Reviewing the Minnesota Twins’ 18 Straight Playoff Losses

[@David_Drums]

My entire life has been playoff winless for the Twins. Here's hoping I get to see at least one in my lifetime!

[@EqualsPeach]

This is the year

[@insertusernamehere317]

Nah all the wildcard teams are way better than them they’re gonna get swept again

[@botboy4167]

​@@EqualsPeachbruh yall ass

[@twinsfan1040]

100%

[@brevinmonroe7977]

@@insertusernamehere317 Minnesota would wipe Texas

[@maxmueller550]

When I saw A-rod's home run clear the fence in game 2 of the 2009 ALDS I turned off the TV and didn't watch any baseball until the next spring training. That's a complete 180° turn of emotions from when I was at game 163 a few days earlier

[@chrisbartolini1508]

As a Yankees fan, I knew the series was over. You don’t just recover from that kind of moment when it’s a team that owns you that much.

[@llllllll153]

I was at that game and I remember the stadium for Arod’s and Tex’s home runs went absolute bonkers! What a night it was to be a Yankee fan especially at the stadium!

[@jamesbusald7097]

I was watching in a nearly empty bar in Eureka CA. by my self. Someone punched me in the back of the head as soon as I went off.

[@reidpreston2784]

My first question is “why must the world keep punishing Twins fans by covering the 18 playoff losses.” Then, I realized the correct question is “why must I punish myself and watch a deep dive into every single loss”

[@Starspecter7]

This whole vid is PAIN. As a Twins fan who was just 14 yrs old the last time we won a playoff game... 32 now.........

[@sirekumasutra7022]

What's crazy is that since 2004 every other team in the division has gone to the WS with Chicago and KC winning it. Also since 2004: -Seattle made the playoffs and won a series -Boston, ChiSox, and Cubs, who were still considered cursed, all won the WS -EVERY team but Cincinnati won at least 1 postseason series (Yes even the Marlins, Pirates, and Padres won a series)

[@jimnfl7134]

the Rockies even made it to their first World Series in 2007.

[@gravylawyer]

The Pirates never really won a series of more than one game in this timeline though. (Is the one-game 2013 Wild Card considered a series?) I would've put in the last statement. "Yes even the Marlins, NATS, and Padres won a series) considering how cursed that franchise was until 2019.

[@Zyrchin]

As a Twins fan, thank you for just like... recognizing that we're here and we need a hug. Rundowns of cursed teams will often not even give us a dishonorable mention after two decades of the saddest possible record in sports. "It's the hope that kills ya" -from the show Ted Lasso

[@David_Drums]

Add the pain of postseason Twins failure with the Wild and Vikings not getting to their championship games/series and you're in for the experience of a lifetime.

[@dougefresh8029]

Don’t forget the wasted years of Kevin garnet on the wolves

[@PossumBuddy420]

At least the Vikings have made it past the first round

[@David_Drums]

@@PossumBuddy420 that's fair. However, there's been a lot of heartbreak getting there. If you're into nerdy football stuff, SecretBase did a video series on the Vikings!

[@BancheroProd]

to add insult to injury. the timberwolves just got gentlemen swept in the conference finals (the round before the finals)

[@Trillyana]

The post-2009 Yankees look so mortal against everyone except the Twins in the playoffs. But against the Twins they look like an indestructible juggernaut

[@jimnfl7134]

@@deanladue5367 That is what i hated: WHY did the Twins face the Yankees EVERY DAMN time in the Playoffs from 2004-2019???

[@katherineberger6329]

There were definitely years where the Yankees did some creative management of their W-L record to engineer that matchup.

[@wwpjd28]

Also, this is true of the other most notable Minnesota team, the Vikings. They just made a multi part video on Secret Base about it. MN sports has been cursed for a good long time. And only the incredible high quality of the people of MN could withstand this type of abuse without raining punishment down on their teams.

[@randysavage5272]

With the pitching the team has this year I have faith they will actually break the curse this year, the hitting is coming around when it needs to as well. But... as a lifelong Minnesota fan I would not be shocked if this streak moves on to 20 losses in a row after this year. Even our Timberwolves are able to win some games when they make the playoffs haha

[@neekaacid9149]

I’ve watch every Minnesota sports team win a play off match but not the twins in my lifetime

[@JTube48]

*looks at thumbnail* “OMG YES A TWINS VIDEO!” *looks at video title* “…oh god” *vietnam flashbacks*

[@jkbuckeye1]

Am I the only one who came back and watched this video after our WC round win this week?! So much easier to process now that it’s over, but yeah that sucked. Playoffs are dumb, but Tuesday and Wednesday this week were great!

[@ahronr25]

It’s finally over!

[@girlwithaguitar24]

You have to realize - this doesn't just apply to baseball. Look at our other sports teams - the Wild are a constant first-round exit in the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Timberwolves are perennial bottom-dwellers, and the Vikings have an almost greater history of playoff failures and chokes. This entire state has been cursed - not with bad teams mind you, but with the most wreched postseason/playoff luck in sports history that I can imagine. I'm a 27 year old woman who hasn't seen my team win a conference/league let alone a title in my lifetime. All I know is pain.

[@CuriousOfficial]

Feels great as a Twins fan to see the same team win a freaking game for the first time in nearly 2 decades.

[@dhruvrajmendram7496]

Who’s here after they snapped the streak against the blue jays

[@ChiefBlue4298]

Hello 👋

[@davyt0247]

Hi

[@bmdragon]

You really emphasize how crazy it was the 2019 Twins lost, but the Yankees had only 1 less HR than them that season and 103 wins

[@shoukatsukai]

Nah, it's crazy they got swept. Even the Tampa Bay Rays forced Game 5 against the Astros that year

[@dmlfan928]

It's not that the Twins lost the series. It's the best Twins team in this stretch got swept. AGAIN.

[@assrammington7961]

They started a budget level, minor league washout, part time Über driver against a 103 win 300 million dollar payroll franchise with 27 world championships. Not only was it an expected outcome but it was actually laughable how any professional sports organization would go with that option and still employ the same executives to this day. That’s the story of the Twins in the 21st century, arrogance, stupidity, extreme delusions and incompetence at every level of the organizational depth chart. At least in the last 2 years they seem to be changing their ways with drafting and pitching development. The owner is a limp wrist, dead fish eye having non-baseball fan, so any accountability has to come from within the GMs office itself. They’ll win a World Series in spite of management. Not because of them.

[@chrisuncleahmad789]

@@assrammington7961 He actually pitched decently that season. Didn't help that Boone's Yankees remembered they only lose to the Astros in the ALCS.

[@assrammington7961]

@@chrisuncleahmad789 pitched decently against bottom feeding central teams. Starting him was moronic.

[@ChiefBlue4298]

THE DROUGHT IS OFFICIALLY OVER! THE TWINS WON A PLAYOFF GAME!!!!

[@jamesesterline]

I never thought I'd hear both MLB Power Pros music (3:55) and the Transformers Cybertron intro (19:08) in the same video

[@Notkimbosliced]

As a Detroit Lions fan, who have only win a single playoff game since 1957 (back in 1992), my heart goes out to Twins fans

[@arcadeshift5071]

At least you've had multiple Red Wings, Tigers, and Pistons championships since then. Plus Michigan football and Spartans basketball. Minnesota has two men's championships in over 200 pro seasons which is cosmically bad. Also, as a Timberwolves fan (only 2 playoff series wins in 34 years + worst winning percentage of any "Big 4" team), I can say with certainty its 10x easier "cheering" for a team that just sucks for decades (ex. Detroit Lions) and has little hope vs cheering for teams that get to the playoffs regularly and always choke (i.e. all MN men's pro teams sans T'Wolves). With cheering for perpetually bad teams, you just learn to laugh through it and there's no drama, anxiety, or nerves. The "heartbreak" I've experienced with the Wolves is 1/10th the amount I've experienced with the Wild, Twins, and Vikings.

[@joeyhuiras]

Not only was that Mauer double 2 ft fair, it hit his glove. I remember watching that live

[@KFCOrBust]

I haven't even gotten past the ads yet and I know 50% or more of these losses will be sweeps from the Yankees 🤣🤣

[@CrowT23]

If they win, better be something memorable. I can see them winning a walk off in game 2 of WC game, then go back to lose game 3. It would be their baseball version of the Minneapolis Miracle or what Seattle did last year in the Wild Card. Which might be their opponents this year.

[@benrider6353]

last time the Twins won a playoff game I was a senior in high school, I'm close to 40 now.. JFC

[@rydawg26]

4:42 was not expecting a hivemined cameo when watching this video 😂

[@frankabbeduto]

Every other AL Central team has won a pennant in this timeframe.

[@jimnfl7134]

But for the 2005 White Sox, that team has SUCKED almost every year since.

[@michaelleroy9281]

And only one has won a World Series

[@mikenike-zd9zp]

We inherited the curse of the bambino from the red sox. As soon as we give them david ortiz in 2002, the playoff loss streak begins in 2004 right before the red sox break the curse 😐

[@limegreenelevator]

No Twins fan has forgiven Phil Cuzzi for that '09 foul ball call.

[@matthewvanzandt6589]

The Power Pros theme brings joy to my heart, i hope they bring those games back to America

[@woodchucknation]

Royals fan here, I am pulling for you guys to end this streak. Looks like it may be Houston again.

[@Kourumeme]

The last time they won a playoff game, the Nintendo ds and world of Warcraft wasn’t even out yet.

[@BJ37]

This has basically been the story for MN sports as a whole. There has been an astronomical 50+ playoff appearances in all sports without one team ever even making the championship. A record that is more than double any other state in sports history.

[@PhantomofDB]

I still haven't forgiven Cuzzi for throwing (not blowing) that call

[@markaronson8932]

In terms of years, the Twins previously had an approximate 21 years between playoff wins. 1965 World Series Game 6 to 1987 ALCS Game 1 (7 losses : 1965 Game 7, swept by O's in 1969 & 1970 ALCS). The only difference from that streak and the current one dating back to 2004 ALDS Game 1 is that Minnesota only made the playoffs twice before winning the World Series in 1987 ... As painful as it was to watch, this was very well put together and entertaining.

[@JD0tMoney]

I remember the 2017 game that 1st inning was an hour long literally

[@YungGomo]

15:27 Lance Berkman, one of the all-time great Bronx Bombers ✊ Flawless execution on how casually they dropped that, friggin top tier comedy m8

[@hallsie5284]

I was 8 years old last time the Twins won a playoff game, and am as big of a Twins fan as ever. Truly hoping for a special run this year.. we have got skill, just got to string it all together..

[@jroggs85]

The Twins bullpen is built to increase this streak with more heartbreaking blown leads. But least it won't be the Yankees that do it to us this year.

[@mattolson7037]

18 straight playoff losses is a near impossibility. I think they break that streak this year. They have 2 really good starters and the offense has really turned it on since the all star break

[@rickycamilo4488]

i kinda wanna see them get to 20 straight loses before they win because its a nice round number

[@nickgilstad9276]

​@@rickycamilo4488nah dude gotta get to 21 so our losing streak can legally drink

[@ablecantaim7112]

Thought I was tripping balls seeing Greydon from Hivemind cameo on Stark Raving Sports

[@bradyanderson9517]

same lol

[@jayvader9023]

thought dignan took over my computer again..

[@yofuman]

I’m glad there are several crossover fans here besides myself. I had to make sure I didn’t accidentally start a hivemind video by mistake

[@benhen7764]

For as much crap as A-Rod gets for not performing in the postseason, he's basically a hitting god against the Twins.

[@sobrienaasc6274]

You have no idea how big this October could be for Minnesota. We need this.

[@jimnfl7134]

not expecting a World Series, but at least finally end that Playoff drought. Good news: They won't Face the Yankees this time.

[@smnbrgss]

I have this theory that only 1 MN team can have “mojo”

[@aceslater5265]

The Yankees have haunted my dreams for my entire childhood. Thank you for bringing out my PTSD. All jokes aside, great video and breakdown in the streak.

[@johnturner7952]

THE TWINS WON A PLAYOFF GAME!!!!

[@venod3134]

There are alot of you on KZbin who need to be known as "Sports Journalists". You guys are carrying my sports interests with your stories. Channels like this Secret Base (Jon Bois), Underdog, Bootleg Football... and countless others. Your work is greatly appreciated 🙏🏿

[@SamTheGriff]

It’s like we are juuuust good enough to win the division just to be destroyed every time lmaoo

[@austintomlinson7863]

Honestly, I've grown numb enough to the pain by this point, I almost appreciated the unintentional who's-who of all my favorite Twins of the past 20 years. I cant wait for it to eventually end though; it has to.

[@jimnfl7134]

agreed. Twins won't be good enough to be in the World Series, but this Playoff drought has to end.

[@davyt0247]

Nice touch putting the Transformers Cybertron opening theme into the video. And even as a Yankees fan, this is just insane. I don't think i have ever seen a team destroy another in the Playoffs so thoroughly. Also for loss #1, Jeter was the winning run, he had to go back to 3rd on the ground rule double.

[@zackaryhaselius2226]

Bro, im 24, and started watching baseball when i was 6, and Still havent witnessed a win. All i want is 1 WIN!!! 1!!!!

[@smnbrgss]

That’s what I’m sayin

[@tkkalpha8657]

If the twins win a game i wanna see them celebrate like pat bev

[@RobertJW]

Most baseball fans hate the Yankees for no real reason, or for their general dominance, a more theoretical hatred than anything. Twins fans who hate the Yankees have very real reasons for that.

[@davyt0247]

Especially considering the Yankees domination over the Twins isn’t limited to the playoffs.

[@mikewilklow9337]

I got blackout drunk for so many of those losses to the Yankees. Feel like I'm getting cheated out of it this year with how bad the Yankees are.

[@CamBam269]

Since the last Twins postseason win, every other team in their division has reached the World Series

[@TomBradyisinlovewithson]

That’s actually more impressive for the AL central than bad

[@zackaryhaselius2226]

Why!!!?!?!?!? I dont want to relive this!

[@pheonix6621]

Change teams gang

[@jimnfl7134]

There is a NOTE for the 2023 Twins: They will NOT face the Yankees in the Playoffs (because on the day of this comment, they are Close to being ELIMINATED). Should Mauer be in the Hall of Fame? Maybe.

[@lincolnmckay555]

13 of the 18 being against the Yankees is hilarious! Also equally hilarious is that A-Rod who couldn't hit in October came up with so many of the big hits against the twins.

[@lazycrazybum]

I’m a 30 year old Minnesotan. Minnesota has all four major sports. In my life time, not one has made the finals, much less won a championship. Minnesota is, by a mile, the most cursed sports market, and more people should take pity on us.

[@jimnfl7134]

Cleveland and Seattle would be close, I know 1 sports team did win a Championship in the last 12 years, but have FAILED Alot too.

[@onomatopoeia162003]

Lynx did. That's the only team so far.

[@isaacscanlon2182]

Nothing like this to get me hyped for 2023 Wild Card Round Game 1!

[@shaneparrish651]

Me and friends got tickets for game 4 of the 2019 ALDS. We thought there’s now way the 103 win Bomba Squad gets swept they should get at least one even against the Yankees. Needless to say we got our money back.

[@farmingnodak]

For a team that had Santana, Nathan, Morneau, Mauer, Hunter, Cuddy... it's still insane to think about how they couldn't win the WS.

[@rngfootball759]

Last playoff win for the Twins, KZbin wasnt born, Vikings coming off a gut wrenching collapse this time by Nathan Poole, and very 1st year of major college football conference realignment of the 21st century as it was Miami and Virginia Tech's first year in the ACC coming over from the Big East.

[@edvaira6891]

I’ve spent most of this same time futilely rooting for a sad, pathetic Padre team that usually got its teeth kicked in by the Cardinals (seriously, we lost eleven straight playoff games to them until we FINALLY booted them to the curb in 2020…only to get spanked by the Dodgers…but, oh My God, THAT ended so wonderfully last year I did not even care we missed the pain of getting defenestrated by the Astros in the World Series…)….but, THIS?? Oh man, I so very much feel for my fellow sufferers in Minnesota!

[@Im__Your__Huckleberry]

I was alive when the Twins won the world series in '91... I was 5 months old but man were those good times!

[@michaellammers2187]

As a Twins fan, I'd take this misery over contraction. At least there's always hope while the team exists.

[@reeddank479]

As a tiger fan I am in awe of even seeing a franchise play 18 playoff games 😂

[@billymayshere6128]

I remember skipping school to watch game 1 of the 06 alds. Twins are pain.

[@EMFole]

Appreciate the mlb power pros music! Still waiting for another mainline title to be translated to English. Success mode is goated

[@doughy-planet5849]

Is that the opening for Transformers: Cybertron at 19:12? Can't sneak that past me

[@greta9534]

Ah, I can explain it for you, it is simply the way of Minnesota professional men's sports. Look at the recent Secret Base Vikings docuseries, a similar tale of suffering. Success leading directly into the most soul crushing loss imaginable over, and over, and over again.

[@DGS2605]

MLB POWER PROS SOUNDTRACK 🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@WGTBollox]

As a Twins fan that had the pleasure of watching all 18 of these games (well, started them all, shut off some blowouts), this video is pain. Only silver lining is being born in 81 and having faint memories of 87 and some memory of 91.

[@CharmCityGamer]

The streak is at last OVER! And they won a playoff series for the first time since 2002!

[@Viking1723]

What’s sad is that the Twins are the most successful franchise in minnesota history

[@austinelliott22]

At least they won’t be playing the Yankees in the postseason this year.

[@calebeisenhower5043]

The power pros background music is a kind of nostalgia I didn’t know I needed

[@joshw9424]

John Olerud, Joe Nathan, Brad Radke, Kevin Brown maybe even Johan... I'm two minutes into this vid, and these guys can already form an Underrated Hall of Fame amongst themselves.

[@devackroyd]

Unrelated to baseball, but I can relate to one of my sports team having a ridiculous losing streak that lasted years. I am an Edmonton, Alberta native who bleeds for the Oilers of the NHL (they had a decade without making the playoffs while I was growing up in a league where 16 TEAMS make it every year, big ouch), and the Elks of the Canadian Football League. The Edmonton Elks have been historically awful since the 2019 season and set a North American Pro Sports RECORD for consecutive home loses this year with 22. Thats almost 3 whole seasons of home games and as a season ticket holder I was at every single one of them. But when they finally did break the streak last month, I have never felt more thankful to watch a home win than I had in my entire life. I like to believe that loyalty to your team does get rewarded one way or another. Enjoying a single win that much also taught me that not winning a championship doesn't mean you can't enjoy the small moments. With that said, to answer the question posed at the end of the video, stay loyal and remember what the team means to you and the city, losing that legacy over 18 playoff games? No thanks! So Twins fans, when they do break through, celebrate like its the world series and enjoy it!

[@brobabroski5083]

25:25 I watched that entire game and I STILL DON’T KNOW how someone with Sergio Romo’s playoff history does not know how tight of a zone the ump called that day. Least I also forgot Baldeli pitch hitting the worst player off the bench for what would have been the best player off the bench. Even I could tell you Garver was going to struck out.

[@mkwsoxfan]

Hey hey hey.. the white sox beat the twins in a game 163 "one game playoff" in '08. Give us whitesox fans some credit (we're beyond rock bottom at this present moment)

[@pjny21]

.....and ARod owns the Timberwolves now lmao

[@zbou23]

MN sports fandom is unending pain and unrelenting disappointment across every sport. people have no idea. Fun fact: Since 1992 (year I was born lol) EVERY other "4 sport market", of which there are 13 including MN, has not only been to, but has won at least 1 championship across football, baseball, basketball, or hockey. Minnesota has not MADE AN APPEARANCE In a championship, in any sport. Its difficult to articulate how sad this really is. Millions of Minnesotans have been born, lived, had dreams and families., and died without ever having even had a chance to root for their home team.

[@andrewsells3420]

THE POWER PROS MUSIC GAVE ME SO MUCH NOSTALGIA

[@JayZues556]

As a Yankee fan I’m rooting for Minnesota to do something

[@jessecardenas8408]

Their last playoff win was 2 months before I was born... I am now a freshman in college

[@arcadeshift5071]

You just made half the commenters here feel very old :( Hoping you see some Twins playoff wins before you turn 40 -- that's how old you'd be if you experienced the same playoff drought that (now 40 year old) fans have experienced when they were college freshman in 2004.

[@isaacmcquown]

IT IS OVER

[@robwebster1098]

As urinating tree would say T_ins

[@shoukatsukai]

* T_s

[@assrammington7961]

TLins

[@UHOH_415]

The Yankees have brought nothing nothing but pain to every human that lives in the city of Minneapolis. Edit: Oops. Looks like I done goofed. I called Minnesota a city when it’s the entire state. 🤣

[@readrothbard153]

Especially when they find out Minnesota is a city 😏🤣

[@UHOH_415]

@@readrothbard153 I just noticed that, and changed it.

[@readrothbard153]

@@UHOH_415 your overall point is spot on though... i hate the yankees for the pain they've wrought!

[@yofuman]

As an avid watcher of both this channel and Hivemind, I loved the use of the graydon/dignan clip

[@shrayjain3119]

I remember listening to the last win on the school bus coming home with a pocket radio. I am 33 now.

[@TheBoardandThebord]

Mlb powers pros was a goated game with a goated soundtrack. I wish the franchise would start doing american releases again 😢

[@cobrallama6236]

As a lifelong Mariners fan, I thought Little Big League had a happy ending. 😂

[@sway_onthetrail]

I seriously can noit believe the 2019 Twins team didn't do more. That team was legitimately stacked.

[@Zoyx]

They needed to pick up another starter. Having an Uber driver pitch game 2 is a bad sign.

[@joshuapatrick682]

24:57 we get it we get it…Minnesota sucks, the sports franchise, the state…the whole lot of it.

[@nickgilstad9276]

I envy all the other Twins fans who have faith in this team this postseason. I'm completely convinced we're gonna get swept again and make that losing streak 20 games in a row.

[@SheLuvMaddox]

you should make a video about Joe Nathan when you said he was the most underrated reliever at that time i couldn’t agree more

[@oceanthresher6184]

In 2003, the year before the streak started, the Twins also got eliminated by the Yankees in the ALDS 3-1.

[@smnbrgss]

Ironically enough A-Rod owns the Wolves & Lynx

[@llllllll153]

It was all meant to be 🤣

[@davidjenum]

i have been waiting for a video about the twins but this is maybe the saddest possible video for me to watch

[@Venom3254]

19:20 Is that Transformers Cybertron music that is playing?

[@joshweinstock1631]

as a twins fan this video is assault

[@smnbrgss]

We sure do love to wallow in our misery