#-1: Lynx (Last Week: -2). Only one game this screening week, one coming after almost a week-long break. And it looks like it did the Jynx a bunch of good, as they broke their losing streak at four with a 93-82 victory over New York at Target Center. I still have no idea if they've figured anything out when it comes to rotations and roles, but they have time, it's a 12-team league, and only four teams don't make it to the postseason.
Right now they are kicking ass over an Indiana Fever team who had an adventure getting home. Their contest before this was a four-point loss at Seattle. They were supposed to fly home (commercial, not charter; the WNBA is too poor to get its players to charter planes) through Atlanta. But there were fuck-ups with the plane in Seattle, and once they got to Atlanta, the Fever missed its connection and could not get 18 tickets together. So they bussed it to Indy ... except the bus broke down. Fever Forward Natalie Achonwa documented her team's ordeal on Twitter. They finally got home 22 hours after they started their sojourn, and they got home 23 hours before tonight's game vs. the Lynx. So yes, they have a built-in excuse to lose at home to Minnesota.
Team plays in Dallas versus the Wings Sunday.
#-2: Twins (Last Week: -1). Another middling week -- 3-3, featuring a four-game split in Kansas City and (if you include Monday) a series loss at home to Boston. A regression to the mean has been accompanied by a growing rash of injuries. The Dodgers now have the best record in baseball. But at least they still have the best record in the American League, thanks largely to a seven-game skid suffered recently by the Houston Astros. (Meanwhile, the New York Yankees have supplanted the 'Stros by virtue of a nine-of-ten winning streak; they are now only a half-Game behind the Twinks.)
They have just started the first game of a three-game series vs. the Tampa Bay Rays at home. This represents their homestand; Minnesota goes to the White Sox for a trio over the weekend.
#-3 (tie): Timberwolves and Wild (Re-Entry!). I have no idea how to gauge both teams' drafts. For the Wolves, I have heard that their pick, Jarrett Culver out of Texas Tech (who played in town for college basketball's title game in April), has great potential. But I also heard that the Wolves were trying to get Deandre Hunter, a Point Guard, and there was another PG, Coby White, who was sitting there at #6, where the Wolves traded with Phoenix in order to move up. But the Two Elves bypassed White, who was drafted with the next pick by Chicago. Jeff Teague is on his way out, so of course the club could use a Point. But did they get one? No. And now I've heard the squad is gunning for D'Angelo Russell. Are they gonna get him? Who the hell knows?
I no very little, if anything, about NHL prospects. And despite some quick reading-up, Forward Matthew Boldy was not a name I saw getting picked. I have no idea this person existed on this temporal plane, so I have no bleepin' clue if this is a good get for the Mild. Me, I would have gone for Spencer Knight, the most-touted Goaltender I have heard of in many a moon. He was sitting there, at #12, but Minnesota selected Boldy instead. And like Coby White, he was picked with the selection right after, by Florida.
But hey, Minnesota signed Defenseman Brad Hunt to a two-year deal!
Right now they are kicking ass over an Indiana Fever team who had an adventure getting home. Their contest before this was a four-point loss at Seattle. They were supposed to fly home (commercial, not charter; the WNBA is too poor to get its players to charter planes) through Atlanta. But there were fuck-ups with the plane in Seattle, and once they got to Atlanta, the Fever missed its connection and could not get 18 tickets together. So they bussed it to Indy ... except the bus broke down. Fever Forward Natalie Achonwa documented her team's ordeal on Twitter. They finally got home 22 hours after they started their sojourn, and they got home 23 hours before tonight's game vs. the Lynx. So yes, they have a built-in excuse to lose at home to Minnesota.
Team plays in Dallas versus the Wings Sunday.
#-2: Twins (Last Week: -1). Another middling week -- 3-3, featuring a four-game split in Kansas City and (if you include Monday) a series loss at home to Boston. A regression to the mean has been accompanied by a growing rash of injuries. The Dodgers now have the best record in baseball. But at least they still have the best record in the American League, thanks largely to a seven-game skid suffered recently by the Houston Astros. (Meanwhile, the New York Yankees have supplanted the 'Stros by virtue of a nine-of-ten winning streak; they are now only a half-Game behind the Twinks.)
They have just started the first game of a three-game series vs. the Tampa Bay Rays at home. This represents their homestand; Minnesota goes to the White Sox for a trio over the weekend.
#-3 (tie): Timberwolves and Wild (Re-Entry!). I have no idea how to gauge both teams' drafts. For the Wolves, I have heard that their pick, Jarrett Culver out of Texas Tech (who played in town for college basketball's title game in April), has great potential. But I also heard that the Wolves were trying to get Deandre Hunter, a Point Guard, and there was another PG, Coby White, who was sitting there at #6, where the Wolves traded with Phoenix in order to move up. But the Two Elves bypassed White, who was drafted with the next pick by Chicago. Jeff Teague is on his way out, so of course the club could use a Point. But did they get one? No. And now I've heard the squad is gunning for D'Angelo Russell. Are they gonna get him? Who the hell knows?
I no very little, if anything, about NHL prospects. And despite some quick reading-up, Forward Matthew Boldy was not a name I saw getting picked. I have no idea this person existed on this temporal plane, so I have no bleepin' clue if this is a good get for the Mild. Me, I would have gone for Spencer Knight, the most-touted Goaltender I have heard of in many a moon. He was sitting there, at #12, but Minnesota selected Boldy instead. And like Coby White, he was picked with the selection right after, by Florida.
But hey, Minnesota signed Defenseman Brad Hunt to a two-year deal!
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