This team is fun, right?!?!?!?!

[Brock Beauchamp]

Right...?

[chpettit19]

Right!.... sized...

[Craig Arko]

I still have that plum t-shirt from 2016 with the player wearing the paper bag over their head, You could change the date and print another run.

Or, it might get better when Lewis is back. Not a team of destiny, though. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

3 minutes ago, Craig Arko said:

I still have that plum t-shirt from 2016 with the player wearing the paper bag over their head, You could change the date and print another run.

Or, it might get better when Lewis is back. Not a team of destiny, though. 

I also have that shirt.

[jkcarew]

It will definitely get better…but by enough and soon enough to matter?

I’m still fairly optimistic there will be some decent-to-good baseball to watch later in the season. Less sure it will be within the context of a playoff push.

[Rod Carews Birthday]

Nope.  Not fun.

That being said, as badly as the team is playing, it's a wonder that they have won as many games as they have!

 

[Vanimal46]

Having a blast over here! 

[KirbyDome89]

16 minutes ago, jkcarew said:

It will definitely get better…but by enough and soon enough to matter?

I’m still fairly optimistic there will be some decent-to-good baseball to watch later in the season. Less sure it will be within the context of a playoff push.

They get the White Sox 2x before the end of the month. Anaheim and Detroit aren't juggernauts either. I don't think beating up on a team that looks primed to challenge the 2003 Tigers for worst modern team of all time, or taking 2-3 games from Detroit at home really means much of anything, but that's life in the ALC. Those Ws aren't guaranteed, and we watched this team piss away winnable games during the first 3-4 months of the season last year, but it'd be surprising, even at their current level ineptitude, if they couldn't make up some ground with that schedule to finish April. 

[Craig Arko]

2 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I also have that shirt.

Didn’t you design it?

[PDX Twin]

2 hours ago, KirbyDome89 said:

They get the White Sox 2x before the end of the month. Anaheim and Detroit aren't juggernauts either. I don't think beating up on a team that looks primed to challenge the 2003 Tigers for worst modern team of all time, or taking 2-3 games from Detroit at home really means much of anything, but that's life in the ALC.  

You really could apply that description to the Twins. To beat a horse I've beaten before: Not only are the Twins a loser, but they are a boring loser! Losing by strikeouts, errors, and station-to-station boreball is beyond losing to this (becoming former) fan!

[Brock Beauchamp]

58 minutes ago, Craig Arko said:

Didn’t you design it?

I did. But that doesn't really mean much, I don't have half of the Winter Meltdown glasses and I've designed them all.

[knothole61]

Of course it's been a depressing start to the season--but as dire as things seem right now it’s not yet time to panic. For starters, one could hardly have picked three more devastating personnel losses near the beginning of the season than Lewis (after just 3 innings!) Correa, and Duran. Also, keep in mind that the Twins have played 10 of their 17 games against first place teams--a difficulty that will come to an end for a long while starting on Friday. Here’s the optimistic formula: pull back up to a respectable .500 by early May and then get some key players back in the lineup and go onward and upward from there. Maybe that is not a likely scenario, but it is a possibility.  

[NotAboutWinning]

No. Just no. Now, if Popkins (or whoever is responsible for game planning the offense) is fired, that would be fun!

[Hrbowski]

The Oakland Athletics are more fun to watch than this team!

[Parfigliano]

5 hours ago, jkcarew said:

It will definitely get better…but by enough and soon enough to matter?

I’m still fairly optimistic there will be some decent-to-good baseball to watch later in the season. Less sure it will be within the context of a playoff push.

Why do you think it will get better?  Im genuinely curious.

[jaimedude]

Boring and seeing repeative, the same mistakes over the plate or chasing bad pitchrs is getting old. This is supposed to be a professional team but right now the jersey's are  posing. I like the Twins but the lack of improvement is stunning. There seems to be acute lack of awareness of how poor the overall play has been. This is turning into the exact kind of season the Minnesota Wild just had. Current small sample size but could be getting worse. 

[jkcarew]

1 hour ago, Parfigliano said:

Why do you think it will get better?  Im genuinely curious.

Because Correa and eventually Lewis will come back. The bullpen will get ‘longer’ as Duran, etc. are added. Those 3 just need to be within hailing distance of expectations to make a material difference.

Also, some of the other batters are PROBABLY not as bad as they seem right now, as well. The team’s BABiP right now is 251…dead last in the league and 15 points lower than the worst team recorded in 2023. Not saying that that will change drastically…may stay among the bottom of the league…but it’ll improve from 251. (Last year it was 304). Guys like Buxton and Kepler PROBABLY didn’t completely forget how to hit home runs. I suspect their BA’s will remain very low…but that’s never prevented them from supplying some home runs…until this spring.

They’ll eventually get their turn playing bad teams.

Better is a relative term. Lewis won’t be back for a while yet. But currently they’re on pace to lose 105 games. I thought they’d be 5-10 games over 500 this season. I could still see them…eventually…playing at/near that level. Question is…how deep will the whole get in the meantime? If they play 5 games over in the second half, it won’t matter if they’re 10+ games under heading into it.

But…relative to this thread…my point is only that they would at least be more “fun” to follow and watch.

 

 

[TwinsDr2021]

13 hours ago, Rod Carews Birthday said:

Nope.  Not fun.

That being said, as badly as the team is playing, it's a wonder that they have won as many games as they have!

 

That is the silver lining right? I mean for as bad as they have played they are only 6 - 11. which isn't great but not the end of the world  They better do something in these next 13 games (White Sox - 7, LAA - 3 and Det - 3) because after that Boston, Seattle, Toronto, NYY, Cleveland, Nats, Texas. KC, Houston and NYY again. When I seen this schedule I was thinking start 11- 6 be around .500 after that section of then make hay on the teams after that.

[Linus]

Even when they are hitting it’s not that fun to watch. And that’s not just the Twins. The product as a whole is less fun to watch - it’s no mystery why younger people have no interest in baseball. 

[USAFChief]

4 hours ago, Linus said:

Even when they are hitting it’s not that fun to watch. And that’s not just the Twins. The product as a whole is less fun to watch - it’s no mystery why younger people have no interest in baseball. 

On the field, fewer and fewer balls in play, fewer baserunners. Fewer hits.  The fewer baserunners are in motion less and less. Stand around and wait for a 3 run homer. Too many K's. 

Off the field: There are fewer and fewer "Minnesota Twins" for fans to follow and become attached to. More and more interchangeable parts who even diehard fans can't name without Baseball-reference.com. 

And don't get me started on baseball's injury problem.

Edit to add: Also, MLB desperately needs a salary cap system. A strong one, similar to the NFL, coupled with a salary minimum. 

 

[RpR]

2 hours ago, USAFChief said:

On the field, fewer and fewer balls in play, fewer baserunners. Fewer hits.  The fewer baserunners are in motion less and less. Stand around and wait for a 3 run homer. Too many K's. 

Off the field: There are fewer and fewer "Minnesota Twins" for fans to follow and become attached to. More and more interchangeable parts who even diehard fans can't name without Baseball-reference.com. 

And don't get me started on baseball's injury problem.

 

That statement hits the nail square on the head with a two-pound maul.

[$tryf4Life]

Really fun if you are the other team and you see you get to play the twins.

 

but for fans. This is punchless boring  baseball. 

 

I’d like to start to hear less silver linings and see more winning. This is sports. The goal is winning. Losing is no fun. 

[JD-TWINS]

6 hours ago, Linus said:

Even when they are hitting it’s not that fun to watch. And that’s not just the Twins. The product as a whole is less fun to watch - it’s no mystery why younger people have no interest in baseball. 

They have played 17 games. ……were the kids watching in October??

[LastOnePicked]

21 hours ago, knothole61 said:

keep in mind that the Twins have played 10 of their 17 games against first place team

Aren't they first-place teams because they've played the Twins? This team might be making the competition look good by comparison.

[Teflon]

Q: This team is fun, right?

A: The Orioles, Dodgers and the Guardians certainly think so.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Yes, i do believe this team is fun.

 

It is widely acknowledged i have a strange definition of fun.

[Linus]

1 hour ago, JD-TWINS said:

They have played 17 games. ……were the kids watching in October??

Nope. And they haven’t been watching for several years. The age demographics on people watching MLB are pretty scary - it’s a bunch of people over 50. And of course MLB in its infinite wisdom makes it really hard for any person in their 20s and 30s to watch. So 20 years from now - good luck. 

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you.... the bottom of the 3rd inning, April 6th: 

Ball, foul, ball, strike, ball, foul, strike, foul, ball, ball, ball, strike, ball, strike, ball, ball, ball, strike, foul, foul, strike*, ball, strike, ball, strike, ball, ball, strike, ball, ball, foul, strike. 

* Julien stole second

[Woof Bronzer]

30 minutes ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you.... the bottom of the 3rd inning, April 6th: 

Ball, foul, ball, strike, ball, foul, strike, foul, ball, ball, ball, strike, ball, strike, ball, ball, ball, strike, foul, foul, strike*, ball, strike, ball, strike, ball, ball, strike, ball, ball, foul, strike. 

* Julien stole second

Incredible.  Any idea on the length of this sequence in real time?

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

2 hours ago, Woof Bronzer said:

Incredible.  Any idea on the length of this sequence in real time?

I could give you a funny answer, but the honest answer is I don’t remember.

31 pitches times 20 seconds between pitches would be at least 10 minutes without a ball put in play.