Toronto at Twins. Twins 9, Blue Jays 5 .

Do you know who leads the American League in wins?
This man:

Do you know who's third in the A.L. in batting average AND slugging percentage?

And do you know who is the best team in the American League?

Okay, but you do you know who has the best record? That’s right, we do. We’re, like, five games ahead of the precious Yanks with their precious precious payroll and their precious precious precious A-Rod. So there.

(And on that subject, while Batgirl loves the “Every Fan Counts” commercials on ‘CCO, isn’t the point to hype the Twins? When we’re immortalizing the prowess of Dougie, Stewie, and Mauer in folktale, do we really need to hear that Achilles has a ‘Yankee’s heel?’ Is that really the time to remind us that the Yankees have owned our low-rent asses for two years and mercilessly chewed us up and spit us out in the playoffs like discount kitty kibble? Really? Is it? Batgirl’s brother went to those games, you know, and he’s still having flashbacks, though the shock treatments are helping a bit.)

Anyway, the Twins have the best record in the A.L., probably because they continue to score runs without even the tiniest modicum of mercy, and Lew Ford didn’t even score them all tonight. That’s the great thing about a winning-team, sometimes when the marquee names don’t produce, small-time players like Cordel "Corey" Koskie and Shannon Stewart and Torii Hunter get their chance to contribute to the team.

The Blue Jays tried to spoil our fun by scoring four runs in the eighth inning, which leads one to wonder, who do they think they are, the Twins? No, the Twins are the Twins, dammit, and they answered with a four-spot of their own in the bottom of the eighth. Now they’ve won all but one series so far this year, and scored a ridiculous number of runs. Remember last April when we couldn't seen to manage more than three runs a game? And now look at us. Who do we think we are, the Yankees?

Posted by Batgirl at April 28, 2004 11:41 PM