The Weekly Minnesota Sports Survey

Noting that Weeks like this, in the summer when MNUFC is on an International Break, is the lightest the Weekly Minnesota Sports Survey can be, and frankly, as someone who is really tired right now and has other stuff he needs to do, I like that a lot:

#-1: Lynx (Last Week: -1).  All they do is win, win, win.  (All New York does is win as well; they both have 9-0 records, so I don't think I can nudge the Lynx up past negative numbers.)  They actually only had one Game this screening Week, and they beat The Bastard Detroit-by-way-of-Tulsa Shock in Dallas, 81-65 (without Paige Bueckers, who sat out because she was still in concussion protocol).

It feels as though that the season's coming down to the WNBA Finals against New York.  I don't think they're going to see the Liberty until, at the earliest, the Commissioner's Cup Final.  However, tonight/Tuesday night the Lynx travel to play a Seattle Storm team that could give them a game.  After that they come home to play Los Angeles Saturday afternoon (a Game I'll be working) and The Bastard Utah Starzzz/San Antonio Silver Stars, a franchise that seemed to be the W's lodestar two Years ago but has fallen off big time since, Tuesday evening.

#-2: Twins (Last Week: -3).  A 2-4 Week has dropped the Twins behind Toronto -- who came to Target Field over the weekend (but didn't have their fanbase follow them [as they usually do] because Canadians think we suck ... and we do) and won two-of-three -- and Tampa, and they're now clinging to the final American League Wild Card spot, one Game ahead of Cleveland.

The Offense has come back around a bit, even though Royce Lewis still has not found his swing.  But the Starting Pitching, which led the team's comeback from a rough start, is dragging the Twins down the standings again.  Pablo Lopez has a right shoulder injury that will sideline him two or three months, and assumed replacement Zebby Matthews has a shoulder strain and will be out for about the next two weeks.  One of the call-ups, Simeon Woods Richardson (who was the fifth starter coming out of Spring Training), pitched last/Tuesday night and got shaken down over 4 2/3 Innings in an, oof, 16-4 Loss to The Bastard Washington Senators v.2.0.  I want the guy to succeed, but ...

This is the time of the season where the Twins need to endure and find other ways to win.  After they finish up with Texas, they travel to Houston over the weekend, then go over to Cincinnati play a trio against the Reds starting on Tuesday.