Golf and Twins

[fusion_text]I have discovered a thread common to two of my hobbies: playing golf and watching the Twins. It is this: something always goes wrong, and what that is constantly changes. If I’m putting well, my driving is off; if my irons are good, my chipping lets me down. Etc. For the Twins, two weeks ago their starting pitching was horrible – an ERA around 6.00 – but their relievers, who had to pitch the majority of innings, held the opposition scoreless, giving the Twins chances to come back, which they sometimes did and sometimes didn’t. Last week, the starters found their groove again, but the relievers fell apart. One day Casey Fien, who had pitched 12 scoreless innings, turned a win into a loss by giving up a 3-run homer. The next day, formerly surprisingly good closer Kevin Jepsen gave up a home run and then loaded the bases before escaping with a 3-2 win. And for the series finale, Trevor May entered in the 7th with two outs and a 2-0 lead and left with the same two outs and a 5-2 deficit. Completing the picture, Neal Cotts gave up a three-run homer, making the Twins’ next three runs academic. It seems that when Escobar-Rosario-Suzuki hit, the top of the order flails, and vice versa. We know that this uncertainty is what makes baseball fun, and why the “better” team still loses one out of three, if they’re lucky. And I heard today the famous saying that “golf is not a game of perfect.” The above is fairly obvious, but it is just now that I have made this connection.[/fusion_text]