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Declaration of War: Twins organization.
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| Declaration of War: Twins organization. |
| 04.20.05 (8:52 pm) [edit] |
Johan Santana K'd 10 royals tonight and managed to extend his streak without losing a decision. It was noted by a certain royals fan(Rich) that Santana's location was off on a lot of his pitches despite his relative dominance(he did give up 4 runs). This can be explained by the fact that his wife gave birth less than an hour before gametime. Right.
Either:
A) Carl Pohlad is such an evil, conniving scrooge of an owner that you can't even get time off for the birth of a child.. or.
B) Johan Santana, the face of the Twins organization for the rest of the decade, is such an asshole that he wouldn't skip an April start against Jose freakin Lima to stay with his wife.
The only replies I received from Twins fans were insults in response to the question.
I hate the Twins. They despise sabermetrics and have made a living of blocking young players for seasoned veterans. The franchise has an owner who tried to kill his own team to fatten a wallet that already contained several billion dollars at an age where he should have already been dead. They play in a graveyard of a ballpark and they have been notoriously inactive during the trade deadline in an attempt to push their playoff teams over the top. This despite an embarassment of riches in the farm system at positions where they couldn't find playing time for all their chips anyways.
The royals have made bad decisions, they've drafted poorly, and they've had plain stupid bad luck. But David Glass never tried to axe his own team. Allard Baird did the best job he could with a sinking ship in 03' making a flurry of acquisitions at the deadline that exceeded those of Carl/Ryan over their years of contention. This crap over Santana is the last straw.
Take a look at how many days Pickering was out to be with his wife in the same situation. That's a guy playing for his career.. Not one paycheck of a 40 million dollar contract.
Addendum: One Twins fan chimed in that they thought she would go into labor 'tomorrow' and that Johan would have left after the game.. OK.. screw that.. you skip and stay with your wife.
Addendum Two: The Twins staff was so strapped for pitchers that they are skipping Kyle Lohse's start later this week.. Garbage.
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