Friday, June 29, 2007

My baseball dream.

As I sit here, still unemployed, watching the Cubs' Aramis Ramirez hit a walk-off homerun to beat the Brewers, I really don't think my ultimate baseball dream will be realized this season. Sure three of the teams, the Twins, Brewers, and Cubs, are somewhat in place to make the playoffs, and I know it's early to think about this, I really doubt that the White Sox are going to make the AL Wild Card spot.
Ideally the ALCS and NLCS would feature all Upper Midwestern teams; Twins vs. White Sox and the Brewers vs. Cubs respectively. Then after my two favorite teams, the Twins and Cubs both have awesome seven game series' against their opponents, they have the greatest World Series ever with the Twins winning in game seven, sorry Cubs - but you're my number two. This series would be better than the 1991 World Series between the Twins and Braves.
Also, my dream includes accolades abound for all of the great Twins players. Johan Santana would win the Cy Young again, Justin Morneau would win the regular season MVP again, the regular season AL home run title would be shared between Morneau and Torii Hunter, Joe Nathan would win the Rolaids Relief Man of the Year, Joe Mauer and Luis Castillo would share the AL batting title. The World Series MVP would go to Pat Neshek who would pitch an amazing amount of innings and only give up one earned run.
Of course, this is only a pipe dream - if that. By this time two years from now the Twins will be dead last in the AL Central as they fail to resign any of their players. Then the management will decide to promote the entire Rochester Triple A team and build around Mauer.
Yeah, I knew I'd eventually write something about baseball on this thing.

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