I am the smartest man alive!

Twins win in very impressive fashion Friday night over the Moose. With Kyle Lohse on the hill, even. Wow.
Saturday they take a 3-0 lead as Joe Mays takes a no-hitter into the 5th. Twins blow lead, then Gardy loses the game.
How?
He brings in Joe Nathan in a non-save situation - which it should be clear by now is a cardinal sin.
Then in the bottom of the 10th, with Mariano Rivera, the greatest closer ever on the mound, he sends up Mike Redmond and Juan Castro to lead off the inning. Doesn't bother to pinch-hit.
Mike Ryan is on the bench. Justin Morneau is on the bench. Matt Lecroy is on the bench. Hell, Santana and Radke were probably better options.
And these two bozos are sent up to try and start a rally against Rivera.
That is what we call the white flag.
"Nah, don't bother gettin up fellas, we'll just try again tomorrow."
It's almost disrespectful to Rivera to send up such a feeble set of hitters in the bottom of the 10th of a one run game. Mo was probably offended.
Since I'm pissed off about the game, I'll finish with by stealing from a great column by Reusse in the Strib today.
Anyone who knows me knows I think Tom Kelly is the smartest manager ever. Yeah, he had his faults - he was kind of a dick, and wasn't exactly nurturing to his younger players - but know one knew the game better. Reusse once wrote that of the 2,000+ games of Kelly's career he was outmanaged maybe 4 or 5 times. And anyone who remembers things like Brent Gates hitting a pinch-hit grand slam or Dan Masteller hitting a walk-off 3-run homer against Jack McDowell wouldn't argue.
This is an excerpt from the Reusse column running in Sunday's Strib.

A trip through the Star Tribune's archives earlier Saturday turned up a baseball notebook from April 27, 1996.
The lead item was a 36-year-old Viola being recalled from the minors by Toronto as he tried to come back from elbow surgery. Another item had Joe Torre, in his first season as Yankees manager, explaining why he would return Dwight Gooden to the rotation for an upcoming series with the Twins, rather than go with Rivera, who had been a minor league starter.
"Gooden is in better shape to pitch more innings than Rivera," Torre said.
One day later, Rivera pitched three scoreless innings in a 6-3 victory over the Twins in Yankee Stadium. He struck out the first four batters he faced.
Twins manager Tom Kelly was dead serious after the game when he said: "We don't want to face him any more. He's too good. He belongs in another league. He should be banned from baseball."
That nine-year-old quote provides more evidence that Kelly was the best judge of baseball talent you will ever encounter. Rivera was less than a month into his first full season -- still a potential starter in the view of some Yankees' folks -- and Kelly was declaring him to be unhittable.
All these years later, it is a shock when Rivera enters and he gets touched up for anything that resembles a rally.
Mariano was an overwhelming setup man for John Wetteland in that '96 season. The Yankees played in the World Series for the first time in 15 years and won it for the first time in 18. Then, they allowed Wetteland to leave for a $20 million contract with Texas, and turned Rivera into the closer.
This was a controversial decision with the New York media during the 1997 spring training. Kelly did not see it as a issue worth fretting.
"That means New York has Super Mario in the ninth inning now," Kelly said. "Am I supposed to feel sorry for Joe Torre because of that? I don't think so."
The Yankees lost to Cleveland in a division series in 1997, then won three World Series in a row. It took 33 victories to do this, and Rivera saved 18 of those games and won two of them.