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Neede Crede? Just say ‘Neau.
Despite our last two (AMAZING) wins against the A’s and Indians, respectively, some bad news came last night from the illustrious Gard-Dog, aka Ron Gardenhire.
Okay, deep breath, aaaaand …
JOE CREDE IS DONE FOR THE SEASON.
Alright, this one was fairly obvious. Crede had been battling various injuries during the season, keeping him out of a fair amount of games. But the biggest injury of them all – his recently re-built robot back – just couldn’t hold up.
After his performance Sunday, during which he struck out four times as the Twins‘ DH, it was obvious Joe just couldn’t do what he needed to do anymore. He told Gardy after the game that he couldn’t get the bat where it needed to be. So, that’s that for Crede.
My question is: is that it for Crede and the Twins, just like that?? I’m surprised, if so. Granted, we signed a one-year free-agent deal with him last summer, but I thought maybe after some of the great things he managed to do for us (look up Tigers v. Twins, May 13 for a refresher), we might try to keep him on for a little more time. But so far, I haven’t read what Crede’s fate will be after the season ends for the rest of the Twins.
Second announcement:
JUSTIN MORNEAU IS DONE FOR THE SEASON.
This one was a tish more shocking. What could possibly have knocked Justin “Just Say ‘Neau” off the team? Oh. I see.
Justin Morneau will miss the rest of the season with a stress fracture in his lower back. The hard-hitting Morneau had been battling back pain for weeks, but a CT scan and an MRI on Monday revealed the fracture.
“It’s one of those things that’s been nagging for a while,” said Morneau, who also fought through back problems a season ago. “I just wanted to go in and see if it was anything different than last year.”
Recovery for Morneau is expected to take three months, and he has been instructed by doctors to not do any running or heavy lifting during that time. Morneau added that he won’t need surgery, saying the fracture should heal on its own.
MY MIND IS BOGGLED. One good thing, though: Cuddyer has been surprisingly strong when he has taken over 1st base for an ailing Morneau recently, and Gardy says he’ll be there for the rest of the season.
So, there’s that. What a weird season. Who knows how it’ll end, since our hopes of the AL Central title are painfully slim. But there’s always next year …
PS. CUDDYER! KUBEL! COMEBACK IN THE 8TH! Things like that renew my faith in the Minnesota Twins.
Dirt McGirt.
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{page:Section1;}HOW dirty was that game last night? No, I’m not talking about the loss, 8-10, to
the Tigers. No, not about the
sprinkling of errors (MORNEAU! HOW COULD YOU??) or the MIA players (CREDE!).
I’m talking about those umpires. RIDICULOUS.
Gardy received his 46th career time-out. I saw the tirade, and I assumed he was in
the wrong. He has several gifts as a
manager, one being explosive expletive power.
But after several questionable calls, I have to wonder …
Basically, after two possible balks by Galarraga in
the first and second innings, Gardy and the dugout were not amused. Gard-dog went to umpire Wendelstedt
for the second time about it, and was tossed out.
Here’s what Gardy said after
the game, though:
“He threw me out, and he said, ‘How do
you like that?’ ” a still-hot Gardenhire fumed. “Well, that’s
the second time I’ve run into this with this guy. A lot of problems with Hunter
[Wendelstedt]. He’s got an attitude. At home a few years back he said,
‘You’re just out here for showtime.’
“He’s got a smart (expletive) mouth, and tonight was
ridiculous, really. A lot of calls, (were) no good. He had a bad night. He
didn’t probably think so because he’s god as umpires go, but not good, really
not good by him. I was really disappointed. There was no reason for me to get
thrown out of that game tonight.”Gardenhire stopped his tirade there, but
seconds later, when asked a question about a different questionable call — they
were numerous on Friday night — he relaunched.“Calls are calls,” he said. “Sometimes they go
your way; I just get real disappointed when an umpire has an attitude like that
and thinks he’s a big shot and throws you out and feels good about it, feels
good about a game in the second inning. That’s too bad, too bad. It doesn’t
have to be that way, shouldn’t have to be that way, but I’ll get fined, and
he’ll be fine. He’ll be fine. Anything else before I get suspended here, if I
already haven’t?”
Somehow, I can’t really blame Gardenhire. Harris’ tag was right there; Granderson
was SO out. Mauer DEFINITELY
tagged Guillen out before he reached the plate. And yeah, you can’t have instant replays and
change the ump’s call, but those were two glaringly wrong calls that cost us a
game. And even so, a fan touched the
ball when it got away from Morneau, and the two possible balks by Galarraga
weren’t even questioned.
Well, here’s what the ump had to
say:
“The only questionable call of the whole night that he
might have is whether the fan might have touched the foul ball down the line,
which we couldn’t see on the tape; everything else we were 100 percent,” Wendelstedt
said after reviewing the game tape. “And then when I get my ball and
strike disk, I’ll bet I’m 97-99 percent, and we’ll look at that tomorrow.”
On Gardenhire’s assertion that Galarraga was
balking, Wendelstedt said, “I would challenge him to sit down and
watch the replays. Because he was wrong on whether the pitcher was balking or
not, and we can sit down, and I’m going to invite him to my umpire school, if
he wants to learn what is a balk, he can come down in January to umpire school
and we’ll teach him.”Wendelstedt said he warned Gardenhire
“numerous” times and that the dugout complained “five times in
an inning and a half” about the alleged balking. He went on to say that he
“is not a pincushion,” and that Gardenhire’s ejection was a
simple decision to make.“There was some not-so-kind things said to me, which is why
when he was ejected, and that’s when I said, ‘How do you like that if you’re
going to be that way?’ ” Wendelstedt said after Minnesota
fell 5 1/2 games back of Detroit in the AL Central race.
Seriously. “Umpire school?”
So
here’s the deal. We need to win REALLY
bad tonight and hopefully tomorrow.
This is out of control – literally – and hopefully Gardy won’t,
um, get a longer time-out for his kind words above. And hopefully new jack can help us with the Tigers, too.
NOTE: I will not be continuing liveblogging for a while since, like the genius my mom tells me I am, I smashed a chapstick in my MacBook, cracking the screen. So, no more live comments about the snugness of Nick Punto‘s pants until that screen is fixed.
Dust in the wind.
Hey. Hey, you. Think you can name every MLB team in a minute? Well, Dr.
Overly-Confident, try this on for size. My personal
best is a solid, like, 12 because I type like someone who’s never seen a
keyboard before. Also, they don’t take answers like “A’s” or
“D-Backs” or “I hate the White Sox.”
So, that game last night … not something I want to see ever
again. We’d been doing so well (except for that game against the Brewers, agh!) as of late,
and it was good t get some wins on the road. What went wrong? Well,
plenty of things were to blame, such as …
Fielding:
In their return to American League play, the Twins offense went silent
and the club’s defense was what manager Ron Gardenhire called
“sloppy” as they suffered a 4-2 loss to the Royals in the series
opener at Kauffman Stadium.
“We’ve
been playing pretty good and we just had a clunker tonight defensively where we
just didn’t make enough plays out there,” Gardenhire said.
The Royal’s pitcher, Hochevar:
“But, I think more than anything, we got shut down
by a young man who threw the ball really, really well against us.” [Gardy said]
Trying
yet again to move two games over the .500 mark — something they have yet to do
this season — the Twins saw their attempt foiled by Royals right-hander Luke Hochevar as they fell back to 39-39 on the
season.
Hochevar held the club scoreless for seven
innings, limiting it to just two hits over that span.
And Blackburn:
Blackburn (6-4) was able to hold it at that
mark until the sixth inning, even pitching out of a bases-loaded situation in
the fifth. But he started the sixth by giving up back-to-back solo home runs to
Albert Callaspo
and Miguel Olivo,
allowing Kansas City
to take a three-run lead.
“I
was a little off early. My mechanics didn’t feel great but I felt like I made a
pretty good adjustment late,” Blackburn said. “The two home runs were
just bad pitches. I don’t blame it on anything but missed spots. Our pitch
selection was good, I just failed to execute two pitches.”
So gross. But, along with the
bad – the very, very, very … VERY bad – a glorious two-run “morneaumer” (see what I
did there?? EHH??) was able to cut the Royals‘ lead in half:
Justin
Morneau hit a
two-run homer off left-hander John Bale in the eighth to pull the club within two, but by that
time it was just too little, too late.
I like how whoever wrote that article had to put everything in
the most depressing way possible. The term “too little, too
late” is something you use when describing a marriage failing.
Anyway, like Gardy said, our defense is slop-tacular. I couldn’t even handle how badly we caught, threw, missed opportunities for outs, etc.
And although I was trying to make peace with Buscher and his shenanigans, I just can’t. He was TRULY awful last night. Crede, fix that back of yours, stat.
Also, WTF Delmon and Denard?? You were doing the Texas Two-Step out there, practically knocking each other out of the way to nab any fly ball. I mean there’s one thing to backup the catch just in case, but WHOA. No more stepping on each other’s toes, literally.
And Cuddyer’s error? AY! Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that was his first of the year last night. So what’s the deal with our outfielders? Would Gomez or Kubel have helped the situation any more? This guy seems to think he has the answer, and I agree except for the Young being the DH thing. That’s just … scary.
On to the game tonight, 7:10 in KC. Hopefully we won’t be total jokes out there again.
Royally Screwed.
1B: MORNEAU
2B: PUNTO (!)
3B: BUSCHER
SS: HARRIS
RF: CUDDYER
CF: SPAN
LF: YOUNG
C: MAUER
PITCHING:
- BLACKBURN
PRE-GAME:
Oh, Denard. You are awesome on camera.
Also, any blog title about the KC Royals from this point on will be a Kansas lyric … because really, there’s only that one song about Kansas City and I already used it. And Kansas (the band) is sweet. Excuse me, I’m going to go hop in my Camero and grow a mullet now …
TOP O’ THE FIRST:
Morneau looks huge in this camera angle. I mean, he’s tall, but like ESPECIALLY gigantic tonight. Could be the wacky angle, like I said. Or maybe he and his brother Luigi found a mushroom or two while scaling pipes, saving princesses, and killing turtles … I’ll stop now.
Ooh, that was an un-productive at-bat for the Twins. Ouch.
BOTTOM O’ THE FIRST (0-0):
Um excuse me, WTF? Where’s Crede? Buscher on 3rd? Okay, actually, I’ve talked some bad noise about Buscher, when really he’s not an awful player. That homer a week or two ago shut me up REAL fast.
And the first non-eventful inning goes by.
TOP O’ THE SECOND (0-0):
An anagram for “Delmon Young” is “Demon lung, yo!” I don’t know what that has to do with anything, but I think it’s pretty awesome. I also looked up “Nick Punto” but the results are a bit dirty … observe.
BOTTOM O’ THE SECOND (0-0):
Lookin’ fly, Blackburn.
There are some absolutely LOUD fans behind home plate. Or at least near a mike.
OH SNAP. One run scored because of an awful error by Cuddyer. The ball gets past Morneau, Cuddy nabs it and chucks it to an imaginary fourth outfielder in extreme left field. Bummer. It’s okay Cuddy, just don’t do it again or have fun in the minors!
I hate this Pepsi commercial with the “Forever Young” song remake set to baseball video and whatnot. Heres the deal: I see mmaaaaaayybe one team other than the Yankees. Please, guys. There’s more to life than Jeter and Co.
TOP O’ THE THIRD (0-1, Royals):
Harris reaches first on account of a high throw from third. Will this be another “take advantage of errors” night?
BOTTOM O’ THE THIRD (0-1, Royals):
Deltron 3000 makes a nice sliding grab.
Okay, for real – this game better pick up soon.
TOP O’ THE FOURTH (0-1, Royals):
My wish came true: stand-up double care of Mr. Cuddyer.
Apparently Crede’s back has been tightening up on him again, which is why he was pulled shortly before the game. Informative, thy name is Richard Bremer.
AGH, it’s so good to see Little Nicky Punto! Although he popped one up for the third out, stranding Cuddyer.
BOTTOM O’ THE FOURTH (0-1, Royals):
zzz. zZZzzz. zzzzZZzz. zzZZZZZZWHAT? What?? The game is still going? Oh. Okay.
TOP O’ THE FIFTH (0-1, Royals):
I wish I had a pillow. Yawn.
BOTTOM O’ THE FIFTH (0-1, Royals):
WHAT are we doing out there in the field?? Buscher, I’m looking at you.
Ooh, Span and Young, steppin’ on each other’s toes. Maybe the’ll have a battle in the outfield. A battle … ROYALE?! HA HA HA HA OMG I SUCK!
TOP O’ THE SIXTH (0-1, Royals):
Oh, Gardy. The hat’s off … did the ball hit Kubel’s foot? … ANOTHER ump steps in … Gard-dog is majorly worked up … shady, ump. And Gardy’s kicked out.
BOTTOM O’ THE SIXTH (0-1, Royals):
One homer, two homer. I need something to puke in. Blackburn looks like he’s about to cut someone. Oh, he’s not the only one: Morneau looks stabby, too.
TOP O’ THE SEVENTH (0-3, Royals):
I am currently crying tears of blood.
BOTTOM O’ THE SEVENTH (0-3, Royals):
Dickey’s pitching.
Oh, fancy that, another run for the Royals.
On a lighter note, Harris made a sweet play and ended the inning, so … there’s that.
TOP O’ THE EIGHTH - BOTTOM O’ THE NINTH (2-4, Royals):
Really bad baseball happened while I was on the telephone. Well, except for Morneau hitting a two-run homer. A homer in two consecutive games? NOICE. I am from now on calling a Morneau homer a “morneaumer.”
FINAL: 2-4, Royals.
VERDICT:
All aboard the failboat.
EDIT: Apparently, I am receiving my 15 minutes of fame. Or 15 new stalkers … either way:
HEYOOO!
All my exes live in Texas.
Again, there are just no words:
- Twins lost 4-1 against the Houston Ast-holes, putting us below 500. AGAIN.
- As I was listening to the old timey talkity-box today, AKA the radio (because apparently it’s 1925 in my world), I was happy to hear one of the announcers praise the underrated fielding abilities of Joe Crede and the overall greatness of the Twins‘ defense, which is actually #1 in the AL.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa WHOA?:
The 32-year-old Jason Kubel left Sunday’s series finale against the Astros after the third inning with flu-like symptoms, manager Ron Gardenhire said following the Twins’ 4-1 loss.
- Excuse me, might I be flabbergasted yet AGAIN today? Yes? OH GREAT!:
First baseman Justin Morneau was out of the Twins’ lineup for the first time in nearly two years on Sunday, given what manager Ron Gardenhire called “a general day off.”
“We’ve got to get him through these things, and we’re not going to get in a situation where this drags on,” Gardenhire said of Morneau’s soreness. “We’ll see where he’s at on Tuesday. Hopefully, he’ll be fine.”
- And in other heart-crushing news, Span is getting a healthy dose of Rochester Monday to help him rehab and get back in the game after his trouble with an inner-ear infection that was making the outfielder go through dizzy spells. It’s a bummer to have him down there, but he’s really got to shake it off before he can come back and be effective. If only he could make it to Milwaukee …
Teehee! Bunt-head! I’m an 8-year-old!
So, two catchers and two managers walk out of a game …
The tossing of both catchers and managers of the Twins and Sawxwas all over the news today. Apparently for an ump, being 32 is young and he has a short fuse:
The 32-year-old Tichenor, up from the Triple-A Pacific Coast League, gave the boot to both catchers and both managers during a wild seventh inning that ended with Red Sox starter Josh Beckett giving a dismissive wave toward home plate in disgust.
What I didn’t understand at the time was how Redmond could’ve been tossed, since the man had approximately 2 seconds to say anything to the ump. I saw no f-bombs, just like … two words. Like, “excuse me, my dear umpire, but I believe perhaps I had tagged this young gentleman before he had extended his limb upon the home plate.” Alright, maybe not that polite, but this is how Redmond put it:
“I couldn’t believe he threw me out, honestly,” Redmond said. “I don’t go out there, ever, to get thrown out. Especially knowing that Joe’s DHing. I can’t get thrown out. I really can’t get thrown out. I didn’t swear at him. I didn’t do anything. He just had a short fuse I guess.”
Redmond, after trying to say he tagged the runner before he hit the base, got tossed. And that’s when Gardy, who’s been tossed 40-plus times, came in:
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire jumped out of the dugout to defend Redmond and was ejected himself.“I just thought he had a quick gun there,” Gardenhire said. “He just pulled the trigger too quick, and I went out to defend and he threw me out too.”
BAM. Then Varitek and Francona got booted:
Things escalated in the bottom of the inning when Beckett threw a pitch that Varitek tried to frame for strike three on BrendanHarris. When he didn’t get the call — replays showed that it appeared to be outside – Beckett seethed. Varitek stood up to intervene, turned around and got in Tichenor‘s face.
Generally, I think it’s in your best interests, Mr. Catcher, to not TURN AROUND to FIGHT with the UMPIRE. I could just be wrong. Oh wait, no I’m not. Well, then ejection numero quattro came to fruition:
“I just said it was uncharacteristic of him,” said Beckett, giving the clean version. “It was all caused by me.”Then it was Francona‘s turn to defend his player.
See ya.
Too funny. Well, at least Crede had a homer:
Joe Crede hit a home run in his return from a three-game absence because of a bruised hand, but Beckett (5-2) was too much for the Twins. He allowed one run on three hits with four wal
ks and eight strikeouts in seven innings.
In other news, Punto had a sore, nagging crotch (teehee); Baker is likely starting tonight; and we’re in Florida tonight to play some Rays.Heh, Rays. The Tampa Bay Sea-Bugs.
Aw, Gawwwd!
The 7th just ended, and so far:
This is my message to you-ou-ou.
Looks like Ichabod is on the DL due to a headless horseman I MEAN shoulder injury:
Crain last pitched on Friday night against the Angels, when he gave up four runs in one-third of an inning. Twins general manager Bill Smith said that the shoulder issue first popped up during that outing. An MRI on Crain‘s shoulder didn’t reveal any structural damage, only slight inflammation. But the Twins felt the best decision this early in the season was to be cautious and give Crain plenty of time to get rid of the inflammation.
Oy. Looks like we’re gonna have to brig in a new starter, Jose Mijares. No idea who that clown is, but hopefully he can do the job. In other WHAT THE F news, looks like Torii ”Superfluous Vowel”Hunter said he’d like to finish off his career back with the Twinks:
According to a report in the Pioneer Press, the Angels outfielder told Jim Rantz, the club’s director of Minor Leagues, that he would like to finish his career with the Twins. That is, once Hunter fulfills his five-year, $90 million contract with the Angels.
Hm. Won’t he be, like, 76 by then? No matter, because Gardy is down for it:
“I’ll open the door for him just about any time. He’s one of my favorites,”Gardenhire said. “If I’m lucky enough and fortunate enough to be here then, and he’s looking for a job, we’ll probably work something out.” In some 4/20 related news, I guess Bob Marley gets the Twins all hot and bothered, resulting in wins:
Since the Twins first started playing Bob Marley‘s “Three Little Birds” after Thursday’s loss to the Blue Jays, the club is now 3-0. So it seems like the reggae is here to stay. … After getting blown out in three of four games against the Blue Jays to start the homestand, the Twins took the message from their manager Ron Gardenhire on Thursday night to heart. That message was not to panic, but rather to stick together and keep rooting for each other and the wins would start coming. Adorable. Tomorrow we meet up with THE SAWX! OH MY GAWD! NO-MAHR!
I wish Bert had Twitter.
I had to quit watching after the 7th last night, it was just too painful.
“He was an angel sent from God, I feel. Not that many people could go through what he went through. Because of him, I’m here today.” [Denard Span]
That’s pretty damn powerful. Young added:
“He did a lot for the game,” Young said of Robinson. “It brought people who probably never watched baseball to watch baseball, to see a person succeed in a game they weren’t supposed to succeed at, at that time.”
Here’s hoping the boys, after another suck-fest last night, can throw down a win tonight against the Dirty Blue Birds so I don’t have to wash my face with my own tears before I go to bed.
Eh, Jays?
Tonight at 7 pm we’re up against the Toronto Blue Jays. Kevin “Caution: Slow Children” Slowey is pitching against the Jay’s Litsch. Now, obviously, I don’t know anything about this pitcher or really this entire team, but I’m hoping our boys are so mad about the last two games against the Shite Sox that they’ll try a bit harder.
The Unspeakable Game yesterday, which I dutifully liveblogged for because I have no friends, was frustrating enough to watch, and apparently the players and Gardy were just as thrilled as I was:
“It was an ugly baseball game by us,” Gardenhire said. “Blackburn threw the ball very well for us. We missed the ball, which is not the way we do things. We didn’t play good defense, and offensively we just didn’t have a lot of good at-bats.”
…
“As one of my coaches said, we’re just struggling a little bit,”Gardenhire said. “We’ll see if we can get home and get back on the right track. It was kind of ugly baseball here the last two [days].” (mlb.com)
Ugly: yes. Props to Blackburn and Young, though. Dreamyburns IIdid some solid pitching, and Delmon 3000 gave us our only home run of the day. Fortunately, Cuddyer came at the right time to ruin any good playing by both:
“Up to that point, Blackburn had not given up an earned run in the outing, as the first White Sox run scored on a two errors by first baseman Michael Cuddyer in the fifth inning.” (mlb.com)
First of all, why the frick was Cud-Yer on first? I’m sure there was a legit reason stemming from Morneau needing rest of something, but … CUDDY ON FIRST? That’s an error in itself.
Here’s hoping A.) We do much, much better against the Jays, B.)Slowey can hold it down, C.) Morneau is back in place, and D.) Eau Claire gets the Twins on some channel that doesn’t require me to spend my night at a pub … because I will be drunk if they play remotely anything like the past two games.
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