Thank goodness for Jim Souhan

I was worried about not having anything to write about on the first venture back into blogging in two weeks. Then Jim Souhan came along and was the answer to my prayers. Here is the article that made me, well, chuckle. It took a couple of things that always make me laugh and combined them. First, the poor analysis of stats:
"The Twins are 24-16 when they homer and 10-18 when they do not."
Souhan uses this as a platform to allege that they need to score more runs when they don't hit home runs. He mentions the "piranhas" craze as well, so I figured, hey, why not take a look at the record the Twins had in 2006, the glory year for the Piranhas. In games the Twins hit a home run: 69-27. Games they didn't: 27-39. Overall, the records are worse, obviously. I think that says more about pitching (now featuring Blackburn and Slowey, instead of Santana and Radke) than the offense. Even when it was a speed based team, the obvious conclusion is that your team has a better chance of winning when they hit home runs. But still, Souhan decides to make the point that the team should run more. Right on, dude.
The second thing I love is when Gardenhire says something dumb.
"Delmon's a different story [than Carlos Gomez]. He's supposed to drive the ball. He's working on it, supposedly, and we'll see."
Supposedly?! SUPPOSEDLY?! In the last two weeks, Young has hit .302 with 3 doubles, a homer, and 8 RBI. It sounds like he's working out the kinks. Maybe Gardy should watch a damn game. Souhan too, for that matter.

Good to be back...