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Joe's a good player; he's a much better player than Uribe. If he's healthy Joe should play every day.

Who knows? When it's this close, it means drama. Of course even if we had the lead the Cubs had now, we wouldn't be celebrating yet. One bad week and you can blow a 4-5 game lead.

That's wild. I'm surprised prior to our winning it all in 05 we didn't more crying from the Mariotti's of the world about us tanking that year. Don't you agree we were better than Baltimore and would have won Game Five in Comiskey had Dybber not screwed up on the basepaths?? No way LaMarr would have been clobbered in Game Five. It was ours.

In a perfect world, we pull away from them and for good measure win 2 of 3 in that huge series in the Twinkiedome. I'd hate to not win the division in a year Cleveland and Detroit tanked.

I felt weird doing his bio and commentary. Or I should say copying and pasting his bio from the great Wikipedia. I felt guilty cause I don't feel the manlove for CQ yet in terms of him being an all time favorite. He's so new he's not on my all time list yet. He's been great so far. Hope we keep winning and he gets MVP.

Great loss. Can you imagine how pumped we'd be if we had won 2 games against the O's??? That woulda been AWESOME. Oh well. I guess we coulda won Game One then tanked in Game Two as well. Frustrating, though. Twins are 2-3 on this road trip. Sweet. Keep losin!!!!!

I talked to a Twins fan today I know and he said he's waiting for Minnie to fall apart. It seems I hear that a lot, but I don't think that's going to happen ... til round one of the playoffs when they get swept if they do make it.

That line always makes me laugh, but I hope you are not serious. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

That's cool you got a response. I've yet to get a response. When Paulie sucked I begged Oz to bat him 8th.

I prefer to look at it as we won. Crede's defense helped us win. Not just that the O's lost. The Twins, by the way, piss me off. They are up in the 8th and only had five hits entering the eighth. Way to suck at home, Seattle. Oh I forgot Liriano is god.

Hope that's not true. He seems like a loveable lug. He got a lot of big hits for the White Sox.

You mean it was a best of five vs. Balt to decide the AL champ? Are you sure? That was the ALCS??

Interesting. I'd think Twins fans would shut up and thank their lucky stars every day they are where they are cause of a scrappy team and great manager. How the hell they are doing this year in and out is beyond me. Their payroll is low. They should be happy every single day. That said, I'm damn glad the Angels beat them the last 2 days. Finally. And it took some scrapping by Anaheim to win yesterday.

Yes, Dybber's baserunning blunder was critical. If we win that game, we beat Baltimore in game five with Hoyt. We quite possibly make the World Series. I don't know who we'd have played in the next round. I forget. But we had the team. That baserunning blunder was pivotal. That reminds me of Hoyt. I hope he's on the fan favorite list. He definitely should be. I think I forgot him.

funny how you forget players. I wonder what One Dog is doing now? Seems if players aren't coaches they are just counting their money somewhere.

Yeah, but for today only. You'd be surprised what several losses in a row will do to our mindset as fans.

That's cool you listed him so high, Brian. His contributions to our WS title are legendary.

Who woulda thought we'd be trying for one of three in our own park? Sucko, but let's salvage the final.

Good guys wear black. It's fashionable if we win and it's appropriate if like today we lose and the park turns into a funeral-like atmosphere.

Joe Morgan should be fired today. Somebody should play him the replay of what he said about our bullpen and simply fire him. How could he be so dumb??

I'm not close to giving in to the hopelessness. I am getting close to not expecting a playoff berth and just being pleasantly surprised and really happy if we get one. Every Twin win tends to make me more of a believer in them. Deep down I've been thinking and hoping Minnesota would completely tank. We have a very good team, though, and have veterans and sometimes veterans prevail over inexperience. It's too bad we faded today. That would have been a very very nice win against a first-place team.

Dotel is such Jeckyll and Hyde I actually was wondering if somehow you could tell which Dotel you'll get watching him warm up. My guess is you cannot tell. I mean how is Oz supposed to tell if he doesn't have his stuff?? After one pitch in the game? One batter? I guess he could bring in Dotel and if the first runner gets on base yank him, but that's generally not the way it works.

That usually doesn't work. For some reason closers like Soria the other night implode when asked to do the two inning thing. No good can come out of a manager being afraid to use his bullpen. Losing home games sucks. We need to salvage Sunday's game. The Twins have to be so loose going into tonight's game realizing they can pick up a full game on the Sox who couldn't win at home.

Do these Polish girls speak English? How the heck do you pick them up w/out speaking? I think most of us can say we are damn jealous of you. Three beautiful foreign girlfriends?? My god you are a lucky man. Do you look like Tom Cruise or something or can any normal American Joe be just as lucky in Poland??? Back to baseball: I'm not going to be so dumb as to say I think we won't get in the playoffs. But if the Twins win again tonight and are on their way to sweeping a four-game series with the Angels ... I would think only a die-hard would think we are going to beat the Twins out for the division title this season. Maybe the best thing to happen would be for them to get a five game lead and then just completely start choking because right now with us on their tail they seem to win every series, almost every game. Like fathom said a week ago, those three games in Minnie will likely be penciled in as losses. We still got to play Boston and NY on the road, right?? It would have been nice to win this series vs TB. Now we have to hope we salvage the finale which won't be easy. f***.

I liked Raines as well. Later in his career didn't he suddenly stop running? He got slow. Do you think he was a steroids guy? Remember how big he got late? -- f*** you network. They are showing the Cards v. Braves here in KC area. Assholes.