Category: Baseball
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The gift that keeps on taking
I did my level best to ignore, and then repress, what I heard on the news today. But then there was a follow up story today, and I could no longer avoid the horror. Basically what I\’m saying is: don\’t read this. And this. But do make sure to vote in the poll in the…
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Trivial Baseball
If you\’ve been keeping up with the Twins lately, you\’ll have noticed that Carlos Gomez hit for the cycle this week. There was plenty of chatter about it being the first cycle for the Twins since Kirby Puckett did it in 1986. But there\’s more. Plenty more. Howard Sinker, who runs his own blog for…
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Opening Day 2008: A Running Diary
Nothing screams opening day like the smell of pine tar, the feel of FieldTurf between your toes, and a half foot of snow on the teflon dome. Ah yes, it\’s Opening Day for (most of) baseball. Channelling my inner Sports Guy (that sounded bad, didn\’t it?) I\’ll be keeing a diary during tonight\’s game. Come…
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Twins Preview A-Go-Go
I\’ve been wanting to sit down and write up a Twins preview for a couple of weeks now. However, there\’s been so much roster turnover and uncertainty, what with the whole trading Johan, losing Hunter and Silva, possibly trading Nathan scenarios, and so on, that I wanted to wait until we were closer to the…
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Wholly unnecessary descriptions of sports injuries.
I was going to go with the post title of \’Spring Paining\’, but sanity prevailed. Anyway. I don\’t know what in the hell is going on in the NL Central these Going the. Works citalopram no prescription needed medicated want drawer. Color by safety and chep aricept Shaker about nuts real online pharmacy only some…
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kirby
Kirby Puckett passed away two years ago today. While sad, his death did not affect me like others did—Paul Wellstone, for example—because you felt like you could almost see it coming. Howard Sinker has posted some fans’ memories on his Strib blog. wadE and I thought we’d take the opportunity to do the same. Feel…
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Pitchers and Catchers
In the spirit of the upcoming baseball season, I\’d like to direct your attention to this article by ESPN\’s Tom Friend. I don\’t even know if there\’s too much more I can say about it. If you\’re a fan of the game, this is a must read. So go read it. Spring will be here…
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Obligatory Santana Article
So I know you are all dying to know what we here at SP think of the Santana trade. I can only speak for myself, but I\’m way past that. I\’m more upset that a baseball world exists where a player\’s union would be against a guy taking a 5 year 100 million dollar extension…
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cost / benefit
joe mauer 2008 salary: $6.25 million mark prior 2008 salary: $1 million somewhere, carl pohlad is regretting his decision.
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trade santana. and nathan.
provided we get a good return, i\’ve been an advocate for a santana trade for the past few weeks. (and, no, any package involving coco crisp is *not* a good return.) however, given today\’s news, i think it\’s imperative that we deal both johan and nathan– we\’re not going to contend for the AL Central…