Casilla the next Kirby?
Before I went to last nights Twins “game”, I attended a cocktail party for a committee I’m on at a high end jewelry store. As I was waiting for my friends to arrive an employee noticed the Twins tickets in my pocket and asked me if I was attending the game, I told her I was. She then proceeded to tell me that “Lexi” (I’m assuming she was talking about Casilla. Did she think she was cool by throwing a nickname at me?) had been in the store earlier that day. She said we were going to win because she rubbed his hand for good luck. Creepy. I asked if he had made a purchase, and she told me it was confidential. What? How is whether or not Casilla bought a watch confidential information. Get off your high horse, jewelry store employee. Selling high end watches doesn’t make you better than me. She then went on and on about how great Casilla is. She said he was going to be the next Kirby. That is the most ludacris comparison ever. They are of different ethnic backgrounds, play different positions, one is a great hitter, the other hasn’t proved to be anything more than average. How is Casilla the next Kirby? Was she referring to the fact that they both are good people, help the community, are role models, etc? Well in that case, I would give that crown to Mauer. I decided to no longer engage this woman as she came off as a total moron.
The game wasn’t much of one. Well, it was a nice little pitchers duel between Liriano and Halladay for 6 innings. Then our team of arsonists we call a bullpen came in a doused the place with gasoline and any chance we had of winning went up in flames. I think we are starting to realize how important Mauer is behind the plate. He can’t get back soon enough. Redmond is a great backup, and it seems that Morales is barely better than Vic Martienz behind the plate. Although he did do a good job of getting to some balls that bounced past him. Outside of Liriano, this game had very few bright spots. We did get two plays in Sportscenter’s top plays; the Cuddyer catch, and the Buscher play at third.
We need Blackburn to go deep in the game tonight, or else we might see a lot of Phil Humber and RA Dickey. I shudder at the thought.
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I don’t think their ethnic backgrounds are important in the slightest, but Casilla is absolutely not the next Kirby. (Although I’ll point out that through their first two seasons, their numbers aren’t all that different. Kirby broke out in his third season. Casilla does not seem to be following suit in his.)
That game was really frustrating. Again. I’m beginning to think this team isn’t as good as we thought they were.
I only bring up their ethnic backgrounds, because while there are about a million Latino baseball players, there are very few African Americans, and I think there needs to be more, so that is kind of important.
Yes, I find it more and more difficult to watch this team play. I understand having a difficult time scoring runs against Halladay, but we can’t give up so many runs. This bullpen is terrible. I hope they are looking for solutions now, and not thinking “lets wait for everyone to settle in and re-evaluate in August”
Not sure that Kirby Puckett should be considered a role model by anyone off the field or away from Twins-related events…
I was going to bring that up too, but thought I’d save that for someone else. I get enough heat for “hating” the twins when I don’t blindly support Punto and Cuddyer or just as blindly throw delmon under the bus.
Not August, but I’m sure they’re planning to follow their typical modus operandi and wait until June before attempting to make any changes. In the meantime, the bullpen is simply atrocious. In order to win a game, we either need to be winning by 10 in the 6th when the starter comes out, or come back multiple runs in the bottom of the 9th. That’s just unacceptable.
How do you spell panacea? M A U E R.
I wonder if we’d still be in this pitching/hitting funk if Mauer had been healthy.