Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Intelligence Report From The Twinkie Blogosphere
I now monitor the Twins Blogosphere; monitoring the enemy's communications is key to maintaining tactical and strategic advantage. One of the things that has popped into the Twinkies' blogs recently is a sense of doubt over whether the Twinkies are a better team than the White Sox this year. Generally, the Twinkie fans have a superiority complex that has developed from an abnormal number of law-of-large-numbers-beating, improbable comebacks and lucky bounces of the ball. And the fact that the Twins cheat . But here's the latest communique from Aaron Gleeman:
Bat-Girl also has misgivings, although she won't offer that the Sox are the better "team":
Three points in response: (1) this is all a plot by the Twinkies and their fans to lure the Sox and their fans into the kind of complacency that cost the Sox the division title last year (I don't know any Sox fan who thinks the Sox were better than the Twinkies in 2002); (2) more seriously, perhaps the 4 of 5 the Sox have take from the Twinkies in Minnesota have started to have an effect on the teams, as reflected in their fans' reaction. It was really frustrating when the Twinkies dominated the Sox in 2001 (winning 14 of 19), and I think the Sox pressed against the Twinkies thereafter, worsening the situation. If the Twinkies start pressing against the Sox, that's a good thing; (3) if #2 is the case, then perhaps the Sox are finally relaxing against the Twins, are loose, and are starting to play the Twins better. That' would be the best possible news.
In any case, the Sox and their fans cannot start thinking that the Sox are a better team and expect to win the games by showing up at the field. They have to play the games, one at a time. I actually had that thought this morning - I'm not going to think about where the Sox would be if they won the next two games, or 5 of 7, or whatever. I'm just going to try to enjoy every day's game and hope they play well that game, and let the future take care of itself.
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I now monitor the Twins Blogosphere; monitoring the enemy's communications is key to maintaining tactical and strategic advantage. One of the things that has popped into the Twinkies' blogs recently is a sense of doubt over whether the Twinkies are a better team than the White Sox this year. Generally, the Twinkie fans have a superiority complex that has developed from an abnormal number of law-of-large-numbers-beating, improbable comebacks and lucky bounces of the ball. And the fact that the Twins cheat . But here's the latest communique from Aaron Gleeman:
I just don't know what to say. I know this is going to anger a lot of Twins fans, but I'm getting very close to the point of just believing that the White Sox have the better team. There are a lot of people who thought this in the past two years, but I haven't been among them ... until now.
Bat-Girl also has misgivings, although she won't offer that the Sox are the better "team":
And yes, the [unbecoming adjective] Sox individual players are better than our individual players. They totally hit the ball and stuff, and they pitch it really good too, and they make lots of money and that's cool.
But we're the better team. And I believe that sooner or later we're going to start playing like it.
Three points in response: (1) this is all a plot by the Twinkies and their fans to lure the Sox and their fans into the kind of complacency that cost the Sox the division title last year (I don't know any Sox fan who thinks the Sox were better than the Twinkies in 2002); (2) more seriously, perhaps the 4 of 5 the Sox have take from the Twinkies in Minnesota have started to have an effect on the teams, as reflected in their fans' reaction. It was really frustrating when the Twinkies dominated the Sox in 2001 (winning 14 of 19), and I think the Sox pressed against the Twinkies thereafter, worsening the situation. If the Twinkies start pressing against the Sox, that's a good thing; (3) if #2 is the case, then perhaps the Sox are finally relaxing against the Twins, are loose, and are starting to play the Twins better. That' would be the best possible news.
In any case, the Sox and their fans cannot start thinking that the Sox are a better team and expect to win the games by showing up at the field. They have to play the games, one at a time. I actually had that thought this morning - I'm not going to think about where the Sox would be if they won the next two games, or 5 of 7, or whatever. I'm just going to try to enjoy every day's game and hope they play well that game, and let the future take care of itself.
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