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7:00 It’s opening day for the Minnesota Twins, and I’m coming to you live from my bedroom with a bag of pretzels (I’m waiting for Melissa to come home for dinner), a glass of lemonade (we’re out of soda), and the coolest cat in the world, The Cheat ( Read more... )

It's funny. When I was a boy, just learning about baseball for the first time, I had no idea what Kirby Puckett looked like. I had heard his name dozens of times, but had never connected the name to the man. As my parents and I drove to the Metrodome in 1986, I remember thinking that Kirby Puckett was a white guy who played right field, and that ( Read more... )

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Have you noticed, Bill, that when we say that we're going to do something in this journal, we immediately go out and do the exact opposite? I find that odd. Thanks for writing so much, Mike and Bill. Thanks for breaking my cow lampBut I've had incredibly little to write about for the past two weeks. I'm working hard. The Twins aren't really ( Read more... )

Well said, Michael, well said. I, too, seem to write better when I'm writing more, which is why this offering and all others in the foreseeable future will unapologetically suck. Also, my 'm' key is dying, and only responds about half the time, which explains many errors of the recent past and future. Deal with it ( Read more... )

With the Hot Stove season just about wrapped up and the Super Bowl less than two weeks away, we're entering my least favorite time of the year, the Winter Doldrumms. Between now (well, the first week of February really) and the end of February, there is literally nothing to get excited about in the world of sports. Oh, sure, the NBA is playing, ( Read more... )

I think (hope) that most of the baseball loving public knows what a moron Buster Olney is. Not that he's not a smart person, I guess, but just that his analysis on ESPN.com is generally wrong-headed and uninformative. His daily blog at The Worldwide Leader generally reports non-stories like "[Giants' pitching coach] Dave Righetti likes the look ( Read more... )

Serious entries are seriously overrated. I'm just glad we're both back to writing something.

Your point is an interesting one, especially given our shared unhappiness with the election of Bruce Sutter to the Hall of Fame. Of course, saying that we can make an argument for Tekulve is different from saying we can make a good argument for him, ( Read more... )

Well said, and I more or less agree with you. But I still can't make myself care about them or the thousands of lunatics who follow them enough to seriously discuss it any more than I have in these two sentences ( Read more... )