It is So, So Important That the Twins Win a Game Tuesday Night

Overreaction at the moment.  Plain and simple.
Be concerned, but stop feeding the end of the world narrative.

Not shocking at all, since the hitters are never prepared for the start of the season and not that good to begin with.  Plus predictable injuries with Julien and Gaspar as replacements.  There's something wrong with the Fort Myers culture.  What it is, I don't know, but it has seemed like a vacation in past years.  This year it seems more a vacation where you don't get to do everything you want, but still a vacation.

My prediction a week or so ago of a bad offense to start the season wasn't exactly prescient.  More...obvious.

The Twins will win tonight then at least for one night we will see how they tell us how great they are.  Going 0-4 isn't the end of the world in baseball.  But the way the Twins have been playing makes it appear that way.  Just like when they were choking away their playoff chances late last year.  They are playing the same uninspiring, boring baseball with no life to the team.  It is important they win tonight.  Or at least lose and play well which is something they haven't done yet.

IF they go 0-9 as they did nine years ago, THEN, there is a problem.

At that.

If the Twins still had Farmer, Kepler, Polanco and Santana they would have 17 more hits.

As for the ball being juiced it's possible the fans on both sides are right. 

League has a history of providing "live" balls for favored teams.

Losing 5 or 6 straight games, similar to winning 5 or 6 in a row, kinda is a big deal....

Those types of streaks are how you torpedo a season or clinch a playoff berth. Context is far too often missing (and I said this in another thread) particularly when things aren't going well, i.e. "it's only 4 games." True, it's a very small percentage of the total games this team will play during the 2025 season, but of those 162 total games, or the 158 remaining, even the best teams are all but guaranteed to lose between 60-70 games, at minimum. Are the Twins one of the best teams in baseball? This is largely the same roster as last season. The best month last year was May, where they finished 4 games above .500.  Can they repeat that this April and fight back to .500? Does it take 2 months? What happens with the rest of the division, or AL, in the meantime? 

If you check the game headlines , for all teams, there seem to be a LOT of new records being set across the league, including what the headline called - the least likely person - to hit for a cycle did.

It is early , and Chicago is not as bad as so many flatulate about here.

Just fired up the computer and saw that we already got 1 hit!!!  In the first inning!!  So, things are looking up, right?

Is this our game thread, by the way? 🤔

Important that the Twins win tonight???   How about it's important that the Twins win the next 90+ out of their next 158?!!!  They could win tonight, and it would mean nothing if they can't generate some better ball play consistency for the long haul.

It's time to sell the team to someone who will take action, clean house and rebuild from scratch.  Period.  If that means moving the Twins, so be it...

Only a 1-run deficit in 3rd inning, but am I in the minority that's totally disgusted by the lack of effort by Correa JOGGING to first base on his 3-6-3 DP to end the inning?    Is it too much to ask Mr. $30million plus to actually hustle?  I guess so as there's no accountability in the organization from the ownership down to our manager.  

Its only 4 games, but MAN does it look like the same complete lack of an approach as a team/organization.  And hopefully we see Festa for Paddack...and soon.

50 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

"There are two realities to everything..."

 

Wait...what? Is this a White House press release??

 

Worse!