The Twins 4th of July fireworks never came

The Indians are going to win the AL Central.

Might as well start accepting that sad reality now. No sense spending another couple months futily hoping that the Twins magic of April and May will ever resurface. It's over.

In the final, humiliating act of an awful road trip, finishing off a now sub-.500 last month of baseball, the Twins once vaunted offense scored a measely 2 runs off a winless, 7 ERA pitcher. Their ace, Jose Berrios, immediately gave a 2-1 lead back, then let Chris Hermann drive in the go ahead run. Their bullpen surrendered a grand slam. They let Hermann and Robbie Grossman, and even Liam Hendriks, all castoffs from bad Twins teams, dominate them.

I have been on meltdown watch for weeks. I have been called a fake fan, downvoted on reddit on a daily basis, all for seeing the reality that this team was in a slump.

But when a slump lasts this long it's no longer a slump. This is officially a meltdown. The Twins have pissed away half of that division lead, and we aren't even yet at the all star break. Every aspect of this team has broken down. The Indians are one of the hottest teams in baseball, and actually beat the bad teams (WHAT A CONCEPT!). The Twins are staring at a replay of that 2001 season, only that team at least waited til deeper into the summer to implode.

It wasn't long ago we were all dreaming about October. It was all about how we beat the Yankees and/or Astros. What moves were we gonna make for the playoff run? The division race was already done.

When the fuck will we learn? This Twins team has no pedigree. They haven't done a thing. The Indians have a pedigree. They almost won a world series 3 years ago. Their manager stared down a 0-3 hole against the evil empire and won. You think he's scared of a 12 game deficit to the fucking Twins when summer hasn't even arrived?

The Twins schedule doesn't ease up for another month and a half, but even if it did, part of what has put the Twins in this tumble is their inability to feast on bad teams. Cleveland IS doing that, aside from the 2 Baltimore losses.

The all star break is needed, sure, but that alone won't save this team. Whether it's simple regression to the mean or that they have just been figured out, they don't have another May in them.

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