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This is an incredibly interesting graph, not just from the perspective of the Twins lack of spending, but the vast disparity between those top two franchises and everyone else--if you add up the entire NL and AL Central franchises plus the Angels plus the Marlins--all those teams combined would...

What can I say? I was 9 years old and an AWA fanatic 🤷‍♂️

That may be true and I’m no Jeter-stan, but I think it’s undeniable that he’s a no doubt about it HOF’er.

How bout a little love for Ellis Valentine and Jesse Barfield too? One of baseball's great joys is the right fielder with a gun for an arm, as you've already stated.

To me, the most ironic aspect of all of this is the only player who has ever been unanimous in election is Mariano Rivera--a specialist. A specialist who threw roughly the same amount of innings in his career as Carlos Silva. A specialist whose particular craft the baseball cognoscenti had...

When it came to the Twins SS, I had a bevy of riches sitting in front of me-Jiminez, Ron Washington, Lenny Faedo, Chuck Baker, Alvaro Espinoza-all that mediocrity between the post-Smalley and pre-Gagne era of shortstop play with the Twins. The early '80s had some lean years of Twins fandom, but...

As usual, my baseball card collection of the '70s/80s was what delivered for me--I'm currently sitting at 10%, that Orioles/Royals square is the only one that kept it from one of my all-timers.

Twins-Wolves-Vikings trifecta on the grid today! Go hunt those low scores.

Trent Tucker was my first favorite Gopher; Willie Burton was the best player on the renaissance of the program following the Mitch Lee fallout. Two great Golden Gophers. If this article is about the 5 best Gophers (my achievements in college) to make it to the NBA, there's a good argument for...

I came across 1980's The Dogs of Wars on one of my streaming services the other day and saw that it was rolling off the service at the end of the month, so I gave it a watch-the descriptor said it was a mercenary movie based on a Frederic Forsyth novel (who also wrote The Day of the Jackal)...

He provided a great guest spot on one of the best songs from the '80s:

He also designed and wore this t-shirt:

I think you hit it on the head-I feel like anyone that was in the John Prine galaxy possesses that kind of ethos. Not that he was the progenitor of that movement (I read a book some time ago about the outlaw country origins and he was brought into the fold by the likes of Guy Clark and Jerry...

I had a rough day on the Grid—7 of 9, with the no-hitters getting me. When I wasn’t flaying about, I was putting Twins to get use-the first row, vertically (one team) had Puck, Hrbek, and Willie Norwood all sub 1%. I wonder if Olivia would have garnered a lower score than Cordova-I used him in...

They got special consideration for the loss of the Sonics—still seems so egregious that they were allowed to move out of Seattle (not unlike the North Stars 🫤)

They also lost their NBA franchise (Braves) to San Diego/LA (Clippers) when the owners of the Braves and Celtics swapped franchises, to allow the move to occur (the Celtics' owner wanted to move his franchise to California and there was no way that was happening with the Celts)...

Toss the 5th Dimension into the mix and I think my head would explode. I can never sort out what group sang what song when considering these three different groups.

Taking a more mature look at this, it was the 2006 Twins that brought home a valuable life lesson for me. Remember that squad? Didn't stay above .500 until June 22. On August 7, they were 10.5 games out of first place and in third place; when September arrived, they were 6 games back and...

The Inna Gadda Da Vida version: ...time to find a new pal, Al ...don't be a slob, Robb ...ready for a new piece of candy, Randy ...no need to eat crow, Joe ...time to dodge 'er, Roger ...find someone slim, Jim etc, etc, etc. What buried the full version was the inclusion of the "slim, Jim"...

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