Metrodome Magic!

Great win last night guys! That win sets the tone for the series. We must continue with this confidence and push all the way through September. Don't worry, the September Callups will help get the job done!

Speaking of the callups, I am so happy that Tolbert and Buscher are back. Everyone needs what I call a "Buscher" at bat. An at bat that makes the pitcher throw over five pitches to a batter. Buscher does that nearly every time he is up to bat. Go Buscher! Wear that guy out! Tolbert? Well, he can play anywhere. He is like a Brandon Inge...only he doesn't catch. :)

What ever happend to Pridie? I met him down in Florida and he was such a happy-go-lucky guy. We called him over for autographs but he went the other way. We thought he ignored us, but a minute later he comes back and says "Did somebody call my name?". Ah, what a guy! :)

In other news...Ozzie would like to be apart of the "farewell metrodome" thing. What a scam. He is so sneaky it makes me sick. A quote from the news story on twinsbaseball.com: "Actually, Guillen would like to be the individual who blows up the Metrodome" haha. I bet he would. Thank you vikings for not getting a new stadium!

And...Crede is NOT retiring. Don't even think that! ....I just wish he could play vs. the White Sox because he kicks butt against them :(

Good Luck tonight Mr. Manship! Make the rookies proud!

Well it's about time.

Way to sweep those Royals, Twins! I don't know why you couldn't do it last time, but the most importand news is we are gaining ground. I was really worried when we were 6.5 back. Now we are in post striking distance. Hoorah!


Tonight we have the Orioles. You would think "Psh, we got this in the bag" but we always seem to have some troubles with them. At least we have Justin back tonight!

Hopefully we can continue to beat the Royals because our final series is with them. Guess who has to play eachother in the final series? White Sox and Tigers. (snicker snicker)

Ugh, I can't wait until September 1st and Brian Buscher...

Hmph.

We cannot solve this angel puzzle. Its really quite fusterating.

...And now the new face of the club. Orlando Cabrera. Welcome. (Do good for us or go home) :)

I don't like his face. It is creeeeepy!

It'll be fun to have another new person in the club. But I feel so bad for Brenden Harris. He got slapped. And Brian Buscher. What did he do wrong? Sure his average was low, but you never let him play! I'll miss you, Brian. :(

Lets win tomorrow. It would suck to sweep and then be swept. Yuck

Two of Three?

I'll take that! I was really worried coming into this series. The Cardinals are a tough team, but WE won the series! Now if only Detroit could have some bad luck...

Game One...
FABULOUS job by G-Perk. He went the distance in pitching AND laid down two great sacrifice bunts. Close game, but we held on.

Game Two...
Poor Kevin Slowey. He got beat up early and was taken out in the third. He only got to bat once (sadly) and didn't get win number 11. GREAT performance by Bobby Keppel however. New guy pitching against his idols. What a dream come true that must have been for him! Dang Pujols has to ruin all of our fun...

Game Three...
Hands down Liriano's best performance of the season (sadly, it came 3 months into the season). Congrats to Morneau who hit a homerun. He hadn't hit one in SO long. The fans needed that excitement again :)

Busch Stadium looks amazing...and that was just on TV. It makes you really excited for next year doesn't it? I like to call Busch Stadium "Busch-er Stadium" because everytime I see BUSCH behind the batters it makes me think of Brian. And he got to play in game three at his stadium. Hoorah!
Busch-er Stadium.

Now that interleague is done, we need to focus on winning this thing. Lets go and beat up KC. Be fortunate guys, because we don't have to face Greinke. (yesss!)

2009's first sweep.

WHAT a series.

First, there was Kubel, and his spectacular game on Friday. Then the Twins' multirun innings in Saturday's game. Then the best pitching performance by Glen Perkins today capped it all off.

I was at today's game and was so glad I got to see Perk Pitch. He did so good! I was shouting "NO! DON'T TAKE HIM OUT! HE WAS DOING SO GOOD!" and, they listened and I was happy. Morales also made me happy today. He is my favorite kid out there!

I also saw a sign today that said: "We have a fever and the only Rx, is more Kubel!" and thought of Karlee from omgmntwins. Ah, I love Kubel...but he didn't get a hit today so I couldn't go super crazy.

And, I almost forgot Mauer's birthday today until I saw this one kids' sign. So, Happy Birthday Joe! Looking forward to you on May 1st! (Also, Happy Birthday to Buscher (yesterday))

Up Next, Boston. (Relax guys, it's only 2 days...please relax). Please take this momentum to Boston with you. please.

The power of the youngins...

That was a GREAT win last night for the Twins! So glad I stayed up to watch. I hate giving up on the Twins because they are the type of team where anything can happen at any time, anywhere. This happend to be one of those games.

I found myself talking to Buscher at his at bat, soothing him by saying "c'mon baby" (after his Nickname; Busch baby). They zoomed up on his head kind of by his ear, so I considered it a sign and kept saying it over. They zoomed up on Morrow (He reminds me of Rob Morrow from 'Numb3rs'), and I whispered to him: "Throw somthing crappy!" And it worked!

I liked how all the young guys came in at the end to put on a show. Way to go lil' ones! I also liked how Casilla came up to bat with an attitude. He took that first pitch, and boy, he didn't miss it. Oh, and Busch hustlin' home was amazing as well. :D

Also, I found this picture of Kevin Slowey with long hair. I like it better short, what do you think?


He has a sunflower on his hat :)

Grapefruit Frontrunners!

Whoa! 4-0! Way to go guys!

Ok, so we got Crede Right? Well, he better watch out because Buscher is on FIRE right now! (Wait, when isn't he?)

Well, we got lots of run support today from Young (3 for 3, 2 RBIs) and Gomez (HR), but also won the game due to a great show from the bullpen....and Liriano, of course.

Too bad that Mauer is not healthy enough to participate in this fun. And Turns out Boofie won't be able to participate at all. He will just have to hang out with Neshek this season.

Tomorrow we play the Sox again. AND it's Slowey's starting day!! :)

Off to a great start

Here we go again! Baseball season is upon us.

We are officially 2-0 in the Grapefruit league and are to face the Yanks tomorrow afternoon with Baker on the hill.

Personally, I really like when the Roster Invitees get to play and do really well. It shows them just what they are up for when they reach the Big Leagues. In today's game vs. the Reds, Peterson (an invitee) hit a grand slam. That is the kind of stuff that I think is really cool. Oh, and Bush Baby hit a home run too :)

I am really enjoying the season so far. Slowey's start is coming up, and I am looking forward to that!

An All-Around Awesome Game

Last nights game was a super awesome one. This is what i liked

1. Carlos Silva sucking it up for us (thank you Carlos!)
2. Kubel's homer
3. Brian Buscher (everytime he came up to bat, I screamed: GOO BUSCH BABY!!!!)
4. Liriano
5. Punto's awesome DP
6. Ichiro dropping the ball
7. Jim Riggleman getting ejected (my first ejection!!)
8. Twins winning

Ahh...yes. I was a very loud Twins fan yesterday yelling in my Slowey shirt at nearly every Twins play. I also got my long waited for Gomez jersey (wearing now). And I also decided one thing.....

I WANT A SPAN SHIRT

They are so cute!! I'll have to get one next time I'm at a pro shop. They aren't at the dome....sadly :(

Today: Twins win...but I am so sad how the bullpen was sooo close of making me spaz out if they lost. Thank you Buschbaby for hitting the game winning sac fly. Jesse Crain....I still hate you, and thank you Reyes, for winning.

Lets all go wish for an Oakland sweep of the Sox so we can be 2 games ahead of Chicago. Yay!

The Big Series

4 Game Series against who? The Leading (by only two and a half games) Chicago White Sox.

I am soooooo excited for this series. We have a great oppertunity to take the lead in the AL Central AND we are the home team.

Saturday's game was a great Game for Brian Buscher. I didn't get to watch the first half, but when I was watching the second half on TV, the got 9 runs by that time and they wouldn't say who drove in all those runs until the end when they told everyone Buschbaby had gotten 5 RBI's. Way to go Buschbaby!

Well Twins, I do hope you win tonite...and tomorrow, and the whole series. Just please don't make Asses of yourselves.

And one more thing, GO SLOWEY!

7 Straight!

Wow. How magical the Twins can be. They were just on a 6 game losing streak 2 weeks ago and now they are on a 7 game winning streak!

Last nights game was very boring until later in the game (i.e. The 9th inning). Harris and Buscher both drove one over the fence. Not to mention those homers were back to back.

I was so dissapointed when they had Slowey bunt. DIDN'T YOU SEE HOW HE HIT LAST TIME? Now Slowey won't be able to hit the rest of the season since our last interleague game is at home. However, he did a great job pitching (Heck, when DOESN'T he?), but unfortunatly he gave up one run and so Reyes got the win.

The Twins won, but sadly the White Sox also won leaving the Twins hovering at 1.5 games back. Twins are 5 games over .500, the highest they have been. And what's this? Cleveland nearly in last place of the Central Division? (Probably because they just got Rincon)

One more thing: Twins did awesome hitting against Mr. Cy Young Peavy. Peavy is weird and scares me....

For one, he looks like he is going to throw up, and for 2, Don't his blue eyes just pierce you?

Welcome Back Buscher!

Buscher, you make Twins fans very happy. I love when guys come up from AAA and kick ass.

And: WHY wasn't Cuddyer in the line-up? He hit an *unofficial* Innie and drove in 2 runs (besides himself). He is soooo magical....

Today, Baker was cooking up strikeouts (ha ha!funny Joke right?! *sarcasm*). He struck out a career tying high, 9 batters. He also got FOUR strikeouts in 1 inning. This is the first for a Twin!


Cuddy was back today and made an awesome sliding catch and then threw to Morneau for the DP. He also almost got hit again while at bat and had to take a deep breath before coming back into the batters box.

Gardy got ejected for the 8th time yesterday as he was upset how Harris didn't get time and the pitcher through right past him. I was like: WHAAAAAAT? And Brenden was dazed. The umpire must have been going: Man, I wish I could slide down that beer slide over there...

Kubel hit his 10th Homerun tying him with Justin Morneau. Whoa, Kubel, Whoa! Justin, you better start hitting them over the fence if you want to be the Twins's HR King...

Today is an offday, and Blackburn was pushed back to Saturday. So now we have Mr. I-can't-pitch-anymore pitching for us tomorrow against the Nats. (P.S. In case you don't know, It's Livan)

I had a weird dream last night that I was driving Justin Morneau's car and we were laughing at Delmon Young. NOT KIDDING.

.... I WISH I was driving his car....

ILY, Slowey.

Ha Ha Ha. Walking Lamb to get to Slowey was SUCH a bad Idea. Won't you ever learn that Slowey is the best hitter ever as of Friday? Tsk Tsk Tsk, Milwaukee, Tsk Tsk Tsk.

Watch out baseball. This guy can pitch and *ta da!* HIT!

Brilliant Friday the 13th win.

That double Sloweee hit to the wall was amazing. He can really turn on the ball.. :)

Everything Slowey did yesterday was amazing. He is so awesome and thats why I LUV him!

As of now the Twins are tied up with the bases loaded and if they don't score....we don't even deserve the game. BTW, Nice Blown Save Nathan...

I hope Baker hits a Homer in tomorrow's game. That would be awesome fo shizz.

Also, Welcome back BRIAN BUSCHER!!