Gardenhire's fatal flaw is that he cares too much. It's great that he loves his players and this sometimes inspires them to play hard but he will play certain players game after game because they once were good but now are not and he either doesn't recognize it or refuses to see it. He trotted Francisco Liriano (who was lights out in 2006 but hasn't done squat since then) out there all year long to the tune of 5-14 and he almost cost us the title but luckily for Twins fans Liriano went on the DL and Duensing came up and pitched lights out down the stretch. Tonight he sucked again, as usual, but there is another day and Nick Blackburn was arguably the best big game pitcher on the team this year so we'll see. Yes the Yanks have more talent but the Twins were just flat tonight. I thought Duensing did a nice job other than the one mistake to Jeter (I loved the announcers saying Jeter hit it "deep in to the New York night" when in actuality it barely got out and curled around the foul pole) and got a pitch up to Swisher. Nice job by the rookie.
Last edited by tbob; 10-07-2009 at 07:57 PM.
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