In response to Steve's Twin bashing

The other day, Steve whined for an entire post. Baseball's not fun because my team was too good a few years ago, wah wah wah. That sort of thing. He said he didn't know if he even wanted the Sox in the playoffs this year because they would just lose. But he didn't want the Twins there either, and he spent the rest of the post on an anti-Twins screed that really didn't follow his main point at all. However, in the spirit of generally apathy towards my home team (the Twins have been AWFUL when not playing the White Sox this month) and animosity towards the opposition, I have chosen to address the comments he made against the Twins.

They had no reason to be in first as long as they were, but what really frustrates me is losing the division to the Twins, who I like to call "Team Boredom."

Catchy.

I hate the Twins because they never make you feel like they were the better team when they beat your team. They've had a nice run this decade with a bunch of no-name bland slap hitters that get a bunch of weakly hit singles to produce their runs.

I'm assuming that the no name slap hitters that he is referring to are Joe Mauer, Delmon Young and Michael Cuddyer. Two former #1 draft picks, a former winner of the batting title (and probably the winner this year as well) and Cuddyer, who has been in the league for about 5-6 years now . Also ironic, when the White Sox won their title, that was the year they added a couple of slap hitters at the top of the order, getting rid of Carlos Lee in the process.

They always find a way to win bunting for singles on their terrible plastic turf

Don't worry, this irritates me to no end as well. Both the constant bunting and the plastic turf. But hopefully in two years, Nick Punto will be gone and we'll have that new stadium.

while some pitcher that they just called up from the minors holds your team to 7 scoreless innings with an 85 mph fastball

Like... Santana? Liriano? They didn't throw that slowly, so I guess I'm confused. And for the record, this year, the only starter that was in the minors for the bulk of last year was Nick Blackburn. Baker, Slowey, Liriano and Perkins had spent quite a bit of time in the bigs, actually. But I know Steve follows baseball and must be exaggerating, right?

I would have been much happier to see the Tigers or Indians stealing the division from the White Sox instead of the Twins this year for that reason

After watching the Twins the past couple of weeks, I find it hard to disagree. Actually, no I don't.

The White Sox losing the Central is also a loss for the fans of other non-playoff teams, who won't have a chance to pull for future hall of famers and all around good guys Jim Thome and Ken Griffey Jr. to get their first World Series ring

No no, the joy in this is that non-playoff teams get to watch Ozzie Guillen implode. I'm guessing that there are just as many fans out there that want to see Griffey win a ring as there are that want to ensure that arrogant pricks like A.J. Pierzynski never smell the postseason again. This is why people don't mind the Twins. Even Delmon Young, one of the more notorious bad boys in baseball as recently as last year has got his act together and is working dilligently and quietly to help the Twins out.

Here's hoping for a Twins-Cubs World Series.