#-1: Twins (Last Week: -1). Whoop-de-fucking-do. Last (Tuesday) night's 10-4 (good buddy) loss to the Houston Astros completes a 2-5 week. That's a shitty performance, but I just got back from the Lynx's loss to L.A. tonight (Tuesday night), and I hate it when I could have just saved my money and gone home straight home from work when I instead decided to shell out money (even if it was just ten bucks for a ticket with a student ID) to see the home team lose. It makes me feel like I wasted my fucking money ... and I did. Pisses me the fuck off. So I'm not going to give a quarter to the Twinks, who are much, much worse.
Seriously, even though Houston technically has a worse record than them, they seem to be moving in opposite directions. Despite all the bullshit the Astros' Regional Sports Network is putting Houstonians through, and despite the fact that they may be the only club who has been worse than the Twinks the past four years, they have guys like Jose Altuve and George Springer who are really good. It's not too far to believe that they are the foundation from which Houston can have a great team, something that, for example, the Kansas City Royals finally seem to have after three decades in the wilderness.
On the other hand you have an organization like the Twinks, who, staring into the abyss of fourth consecutive 90+ loss season, seem to find new depths of futility. With another rudderless, below-.500 season assured, they once again are casting off those people who have no future with the team if it becomes good again. So say goodbye to Josh Willingham, traded to the Royals earlier this week. He was a find the first year of his tenure in Minnesota but failed to reproduce that magic since. (Hope Kurt Suzuki, really the only bright spot of this otherwise dark year, does not follow that same downward trajectory.) Also, say good goddamn riddance to the awful Kevin Correia, who, of course, won his first game with his new squad, the Los Angeles Dodgers. Eventually you just need bodies to fill out a 25-man major league roster, but you might as well cut bait if there's no use keeping them around. Of course, that'll mean the losing will continue unabated.
After this (Wednesday) afternoon's series finale in Houston, they have a day off, then embark on a ten-day, 11-game homestand against the teams in the American League Central that are ahead of them in the standings. Oh wait ... all of the other teams are ahead of the Twinks in the standings. I'll narrow it down; they don't meet Chicago. They will start off with Kansas City this weekend, then host Cleveland for three starting Tuesday. Wonder if bad can get worse.
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