The word "deadline" always inspires a little bit of dread. This is when your project is due, your taxes need to be filed, when the thing your are stressed about needs to be completed. Part of the stress is that you need it completed by this particular date.
Trade deadlines are stress inducing for a different reason. If your team is contention, then the wait is on to see what help you might get. If you are a fan of a team that is out of contention, then you await with some level of apprehension, seeing which of your favorite teams players will be leaving town.
How do you make it worse? Draw things out longer. So far, Isaac Paredes, Zach Elfin, Randy Arozarena and many others have already been traded, and we, as Twins fans, are aligned with a team that, for better or worse, is exceedingly patient. They tend to make their moves within the last hour or so before the deadline, making us all sweat. Will they even DO anything?
Last year, as it turned out, they didn't, and we still didn't quite believe that until well after the deadline had past. We're at a point where everyone has access to reading a hundred opinions, and we just find ourselves just wanting action. Every ticking moment until the deadline, which will either bring only relief or disappointment.
I think the Twins are going to make a big move this year, running against the momentum of headlines. But I'm just going to be waiting with baited breath, hoping they don't botch another trade for a reliever.
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