Cleveland vs MN - 10-4 (final; at least we scored)

It's only the top of the seventh and, yes, the game has been in the bag since the bottom of the third. Really, when the Indians scored their first two runs of the game you knew the game was finito for the Twins. The Indians continued their batting practice and ran up a total of 6 runs in the third. Bonser made it through 2.2 innings and was relieved by Ramon Ortiz who (finally) managed to get the final out in the third.

Ortiz pitched well for the Twins, but then in the bottom of the sixth Gardy pulls Ramon, and brings in Rincon (the "Hero" from Thursday's shellacing by the Blue Jays). Rincon proceeds to walk the first batter to face him, and then gives up a home run.

So it goes with the parade of try outs for the 2008 MN Twins team continuing. Buscher is up from triple-A Rochester to play third and see if he can hit major league pitching. I expect that we will be seeing more minor leaguers in the coming days and weeks, as the Twins use the last half of 2007 to get ready for 2008 and beyond.

In the top of the seventh, the non-Kubel demonstrated some of his future abilities and hits a home run, with a runner on base (that's a two run home run). Will this wake the team up? Will they suddenly remember that part of the game that involves scoring runs? Will they figure out how to TURN a double play more often that they hit into one?????

It's hard to kill the hope in a Twins fan's heart. We go through such adversity year after year, and yet we keep believing. Yes, we keep believing because there were those years of '87, and '91; and we had a player called Kirby.