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All-Time Metrodome Records

During the MLB.com recap of the Twins' win over the Indians on 16 Sept., the sportscaster mentioned Cleveland's overall record in the Dome. Curious, I sauntered over to the always amazing BR.com and found the all-time records for every visitor in the Metrodome. I re-worked the table so that the [...]

Take This For What You Will

Last night, _elm_n hit his 7th homerun of the season, and his 5th of the month of August.  For starters, here is the game in which each home run was hit [number of games since previous games in brackets]

Game 4: April 12
Game 46: June 20
ame 51: July 3
Game 67 Auggust 9
Game 68 Augus [...]

Big League Stew on _elm_n

Big League Stew takes a look at the continuing troubles of our end of the Garza/Bartlett trade.  You know things are bad when this doesn't necessarily sound like a bad idea:

Best of all would be if they could find a way to DL him, because then he could effectively return to the minors on [...]

Omar Vizquel to Cooperstown?

This article at Bugs and Cranks says "Yes".  Thoughts?

JoePoz love for Baby Jeebus

In his latest blog entry, everyone's favorite baseball writer doles out some love for everyone's favorite catcher.

2009 Game 21: Tampa Bay @ Minnesota

Today's Game

Minnesota Twins: 9-11, 2nd game in current homestand (0-1)
Tampa Bay: 8-12, 8th game on current road trip (3-4)
Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
First pitch: 7:10 PM CT

Probable Pitchers

Francisco Liriano: 0-4, 7.06 ERA, 5.45 xFIP
James Shields: 2-2, 3.67 ERA, 4.76 xFIP

Liriano's last game

Last time Liriano pitched was the night game of a day-night doubleheader in Boston, necessitated [...]

RIP Harry Kalas

Phillies broadcaster and voice of NFL Films Harry Kalas passed away today at the age of 73.

Bert on Schilling, Morris: Not Til I’m Enshrined

[Via MLB Fanhouse]

Better Know A Citizen – Spookymilk

Name: Kelly
SBG Monkier: Spookymilk
Hometown: Blue Earth, Minnesota
Town I Currently Live In: Yakima, Washington. It’s on the less exciting side of the state.
Profession: Professional actor and screenwriter. I have an IMDb page as of a few months ago, but it’s pretty lean at the moment. There’s a lot coming [...]

HR Porch Ticket Prices Tied to DOW

For Monday games*, the Twins will sell HR Porch tickets at the same price as the DOW. For example, if the DOW closes Friday between 7,000-7,999, then tickets will be $7.

*Home Opener and Memorial Day excepted

Better Know A Citizen – DK

Name: DK
Hometown: Owatonna, Minnesota
Town I Currently Live In: Minneapolis
Profession: Law student
Bats: Left
Throws: Right
Positions: First Base/Right Field
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: I won the "gold glove" award on my junior high youth association baseball team, the last season I played organized baseball. I couldn't cut it any [...]

File Under: “I’m not a doctor, but that sounds like a bad idea”

Royals' Guillen out after removing ingrown nail himself

FanHouse’s Pre-season Rankings

The Twins are in at #14:

If there's one organization to respect in all of sports for building a winner under any economic conditions, it's the Twins. Despite losing nearly every single big-name player since Kirby Puckett, this team just wins. Justin Morneau and Joe Mauer are back as is Francisco Liriano. Your "Where the [...]

Griffey to Mariners Finally

Straight from the horses mouth:

Griffey accepted the Mariners' one-year contract offer, which includes a $2 million base salary and up to $2.5 million in incentives -- based on at-bats and attendance. His return to Safeco Field is expected to lure at least 20

My favorite part of the article: "The 39-year-old Griffey is expected to [...]

Touche

Remember last Wednesday when brianS posted about the AP suing over the use of one of their photos in the creation of the Obama poster? Well, the artist is pre-emptively suing the AP. It's the old "You can't sue me, I'm suing you!" defense.