I totally forgot about this until just now, so I'll have to make this short in order to get this in before midnight:
#-1: Gopher softball (Last Week: -1). Weather wreaked such havoc in the Twin Cities last weekend (apparently) that it cost the Gophers and Michigan St. one of their three games. The other two were scrunched into a Doubleheader, which, thankfully, the Gophers swept, 7-1 and 9-5. There was a scheduled DH tomorrow/Wednesday at Wisconsin, but because of weather it's been postponed to next Wednesday. (The Gophers were supposed to play North Dakota St. on that April 24, but that will be postponed to another date that is available.) But the road series at Nebraska this weekend is still on.
#-2: Gopher baseball (Last Week: -4). Bad weather turned the Gophs' three-Game series versus Illinois at Siebert into something special: A Doubleheader Sunday followed by a series-ender on Monday. The U. could do that because they were hosting South Dakota St. the next day, today (Tuesday).
Well, how did they do? Well, the Fighting Illini swept Sunday's contests, 4-2 and 13-3 (ouch). The U. took the getaway Game, 5-4, then beat the Jackrabbits, 5-1. Oh, and defeated North Dakota St. last Tuesday, 4-3. But by far the most important Games were the ones against Illinois, and they lost two-of-three.
The marquee series of the 2019 U. baseball season is this weekend. Oklahoma comes to town for three, the middle game of which will be played at Target Field.
#-3: Twins (Last Week: -2). A 3-3 screening week -- split a two-Game series at the Mets, took two at home against Detroit (the Friday game was postponed and rescheduled for next month) and, so far, have dropped two games at Target vs. Toronto. They finish their series (and the homestand) against the Blue Jays before heading out for Baltimore for the weekend and then to Houston (for three tilts, just like the Orioles, the first Astros game for which is on Monday).
#-4: United FC (Last Week: 0). I just want to note three things:
#-Infinity: Timberwolves (Last Week: -3). Ended the season with a 20-Point loss to Toronto at Target and a come-from-ahead loss in Denver on back-to-back days. Like the Wild, this is a team not good enough to make the playoffs but not horrible enough to get enough ping-pong balls in the Draft Lottery. So they'll have a middling mid-round pick in order to try and bolster an underachieving group which, by the way, will be butting right up against the salary cap. The path to improvement seems difficult to figure out from here, but for a damned franchise like the Woofie Dogs, you can figure that would be apt.
#-1: Gopher softball (Last Week: -1). Weather wreaked such havoc in the Twin Cities last weekend (apparently) that it cost the Gophers and Michigan St. one of their three games. The other two were scrunched into a Doubleheader, which, thankfully, the Gophers swept, 7-1 and 9-5. There was a scheduled DH tomorrow/Wednesday at Wisconsin, but because of weather it's been postponed to next Wednesday. (The Gophers were supposed to play North Dakota St. on that April 24, but that will be postponed to another date that is available.) But the road series at Nebraska this weekend is still on.
#-2: Gopher baseball (Last Week: -4). Bad weather turned the Gophs' three-Game series versus Illinois at Siebert into something special: A Doubleheader Sunday followed by a series-ender on Monday. The U. could do that because they were hosting South Dakota St. the next day, today (Tuesday).
Well, how did they do? Well, the Fighting Illini swept Sunday's contests, 4-2 and 13-3 (ouch). The U. took the getaway Game, 5-4, then beat the Jackrabbits, 5-1. Oh, and defeated North Dakota St. last Tuesday, 4-3. But by far the most important Games were the ones against Illinois, and they lost two-of-three.
The marquee series of the 2019 U. baseball season is this weekend. Oklahoma comes to town for three, the middle game of which will be played at Target Field.
#-3: Twins (Last Week: -2). A 3-3 screening week -- split a two-Game series at the Mets, took two at home against Detroit (the Friday game was postponed and rescheduled for next month) and, so far, have dropped two games at Target vs. Toronto. They finish their series (and the homestand) against the Blue Jays before heading out for Baltimore for the weekend and then to Houston (for three tilts, just like the Orioles, the first Astros game for which is on Monday).
#-4: United FC (Last Week: 0). I just want to note three things:
- The day MNUFC announced it was entering MLS, there came a huge rainstorm. It was so bad that the after-announcement concert featuring Doomtree was cancelled.
- The first-ever home game for the Loons, at TCF Bank vs. Atlanta, was in the middle of a blizzard. Oh, and Atlanta United crushed them, 6-1.
- And at the first-ever game of Allianz Field Saturday, vs. NYCFC, two of the five panels that were supposed to make up the tifo tore.
#-Infinity: Timberwolves (Last Week: -3). Ended the season with a 20-Point loss to Toronto at Target and a come-from-ahead loss in Denver on back-to-back days. Like the Wild, this is a team not good enough to make the playoffs but not horrible enough to get enough ping-pong balls in the Draft Lottery. So they'll have a middling mid-round pick in order to try and bolster an underachieving group which, by the way, will be butting right up against the salary cap. The path to improvement seems difficult to figure out from here, but for a damned franchise like the Woofie Dogs, you can figure that would be apt.
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