No Joy in Mudville

As most of you know, I am a die-hard Twins fan. For the past week I have been setting my alarm, rising long before the dawn to catch a glimpse of my team's last-ditch efforts to obtain victory. Ah, at long last, the evil Sox who can't seem to refrain from open hostility towards one another within their own dugout have foiled our boys again to take the division series tiebreaker. I'm proud of what my team has accomplished this year, but a division win really would have been the icing on the cake. I feel cheated since we actually managed to sweep our division rivals when they were in the Metrodome last week, and now because they managed to eke one out against a second-rate team on a rain delay, we're out of the running. Unacceptable! I shall don my team's regalia with pride tomorrow, knowing that we managed to hang in there when no one thought we could, and take solace in the fact that the Yankees will not be the chosen ones this year, either. Go Cubs!