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Bullpuzzle: Twins hitting in the late game

Over the course of the season, and heading into this weekend’s series against the Tigers, the Twins have had one of the best set of total lineup numbers against opposing relief pitching. Co...

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Like grains of sand

Week 1 – Lambeau Field, Green Bay, WI – September 8, 2008 Minnesota 19, Green Bay 24 Vikings 0-1, (0-1 NFC North) It’s the most visible position in football and undoubtedly t...

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Forbes to Vikings: You're Still Worthless

It should be a great time to be a Vikings fan. The team's season opener on the not so frozen tundra of Lambeau Field was far from disastrous. They lost, but didn't play dreadfully. The seas...

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Baseball Bunker: making the most of your MLB playoff push

Sometimes the Baseball Gods are smiling and sometimes, those smiles grace Minneapolis. The Twins were in danger of falling 4 games behind Chicago on Tuesday, however after a Chicago double-...

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A Home Opener to Forget

Week 2 – HHH Metrodome – September 14, 2008 Minnesota 15, Indianapolis 18 Vikings 0-2, (0-1 NFC North) The atmosphere outside the metrodome before the game was everything one would expec...

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Off Target: the misnaming of our new ballpark

On Monday, it was revealed that the name of the Twins new ballpark, set for play in 2010, will be “Target Field.” I can already see the tag-lines donning the outfield walls, “Hit it HERE Ju...

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Urban Assault Ride: bike for hours and then drink Fat Tire

Sharon Cutler is your normal PR lady. She hypes up her events and makes them sound like the most interesting and popular things going on. If you miss them you miss out on life. But the eve...

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The Jo-Jo Equation: Final Edition

Thursday's inspiring come from behind, late-inning victory over Tampa helped erase myriad unsettling vibes. Among them: Johan Santana's trademark second-half dominance . . . in a Mets jerse...

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And... exhale.

Week 1 – HHH Metrodome, Minneapolis – September 21, 2008 Minnesota 20, Carolina 10 Vikings 1-2, (0-1 NFC North) Let's hope the gray around the temples means he's "experienced....

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Let’s Get It On: Twins and White Sox

It’s not often in life that the objects of our desires, the prizes that we covet, are within tangible grasp. But for the 2008 Minnesota Twins -- a young, enigmatic ball club on the cusp of ...

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The Unlikely Story of Gus Frerotte

By Jonah Keri The Minnesota Vikings’ season hung in the balance. Another loss and the team would drop to 0-3, a deficit that few teams have overcome to claim a playoff berth. Rolling into t...

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Electric Broom: Twins sweep Sox

"I might take a sleeping pill tonight. And a glass of vodka. Twenty-seven innings and we only had one good one. We wasted 26 innings in this town." -Ozzie Guillen, Chi Sox manager, to E...

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Of Royals & Jesters

Wow. I don’t think my head has spun like this since I drank three-fourths a bottle of Blue Curacao in my sophomore year of college. Friday’s 8-1, hangover loss to the Royals was understand...

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Bring me the arm of Freddy Garcia

Chicago’s Sunday win over Cleveland, combined with the Twins’ steady 6-0 victory over Kansas City, set up a Monday afternoon (1:05 pm Central) White Sox/Tigers game that will determine if Mi...

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Code Duello: Twins and White Sox

Code Duello: covering the practice of dueling and points of honor, drafted and settled at Clonmel Summer Assizes, 1777 Rule 1. The first offense requires the first apology, though the retor...

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Danks, a lot

Last night was a good ballgame, well-played. That’s actually my favorite type of game: pitcher’s duel, cleanly fielded with no errors, and only one long ball. The blast, sadly, just didn’t...

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Twins' Endgame Player Rater

For those of you that haven’t seen the Orlando Cabrera vs. (former Twin) Grant Balfour at-bat in yesterday’s Tampa 6-4 victory, please click here. To preface, it made me again realize just ...

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2008 MLB Awards

Tampa took down the Chi Sox in short order, wrapping up their ALDS series in yesterday's 6-2 win. Perhaps you, like me, were somewhat disappointed at the outcome, subscribing to the axiom t...

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There Are Wolves After Me

If you’re like me, this fall’s been a little rough. The last two weeks of the Twins’ season affected me more deeply than anything so ultimately unimportant ever should. Oh, but don’t worry, ...

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No More Kings

So the Timberwolves' season got going last night and, as usual, I was unprepared for the surreal, multi-sensory assault that is live professional basketball. There were "dancers" in "sexy" H...

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