David HK

Wow, what a thrashing. And a series sweep no less. Hey, I've got a few bullet points, too! Love the play by Eddie. (Because it worked). But still that aggressiveness when shown throughout the season, makes other teams have to keep in mind what might happen, and kind of sustained pressure can lead to mistakes in the field.All those dingers! Wow, it harkens me back to those mid-60's daze of being a young pre-schooler, when I first was aware of the Twins, in those Killer, Tony O, Bob Allison, Jimmy Hall days, when everybody in the lineup was knocking dongs right and left!Heh... Sure is sweet to hang some runs on the Angels' high-priced free agent pickups! There's a bit of wailing going on in their blog pagesHow about the job Rocco is doing, managing the lineup. working around injuries, and the bullpen, too, getting guys work, and keeping key guys as fresh as possible.Ach du lieber, I hope Max is OK. He looked awfully wobbly coming off.And finally, ahhhhh.... the Austin Adams era. I remember it well. Oh, wait, I don't think I'll have the chance to.....PS: You know, I'm having chicken for breakfast here on this side of the ocean today.

Most encouraging for me were the performances of Pineda and Sano- even tho he got a sort of gift double on a ball that probably should have been caught, he hit the living hell out of it. Also glad (but a little scared, too) that Rocco trotted Duffey out for the 9th- where he looked good- and saved more BP arms. And holy moley- there was a shot at one point in last night's game of Pineda and Sano standing together in the dugout- as a tag team, they could take on the Crusher and the Bruiser for sure!

Well, that cupboard was well-stocked with arms in the offseason, but we left it closed with the latch on tight. If we open it up now, there's nothing but the cockroaches left, scurrying about. I wonder if we'll join the mad post-draft rush for Kimbrel or Kuechel...?

Welp, I'm just an old-school old fart, but I'm wondering how it would play back home if Ohtani-san got to wear one in the seat of the pants his first AB, just for the hell of it.

Well, there will be games like this, there will be stretches like this throughout the long season. Good teams find ways to not make them last very long. Our 2 strongest pitchers so far both had rough games, back to back. The hitters didn't come through AT ALL in high-leverage situations. It's a couple of games so far, winnable games in winnable series'. Doesn't make it any less frustrating, but, there it is. Go get 'em tomorrow.

She forgot to mention that left field for the Yankees that night was manned by Melky Cabrera AND Phil Cuzzi...