in case you haven’t read it yet, the twins have picked up torii hunter’s $12MM option for 2006.

this pains me, and yet i think it was the right move.  i had wanted to compare torii’s ’06 stats to the stats of this offseason’s crop of free agent centerfielders (because, face it, we weren’t going to hand the position over to lew or tyner.)  thankfully, people have already done that for me here.  (thanks, twinsgeek.)  despite torii’s seeming loss of range in center, despite the complete evaporation of his patience at the plate in the second half, and despite that game two misplay that still haunts my dreams, i feel better paying him $12MM than paying someone else on that list less money.  well, maybe juan pierre, but the twins need another no-power speedster like they need a hole in the head.  and pierre’s on-base percentage isn’t that much greater than torii.

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Welcome to the 6th Annual Austin Bar Crawl!

Sorry for the extended delay, but it’s been a painfully busy summer and early fall for all of us.  But better late than never!!!

If you are unfamiliar with the ABC please check out our previous misadventures from 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005. Ahhh Austin… it truly is a drunkards paradise.

We were back to the core group this year of Matty, Dan, Wade, Alex, wadE, and Jason. It just didn’t feel right without Dan last year. We were glad to have him back.

With all the key players in place for this year’s crawl we made a pact that since we are getting a bit older (and we thought wiser), we should maybe have a person take a bar off as we did the rounds. Try and cut back a little bit. Why we thought we could reign in our excess in Austin is beyond me. Fools, we were! But we all made it through, though some were in much better shape than others, but we’ll get to that. So join us as we recap the 6th Annual Austin Bar Crawl.

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