Friday 10

Quick and dirty random 10, it’s been a busy week, I do have some new music, but I’ll add that next time.

Static X – This Is Not – Machine
Nine Inch Nails – 20 Ghosts III – Ghosts
The Offspring – All Along – Conspiracy of One
… And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead – Children of the Hydra’s Teeth – Madonna
Led Zeppelin – In the Evening – In Through the Out Door
Meshuggah – Bleed – obZen
Foo Fighters – Stacked Actors – There is Nothing Left to Lose
The Vines – Get Free – Highly Evolved
The Dust Brothers – Corporate World – Fight Club Soundtrack
R.E.M. – Mr. Richards – Accelerate

That’s the only Vines song on my iPod. And one of two songs by Meshuggah. Had to note those as particularly random selections.

Series Preview in Blog: Los Angeles Angels

Is it over? Can I come out now? That Blue Jays series scared me a little bit, I have to be honest. The Twins dropped 3 of 4 to Toronto to fall to 4-7 on the season (and 3-5 at home). They continue the homestand with the LA Angels, who come in at 3-5 (pending last night’s result) having lost their most recent series to Seattle. I should point out that Seattle was 5-0 since leaving Minnesota going into last night, and overall teams the Twins have played are 12-5 (.705) in games against other opponents. So the Twins are doing a little bit better than everyone else, right? I know it’s a reach, but it’s hard to find positives when they haven’t won a series yet this season.

Of course, we can’t talk about the Angels 2009 season without the tragedy that is Nick Adenhart’s death. There are a ton of tributes on all the Angel’s blogs, here’s a couple: Halos Heaven, and John Weisman of Dodger Thoughts.  I don’t know that there’s much I can write about this, so I’ll just say it’s a terrible loss for all the families affected, and my thoughts and prayers remain with them.

The bad start is never easy on fans, but Angels just have to remember WWFPD (What Would Ford Prefect Do?).  Unfortunately for them (and fortunately for us) they will have to go through at least this weekend without Vlad Guerrero, as he is out due to a strained pectoral muscle.  That other outfielder will be there though (Of course I mean Torii Hunter, you haven’t forgot about Torii Hunter have you?)