Rod's Ramblings for Wednesday 9/23/09

Sunday should feature one of the best pitching matchups of the year. The Twins play the Kansas City Royals in Kansas City. The Royals are hot. They have won 12 of their last 15. They have made the Red Sox look silly the last two games. The Twins have a nice string going of their own and are in a pennant race. So going to Kansas City for the weekend is like a trap weekend. And Sunday's pitching probables should make it, one of the games of the year. Nick Blackburn for the Twins. Zack Grienke for the Royals. Grienke has to win the Cy Young Award. He pitches for a bad team, gets no run support and still has 15 wins. Has not allowed an earned run in 35 innings. The second time this year he has a 30 plus inning streak without allowing an earned run. He may be the best pitcher in all of baseball let alone the American League. And Blackburn is no slouch either. When the pressure is on, Blackburn has usually come through with a stellar performance. If your sitting at home on Sunday wondering, should I watch or listen to the Vikings or the Twins (you would have to be interested mainly in the Vikings and Twins to wonder this), I think, I would pick the Twins vs. Royals. And I just might, since the Bears don't start until 3:15 and the Cubs are, well, the Cubs.