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Now that you mention Edwin Jackson, I think we both had a major oversight. . .Ron "Papa" Jackson--actually of course, where's Reggie? How did we miss him? Let's see what we can do with a Twins-only edition: C 1B Ron Jackson 2B SS Ron Washington 3B LF Craig Monroe CF Michael A. Taylor RF Dan...

Utility player-Homer Bush? Now that you have my mind rolling. . . CF Willie Wilson RF Trot Nixon LF Claudell Washington (played more right field, but was in LF quite a bit too) And a solid four man rotation with Johnson, Whitey Ford Mudcat Grant Reggie Cleveland And on the bathpaths, Willie...

The Twins are hearing good things about their bullpen sessions and believe there's some magic left in their arms:

Ahhh, she was my crush back in 11th grade--probably best that I didn't pursue her type to settle down with ;)

I found this on the airline menu for my recent trip and despite being exhausted, I was transfixed for the nearly 2 hours of this film. Your recommendation was spot on--it's the best recently released movie I've seen in quite awhile. So many moments in this movie, big and small, that were so...

Just got back from a trip on an airline that had a great movie lineup of classics, so I've got some thoughts on. . . In the Heat of the Night--I first watched this in high school and rewatching it so many years later, wow, has it held up wonderfully. Norman Jewison (the director) keeps the...

You must have been thinking Glenn Davis on the other side of the infield when you typed in Caminiti. Give yourself a mulligan ;)

MNF, right? It's our good fortune that these boneheaded plays always seem to find the bright lights.

Who did it first, Jackson or Leon Lett in the Super Bowl? Had to be Lett, right?

October was pretty rough for me--I was knocked out of perfection on October 5--a Saturday no less!--when I made the mistake of thinking Tony O. had 2000 hits +.300 average. Oliva finished his career with 1917 hits, alas. I also was struck hard by the expansion era teams during the...

Twins in the category spurred me onto a sub 10% grid score today (with a hefty memory bank of ‘80s baseball cards overall): Mariners: Terry Bulling, obscure backup catcher (.1%) Brewers: UW-Lacrosse alum Caleb Boushley (.09%) Under 3.00 ERA: Vic Albury (.04%) Both Bulling and Albury featured...

Donald Igwebuike, nice! I had forgotten about him and having my memory jogged for Iggy was very pleasant. I went Linval Joseph, Jeff Christy, and Todd Scott

My phone won’t allow me to post a screenshot, but I was able to go all Twins on the board today: Top Row: Nelson Cruz, Robbie Grossman, Junior Ortiz Middle Row: Ben Rortvedt, Glenn Borgmann, John Roseboro Bottom Row: Grant Balfour, Jesse Crain, Henry Blanco The most difficult cube was Ortiz—had...

Hey, I put Aldred to use just as you did Ope! Torii Hunter was my SS/300 cube, to the same tune of .2% as Gaetti. The other Twin connection I was able to employ was Nick Punto for a cool .2% (Dodgers/Phils) And one other adjacent Twins history--Dave Kingman for the Athletics 300+ HR's (the...

Hmm, Inglewood...you know he's up to no good.

Anytime I see MBIII's name, highlights, etc. it brings about melancholy--he may be my all time favorite Gopher, I just loved to watch him run and power into and over defenders and to surmise that style led to such a painful end to his life. So very sad. I still love watching the game and doing...

Ahh, the old laundry basket ruse--and here I thought us fellas over in Winona were the only ones clever enough to pull that off ;-)

I remember a time when we didn't write off a 21 year old 6 games into his NFL career. Consider Boye Mafe's rookie season versus year 2 and now into year 3. Look at Lukas Van Ness's rookie season stats versus where he's at in year 2. Who knows where Turner will end up, but I don't think the...

One function that I'd love to see IG add is the percentages not just for the top guy (Piazza, for the category we're talking about), but a drop down to see #2, #3, #4. . .#167. I'm often times curious about that.

Not much to say, except Ope's nugget from months ago that Mark Salas hit exactly .300 one season paid off for me today, as I used him for the played catcher/.300 average square to the sweet tune of .004%