Over the course of the next month or so, I intend to analyze the 2004 Twins players one by one. I don't know if I'll analyze every single player, but certainly I'll try to analyze all of the significant contributors to the team.
In the course of my analysis of position players, I will look at [...]

Yesterday, I was sworn in as an attorney in the State of Minnesota. It was, simply put, a great day in my life. Lucy and my mother were there and the ceremony was very nice. It is an official session of the Minnesota Supreme Court and all of the justices are there (one actually was [...]

I can't believe that Curt Schilling would say something like this (even if it's true):
Curt Schilling says what he thinks, and what he said to sports talk radio listeners in Boston on Wednesday afternoon is that the Red Sox would not have been in the World Series if Alex Rodriguez was on the team.
"The biggest [...]

Note the hands.

Update: I happen to think that this is a visually stunning picture. Look at the bat, how it stands out. Look at the shadows and the focus on Aaron.

It's hard to feel bad when a team's fans have lived and died with a team like this one and they finally win the series. Now, however, the Red Sox are just another team, albeit the defending World Champions. How will baseball react to the death of one of its all-time story lines? [...]

I read this nugget in Jayson Stark's column at ESPN.COM today.
One more example of how tough it is to commit eight errors in two games and still win them: In the last 25 years, only three teams even committed eight errors in the whole World Series and won the Series -- the 1997 Marlins, 1982 [...]

Below are my contest entries. As I said before, because I am late, I have disqualified myself. My answers are merely for entertainment purposes only.

Player
Pts
Comments

J. Morneau

25

No way he's not on the team unless he's injured. And I don't think he'll be injured.

T. Hunter

24

Hunter had early season hammy and with [...]

Boston Red Sox -- 2004 World Champions
Unless the Red Sox collapse like the New York Yankees before them, Boston will win its first World Series Championship since the end of World War I. In 1918, my Grandfathers were young boys and one of my grandmothers wasn't even born yet. I never thought I'd [...]

The Stick and Ball Guy has been away for a while. I'm going to try to get a post in later this evening, but right now, I don't have a lot of time to post.
Item #1: Randy Moss "Plays" Against Tennessee
I don't care if he kept his streak of consecutive games alive at the [...]

The St. Louis Cardinals won the NLCS in dramatic fashion -- with a come-from-behind win against one of the favorites for the NL Cy Young and sure-fire first ballot HOFer Roger Clemens. Stick and Ball Guy feels that Houston made a huge mistake by holding Clemens until game 7 and now the Cardinals -- the [...]

Just like yesterday, the sun came up. It's cool and slightly drizzly in Minneapolis. A typical October morning. The sky was cloudy, but not threatening. The light rail train was on time. I could see no evidence of any natural disasters.
Questions for the day. Discuss amongst yourselves.
Has anyone else [...]

Item #1: Boston 4, New York 2
Okay, it's a series, it's a rivalry. S&BG has to admit that this thing is very interesting. I've gotten pretty sick of Yankees/Red Sox over the years, and I don't need to see all 19 regular season games on national television at the expense of the rest of the [...]

Item #1: Boston Beats Yankees in 14 innings
How about David Ortiz? Who knew! I mean, he was a nice player for the Twins. He's become an animal for the BoSox. What an at bat in the 14th! Not only that, but he had two other RBI, including a crucial home run that started the Red [...]

I was with Lucy all weekend and was unable to follow any sports action, so my thoughts will be brief. I just wanted to comment on the following items.
Item #1: Twins Buy Out Cristian Guzman
Thank God. As you probably know, I thought that this was a no-brainer. I wish he were [...]

It's been a hectic week, to say the least. I'm going to be gone all weekend, and I worked pretty hard this week . I'm pretty tired, so I'm not going to write much.
I encourage you to enter the contest, the rules of which are below. Remember, there is no obligation to [...]

I was talking with Stan the Man the other day, and I mentioned that I wished that the Twins were a National League team -- that it was the Twins and not the Brewers that were located in the NL Central. Of course, Stan was all over that for a variety of reasons -- [...]

Here's the contest. I want you to predict what the Twins 25 man roster will look like on opening day. Here are the rules.
1. Choose 25 players that you think will be on the Twins opening day active roster (disabled list doesn't count), that is the roster that is established for the very first game [...]

Commander Clemens, all systems go! Roger that.

(I promise a more substantive post tomorrow.)

Stan the Man says: How about them Cards!

Last year, I went to game 3 of the ALDS against the Yankees with a group of people from work. Moss was there, so was Drew. We were hoping for a Twins win -- the series was tied 1-1 -- but with Roger Clemens on the mound, our expectations were not that high. So, when [...]

Lost opportunities. Squandered leads. Watch out golf courses, here come Our Favorite Nine.
hint of cold in air
is there frost on the pumpkin
put spikes in garage

Henk and I readied ourselves for a big night of watching baseball. We were really pumped up. The series was tied, and we felt that after some really close games that this would be the night. Henk came on over to my place and we watched the game.
Almost from the outset it wasn't good for [...]

Game 3 of the ALDS between the Twins and the Yankees shapes up to be a relatively big game for both teams. Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you know full well that the Twins and Yankees are tied 1-1 after the first two games. Yes, game 2 was a heartbreaker, but it [...]

Big Henk e-mailed me about last night's game. He correctly identified the real problem. It was the fact that J.C. Romero didn't start the twelfth inning. As Big Henk says, the reason he didn't start the twelfth is because he pitched like crap for a month straight. It was pretty hard to go to him [...]

Pre Game:
More of the same tonight. I'm gonna be logging in periodically to check the game and comment. No watching the game, though! Sigh!
The Twins got a great win last night. I would have liked to have seen it, but c'est la vie. What I liked about last night was that Our Guy Johan Santana [...]

6:28 PM
I've got too much to do to watch the game tonight. I've decided that I can take a break here and there to post a comment or two throughout the night. I'm very excited about the Twins, and as I posted below, I really think that they can win this series. You'll note that [...]

My, how things have changed. A year ago, the Yankees were the prohibitive favorites in their ALDS matchup against the Twins. To almost no one's surprise, the Bronx Bombers manhandled Our Favorite Nine on their way to their 39th American League Pennant. This year, at least a couple of prognosticators are actually picking the Twins [...]

My cousin Henk and I went to the Twins game on Saturday Morning. The game was tight, and it was a beautiful early October Saturday afternoon, perfect for [an outdoor] baseball game. At 2:33 PM, with twelve innings in the book and the score tied 5-5, the teams ran off the field and the game [...]

I wrote a couple of days ago that Anaheim would win the AL West and that Houston would win the NL Wild Card. I said that the Billy Beane bashing would begin as soon as Oakland was eliminated. I also took a shot at Buster Olney for his prediction that the Cubs had a clear [...]

I know the Twins lost 3 to the Yanks including Thursday's game, but I am still happy today.
Yesterday, the Minnesota Board of Legal Examiners published the results of the July 2004 bar examination. This was a day that I had been waiting for since I took the test. It was a long wait -- over [...]