First of all, when I go to Target Field, I'm a paying customer. I buy tickets, sit in the stands, pay for the food and do the complete fan experience.
This isn't a sportswriter's blog.
To me, that's an important distinction. I covered bad baseball teams back in my writin' days and there's stuff that's incredibly interesting about seeing failures up close and from the inside -- and sharing what you see and hear with readers. I had a couple of Twins seasons filled with that kind of reporting.
As a fan, though, I don't want to see failure.
Worse yet, I don't want to see the kind of stumblebum effort and passive acceptance of failure that the Twins have shown lately. Last night was another example that makes me wonder how soon it could be until good seats are available right up until game time at Target Field.
The season has reached a point where, if I'm not at the ballpark, I'm using watching while doing something else -- or have the game on as background noise. Last night, Young219 and I watched the early carnage during a sports-bar supper. I know Brian Duensing is way off his game right now, but the give-up at-bats and the Twins' ability to turn mediocre opponents into dominant starters was equally galling.
And the Luke Hughes baserunning gaffe was another stunning display of doing little things horribly wrong.
I do my best to stay off Twitter during games, mostly because I don't feel like I have much to add to the conversation.
