Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Way to go assholes


Have a look at the two guys who have assembled the most frustrating, maddening, exruciating, offensively inept team I've ever seen.
It has really gotten bad.
The Twins are still mathematically in the wild card race, which makes it especially difficult to watch them on TV, because even as the losses pile up Dick Bremer continues to try and give every game the 'pennant fever-CATCH IT' treatment:
"Tonight the Twins battle the Royals in a marquee September matchup with serious playoff impli- SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!!!!! ITS OVER!!!!!!
I'm glad Kyle Lohse, Carlos Silva and Brad Radke have complained in the papers recently.
The pitchers have carried this team remarkably this year, and as soon as the offense has one good game Gardy starts pulling guys and saying - "We can't worry about people's feelings around here"
Oh yeah, is that why you play Shannon Stewart in LF?
Or why you stuck with Joe Mays in the rotation way too long?
Or why you never had the balls to send Morneau to the minors?
Man, Gardy has had a terrible season as a manager.
Look how well Jason Bartlett has played since he came back. Gee, nice of Gardy to give the rookie all of 3 weeks before sending him down.
He tries to motivate players in the wrong way, he can't make a lineup....it'll never happen, but if Gardy got fired, I wouldnt complain.
For Gardy to take shots at his pitchers, and to yank them early from starts (you're not in the race dickhead, nice excuse) is disgraceful.
Radke, Silva and Lohse are easily the best 2 thru 4 starters in baseball, and they've had walking shitheads hitting for them all year. If I was them, I'd walk thru the dugout with middle fingers extended after every inning I pitched. They have one bad inning and suddenly Gardy is a tough guy.
And how about batting Juan Castro behind Morneau. Brilliant.
How the hell is Morneau ever going to hit homers with utility infielders batting behind him?
This team has lost SO MANY games by a run or two that could've been won were it not for a series of bad decisions.
One of my favorite examples: in a game earlier this year, LeCroy, the slowest man in sports, is on 2nd, and Lew Ford is up to bat. Gardy calls for the bunt, and Ford lays down a bunt that, admittedly wasn't very good, and LeCroy is thrown out by about 25 feet, but even a good bunt would not likely have done the job.
Ford comes back to the dugout and asks why Gardy called for the bunt with LeCroy on 2nd (good question). Gardy blows a gasket, gives Ford the "I'm the manager, not you" speech and benches him.
Way to go, Gardy. The guy who once ironed a shirt he was wearing is smarter than you. Might as well bench him for it.
The scary thing is this team is most likely going to return virtually completely intact.
Make no mistake, friends, this is a AAA lineup - and a bad one at that.
If I were Torii Hunter I'd ask the Twins to triple my salary, because that's how much better he is than anyone they have right now, except for maybe Mauer.
This is our lineup next year - I'm sure the White Sox are peeing themselves in fear:

Stewart LF
Punto 2B
Mauer C
Hunter CF
LeCroy DH
Morneau 1B
Jones RF
Cuddyer 3B
Bartlett SS
Wow, scary! There are guys in Japan that hit better than 70% of that lineup.
Hey, now that I think of it, that's not a bad idea. Maybe the Twins should look for some Japanse guys. Because I don't think we're going to see them go out and sign Jeff Kent or Gary Sheffield this spring.

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