Category: Baseball
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Twins Notes
Here are two players\’ career stats (batting average, on base percentage, slugging percentage): Player A: .280/.329/.455 Player B: .256/.303/.446 Player A is long-time Wade A favorite Jacque Jones. Player B is Craig Monroe. The Twins just traded for him, which leads me to wonder why they\’d trade for a right handed Jacque Jones. Although I\’m…
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predictions segment
ahoy. it’s october, the best time of the year for baseball. sara is still trying to understand my vivid interest in baseball games when neither team involved is wearing a Twins jersey. it’s hard to explain. but every year i get riveted watching games between teams that i rarely / never watched during the regular…
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souhan sucks again
i believe the masses have agreed that jim souhan is utterly devoid of wit and talent. that\’s certainly our opinion, anyway. today? more dreck. this is how he ends his piece on jim leyland and ron gardenhire: Earlier Tuesday, cigarette in hand, Leyland offered this prediction: \”There\’s no doubt in my mind that at some…
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getting swept in the ALDS must be ok
with visions of adam dunn and mark teixeira dancing around in my head… from a sid interview with uber GM terry ryan yesterday: \”We can do it with the present club as long as we\’re all clicking together. It\’s just like last year. Everybody kept saying we had to do something [a trade]. Well, we…
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sayonara, sweetcheeks? and maybe good riddance.
sparklegirl and i have been e-lamenting lately over the likely loss of torii hunter this offseason. wondering if he, like kirby and hrbek, might consider giving the team the life-long twin discount. wondering if the prospect of playing home games on grass in 2010 would be enough to entice him to stay. wondering if other…
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Ahoy, Matey! Where be the dr- aaaaaugh!
This link should tell you everything you ever wanted to know about why the Pittsburgh Pirates are a cursed franchise. The upcoming baseball draft will be the first one ever to be televised, and the Pirates have chosen the following folks to be the face of their franchise: Steve Blass. Trevor Gooby. Whoa. Steve Blass?!…
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tried…. can\’t….
please let it be noted that i tried to hold my tongue on this one. i really did. i\’m working on not getting moved to anger by idiots– it\’s necessary when one commutes 70 minutes each day– but sometimes i just need to respond. this is one of those times. dr. todd boyd is a…
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well, that answers that
dateline st. louis, MO: St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Josh Hancock was drunk and talking on his cell phone at the time of his fatal accident, and marijuana was found in the sport utility vehicle he was driving. huh. apparently no word yet on whether the car contained a jug of trans fats, a pamphlet on…
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It ain\’t right…
Yet another one of those things that I\’d like to un-see. I\’d advise you to avoid this if you can, but if you watch ESPN at all, good luck. What follows is a highly disturbing commercial for ESPN\’s fantasy baseball service. If I can someday pay for the selective memory removal of Kruk pulling off…
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Thrifty No More
The Star Tribune website tell me: \”American League MVP Justin Morneau agreed to a $4.5 million, one-year contract today with the Twins\” This isn\’t shocking, but the next bit was, \”(Light hitting, but decent defensive, 3rd baseman Nick) Punto agreed to a $4.2 million, two-year contract.\” Whhhhhaaaaaaa?????! If it wasn\’t past 3:30 on a Friday…