We Will Bury Them
I have come to agree with Garbowski. The thing about Minnesota is that despite their recent winning ways, they are a lousy baseball team. Like the Vikings.
The Twins have three good hitters: Mauer, Kubel and Denard Span. Cuddyer isnt bad. But behind them, this is a National League lineup. Minnesota starts four players -- Cabrera, Punto, Delmon Young, and Tolbert -- with OBPs in the low .300s. The fifth usually isn't any better. Morneau, as you all probably know, is out for the season.
As for pitching, Scott Baker is a solid No. 2, and Blackburn is ok, but the Yankees won't see either until Games 3 and 4, presumably. The Yankees will likely see Pavano in Game 1 and who knows who in Game 2. Whoever it is -- Liriano or Perkins -- has been awful.
This Twins team is far inferior to the Twins teams the Yankees faced in 2003 and 2004 based on Santana alone, and this Yankee team is better.
I don't see how the Yankees can lose this series. We are better at every position save catcher.
The Yanks in 3, says I. Thoughts?
One thing that could be a minor factor is the schedule, in which the teams play every other day and the series is drawn out, if it goes five games, to October 14. This mitigates some of the advantage the Yankees would have otherwise had in facing a team that just left it all out on the field to even get into the ALDS.
Thoughts?
-August 16, 1977
The Twins have three good hitters: Mauer, Kubel and Denard Span. Cuddyer isnt bad. But behind them, this is a National League lineup. Minnesota starts four players -- Cabrera, Punto, Delmon Young, and Tolbert -- with OBPs in the low .300s. The fifth usually isn't any better. Morneau, as you all probably know, is out for the season.
As for pitching, Scott Baker is a solid No. 2, and Blackburn is ok, but the Yankees won't see either until Games 3 and 4, presumably. The Yankees will likely see Pavano in Game 1 and who knows who in Game 2. Whoever it is -- Liriano or Perkins -- has been awful.
This Twins team is far inferior to the Twins teams the Yankees faced in 2003 and 2004 based on Santana alone, and this Yankee team is better.
I don't see how the Yankees can lose this series. We are better at every position save catcher.
The Yanks in 3, says I. Thoughts?
One thing that could be a minor factor is the schedule, in which the teams play every other day and the series is drawn out, if it goes five games, to October 14. This mitigates some of the advantage the Yankees would have otherwise had in facing a team that just left it all out on the field to even get into the ALDS.
Thoughts?
-August 16, 1977
posted by Anthony at 10:08 PM
7 Comments:
What a fantastic turn of events- Minnesota plays a 12-inning game, they dip deep into their pen (Kepper? WTF?) and they make the late night/early AM trip to NY, hungover, tired and ripe for the picking. No doubt, they will win Game 1 against the Yanks in the Bronx! I KID! I KID!
I agree that the Twins are weak on paper. But winning 17 of your last 21... that's fantastic baseball. I look forward to this series.
True enough. Game 1 is crucial, as always. I would prefer not to face Baker with the series tied. Not that he's an intimidator, but he's underrated.
Who is the frig is Brian Duensing? And we won't get Pavano until the pivotal Game 3.
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Pavano's lucky he won't pitch in The Bronx. So so very lucky...
The New York Times reports Brian Duensing has never been to NY City before. Incredible.
AND Duensing was Joba's roommate back in college. Nuts!
My pals Kro and Jordan have drunk the billy beane kool-aid that the playoffs mean nothing. Anything can happen thye say, so the twins could easily win. I just don't see it. If we had played detroit, maybe. But not to this minnesota team, which lacks even one shut down starter, has an NL lineup, and pretty mediocre middle relief. The twins only hope is an implosion by burnett.
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