Category: Baseball
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The Non-Hometown Discount
Interesting article from Will Leitch[1. Without whom Deadspin.com has gone way downhill, IMO.] today on how the Yankees\’ habit of luring superstars has actually turned into an advantage for the Yankees, because now other teams are being forced to pay NY prices for their top talent, when really only the Bronx Nine can afford to…
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Target Field: One Man’s Review
I was lucky enough to attend the very first regular season game at Target Field, as well as two other games during the week. I sat in 3 very different parts of the stadium and spent a lot of time walking around. While there have been a ton of posts on the internet regarding Target…
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The Albatross Has Landed
In case you haven\’t heard, Joe Mauer has signed an 8 year $184 million contract extension. This keeps Joe Mauer a Twin until 2018 (barring any opt-out clauses).
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Baseball Thoughts
A couple of quick-hit thoughts: Joe Mauer won the AL MVP award yesterday. The vote would have been unanimous except that a writer from Japan who represents Seattle (don\’t ask me to explain) voted for Miguel Cabrera instead. No matter. Mauer had a great year, and 20/20 hindsight is now making those writers who thought…
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The Death Of Baseball?
To paraphrase Mark Twain: the rumors of baseball’s death have been greatly exaggerated. The death of baseball is already right around the corner, and with the four 2009 LCS teams coming from the 10 list of team salaries I can understand why. But if you watched any of the games you would have seen that…
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Twins Apologists
Actually, I should actually open that title up and call it \”Minnesota Sports Franchise Apologists on Startribune.com\”. Anyway, the reason I bring this up is I was reading a recap of a Twins chat with Joe C in today\’s Strib, and he started getting a little snippy with some of the comments. I\’ve seen the…
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Minnesota Twins All-Metrodome Team
There are only 67 Minnesota Twins baseball games left to be played in the Metrodome… well, barring the post-season, which the Twins may have trouble reaching this year if their offense doesn’t pick it up a little… but I digress. As one of the many tributes to the Metrodome the Twins are doing this year…
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torre, spelling.
\”i love the yankees. they are better than \’cats.\’ i want to play for them again and again.\” if the yankees move forward as threatened, the above is about the only thing that players and managers will be able to say about the team if they ever write a book about their experiences in the…
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\”i cast a meteor swarm spell on your beguiler\”
if you count my college gig, i\’ve been in IT for almost fifteen years. when one is in IT for that long, there are a certain amount of assumptions that the general public makes about you: your stance on hygiene, on which floor of your mother\’s house you reside, if you\’ve ever seen certain parts…
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26 days
that\’s how many days until pitchers and catchers report to spring training. and not a moment too soon, really. as such, a few baseball-related nuggets for a historic tuesday. + according to LENIII, the twins appear close to signing reliever eric gagne. this would have been better news back in 2003, when gagne was in…