Christ almighty it's happening again isn't it? I know it's only 2 games, and I know it's a home series against the Orioles that by all laws of physics no team should lose more than 1 out of 3 games in, but the Twins are off to a fast start, and it's making me want to vomit in terror.
Last night's game was a great example of the seemingly never-ending string of good fortune this fucking team enjoys. They trail 2-1 in the fifth inning, when O's starter Daniel Cabrera becomes completely unable to find the plate. Yet, he still somehow looks like he is going to get out of it when a bounding 2 out grounder comes right back at his 8 foot tall frame. Cabrera non-chalantly puts up his glove to make the play and end the inning, and completely whiffs on the ball. Just completely misses it with his glove, so the ball just leaks past him while they tying run scores.
Then in the 7th, Cabrera walks the immortal Jason Tyner to start the inning. Tyner steals second, and on his head first slide gets stuck Willie Mays Hayes style about five feet from second base. Luckily for him, the Orioles catcher decides to pretend he's a 22 year old Benito Santiago and throw him out from his knees. The throw is about 40 inches from where its supposed to be, so you have a ridiculous race of incompetence where Miguel Tejada fields the offline throw, and is stumbling toward second base trying to tag out Tyner, who is crawling frantically on all fours to try and complete his journey towards second base.
Of course, since this is the Twins, Tyner is safe and the next guy up singles him home with what proves to be the winning run.
On the plus side for Sox fans, I've rarely seen somebody who looks more lost at the plate than Michael Cuddyer looks right now. Everytime I watch him bat he looks like he's trying to hit a ping pong ball with a pool cue. And that bullpen is nice, but it's going to get tired if nobody except Santana can ever give them 7 innings.
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