That's right, it's Twins Tuesday here at SBG. I'll be honest. I'm sitting here, wondering what I'm going to write about. After reading Dianna's account of spring training, I am very excited about the Twins, and am looking forward to games. Honestly, I've had just about enough waiting around. Pretty much everyone is analyzing the [...]

Hello SBG fans, and welcome. This entry is actually being posted quite early, well before my regular Sunday night feature. I'm just so darned excited about this post that I can hardly stand it.
SBG hopes that you enjoyed Lucy's contribution to the website this weekend. Lucy loves our cats and was quite excited to put [...]

Hi Cat Fans! This is Lucy! I am SBG's fiancee.
When I heard that SBG was going to start blogging on Saturday, I said NO! Not another day of stupid commentary on Sports! I hate sports! This is a stupid blog! I don't understand why he writes all this stuff! Who cares about the [...]

Yes, fans, it's the Friday installment of SBG! That can only mean two things. One, it's just ONE DAY from the new Saturday Feature. And Two, it's time for Pepper!
This week's edition has a new wrinkle. The first nine questions are predefined topics and a limit of 50 words. The last topic is [...]

Welcome to another edition of Wild Card Thursday, a day where SBG has no assigned topic and therefore usually rambles on about a number of incoherent topics. Let's look at what comes up.
Vikings Trade Randy Moss
Several news sources are reporting that the Vikings have agreed to trade Randy Moss for some linebacker, the seventh pick [...]

Happy Hump-day everyone!
If it's the middle of the week, it must be time for SBG's Media Watch. And Oh, Boy! are there topics to talk about. But, before we talk about Media Topics, let's get to the Quote of the Week.
He represents all the schools. Old school, new school, middle school. -- Julius Erving, discussing [...]

Hello SBG fans!
Today is Twins Tuesday, a day dedicated to Twins news. Normally this means running a player though the Analyzer, but in a break with tradition, SBG analyzed the Santana signing last week. And in another break with tradition, SBG will analyze the Twins bullpen as a group.
But, first things first. SBG has added [...]

Greetings, SBG fans.
Back from Chicago, SBG is ready for a more regular schedule. The patent law class was very good. The instructors were knowledgable, the class was well-organized, and the materials are very good. SBG was quite happy with the whole experience. By the end, he was practically unable to concentrate, but that was a [...]

SBG got home last night from his trip to Chicago. What a grueling week! By the end, all resistance was eliminated, and SBG was overwhelmed by the intricacies of the patent law. Yeow.
Warning: patent law related reference coming up. Do not read the following paragraph unless you either (a) are familiar with law in general [...]

Greetings Pepper! fans! Welcome to the best thing going at this website! That's right, it's time for another game of Pepper!
As you probably know, each week SBG invites someone to answer a series of 10 questions, with each answer limited to 50 words. SBG has been inviting his fellow Minnesota bloggers to play the game. [...]

Welcome to Wild Card Thursday at SBG, the website! As I have spelled out, tonight is a night in which I am free to talk about anything I want (as if that isn't the case any night!). I had a number of topics in my head earlier this week -- steroids being one [...]

SBG has some grand designs for his blog, well, design. Long-time readers know that this site has had a number of "looks", from a traditional "Blogger" style that it started out with to the current style, which attempts to approximate a sepia-tinged look. (Note that the pictures fade directly into the background. [...]

SBG was taking a break from his patent class today in Chicago and checked his voice mail. He had a message. He checked his message and found out it was Moss, telling him that the Twins had signed Our Guy Johan Santana to a 4-year, $40 million contract. Wow, this was big news! What a [...]

Greetings from the city with big shoulders! That toddling town!
Yes, SBG fans, the author of this blog is sitting in a hotel room in suburban Chicago. It is Sunday night, and after a long day of listening to people talk about patent law, he's pretty tired. SBG will be taking the patent bar at some [...]

In a somewhat shocking move, the Timberwolves fired Flip Saunders. Kevin McHale will now coach the team. SBG is surprised by this move, and then again he isn't.
Just this morning, the Strib had this to say about Flip:
But with Sloan around, in his 17th year with the Utah Jazz, and enduring his worst season yet, [...]

SBG doesn't normally (although it is not without precedent) post on the weekends. However, he is leaving town today, headed off to school. No, this isn't one of those best twelve years of his life episodes, he's going to Chicago for a class that will train him to pass the patent bar exam.
These types of [...]

Welcome SBG and Aarongleeman.com fans to another edition of Pepper! For those of you who aren't familar with Pepper! it is a regular Friday feature of SBG. SBG picks 10 topics and coerces someone to give 50 words on each (and SBG adds 50 words of his own). The last two weeks have been a [...]

SBG left work last night, rode the train to his station and got off. He was extremely tired and not feeling well. He was looking forward to lying under a big blanket. SBG has been suffering through the worst part of a very bad cold. As he walked to the parking lot, looking for his [...]

Welcome to the first installment of Wednesday Media Watch! With this weekly feature, SBG intends to watch various portions of the media and provide running commentary. SBG has already commented quite a bit on the media in this blog, but this is an attempt to isolate his rantings to a single post per week. With [...]

Good day, SBG fans! Welcome to another edition of Twins Analyzer! SBG has put most of the everyday players who played extensively for the Twins in 2004 through the Analyzer (with the exception of a certain middle infielder who has signed a stupid one-year deal with the Twins) and may pickup a couple of the [...]

SBG has been thinking about how to make his website better. And by better, he means, better content, easier to write and quicker to write. After thinking about it quite a bit, SBG has decided to provide a little more structure to his website. So here are SBG's plans, at least until the Twins season [...]

Welcome SBG and Seth Speaks fans! SBG is honored to welcome Seth Stohs of Seth Speaks to a game of Pepper!
SBG has never met Seth in person, but he's exchanged numerous e-mails and has read his site religiously for a long time. SBG loves Seth's page -- it's very well written, and Seth is obviously [...]

SBG is letting go. Last night sealed it. You hope and struggle and hope and face disappointment. You hope things will go well and they don't. You think that maybe things will get better and for a while they do. But then there is the disappointing realization that things aren't better, they won't get better, [...]

Welcome, SBG fans, it's the highly anticipated SBG 2004 Twins Analyzer! Today, SBG takes a look at the Twins starting right fielder and favorite SBG whipping boy, Jacque Jones!

STICK AND BALL GUY'S 2004 TWINS ANALYZER

Jacque Jones
5'10" 195 Lbs.
Age: 29 L/L RF

AVE: .254
OBP: .315
SLG: .427
GPA: .249

G: 151
AB: 555
HR: 24
RBI: 80

Offense
There's absolutely no question about it, [...]