Tag Archives: Minnesota Twins

Dome Is Where the Heart Is

Sometimes even the indefensible needs a defender. At the dawn of the biggest series of either team’s season, Ira Brooker looks for the positives in baseball’s worst stadium.

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Bold Predictions: Sweep the Leg, Sans Johnny Edition

Three things to watch for during the final showdown between kind of good and mostly good: Brian Anderson shall lead the Twins to victory: Scoring runs is impossible in the Dome anyway, so the Sox will need all the defense they can muster this week. This will of course explain why Ken Griffey, Jr. and [...]

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Northbound

Is parity dead? Probably. Let us go savor the moment in all its unfair goodness.

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It’s Raining in ALC, Baby

Halfway through today’s Sox-Kittens doubleheader, the reports from each team’s last ten makes for an interesting symmetry: White Sox: 5-5 Twins: 5-5 Indians: 4-6 Tigers: 4-6 Kansas City: 5-5 League-wide rainouts and scheduling quirks aside, is anyone really going to win this division?

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Geddy Lee of the American League Central

What the Sox need is not sport, but art. . . of salesmen!

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Three-Outcome Weekend for a Three-Outcome Team

Well, so much for commiting any acts of authority. So the Twins beat the Angels, the Good Guys lost the home run derby to the Rays, and once again we’re talking about “must win” games in a division full of supposed losers. So where do things go from here? Same as they always do for [...]

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Here’s the Mutiny I Promised You

The AL Central race no one’s talking about (for good reason).

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Dimming the Light at the End of the Tunnel

Scheduling advantage? For who?

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Lousy Baseball

Nothing is beautiful and everything hurts.

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What THOSE Girls Say

Perhaps “all-consuming hatred” isn’t the correct term after all. Katie from Oh, It’s THOSE Girls extends an olive branch.

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Minnesota Nice and the Case of the Disappearing Sox Pride

He went looking for answers on the state of Midwestern baseball. What he found was a non-confrontational shaming amidst the wreckage of an early May disaster. Andrew Reilly reports from the worst baseball game of all time.

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We’re Talkin’ At Least 115 Wins Dis Year, Bob

Up is down, left is right and Kyle Lohse is going to have a season for the ages.

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When the Mets Win, We All Win

Now we are free.

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A Long November

This would be a disheartening winter if not for the fact that it’s still only fall.

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