Thursday, June 30, 2005

Put those brooms away

With the way the Twins have been going, just winning a series has to be considered a positive.
But even if Gardy and the boys won't admit it, it had to be tough not to get the sweep.
KC was 0-16 against the Twins and Sox prior to Wednesday's 3-1 win.
I think the real bad news, though, is that Glenn Williams, who had taken over as the team's starting 3rd basemen, is going to be out 6-8 weeks with a seperated shoulder.
The guy was playing well, and while he certainly isn't the long term answer at 3rd or any other spot, he was keeping Cuddyer's worthless ass out of the lineup.
It was also sad, because Williams, 30, had spent over a decade in the minors, never making it to the bigs. He finally gets the call-up, earns a starting spot, and seperates his shoulder.
There's a very good chance that he'll never get another opportunity to play every day in the big leagues again.
It's for that reason, I'm sure, that Williams was fighting back tears in the Twins locker room Wednesday night. Tough break.
I wonder if the Joe Randa rumors will heat back up.
On a lighter note, Pat Duncan, stat guru and baseball sage, has assembled his All-Time Twins team for the purposes of an online talk show that will air on the Argus Leader web-site. I'll be appearing as a guest to tell Duncan why Gagne is better than Versailles, Radke better than Pascual, etc, etc.
I can't remember Duncan's team, or teams (we decided to make a 1st team and 2nd team) but I made my own to be better prepared to argue with the smartest guy I know.
Here it is - Twins Town's All-Time Twins team(s):
First Team
SP - Blyleven, Kaat, Radke, Perry, Viola
RP - Aguilera, Guardado
C - Earl Battey
1B - Kent Hrbek
2B - Chuck Knoblauch
SS - Greg Gagne
3B - Harmon Killebrew
OF - Kirby Puckett, Tony Oliva, Torii Hunter
DH - Rod Carew
UT - Cesar Tovar
(Made Carew my DH to be able to include Killebrew, Hrbek, Carew and Knoblauch all on 1st team)
2nd Team
SP - Mudcat Grant, Dave Goltz, Dave Boswell, Camilo Pascual, Johan Santana
RP - Al Worthington, Jeff Reardon
C - Brian Harper
1B - Doug Mientkiewicz (he gets on because there are 3 1st basemen on the 1st team)
2B - John Castino (I know, he played mostly 3rd. Who else? Rich Reese, Todd Walker, Steve Lombardozzi?)
SS - Zoilo Versailles
3B - Gary Gaetti
OF - Bob Allison, Jacque Jones, Tom Brunansky
DH - Corey Koskie
UT - Roy Smalley

Feel free to make suggestions before Thursday afternoon show.

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