Yikes!

Rough week here in Loserville, of course when was the last time that wasn't true? 

Thought we had a little something with the pro hockey team, turns out they are who we thought they were.  Think I'm going to start referring to them as the Minnesota Wild Neat, because there are no shots on the ice when they're involved.  23 games in and they've been outshot in 21 of them.  Of course they outshot Calgary last night and lost 3-0, so take that for what it's worth.  They also can't score at even strength and have lost their leading goal scorer from last season for most of (the rest of?) the year.  Other than that, things are going swimmingly.

The Wolves continue to be a bit better, but still can't close anyone out, good chance to beat the Spurs last week was squandered when they blew a 21-point lead in the second half.  Not to mention a phantom foul call as time expired that allowed the Spurs to force overtime inspired me to make a "I thought Tim Donaghy was in prison?" joke.  Reputation calls for good teams in crunch time is reason #135 that I have trouble getting into the NBA, incidentally, the first 130 have to do with the Miami Heat and ESPN's coverage of them.

The Vikings can't do anything right, they lose when they should win and win when they should lose.  Call me a bad fan if you want, but I flipped into rooting for a draft pick mode following the Packer debacle.  If you want the team to win these games, that's fine, but don't call me fairweather or anything like that.  I'm looking out for the long-term future of the club, and every win from this point forward is actually hurting us.  If it comes down to our first-round draft pick vs. the Cardinals first-rounder in the Kevin Kolb sweepstakes this spring, don't say I didn't warn you.  Hope the warm fuzzy your got from the 5-1 finish helps compensate for the misery of watching Alex Smith/Vince Young/Derek Anderson/Jake Delhomme bumble his way through another season with no heir apparent on the horizon.  But hey, other than that, Go Vikes, yay.

Gopher hoops melted down last night against an awful team that got blown out by 43 points a couple games ago.  We'll chalk that one up the a bad night, these things happen...just hopefully not too often.

The Twins did win the right to negotiate with some Japanese shortstop, Idonwanotruble Ifeelsorryfoyomotha, or something like that.  Nice to have the financial juice behind the team to participate in these kind of things, but there's still a long way to go.  First they have to hammer out a contract, then we need to settle on an acceptable nickname (assume Gardy will be leading the way on this) and then he needs to be closer to Ichiro and Hideki Matsui than the nine total stiffs that have followed them.  Sounds promising, but who can tell with this stuff?  It's Japanese baseball, they might play with pieces of frozen cod for all I know.  Then again, hitting frozen cod at a .346 clip can't be easy.  Wonder what the rules are when the cod shatters, do you need to collect all pieces and get them to first, or is one piece acceptable for an out?  Perhaps you need more than 50% by weight?  Seems like this would have a major impact on how many infield hits were being collected, I need to study up on Japanese baseball to figure out what we've got here.