Anaheimers Take it to the Twins
Posted by SBG on Sunday, August 29th, 2004 at 8:50 pm
Other than another masterful performance by Johan Santana on Saturday, the Twins got outplayed this weekend by a very good and hot Anaheim team. Sunday's loss was a bit tough to take, as they could not cash in on a good pitching performance by Carlos Silva. Meanwhile, the Chisox and Indians beat up on each other, and the lead remains seven over the Indians and eight over the White Sox with just 32 games to play.
I was not at work on Friday, and I was away from the internet for most of the weekend. Tonight, I got a peek at ESPN.COM and this beauty from John Kruk. Oh, my God. Another anecdotal story of how Derek Jeter is the best player in the game. He actually says he'd take Jeter over any other player in the game. Don't bother Kruk with the numbers. He knows that there are sound arguments that Jeter is nowhere near the best player in the game. In fact, I've made the arguments myself. Like how Jeter was the worst shortstop in the league for at least three years running. Like how Jeter has the worst OPS among Yankees who qualify for the batting title (and he's 58th in the AL). Like how he's been on almost a continuous 4 year decline. Forget all that. He's the best player in the game! That's some mighty powerful koolaid that they're drinking over at ESPN. Oh, and by the way, number 25 has 2 home runs tonight (so far) -- 38 for the year -- to go along with 183 walks. He's 4-4 with 6 RBIs. In the sixth inning.
I was watching (under duress) rhythmic gymnastics today. Having watched that, ahem, Olympic Event, I now have a new respect for gymnastics. I have always known that gymnasts were incredible athletes, but I have thought that their events were ridiculous, mainly because of the subjectivity of the scoring. Having watched the "event" today, I can say that rhythmic gymnastics is an order of magnitude (at least) more ridiculous. To actually hear repeatedly that reputation is important (in other words, the results are preordained) and to hear the commentators focus on the colors of the competitor's ribbons, well, need I say more.
Who really cares. I mean, really, who cares?
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