The Twins try to wash the taste of that Yankees series out of their mouth with a three game set in Cleveland this weekend. The Twins enter on a four game losing streak, 2.5 games back of the White Sox in the AL Central.

Sometimes I think the Twins feel a bit overmatched in Yankee stadium.
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For my wife's birthday, she decided she wanted to go to a ballgame with a couple of friends (How did I get so lucky?). So once again we drove up to Wisconsin to see the Snappers take on the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (Seattle Mariners A affiliate).
The Snappers roster this time around looks quite a [...]

Big Mak reprises his Series Preview in Blog feature and looks at the three game series against the Texas Rangers that kicks off the second half of the 2008 season.

Verlander and Blackburn on the mound.

Gregory Laughllin at UC-Santa Cruz has (kind of) announced an astronomical discovery. I say 'kind of' because his discovery is hidden in an anagram.

Eric Chavez has some unconventional clauses in his contract about animal care.

Last Saturday, my parents were coming into town, and, since Beloit is pretty close to on the way from Marshall to Chicago, we figured why not take in a game to kick off the Memorial Day weekend? After checking the schedule and noticing the unusual start time of 5 PM, I took off from [...]

I went up last weekend on Sunday to see the Snappers take on the Peoria Chiefs (the Chicago Cubs A-level team). The Snappers won to complete the 3-game sweep and move to two games over .500, which was their high-water mark for this season to that point.
Final Score: Beloit 5, Peoria 4 (box score [...]

Short post for a short series, the Twins play two against the White Sox to begin the week. The White Sox come into this game on a ... well ... it's hard to explain, but they're not on a winning streak, or a losing streak. We won't be able to figure that one [...]

I love the dingy lucky hat. (from Left of Center Photo)
The Indians come to town for a weekend series after trading blowouts with the Tigers over the last two days (an 11-1 win yesterday, and a 13-2 loss on Wednesday). The Tribe currently sit at 6-10, with a 2-4 record on the road. [...]

A short series with the Tigers starts off the week, two games in Detroit. After facing division leaders in their first four series of the season, the Twins now get the team with the worst record in baseball at 2-10. The Tigers are coming home after a road trip in which they dropped [...]

Frank Thomas passed Harmon Killebrew on Sunday and now holds the record for most career plate appearances without a sacrifice bunt.

Since the Twins and Royals met last weekend, the Royals won their first home series of the season against the Yankees and remain in first place in the AL Central, a half game up on the White Sox. This is pretty unfamiliar territory for followers of the Royals, and they are starting to wonder, [...]

In addition to it being opening week for the Twins and Major League Baseball, the minor league season also got underway last weekend. Given the beautiful weather here in Illinois (and southern Wisconsin), Mrs. Mak and I decided to cash in the first couple of tickets of our season ticket package with the Beloit [...]

They'll be playing this series in my backyard, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to make it to any of the games. Definitely not on Monday, but Wednesday or Thursday is a possibility. If I do go, of course I'll file a full report.
The White Sox come into this series hot [...]

I asked the question in the gamelog on Tuesday about the Twins particularly struggling against groundball pitchers, which was very ably answered by ubelmann, saying that it seemed there were enough batters in the lineup who had better numbers against groundball pitchers that there shouldn't be too much of an effect. That was the [...]

We're almost there. (Image from Michael Cook)
It's finally here. Opening Day! We've survived another winter without baseball. All winter long, we look forward to pitchers and catchers reporting, not because we really want to see starting pitchers throw two innings and call it a day, but rather because it means that opening day [...]

The National Mathematics Advisory Panel recommends better preparation for algebra courses as the key to mathematical education. Most importantly, fractions and probability need to be emphasized. (paging GreekHouse...)
Further proof that the WGOM is ahead of the curve.

Even though I'm still reeling from having my mind blown upon reading the solution to one of the great mysteries of our time, I will still soldier on to provide you with some interesting/amusing/inane links.
So, if you don't have plans to go try out for the team and experience spring training up close, follow along [...]

A look at the Wild's quiet trade deadline, through the eyes of their GM, Doug Riesbrough.

The Academy Awards are tonight, so here's an Oscar themed Preview in Blog.

At this point, we've all been without baseball for so long, that even the not-always-highest-quality baseball with the not-always-highest-quality players of spring training seems like the greatest thing that we've seen since we got hooked on some kind of anime series.

I know practice makes perfect, but I can't believe coach is making us [...]

Here's something that I compiled over the season, that I haven't even looked at until now. I thought it was somewhat interesting (obviously, since I spent the time to compile the numbers), but we'll see whether it was worth it.
Levale Speigner made 6 starts this season for the Washington Nationals. In the five [...]

Minnesota Twins (70-73) @ Kansas City Royals (62-80)
The Twins enter the final six series of the season looking to finish with a record better than .500 for the seventh straight campaign. They haven’t helped themselves out too much recently, they snapped a six-game losing streak on Sunday, winning the final game of their weekend [...]

Minnesota Twins (67-63) @ Cleveland Indians (72-57)
The Twins come off their four-game sweep of Baltimore heading into Cleveland to face the first-place Indians. The Indians just finished a 6-3 road trip, winning two of three from Tampa, Detroit, and Kansas City. Recently the Indians have struggled a bit at home, going 7-14 since [...]

Minnesota Twins (58-59) @ Seattle Mariners (65-50)
The Twins continue their death march road trip with a three game series in Seattle. Thus far they are 1-5 on this trip, and have dipped below the .500 mark for the first time in quite a while. The Mariners on the other hand return home after [...]

All right, here we go, a series preview from the end of dinner (burgers, corn on the cob, and pineapple straight off the grill) before the end of the game tonight. That way it's still kosher as a preview, right? Thank goodness they're on the west coast so I get the cushion of [...]

Minnesota Twins (57-54) @ Kansas City Royals (48-62)
The Twins finished their 7 game homestand at 4-3 with a series split against the Indians, they begin a road trip that starts in KC, and goes through LA and Seattle, totaling nine games. Since their demolition of the White Sox in a doubleheader in Chicago, the [...]

My master plan was to have a nice new post leading off my blog, Daneeka's Ghost, when my Better Know a Citizen article went up with the idea that SBG Nation would wander by and be drawn in. Unfortunately, I didn't get the post finished in time, so if you stopped by you saw [...]

I'm not sure I should even be doing this preview. I've seen what happens to people who try to cover the Royals. If Emil Brown asks about me, I was never here.
Minnesota Twins (53-51) vs. Kansas City Royals (47-57)
The Twins have been alternating series wins and losses since the break. Hopefully the [...]

Minnesota Twins (51-50) @ Cleveland Indians (59-43)
The Twins look to notch their first win this season against Cleveland in a three game weekend series on the road. If they don't get that elusive win this season, it doesn't matter too much. First of all, the Twins have essentially played themselves out of the [...]

Ubelmann's post concerning the 7-9 hitters yesterday brought to mind these numbers that I've been compiling over the last couple of days with a similar goal. I was looking at the consistency (and lack thereof) in the Twins offense. In my searches for the Series Preview in Blog, I came across an article [...]

I apologize for not getting something together for the Angels series, our cats dumped a vase of flowers on our keyboard and the bottom row stopped working for a couple of days. Being that 'Los A_geles', 'A_ahei_', and 'A_gels' all required use of the 'n' or 'm' key, I decided to pass on that [...]