Saturday, August 6, 2011

Up, down, when we need just up...

Not a good road trip for the Twins unless you focus on the couple of good moments. Such as Jim Thome knocking his 598th home run and the amazing game Cuddyer had smashing a grand slam and a solo. As much as I want to stay on the silver lining tip and just focus on the positive...it is hard. I don't know how those guys keep their chins up after such tough losses. That has to be attributed to their skipper Gardy at least a little bit. He does do a good job keeping them even keeled.
We can hook our hopes on Justin Morneau returning to the line up. He began playing at Triple A Friday night though going 0 for 4. Lets hope we are still within reach when he gets back up in about another week.

As I said I said in my last post Michael Cuddyer has never been on my list of Twins I love. This season he has continued to be consistent and wheedled his way into my baseball heart. His always positive yet feisty disposition mixed with his ability to play any position makes him Mr baseball. If I had a kid I would totally want them to look to him as a roll model. He makes me think of the former Royals Second basemen Frank White.

For me as a kid going to the ball park, Frank White was my hero. He was key in branding baseball on my heart. He was a smooth fielding second basemen with a steady bat. He is now a commentator for the Royals telecasts. I can remember going to Kaufman Stadium and watching batting and fielding practice. Frank always came over and took time to say hello and sign autographs always with a big smile. He threw a ball to me once and some guy snagged it, White ran over and yelled at the guy to give it to me! That made a huge impression on me, that he would bother to take that extra time to make sure I got the ball. I imagine Cuddy would also take the time to reward a young fan.

Second game against the white soxs just ended...ick! I can not handle losing to the White Sox!!! Please Please do not allow a sweep fellas!!!!

GO TWINS!!!