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Same here, although I first checked to see if Mike Hampton had ever won a Cy Young.

Seriously? Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara leading the show-Levy’s kid was a breakout star-won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Reruns on Comedy Central, I believe. 😉

I panicked when I saw the Canada category--I was able to recall Koskie (placed him the same spot as you), but totally forgot about Morneau. Jesse Crain would have worked too. Nice pull with Al Williams--I remember on the back of one of his baseball cards, it mentioned he fought with the...

Apologies for the prior jumbled post, I have to go back to Gopher Hole school to brush up on how to embed posts from Twitter.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Blake Cashman (<a href="https://twitter.com/blockayyy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@blockayyy</a>) on coming home to play for the Minnesota Vikings. <a...

I wish, friend. Parenting toddler twins in your late 40’s/early 50’s requires respite whenever you can get it and 15 minutes was barely enough to catch my breath much less consider any extracurricular activities 😉

I was just looking at the standings and the Twins have owned the AL West this season: 17-5 at this juncture in the season.

I too was drawn into the Eras tour on Disney+, due to my boys enjoying the spectacle of live music-they’re 6 years old, so not qualified as Swifties just yet. I also found the show to be—fine. She’s talented, puts on a solid show, but didn’t cause me to be awestruck. Found the banter to be...

I just haven’t been able to get Smith to stick in my head, but I did see a name that I will be able to use for the future—Dick Such played exclusively for the Rangers.

My fascination (obsession?) with the Rangers franchise continued today—when I came to the “only one franchise” square, I couldn’t think of any current Rangers and all the former Rangers were notable for their peripatetic ways-until Rusty Greer popped into my mind. I figured this would garner a...

You know, upon further reflection and with the viewing of a Barney Miller episode recently, I would say Wise was more of a doppelgänger for that show’s Arthur Dietrich:

Following up on my teaser from earlier today, the most fascinating player today occupied the Guardians/Red Sox square. Here are a few fascinating tidbits from his career: * A strong candidate for having the best day ever on a baseball field, hurling a no-hitter and smacking two home runs on June...

As I’m quite sure no one else has these Twins on their line, here are my three selections: Twins/Guardians: Roric Harrison Twins/Mets: John Pacella Twins-pitcher: Tom Klawitter (my dusty memory recalls a strong spring training for “The Klaw” that gave way to 7 MLB appearances (2 starts!) and a...

I’m in an extended stay at my in-laws and spent last night mining the rosters of the Twins squads from their inception through about 2000. I was especially fascinated by those names of mystery-players from an era when I was earnestly collecting baseball cards and following the Twins religiously...

My totally rational and non-hyperbolic brain has me expecting a Tyrese Maxey career arc matched next to Ant for an All-NBA backcourt through the rest of the 2020’s with multiple NBA championships in tow.

That Astros number checks out in my mind—whenever they’ve popped up for the Twins I’ve always struggled to come up with new names (when possible I try not to recycle). I’d say my favorite teams that pop up for the Twins are the Rangers (natch), Angels, Blue Jays, and Yankees. Some really fun...

Checks out with my developing theory that since the Rangers came into existence in Arlington every baseball player has a connection to that franchise. Remember “6 degrees of Kevin Bacon” in the nascent days of the internet? You could play a similar game with the Rangers, but I think you’d only...

Apologies for the diversion here to Ope, but seeing forgotten Bill Krueger (forgotten for me, at least) pop up made my 👀 pop for Immaculate Grid purposes.

Ope, I would do this myself if I had the knowledge on how to do so, but which franchise do the Twins have the most shared players with? And if possible to break it down even further, since ‘65?

Twins on the grid today, went with: Twins/TB: Rortvedt, catching this past week (1%) Twins/Royals: two days in a row for Steve Braun (.7%) 40+ WAR: Graig Nettles (.2%) Also was able to tap two former Twins in the 40+ WAR in Jerry Koosman and Kirby (a long overdue thank you to Ope for reminding...