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Will It Ever Happen for Minnesota?

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I love the Twins. Next to the Orioles, they might just be my favorite team. They do an awful lot right for a team without a gigantic payroll, and they're an organization that I would like to see the Orioles become.

But having said all that, this postseason was another in a long line in which Minnesota has bowed out almost immediately. They haven't won a postseason series since 2002, which was their first time in the playoffs since 1991. Since that season, they haven't been close to even getting there, and haven't even won a postseason game since 2004. Every season they impress us with their play, but then they get to the postseason and they look like they have no business being there. Now don't get me wrong, I'll gladly take getting there to not having a chance, but if they haven't started already, then I'm sure somebody out there will start calling them the new Oakland A's, because the same was said of the A's of the early 2000's.

Will it ever happen for the Twins? I'd like to believe it can. But after another lost playoff performance, I'm beginning to doubt that it ever will.

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For the Twins, they needed to go up against the Rays in the first round and have Texas knock of New York.

Thinking back, besides the White Sox in 2005, has a Central team made it past the ALDS recently?

Tigers were in the World Series in 2006 after rolling the Yanks and As. I'll always remember Kenny Rogers pitching his brain out that post season and Eric Byrnes going nuts in his first stint as an analyst.

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The Red Sox lost 13 straight post-season games in the early part of the last quarter-century and they've done alright since with a couple of rings.

Considering it's happened twice for the Twins since the last time the Orioles won it all, I really don't feel bad for them.

Of course, the Twinkies have never won a World Series without Andy MacPhail on the payroll.

P.S. @ crazysilver: The Yankees faced the Rangers three times in the first round in the late 1990's & beat them nine out of ten.

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For the Twins, they needed to go up against the Rays in the first round and have Texas knock of New York.

Thinking back, besides the White Sox in 2005, has a Central team made it past the ALDS recently?

The Tigers made it to the World Series in 2006, and the Indians made it to the ALCS in 2007, only to be knocked out by Boston.

But yeah the Twins had it tough in the postseason during this decade. They have won their division about 6 times, and only gone to the ALCS one time during this decade. New York just flat out owns them.

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Keep in mind that Morneau was out in the second half. They'll be back.

This is very true. But they've lost in years past with both of those guys available as well. Maybe if they don't lose Game 1 then the series takes a different turn, or at least ends up a little closer than it did. But for as good of a team as they are, they just consistently get outplayed every playoff season.

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The Red Sox lost 13 straight post-season games in the early part of the last quarter-century and they've done alright since with a couple of rings.

Considering it's happened twice for the Twins since the last time the Orioles won it all, I really don't feel bad for them.

Of course, the Twinkies have never won a World Series without Andy MacPhail on the payroll.

P.S. @ crazysilver: The Yankees faced the Rangers three times in the first round in the late 1990's & beat them nine out of ten.

That is all.

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And Nathan was out all year. It's amazing that they were in the playoffs at all.

Gardenhire is the best manager in the AL if not baseball honestly. He does the most with the least. I forgot all about Nathan and had no idea Morneau was out the second half. They'll be back. It's too bad. I really like the Twins too because organizationally they're the team I want us to be.

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