#-1: Twins (Last Week: -1). This is, sadly, the last week where the WMNSS is only comprised of one team. (It might be the last time in a long time too, seeing that the Lynx are leaking oil bad right now and, IMHO, Phoenix is poised to win the WNBA title.) That means that the Twinks will finally be knocked down from the top peg, as they seemingly are slouching to Gomorrah for a fifth straight year.
These 2-4 weeks, like getting stopped by a cop for Driving While Black in Ferguson and repeatedly having the local government nickel-and-dime you into poverty, wears away at the integrity of a ballclub. Despite avoiding sweeps against Houston and Kansas City, Tuesday night's soul-crushing 7-5 loss, where the squad scored all of its runs in the bottom of the first yet was unable to keep the lead, put them, as of right now, 14 games under .500, a season worst. There have been few highlights beyond the semi-emergence of Dany Santana, and now the bullpen is matching the rotation in futility and shamefulness. Even with the victories, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, good that I can single out about this team.
So we look into the minors where, my goodness, Great "White" Hope Byron Buxton will be shut down for the rest of the year after suffering a scary collision in a game a week ago. He has a concussion and, because the Twinks have nothing else going on up and down the organization, they have to keep their golden goose good for the future, therefore they are telling him to stop playing now.
The future is all they have. The present absolutely stinks.
After getting down with Cleveland (at home) and playing Detroit for four games over the three-game weekend (Saturday afternoon's game is a make-up of a rainout on April 27), they go to Kansas City for three starting on Tuesday.
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