been in a super-regional ever since they started super-regionals, let alone gotten into a College World Series since 1977, what's it all for? And why do you even bother fielding a baseball program then?
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