The Weekly Minnesota Sports Survey

#-1: Lynx (Last Week: -1).  Maybe this lower back injury to Napheesa Collier is worse than I initially believed.  She has sat out both Games this screening Week, and there is yet no timetable as to when she can return to the court.  Maybe this out of precaution; there are now 44 Games in the WNBA season now, and they will definitely need her for the postseason, if not by July 1 for the Commissioner's Cup Final vs. Indiana at Target Center.

In the meantime, whether it's due to injury or load management or a blend of both, the Lynx had to go without their impending regular season MVP.  It wasn't a problem at home Saturday, where they blew it open in the Fourth Quarter and routed Los Angeles, a team that hasn't figured it out yet, by 16 at home.  Kayla McBride stepped up and poured in 29 Points in the winning effort.  However, they suffered their second Loss of the Year last/Tuesday night, 68-64, at a Washington squad that is rapidly improving thanks to their bevy of young players.  McBride scored only seven Points.

This situation may need to be monitored if the Collier injury is more serious than thought.  Her club has to visit another team that seems to be getting it, Atlanta, on Friday, but then come home to play woebegone Connecticut before the CC, money in the bank championship Game against Caitlin Clark and the Fever Tuesday night.

#-2: Twins (Last Week: -3).  OK, I may have soft-pedaled the collapse the Twinks are going through, because even though it may have been this brutal during their entire June swoon, it took me this last Week to see how fucking awful this team is right now.  They went 1-6 this screening Week, they are currently in a five-Game losing streak, they got swept at home to The Bastard Seattle Pilots over the weekend, are 3-15 in their last 18.

What really sticks out, however, is the extent to which they have gotten the shit kicked out of them in these "Games."  On Monday they got blasted by Seattle (at home), 11-2.  Milwaukee boatraced the Twinks 17-6 Friday and 9-0 Saturday.  And if you want to go further back, The Bastard Washington Senators v.2.0. notched 16 Runs on the Twinks twice.  The Rotation has been decimated, but I didn't think it would get this awful, and besides, this is a situation where you would think the Offense would try and pick up the slack, but obviously they haven't.

So now we've got a situation where the Twinks, who not too long ago held down a Wild Card spot and would have hosted a Wild Card series, now have the fourth-worst record in The American League, and there is such a listlessness around this team that this entire outfit is just about to crash into the ocean.  And considering how toxic the relationship between ownership and the fanbase is right now, I don't think anyone cares to do anything about it.

The Twins have two more chances to avoid getting swept by the Mariners.  They then travel to Detroit, who just got their 50th Win of the season last/Tuesday evening, for a trio over the weekend.  After that, they head to Miami to play a three-Game set versus the Marlins starting on Tuesday.