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Stop Me When This Sounds Familiar
The Yankees are playing the Twins in a playoff series, so you know it must be like deja vu all over again: Minnesota took a lead. New York came back. The Twins had runners in scoring position but could...
View ArticleWhere the Hell is William H. Macy When You Need Him?
Watch this commercial and tell me you don’t see and hear Macy’s hopeless Jerry Lundegaard from Fargo chuckle and spout “Baaaabe, the blue ox!” Video after the jump. Now, “Where is pancakes house?”...
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Heart and Soul
Today’s baseball climate is a whirlwind of stat sheets and sabermetrics, a computer printout rather than a consideration of all that a player encompasses, such as leadership and versatility. In other...
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Just Call Me Umbrage Evanson
Minnesota's eyes bigger than their stomach? Because it surely fits of late. I take exception to just about everything happening on the major league landscape right about now. Look, this is the kind of...
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Rockies Choose Alternate Route
I love the smell of asphalt in the morning. It smells like victory. Today, GM Dan O’Dowd began speeding up the paving process for the Colorado Rockies, putting the ultimate utility guy (Michael “Plug...
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The Wisdom to Know the Difference
Kids are rotten. I’m not proud of this, but when we were young, my friends and I made fun of the “retarded” kids, as they were called back then. Not to their faces. That’s a special blend of evil, you...
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Twins By the Numbers: 0-9
Baseball is, was and ever shall be a numbers game. From batting average and on-base percentage to WAR and BABIP, the digits never cease, forever presenting themselves to be poured over generation after...
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Derby ’13: Who you got? (CONTEST — Win a free Whammy! tee)
I have the POWERRR! Has star players passing and all the “This time is counts” nonsense mixed in with “the captains” robbed a bit of sheen? Sure, but I still dig the derby. Who could complain about...
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Morales, Minnesota and Montreal
I once tweeted to Jonah Keri the idea of relocating the Tampa Bay Rays to Montreal and calling them the Expos, to which I got a response that, at the time, took me aback. He outright shot it down...
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Derby ’14: Who you got…?
It’s that time once again, Home Run Derby at the Midsummer Classic. As has been well documented (see below), I dig the Derby but haven’t gotten it right since Ryan Howard took it down in Pittsburgh....
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