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RandBall: Twins record identical before, after point of "total system failure"

June 7, 2016 at 4:24AM
Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Garnett (21) gestured to guard Andrew Wiggins (22) after Wiggins hit a 2-point jump shot in the third quarter. ] (AARON LAVINSKY/STAR TRIBUNE) aaron.lavinsky@startribune.com The Minnesota Timberwolves played the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016 at Target Center in Minneapolis, Minn. ORG XMIT: MIN1601022152160183
Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Garnett (21) gestured to guard Andrew Wiggins (22) after Wiggins hit a 2-point jump shot in the third quarter. ] (AARON LAVINSKY/STAR TRIBUNE) aaron.lavinsky@startribune.com The Minnesota Timberwolves played the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016 at Target Center in Minneapolis, Minn. ORG XMIT: MIN1601022152160183 (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The Twins were 8-20 when Star Tribune columnist Chip Scoggins penned the column that gave us the line of the year: "Total system failure." It was uttered by Twins owner Jim Pohlad in the context of describing all that had gone wrong in the first month of the season for a team that had playoff aspirations going into the year.

If the first month of the season was defined by a wait-and-see approach, the second month has been a more frantic search for anything that might get them out of this mess. And all it has done is proven Pohlad correct on two fronts: This is a total system failure, and there's no easy way out of it because an answer has not presented itself.

The point hit home when I discovered this bit of awful symmetry late Sunday night: The Twins were 8-20 before the "total system failure" column and they are exactly 8-20 since then.

Read Michael Rand's blog at startribune.com/randball. mrand@startribune.com

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