May 1, 200520 yr Also FWIW, Twins won again today against the California Angels (f*** them, I'll call them what I want) 4-2, so we stay a game and a half up on the hard charging Twinks.
May 1, 200520 yr Best record in baseball too after the first month of play (I'm trying to spread some optimism).
May 1, 200520 yr Damn...after going through the Hell that was the bottom of the 6th...having things finally work out in the 7th was an absolute freaking joy. Finally we got some people on base...got them moving over...got a bunt down...and drove them in. God that was a relief! Feels like it's been a week since we've done that. In other good news...while Paulie didn't pull off a hit in the later innings, at least he ripped the ball twice. He might be a little ahead of the ball, but at least he's hitting the ball hard again, and it wasn't going straight up. That shot to Third base is only going to be an out 1 time out of 10.
May 1, 200520 yr yeah him and Rowand are starting to look better at the plate, hopefully they get it together soon because if they hit our offense will be fine.
May 1, 200520 yr to Iguchi. It's early, but so far I think he's been as good as advertised. And this is supposed to be an adjustment period for him.
May 1, 200520 yr Its nice to see Iguchi taking the outside pitch back up the middle or into right field. Greg Walker take video of what Mr. Iguchi is doing and give it out to the rest of our hitters are we will be fine. Last year it was pretty much automatic that any plus 6 ERA soft tosser who could spot the ball on the outside corner could look like Cy Young. Why is this, because instead of taking what is given to us our hitters consistantly tried to make something of the slow outside pitch and pull it for power. This results in what we term as CORPSEBALL. Iguchi is the opposite of this. He actually takes the outside pitch and doesnt try to do to much. Mr. Konerko take a few tips on this and you will GIDP a hell of a lot less and pick up some more RBI's. Gooch you rock man. Give it up to KW for picking this guy up, and doing it cheap. My hats off for that and for picking up our new closer Hermy. Our pitching is outstanding again. Yes the cuban connection will have us living on the edge but if they bend and dont break for the most part we will be ok. Ozzie may want to split these two up so we dont tax the pen too much back to back. SOX PRIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 1, 200520 yr Although the game was on WGN, I had to go somewhere and hence could not see it then. But I did the next best thing ....I taped it....and just finished seeing it (I did not know they had won)....it is 2am on the west coast here but now I can sleep after seeing them win I definitely cussed a lot during the first 6 innings too Guch is awesome. He reminds a lot of Ichiro in that he can find the dribblers through the holes....keep it going Guch Now if we can get Uribe and Frank back and get Paulie, Rowand and Dye on track, we will do well
May 1, 200520 yr My biggest concern with last night's game is El Duque's 118 pitches. Ozzie can NOT afford to develop the mindset that NYY did. El Duque never wants to leave a game & gets stronger as the night goes on. So he's always going to make you feel he can pitch 120. But he can't. His last 3 yrs paint a clear pattern: If you pitch him over 115 twice in a row you will likely get a 3 inning effort out of him the next start & find him on the DL if you continue to repeat that practice. That's why it's imperative that Ozzie limit him to 100 next start. I don't care what the score is. Having him healthy in Aug is more important than winning a start in May. We have 13 games left with the Twins in the last 2 months of this season. We need El Duque to be at the top of his game then.
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