Game 33: Blue Jays at Twins
Roberto Alomar, radio guy, John Olerud. (Photo by Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images) | Getty Images Time: 7:10 Central Weather: Partly cloudy, 52° Opponent’s SB site: Bluebird Banter Radio: Gets louder after 8PM Tonight’s Blue Jays hurler is Patrick Corbin, who in 2018 signed a six year, $140 million contract with Washington, and boy did they get hosed; an ERA of 5. 11 and WAR of 2.
8. He was slightly better in Texas last year, and is off to a decent start in Toronto. Corbin’s primarily a sinker/slider guy who will mix in a curve and change; the slider’s his best pitch.
Starting for the Twins is Simeon of the Long Name, who would not be starting for the Twins if a bunch of other starters weren’t injured. Tonight we’re gonna take a little break from Baseball Stories, and veer off instead into a Cautionary Fan Tale. About how any ownership situation can, always, get worse.
I was an Oregon resident for most of my first 30 years, and a Portland Trailblazer fan for about 25 years. I largely gave up that fandom in 2015, because by then my sports soul had switched to the Twins. Also, because after 14 years without winning a playoff series, the Blazers had finally won a first round in fabulous, thrilling fashion: I just knew in my heart that this was the happiest watching the NBA could make me.
Nothing would top it. The Blazers weren’t going to win a championship in my lifetime (they did when I was four but I didn’t notice). Accept that, take the joy, move on.
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