Recent content by coolhandgopher

Whew, Bleed you weren’t kidding-this was a bad choice for me, trying to stave off the last remnants of jet lag—I’ve got work to do, but it’s as if someone just put the sleeping pill in my drink. From the looks on the players faces, they could have been at an insurance seminar.

On cue, Paddack’s first start with the Tigers produces the following line: 6 innings, 3 hits, 1 run, no walks, 5 strikeouts. 🙄

My Twins were: Astros-Jason Castro (2%) Athletics-Don Baylor (3%; a bit surprised it was that big of percentage) HOF’er-Early Wynn (.2%) How are you doing with your total number of players? I am currently at 1419, slowly chugging towards 1500. Btw, random obscure former Twin changing teams...

Are Gilbert Arenas and Malik Beasley cousins? Related somehow? If you asked me for a current and a retired NBA player who were in the news for all the wrong reasons, if these two weren’t my first choices, they’d be pretty high on the list. (I should note, Beasley might not be a current NBA...

Ehh…coming from a guy who was the centerpiece of one of the more regrettable trades in recent Twins history, who missed a year and a half due to Tommy John surgery and whose ERA hovered around 5.00 when he did pitch for the Twins, I am dubious about putting much stock in what he says. It’s like...

4-8 since the break, outscored 49-63 in that span. It appears the team has beat you to checking out. With Buxton out of the lineup and Bader and his defense likely to follow Duran out the door, there are few reasons to stay invested this season, although I imagine Abel will be moving right into...

If the Twins squeezed the Tigers to take Dobnak in the Paddock trade for his $1 million dollar salary, one can only imagine the meager return Correa would fetch; nonetheless clear the books of that salary!

I had my first colonscopy a couple of weeks ago and while the preparation the day before is no picnic (self induced diarrehea-good times!), the actual procedure is relatively quick and I was knocked out for it. It turns out I had three polyps, all small, removed easily and nothing to worry...

In the summer of '84, I was moving with my parents from central MN to southern MN, before the start of 7th grade. This involved many trips back and forth in pick-ups and for a townie kid to be moving out to farm country, my head wasn't in a very good space. On one of these trips, we were...

A bit of a football transgression. . . In 2020, Cowboys quarterback Andy Dalton threw a touchdown to Dalton Schultz, the first time in NFL history where a TD pass was thrown by a player whose last name matched the receiver's first name. The next season, Cowboys quarterback Cooper Rush threw a...

In 1966, Larry Jaster of the St. Louis Cardinals threw five shutouts, all against the Dodgers, earning himself the nickname, "Dodger Killer". He only pitched two other shutouts the rest of his career and was out of the game in 1972.

On August 17, 1957, Richie Ashburn struck a foul ball into the stands, breaking the nose of spectator Alice Roth. As Roth was being carried out of the stadium on a stretcher, Ashburn hit her with another foul ball, breaking a bone in her knee.

Gaylord Perry was such a poor hitter that in 1962 or '63, his manager Alvin Dark made the quip, "there'll be a man on the moon before Perry hits a home run." On July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 landed on the moon at 1:17 p.m. 34 minutes later, Perry launched his first career home run against the Dodgers.

I echo your appraisal of The Brutalist-I was reluctant to dive into such a long movie and I had heard some digs about its pacing, but I found the story incredibly compelling. Great acting all around and Brody definitely deserved the Oscar, but I dare say that Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones were...

I forgot to mention, I also watched Adventureland on the flight home and sorry to say, it didn’t clear the bar of TWWB for me. I liked it, but no one matched the charisma of Rockwell, the character that kept hitting Eisenberg’s character in the nuts was annoying as fck, and in relation to that...