If only blizzards with chunks of pie could help our boys hit. I would order a great number of them and ship them (in dry ice of course) to the New York hotel where they are staying.

On another note...Congratulations to Michael Cuddyer on his engagement which Dick & Bert told us about this evening.

I hope they'll be very happy together. :-)

Sadly, it was no better in person.

But at least the fans at the dome don't heap abuse on a player (Shannon Stewart in this instance) who has not done anything to them, either postive or negative.

It was.....difficult....wearing Twins gear at Yankee stadium today.

But tomorrow.....tomorrow.....tomorrow it will be better. Right?

Brian, it can't be much worse. And since we won't be facing Johnson again, it just might be better. Maybe. Especially if you hit up a DQ before or after the game.

Shannon Stewart is viewed as a Yankee killer in most circles so maybe that's the reason for the...animosity. Al "I've still got a pulse" Leiter pitches tomorrow so if the offense doesnt wake up with him they never will.

There are no DQs in NYC. :(

NYBrian is right...no DQ's in NYC. It's been so long since I've had one. Fortunately for DQ I'll be leaving NYC in 1 week, at which point I will force myself to bathe in soft-serve and chuncks of butterfinger. Yes, I'll do it.

Tomorrow I'm off to Yankee Stadium to see Johan take on the Yankees...it's a fitting way to leave the city. Even more fitting should Johan find his way to a victory.

To NYBrian and other Twins fans in NYC...hold down the fort. I'll be back. Oh, yes. I'll be back...

Good to know someone else endured the stares and Omigods of the Yankee faithful tonight by daring to wear something with color in it (I boldly bore a bright red Hunter shirt) and not just that drab blue and white. The always creative Yankee youth were full of Twins Stink and Twins Suck and "At least it's not a Red Sox shirt!" There were a few gracious souls who asked politely if I was from around here and was I planning on coming back tomorrow (perhaps concerned that a Non New Yorker couldn't handle the crowd?). I smiled and said, Of course! I'll be here for all three games, thank you!

But even that bravado couldn't make up for Turn Back the Clock night for Randy Johnson. Ah, well, we'll put up our own Strikeout King tomorrow!

Unfortunately our own Strikeout King has also been our Gap Double King of late; and he's not getting any run support.

I really don't like to think about the Twins getting into the trade bonanza - I like to think they're above that, and they think in the long-term, like the Chinese Communist Party - but, damn, we need some bats... And Mays' and Romero's performances of the last few weeks don't exactly have me keeping 'em close to the chest.

I mean, seriously, Romero must be leading the majors in 'inherited runs allowed'.

Batgirl, Nooooo! No Banana Cream Dream Pie Blizzards! No soft-serve treats of any kind! That is simply heresy, and will not help our boys win.

Of course, that's coming from someone who went off to cheer a (national league) AAA team, and actually took some comfort in their winning. And I got to talk to Denny Hocking (AAA Omaha Royals, the opposing team), so I guess I shouldn't throw (soft-serve) stones.

Does Al Leiter really still have a pulse? He hides it so very well.

But Brian, were you in the bleachers?

Last year at Yankee Stadium I chickened out of wearing my Red Sox cap and wore a Newark Bears one istead

Did I tell you, or did I tell you?

It's all about the Banana Cream!

Brian,

Please tell me that nobody bothered you in the section you were sitting in? I have yet to see fans in that section (generally, there are always single-game additions, of course) abuse a fan of an opposing team...usually such things (including any cursing) are shunned upon by the regulars.

As for Stewie...how did they abuse him, I wonder? I usually lead the "abuse" if you can call it that (for example, I wished BJ Surhoff a happy 45th birthday which got a chuckle from the section, and prompted Surhoff to turn around and inform me that he is "only" forty). Just wondering whether fans were actually abusive, or just good-natured ribbing...

...and Stewart is like .450 lifetime against the Yanks, or at least it always seems to feel that way...

Anyway, better luck tonight.

Yours in -good sportingness-
YankeeFan

*hugs BG* It's okay, hon. Sometimes, you just need to have a Blizzard and a good cry.

But then we must get back on the saddle. Tonight, we shall overcome!

I think I also should have gone to DQ during the game. A blizzard would have made things a _little_ better.

I remember chocolate-covered cherry Blizzards. Mmmmmm. I wonder if they still make those? I haven't had DQ in at least ten years.

I had to work late (stupid co-workers!) tonight, so missed most of the first half of the game. Had I sat through those first five or six innings, I would've been heading down to Dairy Queen, as well. My wish list for tonight: minimum of two home runs by the Twins (at least one for Justin Morneau); ten strikeouts by Santana (Derek Jeter having at least two), and a win by the Twins.

Well, at least Torii ran over the BitchSox catcher last year.... we have that to remember.

This game, however, is already out of my memory.

Batgirl -
reminds me of my Little League days - win or lose, we always went to Dairy Queen.

In those days, it wasn't about final score or the lack of hits or out-of-control pitchers or fielding errors.
IT WAS DQ AFTER EVERY GAME.

This was before the invention of the Blizzard.
I usually went for the Cherry Mr. Misty - which I sucked down as quick as I could and game myself severe brain freeze.
Sometimes it was the dipped cone which usually dripped on the front of the shirt.
Sometimes, when our little league ass-bats were really weak, the coach would only let us have Dilly Bars. But...
IT WAS DQ AFTER EVERY GAME.

Perhaps it is time the Twins forget about the Bitch Sox, forget about the wild card, and start playing for DQ.
Terry Ryan could put in contract incentives:
Good game = Blizzards and Peanut Buster Parfaits
Bad game = Dilly bars and plain cones
Win or Lose: DQ AFTER EVERY GAME

I like your wishlist Just Beth. But I've been of the mentality these last few weeks that a win is a win.

I'll take wins however we can pull them off. Should it take OMM hitting a pinch hit grand slam in place of Morneau, so be it.

But yes, a Cytana Outing combined with decent hitting would be a nice moral victory...considering Johnson made us look like fools last night.

Last night's game didn't drive me to DQ, but it did drive me to a romance novel. I hasten to add I was at my parents' house, not my own. Romance novels not allowed in my own.
Oh, Twins, what have you done to me? WHY?
Okay, I guess it was Randy Johnson being all "Hey, maybe it IS okay to pitch in the AL like I did in the NL" last night. Just don't blow it tonight.

I would worry about Leiter tonight. He is a big game pitcher and this is his first game in Yankee Stadium, the adrenaline will be flowing tonight.
You just have to be patient with him and work walks. He will walk hitters, especially right handers if they can foul off his inside cutter.
Too bad Brown is pitching for the Yanks this series. He's always good for at least 3 runs, in the first inning.

Unlike Batgirl, I'm about to move away from my neighborhood DQ. And just after someone -- okay people here on this blog -- told me about pie blizzards. I dragged my whole household out to try them the other day. (DQ should be sending Batgirl some swag -- seriously.)

So I'm thinking this: my boxes are rapidly filling, and pretty soon they go into the truck, and I move away from my pie-blizzard pusher. Then I will have lost a major source of consolation, and will have great trouble coping with any more games like last night's.

Oh, and tonight is televised in my area again, so the trauma or joy will be more immediate for me this time. Please, beloved Twins. Don't make me get the French Silk.

Ooooh, I just hated Jeter's snotty jeering expression in the dugout when Torii awkwardly hit the wall on Rodriguez's homer. It's called playing defense, captain. Let's see you do it.

>Terry Ryan could put in contract incentives:
>Win or Lose: DQ AFTER EVERY GAME

Torii strikes me as more of a McFlurry type of guy, though. : )

I, for one, am incredibly impressed, not only by Batgirl's impeccable taste in ice cream, but by her command of not one, but two, classical references. The die is cast...and crossing the Rubicon...in one blog...

I swoon.

I did see a few Johan and Torii jerseys last night outside the stadium, but we ended up sitting in section U, which if Yankee Stadium is the House that Ruth built, section U is Ruth's attic. I didn't see any Twins jerseys in the attic and that includes the ones on the field.

Dear Mr/Mrs Hegs

What do you have against the Dilly Bar ? I have been a long time fan. My father and I have enjoyed may a sports talk over a Dilly Bar.

mike

One of the many reasons I enjoy this blog(the only one I frequent) is the eternal optimism of this lot of loyal Batlings. Although I am trying to find the DQ blizzard of hope in the recent run of truly crap performances, I'm going over to the Mr. Crankypants view that this group of 9 (with the ever changing parts) just ain't it. And I think BG nailed it: they lack the sass factor, or any noticeable pluck. Sigh. Make mine a small, chocolate-dipped cone.

Mr. Mike -
I have absolutely nothing against Dilly Bars - except butterscotch.
But given a choice - Peanut Buster Parfiat vs. Dilly Bar - PBP wins every time. Meanwhile, the Dilly Bar is a nice consolation prize.

Mr. Hegs

The Stewie abuse was mostly chanting his name, shouting "You suck!" That sorta stuff.

Ah, yes, that well-know New York wit... ;-)

No wonder I don't read the New Yorker... :P

yesterdays game was so sad that after JC gave up the two runs, i had to stop watching and instead i watched a tivo-ed episode of 30 days. good show, people, good show. and then when i came home i had icecream! but not DQ...