12 Days of Losing

That's a lot of losing. Everyday for almost two weeks. It started with a no-hitter, then it included games the Royals had no business winnings, but these last few have been even harder to stomach. Lets review. I'll wait until you have a trashcan nearby to vomit into. Ready? Well, even so, lets get this show on the road.

Down 3-0 in the bottom of the ninth, Mark Teahen slices one into left field and baseball genius Delmon Young tries out for the U.S. swim team by belly flopping on the warning track. Teahen comes all the way around to tie the game. Yay! 3-3 and going into extras. Lose in 12th. 

Up 8-3 in the top of the ninth with two outs and Ramon Ramirez on the mound, Ross Gload in right and Teahen playing first (huh? what? Did Hillman's brain break out in hives too?), the Twins start chipping away, so with the tying run at the plate, lets bring in a flyball pitcher! What do you think happened? Then, rather than going with someone else, he left him in to give up the game winner to Morneau in the 10th.

Bad loss. Just ugly.

Up 4-1, Gil Meche gives up his second homerun to Mickey Mant...err Grady Sizemore to make the score 4-3. Gil has now thrown 12849 pitches through 5 innings so Hillman intelligently pulls him, but also throws up the white flag with a lead by bringing in Brett Tomko. Shockingly, Tomko gives up a two run homer. Who saw that coming? But the gem was the baserunning error you've all heard about by now and I really don't want to cause nausea to anyone, so I won't go through it again.

How many games can this team lose? I think they can lose as many as they set their mind to. Its hard to be this bad, but you know what I think is even harder? Hitting less than .160 on May 31 with regular playing time. I'm dropping the J in TPJ from now on and going with an unoriginal nickname for him. Yes, I'm fed up. 

Lets bring out the rational side of things...

It'll get better and I think it'll get better soon. Butler will heat up in AAA and come back drilling the hell out of the ball. Hopefully that will mean a lineup with Gordon, Guillen, Olivo and Butler all driving the ball which will equal some runs. The pitching staff is still solid, just has a few bad eggs. I will continue to stand by 77 wins. Right now it just seems like 21-141 is more likely. One win will turn things around for this team. They need some confidence somehow, anyway. We fans do too.