Twins recap, ignored by the Strib

My compliments on your Sports section today, 10-2-05, it was superb.

I especially liked page C15, with the duel points of view from Patrick Reusse and Jim Souhan.

Both wrote about the Twins failures this year; I’ll start with Mr. Reusse.

I used to be in near lock step with his opinion columns, but the last couple years, not nearly as much.

I’m not sure if he’s changed, or if I have, but his take on the Twins was dead on.

Now, all through the month of April, I hammered Ron Gardenhire (hereafter referred to as: The Dunce) for his bringing up 4 catchers for opening day.

I railed about keeping Corky Miller constantly on my blog: mnsportsfan.blogspot.com.

I thought maybe I was the only one who noticed the stupidity of that decision, but today I see Mr. Ruesse was all over it too.

After all, they won 2 World Series with 2 catchers each time, this year “The Dunce” is so concerned about Joe Mauer's knee, that he needs 3 backups.

Like Ruesse said in paraphrasing the Twins mentality: “We’re so good, we can beat the rest of the AL Central with 24 players.”

And he hit’s on losing Restovich, and getting nothing in return! See my website, I was livid about all this as it was happening!

Next…

Possibly the best trade in sports history was ridding us of Dan Barreiro, in favor of Jim Souhan. He’s the William Tell of sportswriters, on target every time.

Barrero was amazing in the fact that he was a sportswriter in the 14th largest media market in the country, yet knew nothing about sports.

Back to Souhan…

His idea of signing Paul Konerko from the White Sox is brilliant. Get the power hitter we need, and simultaneously deplete the Sox of yet another big bat.

His other salient point is that the time is now for the Twins. They’ve got a fantastic pitching staff, but they also have a weak defense, and a pathetic offense.

They need a big bat from the outside, we can’t wait until hockey puck Mourneau figures out what pitchers are doing to him. Throw him three curve balls and his bat is back in the rack.

Yes, this is one of the best sports sections I’ve seen in a long time. Mr. Hartman says
this is the “best Sports section in the country” quite often.

If that were true, you would have reported to us that Bob Schnelker had been hired as Offensive coordinator of the Gophers football team.