Crystal Ball: Twins Baseball
The Twins go into the season with playoff aspirations despite being in a tough division (defending World Champion Chicago and super HOCAH squad Cleveland) and an even tougher league (nine teams-by my count-CHI,CLE,MIN,NYY,BOS,OAK,LAA,TOR,maybe TEX?-have legit playoff thoughts).
Gardy trusts his expert baseball instincts and after some trial and error in the beginning of the season and a respectable start by all accounts, he settles on a lineup that looks like this:
1. Denard Span CF
2. Juan Castro SS
3. Lew Ford LF
4. Mike Cuddyer DH
5. Rob Bowen C
6. Luis Rodriguez 3B
7. Nick Punto 2b
8. Brett Abernathy (reacquired) 1b
9. Jason Tyner RF
Bench: Switch-Hitting Masher Ruben Sierra, HR/RBI Machine Tony Batista, Leadoff/great glove man Shannon Stewart and laser hitting infielder Glenn Williams
Gardy is thrilled with his new lineup, claiming that "he will beat the White Soz at their own game" and that the lineup is filled with "guys that do the little things right, play good fundamental baseball and are good with the leather".
After a decent start with Mauer, Morneau, Hunter, et. al the Twins end up winning 52 games, 20 of them before the lineup changes, and 30 of the remaining 32 on ridiculous pitching performances.
They still finish ahead of the Royals, who they managed to beat 17 of 19 games, meaning they got over 30% of their victories against them.
Gardy is rewarded with a 5 year contract extension and announces a new sports consulting service with partners Kevin McHale, Dan Monson and Mike Tice.
Oh, and I found some funny linkage
Gatorade = Schlong?
The Twins go into the season with playoff aspirations despite being in a tough division (defending World Champion Chicago and super HOCAH squad Cleveland) and an even tougher league (nine teams-by my count-CHI,CLE,MIN,NYY,BOS,OAK,LAA,TOR,maybe TEX?-have legit playoff thoughts).
Gardy trusts his expert baseball instincts and after some trial and error in the beginning of the season and a respectable start by all accounts, he settles on a lineup that looks like this:
1. Denard Span CF
2. Juan Castro SS
3. Lew Ford LF
4. Mike Cuddyer DH
5. Rob Bowen C
6. Luis Rodriguez 3B
7. Nick Punto 2b
8. Brett Abernathy (reacquired) 1b
9. Jason Tyner RF
Bench: Switch-Hitting Masher Ruben Sierra, HR/RBI Machine Tony Batista, Leadoff/great glove man Shannon Stewart and laser hitting infielder Glenn Williams
Gardy is thrilled with his new lineup, claiming that "he will beat the White Soz at their own game" and that the lineup is filled with "guys that do the little things right, play good fundamental baseball and are good with the leather".
After a decent start with Mauer, Morneau, Hunter, et. al the Twins end up winning 52 games, 20 of them before the lineup changes, and 30 of the remaining 32 on ridiculous pitching performances.
They still finish ahead of the Royals, who they managed to beat 17 of 19 games, meaning they got over 30% of their victories against them.
Gardy is rewarded with a 5 year contract extension and announces a new sports consulting service with partners Kevin McHale, Dan Monson and Mike Tice.
Oh, and I found some funny linkage
Gatorade = Schlong?
posted by f theb at 9:56 AM
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BREAKING NEWS:
The Gardy Fun Circus starts today, as he sent down Jason Bartlett to AAA to make room for his gold glover in the makng, Juan (lifetime avg .230, lifetime OBP, .271) Castro. Lord help us.
We should come up with our All Time All-Twins Team - Starting with Jr. Ortiz and Matt Walbeck at Catcher - Maybe a Scott Stahoviak at 3rd? David McCarty at 1st - Pedro Munoz in right? Jeff Reboulet? Chip Hales? Anyone, Anyone?
I like Rich Becker in centerfield, Frankie Rodriguez, Willie Banks, and Pat Mahomes on the mound. Maybe Dan Masteller at first. Pat Meares at short. Alex Cole, Alex Ochoa, the list goes on and on. In fact, just check out the box score from David Wells' perfect game against the Twinks in 98(?). That's about as good as it gets.
Yeah - shouldn't the Wells perfect game get an asterisk by it disclaiming the twins as a AA squad playing up?
Seperate note - Tom Boland is now an official member of the Legends security staff. Matt Anderson declined an offer for the position of head waitress.
I just read that Bartlett hit .382 this spring. We didn't need him though.
This is intriguing news about the Legends staff. I'm definitely going to get very drunk and start a lot of shit when he works. I think I can take him.
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