"Why Does It Feel Like We're Living the Same Season Over and Over?"
For those here, who are veteran Twins fans from the get-go, this since the 70s feels a lot like the Twins results norms, especially late season collapse, which started in 1969-70.
Back when it was a LOT harder to get into the post season, it seemed to me, to be one made one's own fortune but now with not making the post-season usually meaning your team had huge faults, it is not as easy to just let go till next season.
At that, it seems, to me, that the Twins team used to be just that at least in the first 10-20 years. A lot of bench players played most or all of their career with the Twins from 1965 team.
Now Cal Griffith was not a multi-millionaire for whom baseball was a hobby, baseball and the Twins were his only business. He had to quit because he did NOT have millions from other enterprises, to fall back on, so he could not wheel and deal like they do now.
Still the players that were the Twins "team" to me, now, included Polanco, Buxton, and Kepler. Now there were others earlier that were here and are gone for years now, but those three were regulars , to me, at that; right now , Farmer, Kepler and Polanco are having a year that would be a spark in the Twins Lack-Lustre season, but then maybe the Twins Org. takes the fire out of players souls, i.e. they want to be any where but here.