Minnesota Twins get swept by New York Yankees

I don’t think I will be posting mid game anymore (see my previous mid-game Monday night entry). I thought maybe it would be lucky, but I was wrong. The Minnesota Twins were swept by the New York Yankees –swept! There is definitely a Yankee Stadium curse. In fact the Twins are 3-19 at Yankee Stadium since 2002 – ouch. And they weren’t just regular run of the mill losses (don’t question me if there is such a thing), these were fluke losses where guys just didn’t play like they usually play. Pitchers sucked on the mound, batters sucked at the plate, fielders sucked on the grass. It just plain sucked.

Ok, enough grumbling. Ron Gardenhire has promised a “come to Jesus meeting” with the Twins players before they start the Cleveland Indian series so let’s hope that can inspire them to turn it around before we get too far behind the White Sox. The White Sox will be at the Dome next week. It will be crunch time for sure. Ugh.

Minnesota Twins Yankees Game

Is anyone out there watching the Twins Yankees game? Hooah! We are sitting here in the office glued to the TV. After what's his face Yankee hit the two run homer we thought it was over, but maybe not....oh wait, the Yankees are scoring again . . . what a terrible roller coaster game.

Twins Rangers Series

The Minnesota Twins are back at the Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome tonight hosting the Texas Rangers in a three game series. There are still good Twins tickets available from local ticket brokers like Ticket King, but the prices aren’t as cheap as some of the other games I have seen. I guess the boys of summer are finally catching on in the Twin Cities and drawing in more fans than usual. Sunday afternoons game has a Justin Morneau jersey promotion!!! I wish I was going, but I have to tile my entryway. *sigh*

Golf with Tom Kelly

A buddy of mine got to play golf with Tom Kelly this week – Tom Kelly! I couldn’t believe it. I told him that I would have been too star struck to even hit the ball (although, I can hardly hit the ball any way). I love good ‘ol TK and my buddies account of the day makes me love him even more. Tom Kelly is just as nice and normal and cool as I have always imagined him to be. I guess you get to stay up on that pedestal, TK. Glad you didn’t let the Common Man rile you.

All-Star Joe Mauer

It seems all of my girlfriends are obsessed and I mean OBSESSED with Joe Mauer. As most of my blog readers know, I prefer Justin Morneau over Joe Mauer any day, but I promised my friend Nicole I would post some of her Joe Mauer pictures in honor of his starting role in last nights All-Star game (but we all know that Justin Morneau won the game for the American League – he’s the real All-Star). Here are your great pictures Nicole. He is rather attractive and if you can respect the fact that he bats for average and not for homers, than I guess he is a pretty good ball player, too.

Twins Indians Series Notes

OK. I am over the Boston Red Sox fiasco and I want to take time to relive a better series, the Minnesota Twins Cleveland Indians series. Remember that series ? July 4th, 5th and 6th all ended with a big “W” for the Minnesota Twins. Here are my random Minnesota Twins facts that I want to share! I will share 4 facts in honor of the 4th of July series (Ok, that’s a stretch…I know)

///Nick Punto hit his 10th career homerun when he hit a three-run shot off John Lackey. Woohoo! That set the crowd off like fireworks in the dome.

///Carlos Gomez collected his 21st bunt hit of the season.

///Over 5,000 tickets were given to military personnel and their families on Saturday night for Armed Services Appreciation night and the Twins players each sported various military branches on their baseball caps. It was very cool. Hooah!

///Twins scored five runs in the sixth inning on Saturday and have outscored their opponents 68 to 41 in sixth innings this season – how is that for random?!?

Twins lose big in Boston

I was going to compile my favorite Twins facts from the Minnesota Twins Cleveland Indians series, but I am too depressed over the three losses to the Boston Red Sox the past three days. Sure, I expected the Twins to lose, but I HOPED they could win at least one game. The first games were close, losing by only one run in each of the first two games of the series, but what the heck happened yesterday? The Twins lost 5-18 – ouch. Those 18 runs are going to hurt the stats , that’s for sure. The Strib titled it “Boston holds a tee-off party against Twins.” Yeah, it was a haunting day at Fenway Park. I wish I could forget it and I bet Jason Kubel wishes he could, too.

Twins Detroit Tigers Series

I am a bit behind on miscellaneous facts, but do not be dismayed Minnesota Twins fans, I will catch up eventually…probably over the All-Star break –ha ha. Let’s see the last series I compiled fun facts on was the Twins Brewers Series so now I need to put together some random Minnesota Twins facts on the Twins Tigers series. It’s hard to believe that the first game of that series closed out the month of June, but it did and that leads me into the first fact:

…The Minnesota Twins finished June 2008 with a record of 17-11. The Twins historically do not do well in the month of June and this June was just the seventh time in Twins franchise history that they have recorded 17 or more wins in the month. The Twins all-time record in June is 647-669

…Joe Mauer recorded his 42nd walk of the season during the Tigers series and leads the team in walks

…The Detroit Tigers walked Carlos Gomez twice in a game for the first time in his career. I guess they wanted to slow him down

…Carlos Gomez completed his 20th bunt this season, he leads Major League in bunts

…The Minnesota Twins finished the series out-hitting Detroit 41 to 27 – way to get those bats swinging boys!

Stay tuned for more fun facts from this Minnesota Twins fan! Go Twins!

Happy 4th of July

Have a safe and fun 4th of July Minnesota Twins fans! Celebrating the 4th of July is as American as baseball and apple pie! Has anyone ever wondered why they don't serve apple pie at Twins baseball games? I have. HAPPY 4TH OF JULY! CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE!

Twins win two of three over Brewers, fans show support

The Minnesota Twins continue to amaze me. The Twins Milwaukee Brewers series was a real gem and I have a few miscellaneous facts that I want to share with my loyal Minnesota Twins blog readers (even though it’s a little late.) I will compile facts on the Twins Detroit Tigers series next week (better late than never, right?) Here are the facts that I just can't keep to myself:

--> Joe Mauer hit his third home run of the season on June 27th vs. Milwaukee Brewers. All three homers were in the month of June...does that still make him an All-Star? You betcha!

--> The Twins lost to the Milwaukee Brewers on June 28th in front of 38,963 fans. It was their largest attendance since opening day, March 31 vs. Los Angeles when the Twins (and Torii Hunter) drew 49,596 fans. Perhaps the pressure of all those prying eyes was just too much. Livan Hernandez walked four batters, a season-high.

--> Kevin Slowey pitched his second complete game of the season on June 30th, tossing the first shutout of his career. Woohoo!


--> The Twins were only 278 fans short of drawing 100,000 fans into the Metrodome for the Twins Brewers three game series. Those 278 people were out on their boats enjoying the beautiful weather. They said they would have come out if the game would have been played outside.

--> The Twins finished off Interleague Play with a record of 14-4. Way to go boys in blue!

Carlos Gomez has Fan Support

When I went to the Minnesota Twins game last week, I took mental notes at what people were wearing. I, of course, was wearing my blue Justin Morneau jersey. I saw a lot of Joe Mauer jerseys and quite a few Morneau jerseys, but I also saw a lot of Carlos Gomez jerseys/t-shirts. For being a newer Minnesota Twins player I was surprised that there would be so many, but I guess he has made a big enough impact with the fans to warrant them shelling out $20 for a jersey style Twins t-shirt. I did see one Johan Santana jersey – weirdo. These days, I bet there aren’t that many Johan Jerseys at a Mets game either!