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Today, I simulated the 2024 Twins season, managing it as an internet commenter might. Spoiler alert, they went 59-103, but at least they tried something and sent messages! See below for my adventure.
I am the byproduct of a Minnesota Twins obsession.
Tomorrow is the day. It's been 18 games and 19 years. Please, Twins, don't make me add another chapter to this story.
Love, Greggory
So the Yankee sweep was in exchange for the Wolves reaching the WCF.
The next 4 games they didn’t have the sausage.
10 runs and counting after the sausage was overnighted.
I may be becoming superstitious.
If Rocco was competent and kept his talent, the lineup today could look like
CF LaMonte Wade
LF Akil Baddoo
RF Brent Rooker
DH Nelson Cruz
1B David Ortiz
3B Jake Cave
SS Drew Maggi
C JA Happ
2B Santa Claus
P Markus “Seven Radishes” Niedereiter
No ablility to self-scout at all
It’s getting a little embarrassing at this point. Twins fans need to come to grips with the fact that, yes, the new logo looks a lot like the Marlins logo, and that’s okay.
It’s so funny that South Dakota is the interesting Dakota when its attractions are 1) secluded rock with president faces chiseled in it 2) unfinished and impossibly large statue 3) building with corn nailed to it 4) rest stop that has free ice water
Sonny Gray just approached Joey Gallo and said “See that! That’s a sacrifice fly! You don’t understand situational hitting with your exit angle and launch velocity!”
Gallo responded “Ey, gabbagool! This is why I put a rock in your shoe!”
Source confirmed
The average age of the signers of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 was 44 years old, but more than a dozen were 35 or younger:
Thomas Jefferson: 33
John Hancock: 39
Carlos Santana: 25
Caleb Theilbar: 21
James Monroe: 18
Paul Revere: 41
Jay Jackson: 44
I’m not one for dreaming, but
López 5 -> Varland 2 -> Thielbar 1 -> Durán 1
then
Gray 4 -> Paddack 1.2 -> Thielbar .1 -> Jax 1 -> Stewart 1 -> Durán 1
Is going to go so hard
If the Twins are going to go 5 months without fans being able to use the number 1 medium for watching the game, I can’t imagine how many borderline fans they’re about to lose.
Minnesota sports fans are cursed. How cursed are they? They’re so cursed that even when their favorite players are on the cusp of breaking records for all the wrong reasons, those moments get ruined for them, too.
Can you imagine what this lineup will look like once everyone’s healthy?
2B Royce Lewis
SS Carlos Correa
CF Byron Buxton
RF Mike Trout
C Joe Mauer
DH Giancarlo Stanton
3B Anthony Rendon
1B Anthony Rizzo
LF Rocco Baldelli
P Tyler Glasnow
Putting together a trade package for Juan Soto, what do you guys think?
Trevor Larnach
Charlee Soto
Austin Martin
Aaron Sabato
Malfrin Sosa
One of the Cheap Pohlad
Keoni Cavaco
Murphy
Dan Hayes
Daniel Ruettiger
Jason Bartlett
Al Newman
Chili Davis
The new fake TC
Mickey Mantle
Holy shit man I cannot deal with all the bitching and moaning woe is me Minnesota sports fans talking about “I have been betrayed too many times I have been hurt I have developed learned helplessness” please beg of you act like an adult or go to therapy and stop watching sports
Tomorrow Carlos Correa is going to roll into spring training tomorrow and unleash the corniest, most buzzword-laden speech about loving each other and working hard. I’m so ready
I hope Twins fans appreciate the ever-presence of Rodney and Tony. Wherever the Twins are, the best buddy ambassadors are there. It, once again, isn’t a requirement.
Rocco, on Manuel Margot's arrival in camp today: "I’ve never seen someone make the Phoenix to Fort Myers trip that quick."
Buxton said Margot showed up and asked if they needed him to play today: "That’s something you don’t see very often, and just shows you the person he is."
I’m writing right now, but I want to get a point across here now.
After you’ve processed that the end of the best part of the year is over, don’t skip straight to next year.
Acknowledge what this season was. No expectations. Snapping the streak. It was fun.
We loved it.
It’s so funny to say about a team that wasn’t elite last year, didn’t spend, never led the division, is still in line for a playoff spot, and will almost assuredly have a winning record that their season is an unmitigated disaster and be 100% right.
Dallas Keuchel:
1) is a 5th starter at best
2) pitched worse than his ERA at AAA
3) isn’t better than any Twins SP
4) won’t come out of the pen
5) didn’t have enough interest to opt out 2 weeks ago
6) was not traded for yesterday
7) cost nothing to sign
8) requires a 40 man spot
The lineup as your
#MNTwins
try to get back on track against the
#RedSocks
🧦:
SS Orlando Cabrera
2B Bret Boone
C Phil Nevin
DH Ruben Sierra
CF Ruettiger
RF Rondell White
3B Tony Batista
LF Craig Monroe
1B Jose Offerman
P Kenny Rogers
I love how Matt Wallner at 14 was tweeting about the Twins exactly how you would expect a 14 year old in Forest Lake would—parroting the adults around him
The Guardians have not won the AL Central yet because their wins can be vacated for wind tunnel manipulation. If you’re currently in line for the AL Central title DO NOT LEAVE THE LINE