How Invested Are You in the 2023 Twins season?

[saviking]

I would be a lot more invested if we brought up Wallner, Larnich and possibly Williams. I'm ready for a full on youth movement. I'm very invested when Julian, Krilloff and Lewis step to the plate. 

[Emjay]

I am still a ride or die twins fan but if I'm being honest I completely checked out of the last six games primarily cuz I'm sick of being upset and disappointed and I knew Atlanta was going to sweep them... the fact that they can't even figurte out a way to compete right now has me wanting to sell off my season tickets at least until something changes... maybe when they decide to dump the class A minor league hitting coach and get a real one

[Otaknam]

I have become resigned to the fact that they are a .very disappointing 500 team at best because of an anemic offense and gigantic strikeout numbers. The decline of Correa and Buxton is disappointing, Correa making $30+ million dollar and has become a .217 hitter who is striking out at an alarming rate. His only benefit this year is his Gold Glove defense. And Buxton is a .200 DH making $14 million as a DH and batting .200 with massive strikeouts. These guys should should be in their prime. I wonder when the FO will be honest with the fans and tell us exactly why Buxton can’t play defense, and if his apparent legs problems are chronic. 

[joefish]

Our rainy summer has kept me indoors and watching more than I want to now, as we fade away to sub .500 T'ins. Noffense is boring to watch. Giving up 2 or 3 runs and feeling like we have no chance of mounting a rally sucks. I feel for our pitchers. 

[gunnarthor]

I have youtube tv so can't watch much. I've seen two games. It sucks. It's the least baseball I've watched since 1999. 

On the other hand, I'm remembering that I can do stuff without baseball, which is good for me. Maybe not so good in the long run for MLB.

[Lartwinfan]

Been an almost every day fan since 61, but I have to say I can’t stand watching all these strike outs. This analytics is everything doesn’t seem to be working I’m a baseball guy first and foremost, but I want to watch baseball not home run derby. Pablo is great but I wish we still had future Hall of Famer Luis. He was what a baseball fan pays to watch, because he was fun to watch. Baseball action not strikeouts 

[HoskenPowell]

Less and less each year.  I cannot stand Baldelli.  Correa and Buxton have been a total disaster.  Gallo/Kepler/Pagan and Miranda have been terrible.    Like the starting rotation.  Like Castros baserunning.   Other than that they are almost unwatchable.  10 plus strikeouts each and every game 1 or two walks .   Manager / hitting coach and FO should be removed asap.  No one , and I mean no one in the central deserves to be in the playoffs.

[twinssporto]

This is the least amount of games I've watched in years. Love watching the pitching but this teams offensive lineup is so bad it just makes me nuts. For me, it looks like this team is listless, rudderless and tepid at best...no fire or excitement from any player with the exception of Royce...

[Dave The Dastardly]

Can't seem to justify wasting three hours watching/listening to this outfit. Took a hit in interest when they traded Arraez. Totally stopped paying attention in early June. Signed in to TD maybe three times in the last month, for minor league news. Really don't care to watch a daily "professional" debacle. I'll come back when Pohlad cleans house from the FO down to the the lowest grounds guy... well, maybe not him. For sure the Run Scoring Coordinator.

[dex8425]

We had the twinspass and went to 10 games in April, May and June. I am 7-3 this year. I dropped the twinspass for the rest of the summer. mostly because it's not very fun to watch one of the worst offenses in baseball struggle to score runs and strikeout 17 times a game. 

[Nine of twelve]

The Twins are my team, have been since I can remember (and I can remember at least a little of 1961), and always will be. I think the most difficult year was 1982. I was in Ohio for school and the Twins were an important part of my identity as a Minnesotan. That summer was a rough one to be a Twins fan.

[The_Phantom]

This is far and away the least invested I've ever been since being a fan. I live a couple hours from Baltimore and I go to the Twins games in Baltimore every single year (unless they're in April - work conflict). This year it didn't even cross my mind to go. Even with it being on a weekend and a weekend that I have nothing else going on - and I'm not working Monday. I checked out mostly in the off-season when I disagreed with pretty much every move they made. It's gonna take a pretty solid shakeup for me to get back into this team the way I used to be.

[ashbury]

I'm more invested this year than last, literally, because last year I decided not to pay for mlb.tv and this year I did.  Still, my location in the Pacific time zone, which might seems great since I never have to stay up late for a game, actually means the game very often comes at an inconvenient time with outdoor activities or making dinner or whatnot.  So I don't watch nearly as many games as I would like to.  In terms of time-investment I opted for the 25% category.  I keep watching and hoping.

[wsnydes]

Like @nicksaviking, since they've made it virtually impossible to watch, I'm watching on the radio or on GameDay.  If it weren't for game threads, I'd probably have checked out already.  

[Richie the Rally Goat]

I go to a couple games per month, listen to the radio for at least part of 60-70% of the games, probably 40-50% of the innings.

my interest has been deteriorating as June progressed

[Florida Flash]

On 6/28/2023 at 11:17 AM, Vanimal46 said:

Are you watching/listening to more or less Twins games compared to recent seasons? Why has it changed?

I used to never, absolutely never, miss a game on tv or at least radio. This year I find them hard, very hard, to watch and therefore, really have stopped watching and only listen if I am driving. I can only take so many 1-0, 2-0, 2-1 games with 11-12-13 K's.  I know this makes me a bad fan, but.... Actually the Saints are more fun to watch. They score some runs.