Greetings!

Hello, I would like to give a shout out to my first follower!!!  My parents...

But that, by no means, invigorates my insecurity with not having many friends. 

Anyways... I will have more followers soon.  Hopefully.

There is something I would like to discuss and I hope to get a hold of a bunch of people on this.  If you watched yesterdays Twins game you noticed that Kevin Slowey was practically painting the corners with his stellar pitching.  While spending most of the season trying to find his rhythm, Slowey looked he had top-notch stuff yesterday afternoon against the A's.  By the 7th inning he was pitching a no-hitter.

Fantastic right?  Well I wish I could tell you that Kevin went on to pitch a no-hitter, because that would be awesome.

Unfortunately, Ron, our manager, took Slowey out in the 7th inning, preventing him from achieving a no-hitter.  John Rausch then came into the game in the 8th and let in two runs to blow the combined no-hitter, however the Twins still won.  Gardenhire received a massive amount of boo's after his decision to take out Slowey, but even he said he felt awful about doing so.  This reasoning behind his decision was this: He feared that by keeping Slowey in the game, given his recent missed start due to tendinitis, would hurt him in the long run and potentially risk him not being healthy when the playoffs come around.  He would have loved to keep him in the game, but he couldn't do it.  He would've done the same thing 1,000 times he says.

Sound off!  What are your thoughts on Gardenhire's decision?  Do you agree or disagree?