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...
View ArticleLike 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...
View ArticleForbes 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...
View ArticleBaseball 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-...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleOff 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...
View ArticleUrban 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleAnd... 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....
View ArticleLet’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 ...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleElectric 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...
View ArticleOf 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...
View ArticleBring 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...
View ArticleCode 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...
View ArticleDanks, 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...
View ArticleTwins' 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 ...
View Article2008 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...
View ArticleThere 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, ...
View ArticleNo 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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