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That Phillies logo was used by the club from 1950-69 and I happen to think it's pretty cool. I'm not sure what the circle is supposed to represent -- the ball is in orbit? -- but I love the hat there. I am not enamored of the Colorado logos and I [...]

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I remember the first time I ever saw Wrigley field with my own eyes. My brother, a friend of ours, Beaner, and I went on a six stadium tour back in 1990 that took us to Kansas City, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Chicago, and Minneapolis. We had a fantastic time on that [...]

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics. -- Natalie Merchant
I have enjoyed the playoffs so far this season, even though all four series are sitting 2-0. It's been fun to watch meaningful baseball games. Twins fans were not treated to meaningful baseball [...]

What in the world will we do without a Vikings game this weekend? Answer? Pretty much what we've been doing the last four weeks.

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It'd be nice to see an Angel win here.

 One heck of an AB by Grady...

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I sure enjoyed that game last night. It looked like the Yankees were going to get it going in the top of the fifth with Captain Cheeseburger struggling, but Sabathia held on -- even though he ended the fifth inning with 115 pitches. The Indians then jumped on the Bombers in [...]

Joe Christensen is reporting that the Twins have dropped Lew Ford, Josh Rabe, and Tommy Watkins.
I think the Twins underrate Ford to a certain degree these days, as it seems to me that he could've helped the team out down the stretch in a platoon role with Tyner. Still, he's not a necessary component [...]

live 1968

Let's go, Yankees! Right, LeBron?

But there's some big time news on the Twins front.
The Twins have lost a key member of their organization from the past few years. While playing for the Twins over the past three years, this player hit a combined .243/.311/.339. This player is Luis Rodriguez, super utility man! Surprisingly, there has been nothing reported on [...]

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We'll see if Lou's decision to go to the bullpen early last night becomes another piece of the Cubs' Woe Is Us lore. I wouldn't have made the switch, but the game was tied and the Cubs never scored again, so it's hard to pin the loss on Sweet Lou. Then [...]

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The fan bases of both these teams are thirsting for a title, as each team has been denied a World Championship for a very long time. The Cleveland Indians won the American League Pennant twice in the 1990s, but lost in the World Series to Atlanta (their only WS Championship in all [...]

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This series gets the early slot two days in a row, earning the "No Respect Series" tag for this year's Division Series round. That's too bad, because these teams should be promoted by MLB precisely because they were such a surprise. But, of course, the other three series have the Yankees, [...]

Name: SoCalTwinsfan
Hometown: Born - Salt Lake City; Raised - All over. If I must pick, I'll go with Nampa, Idaho
Town I Currently Live In: San Bernardino, Cali
Profession: Sports Page Designer. Mainly, I design the national sports pages (Baseball and NBA/NHL) and the agate page (Scoreboard) for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, which has [...]

NBB strikes again.

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I've seen games in each of the home ball parks -- three in Arizona and about 10 or so at Wrigley. Of course, Wrigley is a fantastic venue, but I really liked the Arizona stadium, too. If you are going to play in the desert, you need a roof. The [...]

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This is Will Young's series, pitting his two all-time favorite franchises (NOT). The Angels are banged up and the Red Sox didn't play particularly well in the second half of the season. I think the BoSox will win the series, but I'll root for the Angels, if I have to choose [...]

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Who saw this coming? Wow. How exciting for two teams that were out of the playoff picture a month ago and haven't been in the playoffs for over a decade (Phillies last appearance was 1993, Colorado's only appearance was 1995). This is a feel good series and it would be [...]

I'll be running post season game threads for each series -- if you want to come by and talk about what's going on, enjoy. We'll start today with the Phillies/Rockies game, followed by the LAA/BOS tilt and tonight's Cubs/D-Backs game.
I'm not much on prognostication of the post season and given the crapshoot that the [...]

If you are looking to show everyone what you know, head on over to SethSpeaks and enter his Post Season contest! You have until the start of the first game to get in.

Drink up, the playoffs are starting.

some fiddlin'.

Equally cool is this bit (embedding disabled, sadly) with the Saline Fiddlers (a high school group) playing "Olympic Reel"

Continuing with the theme from yesterday, I present the updated list of Top 50 Minnesota Twins pitchers seasons by VORP, including updates from 2006 and 2007. This time, however, there really are updates from both seasons. After the jump, you have the list.

Name: Erik Dikken
SBG Moniker: kg2005
Hometown: Renville, MN
Town I Currently Live In: Brookings, SD
Profession: Computer Science student, Software Quality Assurance student at Daktronics, Inc
Bats: With a 9-iron
Throws: Picture Johnny Damon
Positions: 2B, CF
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: Last year in softball I had a .700 OBP. Nevermind my OPS [...]

Give it up for brianS, who carried a thrilling game thread last night.

Emergency intervention here. Jake Peavy (19-6, 2.36 ERA, .203 BAA, 234:64 K:BB) vs Josh Fogg (10-9, 4.79 ERA, .289 BAA, 89:57 K:BB).
In the interests of finding a Safeco-like comment about Fogg, he went 6 2/3 shutout innings his last start, Sept. 26 at the Dodgers.

I love making player comparisons:
Player A: .271/.324/.469/.793
Player B: .273/.335/.450/.785
Player A is Torii Hunter, career. For all of his ups and downs and inconsistencies (especially prior to his 2007 campaign), Hunter has been a pretty good hitter, especially for someone playing a premium defensive position. The American League average hitter was at [...]

At about the 1/3 point of the 2006 season I posted an article identifying (and commenting on) the top 50 offensive seasons in Twins history as measured by VORP. For those of you that don't know, VORP is a Baseball Prospectus statistic that measures "the number of runs contributed beyond what a replacement-level player [...]

No more games for six months. That's probably okay.

Live in Olympic, France, 1965.