HAHA Suck It Twins

He's... umm... out?

As the AL Central race heats up a bit (White Sox 1 GB/Twins 2.5 GB) the Twins suffered an embarrassing defeat last night, allowing the Athletics to rally from a 10 run deficit to win 14-13 behind Matt Holliday's 2 blasts, including a game-tying grand slam in the seventh. Even though Mourneau, Holliday and Jason Kubel combined for 17 RBI in this ridiculous slugfest (39 hits to only 7 strikeouts between the two teams), the story of the night was a blatant botched call at home plate to end the game instead of tying it in the top of the ninth. Actually, perhaps the call wasn't botched, but rather Michael Wuertz's tag is so devastating that it travels both through space and time, thus explaining how Cuddyer was out despite the fact that approximately 50% of his body had touched the plate by the time Wuertz appeared to lay his tag down.

The take home message from this game is not that baseball needs replay, but rather that God hates the Twins because they are perenially the most boring team in the league.