Hi Lucy Fans!
This is SBG and I have preempted the Lucy Cat Blogging this week for a few shots of Maui.
Maui is an unbelievable place, with a lot of diversity. The island has mountains on the west and east sides with a large valley in the middle. The valley, no kidding looks a lot like [...]

I'm sitting on the couch watching the Twins game and I flip over to ESPN between innings. Of course, they are showing the Red Sox/Yankees game. Tonight's Yankee pitcher is new to the team. ESPN showed a replay of said pitcher walking off the mound after the previous inning and Captain October [...]

Last night, J.C. Romero came in with a runner on 3rd and nobody out. That runner did not score. Ol' J.C. has been hammered on recently, so I thought I'd send him a little kudos for last night's performance.

There are times when I think, why in the hell am I spending all of this time working on this website? I am a busy guy. I work long hours. I have a new wife. Hell, I've got cats that need attention. And yet, night after night, I spend an hour or so tapping away [...]

The Twins blew another fantastic outing by Carlos Silva tonight, losing 3-2 in 10 innings. Silva's line tonight? 8IP, 6H, 1R, 0ER, 0BB, 2K, 87 pitches, no decision. J.C. Romero was on the mound and gave up the hit that ended the game, but I'll draw the horns on Lew Ford. It was Ford that [...]

As I lay on my overstuffed pillows tonight in my toga, being fed grapes by my loving and grateful wife, Mrs. SBG, I arose and said to my beloved, "I think I'll go to my computer and write about tonight's 6-3 win by the Hometown Nine over the 'hated' Cleveland Indians."
My beloved wife was concerned. [...]

Hello, SBG fans, I'm back on the mainland. Mrs. SBG and I had a marvelous honeymoon and we are now back in Minnesota, prepared to give you the best we can in blogging.
I'm a little tired tonight, as I spent last night on an airplane back from Hawai'i. I got about 2 hours of sleep [...]

Zonker chatting up good looking woman just down from us while her husband is away.
Will have to stay between him and Mrs. SBG. Just kidding, Lucy!

The cabana boy looks like Zonker. Hee hee!

Welcome SBG fans to a special "blogger sucks" post from Ka'anapali beach in Maui. As you may know, I had intended to post pictures from our honeymoon trip. However, the blogger "feature" that supposedly was going to allow us to do this isn't working. And I'm not going to take the time [...]

If you've ever travelled across multiple time zones, you know that one of the biggest problems is adjusting to the local time. We got here to Maui last yesterday at 5:30 local time, which is 10:30 back home. Stayed up as late as we could. It is now 3:17 AM (8:17 at [...]

Had coffee with Butch and Mrs. Butch this morning. Told them that I had blogged about the cats. They laughed and Butch said, "That was your last post as a single man." Close, Dad, but not quite.

Hi everyone. It's SBG, and I'm blogging about cats on my wedding day. Actually, it's quite early and I can't sleep. Not because of nervousness or anything, but because I don't sleep well on Saturday mornings normally.
Last night we had our groom's dinner. Everything went well. Mrs. Butch cooked a [...]

Let's talk about the weather. It's almost axiomatic that this particular weekend has crappy weather every year. Of course, I am talking about Opening Fishing weekend. I have gone fishing many times on The Opener and suffered through some miserable weather.
I remember one year when Beaner, C-Dub, and I went to a lake by Park [...]

Tonight on my way home I wanted to take a picture of a baseball stadium. Unfortunately, all I could find was this.

The Twins sent down Scott Baker, making room for Juan Rincon to come off of his suspension. Baker pitched one inning during his cup of coffee with the Twins, allowing no runs and one hit. I wish that the Twins would have handed him the ball at least one more time.

The Twins have three against the Texas Rangers here in Minneapolis this weekend. Mays, Silva, and Radke are scheduled to start (at least according to ESPN). Texas is 18-17 and is throwing Ryan Drese (3-3, 5.44 ERA, 2.01 K/9, 0.67 K/BB, 1.50 WHIP) against Mays, Kenny Rogers (3-2, 1.79 ERA, 3.98 K/9 1.11 [...]

Good evening SBG fans, and welcome to an extended version of SHOUT OUT! Let the SHOUTIN' OUT begin!
A SHOUT OUT! to the Baseball Savant. He writes a general baseball website, even though he's a Reds fan. I had a nice, spirited e-mail exchange with him today. Keep up the good work! (Oh, and the Twins [...]

Santana starts and gives up 4 runs in 6 innings. Bullpen lets the Twins down. Twins lose 7-4. Commiserate here.

I have a question. Suppose the Twins were forced by league rules to release one of the following three players: Justin Morneau, Joe Mauer, or Torii Hunter. Which of these three players would you release? Please add comment below.

Closed circuit to Beaner -- I'll be on my honeymoon when tickets go on sale. If you are buying, consider getting me two.
Update: Talked to Beaner last night. Hopefully, he'll score me a couple of ducats.
I've seen the Stones seven times in four different cities. The best was when Beaner, C-Dub, Finkle, Putzer, and [...]

Just like the Twins tonight, I got pretty much nothing. I am tired and worn out. I did rerun the numbers after tonight's 3-0 loss to Baltimore. Wow, what a change one game can have on the contest!
Yesterday, SHN was in first place with 52 points and AAC had 51 points. After one more game, [...]

I suppose a person has to temper one's enthusiasm when one's team is beating up on the Devil Rays.
Nevertheless, I'm pretty excited about how the Twins are playing right now. It started on get-away day against Cleveland, when Brad Radke destroyed the Indians and the Twins knocked C.C. Sabathia around a little. Now, fresh off [...]

SBG -- I see that you mentioned Morneau last night. Well, he had four hits and a walk today.
He's now hitting .429/.448/.841/1.289 in 67 plate appearances. Not bad. I checked out your whipping boy, Doug Mientkiewicz. He's at .230/.339/.410/.749 after hitting a home run on Saturday night. Yeah, it's a [...]

I have posted the current standings through Sunday's games above and a table showing every entrant's relative position. I will post again at least once more before the wedding. Note that your leader from last week, yours truly, has plummeted in the standings to 17th. As the contest continues, I will post total standings on [...]

When Justin Morneau got hit in the head and went on the disabled list, I thought that he would struggle for awhile. In the Next Big SBG Contest, I predicted that Morneau would have 9 homeruns by the all-star break.
Tonight he came in as a defensive replacement(!) in the eighth inning. In the [...]

Hello everyone, my name is Lucy. I am SBG's fiancee. Most of you know that on Saturdays, SBG turns this website over to me so that I can talk about our cats, Jags and Theo. This is, however, the last time I will write this sentence on this website. I am SBG's fiancee. That's because [...]

UPDATE: I wanted to call your attention to the Greet Machine today. Your friend SBG is a guest blogger over there. Guess what I'm talking about at his site?!
Welcome SBG fans. It's time for Pepper! The Greatest Hits Edition or The Very Best of Pepper! I've scoured the past editions of [...]

Hello SBG fans. I received an e-mail from Dave St. Peter, president of the Minnesota Twins, requesting that I publish the following letter on my site. Friends, I am staunchly pro-stadium and I want to see this done. So, I print Mr. St. Peter's letter in its entirety:
Hi Twins Fans:
As many of you are already [...]

Well, well, well. Juan Rincon got suspended for 10 days, ostensibly for steroid use.
Over at the Fan Club, there is much rending of garments, wailing, and gnashing of teeth. It must be a false positive! He's so small! Not one of our Twins!
Yes, one of our Twins. And, SBG is not one bit surprised.
Now, I'm [...]