D*&# Yankees!

My favorite team, the Twins, lost to the Angels last night.

They lost no ground to either the Tigers or Indians, for both of those teams were defeated Friday as well.

I would have preferred to see the division-leading Indians win. I don't care which team is playing the New York Yankees on any given night, I want to see - night after night - the Yankees' opponent (Cleveland all weekend) beat the Bronx Bombers.

The Indians could win twice today and tomorrow over New York, and the Twins could drop two more to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Calif. (USA), and I would be reasonably content about the baseball world heading into Monday.

I may not sound like the best Twins fan, wanting to see the Indians win the rest of their games this weekend. But if the Twins end this regular season out of the playoffs as they would be right now, they might look back to when they dropped 2 of 3 to the Royals earlier this week (combining to score a mighty 1 run in those two losses) or when the Twins dropped three straight to the Tigers in a mid-week series at the Metrodome earlier this summer (each of those losses by 1 run). As for the Tigers, if they should finish the season looking up at the Indians, the Tigers might look back to this week and ask themselves why they dropped two of three to the major-leagues-worst Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

I'm both a Twins and Indians fan this weekend. Any day of the season, I'll say "Go Twins!" first and "Go Yankee opponents!" second.