Well guys, we're over the halfway mark in this baseball season. But we still have a few months of MLB play left - which is good, for any team BUT the Minnesota Twins. You see, the Twins have already thrown away their chances of making it to the MLB Playoffs this year. In fact, they have less than a 1 percent chance of actually MAKING it to the playoffs. Pretty sad considering how optimistic I was at the start of the season.
All boo-hooing aside, the team now has two choices in front of itself:
1. They can either give up on the rest of this season, play a half-assed game and hope for a really great off-season - which would be the usual expectation of a Minnesota team in this position.
2. They can try to play their asses off, keep some butts in the seats at Target Field and really screw up the playoff potential of their rival teams.
Judging by their level of play recently - specifically in the series that finishes today against the Baltimore Orioles - they've chosen option number 2. I have to say that I'm a little impressed by the route that the Twins are taking. Normally, as a Minnesota sports fan, you'd expect this team to just kind of fall off the radar after a bad season. But they're hanging on, actually managing to maintain a little fan interest (aka still selling SOME Twins tickets this year!) and making things happen. Now I really AM interested in seeing what happens for the rest of this season/in the off-season.
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