Heading into the All-Star Break

No news on the baby front. Steph and I were hoping that today was going to be the day, but we know that we are a week away from our due date. We will remain patient as our little guy bakes just a little bit longer.

On to some baseball. Twins took three out of four this weekend in Chicago. I have to admit that I didn't watch every inning of every game this weekend, but could Chicago have looked any less interested? They looked bored, sloppy and in some games defeated. After yesterday's loss I doubted the chance the Twins were going to win today. To Ozzy's disgust, the new piranhas kept nipping at Chicago and did the small things to win the game.

Looking back on the weekend of play, it was made even more clear that the Twins desperately need some bullpen help. Burnett and Mijares probably shouldn't be allowed to pitch at the major league level again this year. Burnett is allowing hitter to hit at a .294 clip and has a 6.75 ERA this year. Mijares is probably even worse. He has a 5.49 ERA and hitters are batting .282 against him, he has a WHIP of 1.98 but the thing most disturbing is that he has walked 17 batters in 19.2 innings. It's like he is afraid to pitch this year. He is consistently getting behind hitters which forces him to throw meatballs that even the Waseca High School team could hit.

Looking forward, the Twins are 6.5 games out of first and feel like they are only going to get better in the second half. They are beginning to get healthy, starting pitching is giving the offense an opportunity to win almost every night. Now all we need is someone to help Perkins in that bullpen and we will be in good shape.

Final thoughts, I honestly think that I couldn't be worse than Adam Dunn facing left handed pitching, he's 2 for 64 and he is still hitting clean up for Ozzy! It might be time to move him down the order when a lefty starts.