I got home from work tonight about 11:00 PM. I'm tired and need some rest. So, no significant blogging tonight.
I've gotten a couple of entries in the contest. I encourage everyone to send in your picks. Also, when the season starts, I'll announce my new contest.
I got an e-mail today from [...]

I have a couple more bloggers who have sent in their picks. I'll update them and republish the list this weekend. If any readers want to take a stab at it, you are more than welcome. Send in your picks and I'll publish and give recognition to the best selections.
I am going [...]

Hello Twins Blogger Fans! Welcome to the First Annual Twins Blogger Prediction Contest! Your host here at SBG, that would be me, SBG, has asked all of his Twins blogger colleagues to participate in a prediction contest.
Here are the rules. Each blogger choses the 8 playoff teams, the pennant winners, the World Series Champ, the [...]

Lucy and I headed out on a trip to her parents' place on Saturday, shortly after the cat blogging extravaganza. I was anticipating getting back a little earlier than we did (actually a lot earlier). Well, anyways, we got back late, so no time to blog. Now, it is Monday morning and [...]

Welcome to cat blogging at Stick and Ball Guy's webpage. Normally, SBG writes about sports on this webpage but on Saturday's I take over. I'm Lucy. I'm SBG's fiancee. It's time to talk about cats.
This is my fifth week as a cat blogger. Previous entries are here, here, here, and here. Last week, I talked [...]

Well SBG fans, it's that time of the week again, time for Pepper! If you are new to this site, every Friday, SBG invites someone (usually a Twins blogger) to answer ten questions. The catch? You are supposed to limit your answer to 50 words. Easier said than done sometimes.
This week we have the "Twins [...]

The waiting is the hardest part
Every day you see one more card
You take it on faith, you take it to the heart
The waiting is the hardest part
I want the season to begin! I was e-mailing with my fellow blogger Seth Stohs today and I expressed to him that I was tired of spring training and [...]

Another day off for the Stick and Ball Guy! What a slacker. Hopefully, I'll get something out tomorrow. In case you can't tell, I've had less time to do this blogging thing lately. More on that later. If you miss my sparkling wit and charm, leave me a comment to [...]

The title is a lie. It's not going to be Twins Tuesday.
I had written my column already and then I went to publish it and Blogger blew it away. Damn. Oh well.
Frankly, I'm tired of waiting for Opening Day. I'm not concerned about who the 25th guy on the bench is [...]

Hello SBG fans and welcome to another Monday Weekend Roundup. If you are like me, you can't wait for the beginning of the regular baseball season. Today, I watched the Twins beat the Tigers, and I saw some things I liked, and some things I didn't. First the things I liked.
Torii Hunter looked to be [...]

Yay! It's Saturday and time for cat blogging! During the week, this website is run by my fiance, Stick and Ball Guy. But, on the weekend, I take over. It's Lucy's Cat Blogging day.
If you are new to my cat blogging, here, here, and here are my other pictures and stories.
This weekend, I have some [...]

Hello SBG and Pepper! fans. Welcome to a special edition of Pepper! My guest this week is Mr. Cheer or Die (COD) from the Vikings Underground. The normal rules of the game have been thrown out the window this week. Instead, Cheer or Die answers my questions at this site and I answer COD's questions [...]

A funny thing happened on the way to tonight's column. I was going to write about basketball, what with the Wolves' big win in Dallas last night. Then, they got drubbed tonight and I really lost all motivation to write. So, tonight is a night off, except for SHOUT OUTS.
A SHOUT OUT [...]

Aloha, SBG fans. Welcome to media day here at Stick and Ball Guy, the Website.
This entry isn't so much about "the media." Well, it is a little. This weekend, SBG purchased a copy of the e-book The Hardball Times Bullpen Book 2002-2004. Tonight's entry is a review of the book, which is available at The [...]

Welcome, SBG fans, to another edition of Twins Tuesday. Today, SBG asks the question, What about Lew?
Last year, the Twins broke camp and came up North to face the Cleveland Indians to start the 2004 season. In the second game of the season, the unthinkable happened. Joe Mauer hurt his knee chasing a foul pop. [...]

Hello SBG fans. Welcome back to the sports portion of this website. For those of you that came by to see Lucy's cat blogging, thank you. She really enjoys cats and talking about them. It is a fun little diversion from the serious business of Twins speculation and conjecture normally found here.
Speaking of the Twins, [...]

Hi everyone and welcome to another week of my cat blogging. Normally, this is SBG's site and he writes about baseball or basketball or spices (Pepper!). But on Saturdays, this is my site, and I write about cats. My name is Lucy, and I am SBG's fiancee.
I just love cats. SBG has taken in two [...]

Welcome to another edition of Pepper! SBG welcomes Ryan Maus from Twins Chatter to this week's edition. Ryan is a sophomore at St. Olaf College. He's also a native of Northfield (where St. Olaf is located). Ryan's been around baseball a lot. His dad is the local varsity baseball coach and Ryan played throughout high [...]

It's wild card Thursday, SBG fans. For those of you who don't know, a while back I decided to provide some structure to my postings to make it a little easier. Monday is the Weekend Roundup, Tuesday is Twins talk, Wednesday is Media Watch, Thursday is Wild Card, Friday is Pepper! and Saturday is Lucy's [...]

Welcome, SBG fans. Tonight, I want to focus on team chemistry -- and it's actual value to a sports team, particularly to a baseball team. A lot of people believe that team chemistry is important -- that it is the close knit teams that win and the teams that aren't close that don't win. Or, [...]

SBG read today what he had been dreading. From the Star Tribune:
Twins catcher Joe Mauer was given Monday off because of some mild soreness and swelling in his left knee, the first problem he's had this spring.
The team was told by Mauer's doctors that this was a normal expectation in his recovery from surgery [...]

Well, the Twins have played five spring training games so far, going 2-3. Of course, the records don't mean a whole lot. What is encouraging is seeing pitchers go out and have nice outings, especially pitchers who are question marks. So, it was good to see Joe Mays pitch two scoreless innings. If Say [...]

Today, I stopped by to see how Lucy's cat blogging was going and I decided to install the FireFox browser that I've heard so much about (what are you waiting for??). Well, much to my chagrin, certain parts of my webpage do not show up the way that I thought they should, particularly in the [...]

Hi. This is Lucy. I hope you enjoy our second week of cat blogging.
SBG isn't much of a Christmas lover. Really, he's kind of a scrooge. I don't always understand that, but he just doesn't really care for Christmas all that much. But this year, he bought The Boys a big Christmas present. They had [...]

SBG doesn't know how he found it, but one day a few years back, he stumbled on the Twins Geek site. And he loved it. I could not believe how dedicated this guy was, writing about the Twins pretty much every day. It was fantastic stuff.
Since then, a lot of people, including [...]

SBG was sitting here, wondering what to write. Topics aren't all that easy to come by sometimes, and then sometimes a topic comes screaming out at you. Hear that yelling? That's tonight's topic.
I went over to ESPN.COM and saw an article on "brick layers." It is an "INSIDER" article, which means you can't read it [...]

Welcome to SBG's Wednesday Media Watch. As a preliminary matter, I want to say that last night I was completely devoid of ideas about the Twins. I think part of my lack of ideas revolves around the great coverage that we've seen. The local papers are providing good coverage and my fellow Twins bloggers are [...]