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By: TheatreBrian

TheatreBrian — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:33:11 +0000

That’s true.

Jeter just cheats his way to victory. No matter the cost.

By: yankeeyankee

yankeeyankee — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:51:01 +0000

WHERE OH WHERE did you get your information that the Yankee purposely ‘threw in the towel’ to play the Twins? Where, where, where – please tell me! Cuz I for one WILL NEVER, EVER believe the Yankees would ‘choke’ intentionally to lose. Yankees and Losing are something that organazation NEVER believes in.
I, for one, was at a few Yankee Games in September, and believe me. On 10-6 I was actually WORRIED that no, this wasn’t our year, and Yes, the Twins have a really good shot this time. But I’ll tell you this much. You cannot blame ‘all of this’ on the yankees. Having watched the Twins the past week, I wouldn’t have expected them to beat Tampa, Texas, or NY. Maaaaaybe the Reds if you were in the NL. I saw absolutely NOTHING out of the twins that let me think they even WANTED to win.
I like the Twins organazation. And that’s saying a LOT coming from a Yankee fan. Minny and St. Louis are 2 clubs that I actually like …the managers & players are very respectful ‘n classy with the way they go about things. PAVANO, now that’s another story (lol!)
You’re the best team in the Central, and that’s great. But PLEASE don’t think the Yankees purposly tanked to play you guys. Any fan of Jeter could not even ENVISION him going along with the plan. It just wasnt your year. Again.

By: dewluca

dewluca — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:10:53 +0000

Yes James, exactly! I made the same point (derived from the Lake Wobegon Effect) in my own analysis of the Twins postseason debacle in My Year as a Twins Fan this morning (though I didn't apply it to the Gophers).

By: Jim Crikket

Jim Crikket — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:36:34 +0000

Don’t misunderstand… I’m absolutely certain that by the time pitchers and catchers report in February, I’ll “believe” again. We’ll have plenty of time for discussions about roster issues and such between now and then, but for the moment, I’m just going to decompress a bit and try to focus on as much “good” as possible. For example, James, you reminded me that it’s good to be a Hawkeye football fan (especially when you consider the alternatives)!

By: James

James — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:10:03 +0000

so, if you are a bad team and you keep saying you can win but you keep losing, you are a winner? Cause that describes Tim Brewster and his Gophers perfectly.

By: dewluca

dewluca — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:23:08 +0000

Thanks for the quotation Jamar . . . Bart was a wise man.

By: jamar1700

jamar1700 — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:07:10 +0000

“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.”

from “The Green Fields of the Mind ” by A. Bartlett Giamatti

I feel badly that so many of you are so frustrated and disappointed. I’m not sure I can explain why I’m not. When I try, I seem to piss people off. At some point in my life I decided to stop looking forward and just enjoy what is. That’s the best I can do. I only feel sad when the season is over. But I’m still glad it happened. And that it will happen all over again starting next year

By: JB_Iowa

JB_Iowa — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:34:52 +0000

I’m usually an optimist but I am really disheartened by what happened the last 3 weeks. I look at the financial commitments that already exist for next year and I just don’t see how the Twins can improve their post-season chances significantly in 2011. I suspect that by February I’ll have regained some of my optimism — but for now, maybe its good that Dish Network isn’t carrying FSN — at least I won’t have to see 2010 Twins highlights.

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By: BobZ

BobZ — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:13:18 +0000

Good grief about sums it up. Somebody else wrote, “Sometimes you just lose.”
Thanks to the Twins for keeping it interesting this late in the year.
Thanks to you folks for the blog. I have enjoyed it since early June when I stumbled in.

BobZ