Game Thread: Twins vs Blue Jays, 5/20 @ 7:10 pm CT

[Platoon]

I wish I could review the posts from 2012/2013 and chart what TD posters expected the 2016 season to be?

Some things are best left in the past!

[AlwaysinModeration]

In that case, it sure seems like a no-brainer to add that to our versatile Target Field organist's ever-so-snooze-inducing playlist.

I thought I was the only one, and that it was blasphemous to criticize. The "everybody clap your hands" bit must really energize the players.

[AlwaysinModeration]

Forgotten was a game vs the Twins very late in the season: Twins were up like 9-0 in the third--then the skies opened-up and it poured. The rules at that time washed those innings away and the game was restarted at 0-0, the Tigers eventually won it. So, they really should have been 42-120.

Man, that Tigers team was so bad, they couldn't even lose right!

 

I will give it to this year's Twins, though. They have consistently found creative ways to lose. No matter how the game is shaping up, they have found a way. Getting down 8-0, tying it up, and then losing was impressive. Wasting three Park/Sano homers Ina single game was equally notable. But nothing will likely top bringing a righty in (replacing a lefty) to face a lefty pitcher batting with two outs in the bottom of the 16th, and the catcher throwing the subsequent bunt over the 1B head while the tying run scored.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Sorry i weren't really paying much attention last night, leastwise while it was still going on.

 

But i still am trying to appreciate 'em, even as finely distilled bottles of disappointment.

 

No need to constantly check the standings. Appreciate one game at a time...

 

Is the up and coming an afternoon affair?

[jokin]

 

I thought I was the only one, and that it was blasphemous to criticize. The "everybody clap your hands" bit must really energize the players.

 

I swear, I may as well enter primal scream therapy if I have to endure the hava nagila dance song just once more...

[jokin]

 

Sorry i weren't really paying much attention last night, leastwise while it was still going on.

But i still am trying to appreciate 'em, even as finely distilled bottles of disappointment.

No need to constantly check the standings. Appreciate one game at a time...

Is the up and coming an afternoon affair?

 

I swear, I am going to enter primal scream therapy if TD decides to have yet another "positive comments only" Game Thread.

[Aggies7]

Man, that Tigers team was so bad, they couldn't even lose right!

I will give it to this year's Twins, though. They have consistently found creative ways to lose. No matter how the game is shaping up, they have found a way. Getting down 8-0, tying it up, and then losing was impressive. Wasting three Park/Sano homers Ina single game was equally notable. But nothing will likely top bringing a righty in (replacing a lefty) to face a lefty pitcher batting with two outs in the bottom of the 16th, and the catcher throwing the subsequent bunt over the 1B head while the tying run scored.

That will absolutely go down as the worst, most gut wrenching loss in a season full of them. That's the moment you knew this team was special.

[jokin]

 

Man, that Tigers team was so bad, they couldn't even lose right!

I will give it to this year's Twins, though. They have consistently found creative ways to lose. No matter how the game is shaping up, they have found a way. Getting down 8-0, tying it up, and then losing was impressive. Wasting three Park/Sano homers Ina single game was equally notable. But nothing will likely top bringing a righty in (replacing a lefty) to face a lefty pitcher batting with two outs in the bottom of the 16th, and the catcher throwing the subsequent bunt over the 1B head while the tying run scored.

 

That will absolutely go down as the worst, most gut wrenching loss in a season full of them. That's the moment you knew this team was special.

 

Yup, "special" sums it up quite nicely. You know you're reaching new-found depths of fan-angst when the descriptions of game-after-game futility just flow off of the tongue- seemingly defy reality and yet reek of credulity. The 2016 Twins and the suffering fans seem destined to join the '62 Mets... at least in this quote from Casey Stengel:

 

“Never has so much misery loved so much company”