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All-Time Metrodome Records

Andrew — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:21:51 +0000

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

Andrew — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:05:45 +0000

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 [...]

2009 Game 21: Tampa Bay @ Minnesota

Andrew — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:00:04 +0000

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 [...]

Better Know A Citizen – Spookymilk

Andrew — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:00:30 +0000

Name: Kelly SBG Monkier: Spookymilk Hometown: Blue Earth, Minnesota Town I Currently Live In: Yakima, Washington. Itâ€™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 itâ€™s pretty lean at the moment. Thereâ€™s a lot coming [...]

Better Know A Citizen – DK

Andrew — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:00:12 +0000

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 [...]

Better Know A Citizen – Gutzon

Andrew — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:00:08 +0000

Name: Ben SBG Moniker: Gutzon Hometown: Minneapolis, MN Town I Currently Live In: Minneapolis, MN Profession: Student teaching/semipro brass musician/barista Bats: Right Throws: Right Positions: In order of competence - 3B, 2B, C Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: Leading off and going 3 for 3 with two 2B, a walk, and four runs in my first Little League game. Career-wise, things went downhill [...]

SBG Field Trips: USA vs. Trinidad & Tobago World Cup Qualifier

Andrew — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:48:50 +0000

Last Wednesday, I met up with Will Young (no relation to Delmon) in Chicago to see the USA take on Trinidad & Tobago in a qualifier for the 2010 World Cup. Â The car I was in got to Toyota Park about 15 minutes after the parking lot opened. Â We were about the 10th car there. [...]

Game 141: Los Tigres @ Los Gemelos

Andrew — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:00:48 +0000

Results of the Roadtrip

At Angels: 2-2 At Mariners: 1-2 At A's: 2-2 At Blue Jays: 0-3 _________________ Total: 5-9, 0.321 WP

Before the road trip, SBG posted a poll asking how we felt the Twins would do. I, like most, chose that 7-8 wins would be alright. After a split with the team with the best record in the [...]

2008 Game 132: Minnesota Twins @ Seattle Mariners

Andrew — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:00:17 +0000

Following my esteemed Drake colleague Yickit's game log, I'll do what I can to give you the very best our fine university has to offer in half-baked analysis.

Eddie's Return to the Minnesota Bullpen

Eddie Guardado pitched a perfect 8th inning last night in his return to the Twins' bullpen. He got Ichiro to fly out to [...]

Better Know A Citizen – Yickit

Andrew — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:33:31 +0000

Andrew visits with Yickit, an expatriate of the great state of ND in our most recent edition of Better Know a [...]

Better Know A Citizen – ThisIsBeth

Andrew — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:52:38 +0000

Andrew catches up with thisisbeth to talk baseball in our latest installment of Better Know a [...]

Better Know A Citizen – cheaptoy

Andrew — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:06:15 +0000

Andrew chats with cheaptoy in the latest edition of Better Know a [...]

Better Know A Citizen – Nibbish

Andrew — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:49:13 +0000

Andrew profiles nibbish, who appears to have grown up closest to SBGville of all those profiled to [...]

Better Know A Citizen – FirstTimeLongTime

Andrew — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:00:01 +0000

Andrew visits with SBG Nation Citizen FirstTimeLongTime and gives us all a better look at our citizen from the [...]

Better Know A Citizen – meat

Andrew — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:40:43 +0000

We're back with a new installment of Better Know A Citizen. Today's profilee is one of our new Citizens - meat. For those other new guys out there (or you old timers who haven't done this yet) email sbg-bkac[at]hotmail[dot]com or andrew[at]stickandballguy[dot]com to get signed [...]

2nd Annual SBG Convention in Pictures

Andrew — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:28:34 +0000

Andrew provides a photo recap of the 2nd Annual SBG [...]

Comment Club – CarterHayes #1000

Andrew — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:00:33 +0000

The 2007 Postseason ("It's A Crapshoot!") has given us another comment to go up in the SBG HOF and Museum (and Gift Shop and CafÃ©Â and Planetarium). Everyone's favorite Russian Literature-studying Marine CarterHayes posted his 1000th comment after Game 4 of the World Series

Oooh,

Comment Club – davidwatts #1000

Andrew — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:33:43 +0000

Today's plaque is from a relative newcomer to the Nation.Â davidwatts hasn't necessarily been a Citizen as long as some of the other honorees, but for the time he has been here he's been quite prolific. InÂ just over 9 months, dwÂ posted is 1000thÂ quote with thisÂ comment duringÂ Game 2 of the NLDS between the Phillies [...]

Comment Club – Whiffers #1000

Andrew — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:50:16 +0000

Whiffers is the genius behind today's showcase comment. This comes from the game thread on August 10th, 2007, of what was a fairly diappointing game on the Twins' part from what I read. Game 115 of the 2007 campaign was not only a 10-1 loss to the Angels, but it was also the [...]

Comment Club – brianS #1000

Andrew — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:02:57 +0000

Next in our continuing celebration of the half-baked crap that floats around our small portion of the internet, we have brianS and his take on Tejada and Tyner from the August 22nd, 2006 Gamelog.

Note - I've tweaked the plaque slightly. I think the text matches the leaves [...]

Comment Club – SBG #1000

Andrew — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:39:17 +0000

SBG and I have been talking about creating a sort of SBG Hall of Fame. This is the first entry in what will very likely become a very extensive list - the Comment Club. Here, preserved for all eternity with my mad Photoshop skillz, will be everyone's 1000th comment, 2000th comment, 3000th comment, and so [...]

AFC East vs. AFC South

Andrew — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:31:55 +0000

Or: Andrew's Attempts to Rationalize the Colts' Chances Under the Guise of Analysis

As this year's NFL playoffs approach, I thought I might have a look at the AFC side of things, specifically the Patriots' division and the Colts' division. As the #1 team in the NFL and the #1 contender, one of these two [...]

Base Paths Statistics

Andrew — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:54:45 +0000

I've always found statistics lacking when it comes to describing what is happening on the base paths. Consider a single with a man on first as compared to a single with the bases empty. After the hit, the batter gets a tiny bump in is batting average and +1 on his total bases [...]

Better Know A Citizen – frightwig

Andrew — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:00:47 +0000

Name: frightwig Hometown: Bremerton, WA Town I Currently Live In: relocating to an undisclosed location in Oregon Profession: dedicated parental unit Bats: R Throws: R Positions: corner IF/OF Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: I was good enough to be a regular starter for my county youth league teams, but I was never an All-Star. I don't recall being the [...]

Better Know A Citizen – SoCalTwinsFan

Andrew — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:00:44 +0000

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 [...]

Better Know A Citizen – kg2005

Andrew — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:00:06 +0000

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 [...]

Better Know A Citizen – Will Young

Andrew — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:00:08 +0000

Name: Will Young (pronounced "Will Young") Hometown: Richfield, MN Town I Currently Live In: Saint Paul, MN Profession: Making Events Occur Smoothly Bats: Both (more power as a righty, better bat control as a lefty) Throws: Left Positions: Pitcher and First Base through Little League, Left-Center in Softball Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: I threw 3 perfect innings in the Little [...]

Better Know A Citizen – Sheenie

Andrew — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:00:09 +0000

Name: Sheenie Hometown: New Orleans "The Big Easy", LA Town I Currently Live In: Just up river... St. Paul, MN ... I actually only moved 1 block closer to The River Profession: I work at a law firm Bats: Right Throws: Right Positions: 2nd base and outfield and catching, basically whatever position is needed on a rec. softball team Greatest [...]

Convention Report Part II

Andrew — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:16:45 +0000

The Inaugural SBG Convention was a smashing success. SBG already wrote his review, so I won't repeat everything he said. I'll simply add the pictures I took. All the pictures can be clicked on for larger views. They're after the jump.

SBG and John Sharkey from Gameday. [...]

Better Know A Citizen – Seth Stohs

Andrew — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:00:33 +0000

Name: Seth Stohs Hometown: Perham, MN Town I Currently Live In: Warroad until Sept. 18th, then Bloomington Profession: Product Planner Bats: Right Throws: Right Positions: when I was young, I played Shortstop. In high school, played 3B, SS and pitched some. In college, I was a really good scorebook keeper and occasional pinch hitter! Greatest Career Achievement in [...]

Better Know A Citizen – Whiffers

Andrew — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:00:14 +0000

Name: Whiffers Hometown: Indianapolis, IN Town I Currently Live In: Plymouth, MN Profession: Sales Analyst-type employee Bats: R Throws: R Positions: 3B, 2B Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: A Willis Reed moment in Babe Ruth baseball against my team's biggest rivalâ€”playing on a sprained ankle, I had a couple hits, stole a base, and a Punto-style [...]

Better Know A Citizen – Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:00:56 +0000

Name: Andrew Hometown: Indianapolis, Indiana Town I Currently Live In: Des Moines, Iowa Profession: None, currently, but I've got interviews at a few companies Downtown coming up. Bats: S. I really only hit lefty to pull something down the line or thrown down a drag bunt. Throws: R Positions: 1B, OF Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: Hit [...]

Better Know A Citizen – Greek House

Andrew — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:00:36 +0000

Name: GreekHouse Hometown: Minneapolis, MN (although I was actually born in Fargo, ND) Town I Currently Live In: Ames, IA Profession: Math PhD Student Bats: R Throws: R Positions: 1B,3B,DH Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: When I was in college, I was nicknamed "The One Man Home Run Derby". When the fence was up on the women's softball [...]

On Location – Twins at Sox, 9/8/07

Andrew — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:30:36 +0000

So, I guess I didn't take as many pictures as I thought I did, but I'll share what I've got. Also, I took my smaller, less fancy camera because I was taking my good one to the US-Brazil game, so the zoomed-in shots are a little grainy, but that's a price I'm willing to pay [...]

Better Know A Citizen – Twayn

Andrew — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:00:44 +0000

Name: Twayn Hometown: Fort Recovery, Ohio Town I Currently Live In: Champlin, Minnesota Profession: Communications. Bats: Low in the order Throws: With elbow pain. Positions: Thatâ€™s a rather personal question, donâ€™t you think? Oh, you mean...?! Second base and emergency outfielder. Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: Batting sixth in the lineup when our Little League team was decimated by [...]

Better Know A Citizen – Kris

Andrew — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:00:34 +0000

Name: Kris K. Hometown: Jordan, MN Town I Currently Live In: Forest Lake, MN Profession: My title is Software Engineer, though in deference to people with actual engineering degrees, I much prefer "computer programmer" or "code monkey". Bats: R Throws: R Positions: Left Bench; Right Field if the coach is feeling generous or sorry for me [...]

Better Know A Citizen – Moss

Andrew — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:00:36 +0000

Name: Moss (as conferred by SBG, and it has nothing to do with Randy Moss or with the green growth) Hometown: Winsted, MN Town I Currently Live In: Golden Valley, MN, one-time home of Torii, Sid and TK (does Death Star live here too?). Profession: Patent attorney for a pharmaceutical company. Bats: Weakly -- struck out a lot. [...]

Better Know A Citizen – Algonad

Andrew — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:00:40 +0000

Name: Algonad Hometown: Algona, IA (Ed's Note: This is where I currently, and begrudgingly, live right now - Andrew) Town I Currently Live In: Chanhassen, MN Profession: Finance Bats: Poorly Throws: Equally poorly Positions: 2B, OF Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: I think I lead the conference in stolen bases and runs scored but had one [...]

Better Know A Citizen – Banjo

Andrew — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:00:19 +0000

Name: Banjo Hometown: Hoyt Lakes, MN Town I Currently Live In: Minneapolis, MN Profession: Small Business Owner Bats: L Throws: L Positions: 1st Base, Right Field Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: I was HBP 13 times in Cadets, the equivalent of Little League and took a high, infield fly ball on the noggin. (That might [...]

Better Know A Citizen – SideshowTootie

Andrew — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:00:30 +0000

Name: SideshowTootie Hometown: Fridley, MN Town I Currently Live In: Northfield, MN Profession: College Student, Stats monkey Bats: Right Throws: Right Positions: 2nd Base, Sidewinding ROOGY Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: Probably a game-winning home run in a JV high school [...]

Great Moments in Enhanced Gameday History – 19 Aug 2007, Johan’s 17 K’s

Andrew — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:45:28 +0000

In honor of El Presidente's career-high and club record 17 strikeouts, I present to you each and everyone one in order. Enjoy.

#1 - Brad Wilkerson. 2nd out of the 1st inning

#2 - Michael Young. 3rd out of the 1st inning.

#3 - Sammy Sosa. 1st out of the [...]

Better Know A Citizen – Beau

Andrew — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:00:19 +0000

Name: Beau Hometown: Coon Rapids, MN Town I Currently Live In: Buffalo, MN Profession: Director of Social Services in a nursing home Bats: Right Throws: Right Positions: First base, catcher Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: My last year in AAA (12 years old), we were playing in the final regular season game, one we needed to win to win the division. We were facing the champion of the other division (a team weâ€™d later lose to in the tournament championship). In the top of the final inning, we were down 4-3 with two outs and runners on 2nd and 3rd. I worked the count to 0-2, before lacing a double over the center fielderâ€™s head. We held on to win 5-4 and take the division. [...]

Better Know A Citizen – Aaron Gleeman

Andrew — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:00:14 +0000

Name: Aaron Gleeman Hometown: St. Paul, Minnesota Town I Currently Live In: Minnetonka, Minnesota Profession: Hand model Bats: Right Throws: Right Positions: Second Base Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: I once got beaned in the forehead by a pitch, dropped into an unconscious heap at home plate, woke up to a couple dozen people standing [...]

Lollapalooza 2007

Andrew — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:00:28 +0000

I just got back from Lollapalooza yesterday night. The two girls who invited me are huge music people, so I wasn't really sure if I would get the same level of enjoyment out of it. I'm a music person, but with my bad knees and ankles I'm not so much of a concert [...]

Better Know A Citizen – ubelmann

Andrew — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:00:50 +0000

Name: Herr Ubelmann von Ubel Hometown: Lake Crystal, MN Town I Currently Live In: Seattle, WA Profession: Physics Grad Student Bats: Right Throws: Right Positions: Super-futility Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: Certainly nothing special. I think the play I remember most fondly is playing catcher in a slowpitch rec league and tagging two [...]

Better Know A Citizen – BeenAroundAwhile Guy

Andrew — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:00:47 +0000

Name: Ian SBG Moniker: BeenAroundAwhile Guy Hometown: Minneapolis, MN Town I Currently Live In: Tacoma, WA in a few weeks Profession: Creative Writing major Bats: Right Throws: Right Positions: Third base, outfield Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Sofball/T-ball: I hit 1.000 for almost an entire season of coach-pitch... I think I went 0-3 in the last game. Struck out the side in my only [...]

500 Home Run Club

Andrew — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:16:07 +0000

With Alex Rodriguez hitting his 500th home run over the weekend, he became the second new member of the 500 Club, joining Frank Thomas who hit number 500 at the Metrodome on June 28th. I wondered what year had the most new members of the club. It turns out that two people have [...]

Better Know A Citizen – davidwatts

Andrew — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:00:47 +0000

Name: James SBG moniker: davidwatts Hometown: Madelia, MN Town I Currently Live In: Albert Lea, MN Profession: radio guy! Bats: Right Throws: Right Positions: C/1B/rover outfielder Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Sofball/T-ball: I was a catcher in Little League. In the Consolation playoff game, I threw out 2 base runners while trying to advanced on passed [...]

Better Know A Citizen – Big Mak

Andrew — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:00:29 +0000

Name: Big Mak (or Ray Felix) Hometown: Marshall, MN (world headquarters of Schwan's Ice Cream) Town I Currently Live In: Evanston, IL Profession: Graduate Student at Northwestern University (Chemistry) Bats: R (singles hitter, good patience) Throws: R (not very well, shoulder is suspect) Positions: Corner outfielder (wait, a glass-armed outfielder with [...]

Better Know A Citizen – zooomx

Andrew — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:00:05 +0000

Name: zooomx Hometown: St. Cloud Town I Currently Live In: Alexandria Profession: Restaurant Manager Bats: Right Throws: Right Positions: played them all, began with SS, CF and Pitcher. The first baseman's glove came with the extra 50 pounds Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Sofball/T-ball: played men's fastpitch league and tourneys at the [...]