5-for-5 is HOT!

such an awesome series, although beating kansas city feels like roughing up little kindergardeners.

hopefully more luck in detroit this time around

Dang. I had Cuddles and the over.

Excellent Legovision, although strawberry flavored shaving cream kinda scares me a little. Thank heavens Joe wears a helmet, said the Steelers fan.

YAY! My boyfriend got BOD honors! Going 5-for-5 is TOTALLY HOTTT!

Now let's go kick some Kitties.

p.s. My sympathies to all the baseball fans in KC. What a dreadful, dreadful squad you're forced to watch. Keep your chins up. It can't get any worse. In the meantime, pour yourselves a cold one and fondly recall the glory days of Herzog's Heroes.

Lego should make a MLB version. They have the NBA and NHL, so why not?

5 for 5 IS totally hot! I loves me the Bart!

Nice to have some momentum going into Detriot. I've got a goooood feeling about this series. I see we'll miss Verlander again this time round. I wish we'd face him--I want to see this kid pitch.

And I'm with E-6. All you KC faithful, my heart goes out to ya. Keep the faith, it'll all come round eventually--look at Detroit. Tigers fans are having their faith pay off this year; your time will come.

I suppose it would be asking too much for the Royals to burn their assbats and stop playing chuck and puke with the baseball as they begin a series with Boston Tuesday.

Didnt see the game today but 5-5 is pretty hard to argue with in terms of earning BOD!

Dear Batgirl and friends:

No desire to be a downer, but I feel this is something I need to share... I posted this over at TwinkieTown and felt the need to repeat it here, since this is my favorite group of Twins fans. I'm sorry if you are reading this twice, but I thought this would be good to know.

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Hey everyone

I just wanted to speak to an issue that I never thought would come up, being a Twins fan.

Two of my very best friends (and my groomsmen) are diligent and steadfast Royals fans (I don't know how that happened, but it did). The three of us have taken a liking to attending games together at Kaufmann Stadium, sit side by side in our clashing jerseys, and enjoy baseball. It's a short trip to KC from where we are in Lincoln, and we both get to watch our teams outdoors. Last year we caught two games, the teams split, so everyone went home happy. I have always found it exciting to have so many Twins fans in the stands, it usually is 50/50 at Kaufmann. Every time I have gone to Kaufmann in my Navy and Red, I always get a little bit of good-natured ribbing as to be expected. However, it's always in fun, all the Royals fans are great to me, and the Twins fans have always been so appreciative of the stadium and hospitality, and have always treated Royals fans in kind.

I was unable to accompany my friends this weekend, but the two Royals fans gentlemen headed down on their own this weekend to cheer on their team. I could only be shocked at the stories they shared with me about pompous and rude Twins fans. My friends, (whom I believe thoroughly) feel the same as I do about sportsmanship and good-natured heckling. That is, it stays good-natured.

Our philosophy has always been thus:
"Cheer FOR your team. Never cheer AGAINST theirs."

I feel this philosophy has grown out of being a Twins fan. What I mean is, I believe it grows out of following an upstanding team; midwestern sensibilities; etc. I credit being a Twins fan to giving me a sense of sportsmanship and appreciation for the game, and I believe my friends credit the same from being Royals fans.

To hear that Twins fans were badmouthing and swearing at my friends, acting as if Kaufmann was not in fact the away team's home, I was in disbelief. To be told by my friends that they needed ushers' intervention to stop the verbal abuse from the Twins fans sitting behind them, I was shocked. I tried not to believe it when I heard that they received attitude and abuse even at the HOTEL. I didn't believe, and I do not believe now, that these were true Twins fans. I don't think that true fans of this team would go into someone else's house and treat that team and their fans disrespectfully.

I only wanted to share this feeling in case this sad minority of Twins followers happened to be you or any of your friends this past weekend. Let's not let a few months of success go to our heads. It's not long ago that we knew exactly how those Royals felt, and all sports teams and fans should be treated with respect. I didn't even experience from Yankee fans in the Metrodome earlier this season what I heard from my friends this weekend. We've always taken pride in following our team with respect and tact. Let's remember that.

Thanks for reading, I just wanted to make sure we stay the Twins Territory that I've always been so proud of.

Sincerely, Neil

Morneaust
Valuable
Player

Has anyone noticed that SIX of the Twins' nine starters today are batting at least .300? And that's WITHOUT the Chairman in the lineup.

Damn.

Totally, Trusty Justy for MVP. Let's see how they do when they get back to Chateau Morneau.

The Royals can always hope. They may be bad now, but the Tigers were just as bad three years ago and now look at them. Maybe 09 will be the year of the Royals.

Neil:

Hear, hear.

'cause it works both ways.

tgd
Who, as a former Iowan, fondly remembers many trips to Royals Stadium, even when the Twins were in the Massive Sucking Time of the mid-1980s.

I dont know if it will be by 2009, but I do think they made a good choice in their new GM and they wont be cannon fodder for long.

How sweep it is!!!!!!!!!

Neil. I saw the same thing last Sunday at the dome directed towards a Tigers fan and a sixty-year-old usher that was trying to do her job. It's common with Vikings fans and is now showing up at Twins games. I wish we could leave the trash talking for the NFL. Thanks for bringing it up. I think it's becoming a problem.

sld:

Yeah, that's the reason I brought it up, I figured we could all nip it in the bud.

-Neil

Neil,

I agree. There is no room for rudeness. Hearty cheering for our boys, yes. And I, and all of the batlings, know how it feels to be swept, to suck, to loose. It is not appropriate to be mean or sarcastic to a team that is struggling.

since the behavior subject came up, the last time I was at the dome I was cheering and giving verbal encouragement to our boys (suff like: "Come on Joe!")
About mid-way thru the game a guy, a Twins fan, leaned over to me and said, " Can you be quiet?"
I said something like, "during an exciting game like this? No." But I was stunned and felt the comment was a bit rude. Any thoughts on voicing encouragement to our players and cheering loudly when we do something great. This "request" was a first for me. I asked my husband, who is much more quiet than me at games. He said, no, you're not too loud. If we aren't rude or obnoxious isn't a ballgame a place for a bit of boisterousness??

Any feedback would be appreciated,

cheers, kal

Yes Neal, Hear, Hear. This saddens me much.

SWEEP!!!!
Bartlett and Cuddy were awesome! And the rest of the team wasn't too shabby ether ;-) Mike Smith didn't do too well though :-( We NEED a 5th starter to step up, I wonder if they will try Gerair (Spelling?) next? and how long they will wait to bring Garza up.

Another thing while I'm up on my soapbox. Taking a broom to a visitors stadium to celebrate the sweeping of the worst team in baseball is poor taste. sld.

Did anyone see that Corky "Corky" Miller started today for the Red Sox? He went 0 for 4 with 7 guys LOB!!! Oh Corky...

Kal,

Like the song says, "Root, root, root for the home team." If that guy really needs to watch ballgames in quietude, he should head down to Tropicana Field.

I'm with you Neil... I can remember going to Cubs games when I was a kid and that was the best, nicest place to be in the world. Now look what Cubs fans have become -- abusing their own players, throwing stuff on the field, massive abuse to the visitors... Friendly confines my a$$. Let's all work to keep Twins Territory on the "high ground". I know I'll do my part when I'm at the games. Heck... I want my kids to be able to continue to enjoy the games the way I did growing up (definately would NEVER take them to a Vikings game). So far when we've gone to games the dome has been nothing but good baseball and good fans. Let's keep it that way.

Went to Talladega Nights last-pretty much the entire cast should have entered the Joe Mauer Sideburn Contest. And I saw a preview for this softball movie called Beer League, starring none other than Jason Bartlett's twin Ralph Macchio. Eerie. Especially since Jason was so fantastic yesterday.

5-for-5 is HOTTTTT.

I feel the need to point out that I went to a Cubs game on Thursday and I even wore a Twins hat - although I wore Cubbie colors - and I was treated beautifully. People were gracious, asked us questions about the players on our team that they consider standouts.

all in all, it was a beatiful day at the park with some lovely people.

it's just that the rude ones are just so much more obvious!

There's a guy who looks like Jason Bartlett?? This I've GOTTA see.