A Summer Summary

As I've traveled and enjoyed the Summer my attention to the sports scene has been diminished. That's far from a unique circumstance this time of year, but has been compounded by the fact that the Twins have been somewhere between abysmal and forgettable.

In addition to that, the addition I have put toward sports over the last week has been to prioritized the soon coming positivity.

Football is almost back folks. That is an annual fact that brings nothing but positive emotions. If not for the product on the field, for the hardcore fantasy football that can once again breath.

But I digress because this is not about football, at least not mostly.

Fast Break

So there have been some big local news breaks over the past couple days but none of them merit a post alone so I'm gonna go with a quick wrap on everything.

• The Lynx are undefeated. 7 - 0 with more double digit wins then single digit victories. This is what champions do. Great job ladies!

• Rumor has it the Timberwolves will pursue Joakim Noah from the Bulls. That's not especially surprising since he played very well under Thibs during the Bulls recent run of success. I'm not sure he has longevity or athleticism to merit a starting roll type contract for the pups but his experience will probably deride that to some degree if he signs here.

• A few days ago Vegas put out odds on every NBA's team chance to win the 2017 championship. The local five were eleventh. A team that hasn't made the playoffs since I was frosh in high school is in the top 11!!!! There are only four Western Conference teams above them. It's unbelievable! Fairness in facts, they're tied with three other West teams so as not to mislead. Do I think they're a contender? No. But Vegas gets these things wrong so rarely. Even they're putting money on our squad making the playoffs!

Rube Rant

Newsflash: The Twins are terrible. They started 0 - 9 then they got on a little bit of a hot streak but now they lose basically every day. Some times I think that historically incompetent performance is exciting but then I think back on examples of it and find myself despising such occurrences. So I have no interest in them losing a record number of games or having a historically bad winning percentage or anything like that but when they're bad during the sports abyss that is the time between the Wolves season ending and the start of Vikings Training camp there is not much to focus on locally so I understand why some people may want them to tank.

It's May 8 and they have no chance of a playoff spot. They are still in a terrible position as far as pitchers go and while they have plenty of guys who can hit home runs, they seem to never happen at the most opportune times. This team will probably lose 95 games this season and as much as the players need to perform better I'm putting a lot on the ownership.

yeah, yeah it's super cliche to rip a teams owner when they're bad but the refusal to spend money by the Pohlads is unacceptable.  They have a chance to get a once great pitcher and they don't even send a scout to check him out. Are you kidding me?! I hope that people stop going to the games. I've heard repeatedly that Target Field is one of the nicest in the MLB. I've been there and know that it is a gem but people need to just refuse to go there.

When the team loses and isn't even competent then the organization from the top down should suffer for it. If they spent money, if they tried to bring in quality free agents but were unsuccessful that would be one thing. Instead they make stupid trades. Refuse to pay players and laughably even when they open up the check book to stay above the salary floor it doesn't work. Everything needs to change with the Minnesota 9. Everything!

I'm not even a ball guy and I can't help but get fired up because going to a game at Target Field is still a good time. Until it improves I refuse to spend any money to see them live. I'm boycotting, plain and simple. Hopefully I'm not the only one that takes that approach either!

Force their hand. Hit em in the pocket book! Then just try to suffer through until July and Vikings training camp gets under way!

Breaking the Silence

Elephant in the room, there are two sports topics that I have been hesitant to address so far but even with everything going on in the sports world the last few days I think it's time to go off on them.

Namely, the Twins and the Wild.

I don't want to pile on but I'm also not looking to ignore issues and just be positive. Well, here goes nothing.