Go ahead and get your stretches in, do a little running in the outfield. Get an inning or two of work in and hit the showers. It's spring training game one and the SBG Nation needs to work out the kinks.

In progress. Eddie Griffin sucks.

Smells like a loss, but if this turns into a win, my won't the interest level shoot up?

Last night, KG reached 9700 rebounds for his career.
Tonight's game pits the Wolves against a good young team with a cagey old leader in SamIAM Cassell. I mentioned the Baby Bulls the other day. Just think if the Bulls had held onto Elton Brand instead of trading him for Tyson Chandler. Wow, [...]

The Wolves travel to OK City to play their second game of the year against the NOK Hornets. The Hornets won on a buzzer beater (so Hornet like) in Minneapolis last week and look to remain undefeated at home.
Here's the tale of the tape:
W-L PF PA [...]

• Another thing to blame on Bob Knight. Isiah Thomas:
"If I had it to do all over again, I'd never, ever want to play for any other coach other than him. There'd be no way in hell I'd be president of the Knicks had I not played at Indiana."
• [...]

LeBron James is almost too good to be true. He's still 21 years old and already he has 6,536 points, 1635 rebounds, and 1615 assists. He's also logged a gargantuan (for his age) 10,201 minutes on the floor. If he stays healthy and plays till he's about 40, he'll be the league's [...]

Must win this one to stop the bleeding. This is also an open discussion on KG, the player.
T-Wolves Win!

Grant Hill is in the last year of his contract. Imagine if Detroit, instead of Orlando, had signed him. No championship for the Pistons.
Wolves Lose

It's just one game of course, but beat LA is a perennial cry. I'm not optimistic.
Wolves Lose

Game 3 of a four game Western trip. This will be a tough game for the Wolves. Brad Miller is out for the Kings and considering the sinkhole that is the center position for the Wolves, it doesn't hurt to have Miller out. I'd try out Eddie Griffin if Shareef-Abdur Rahim is [...]

Now, this is a game that the Wolves need to win. True, the Wolves are coming off of a back-to-back with a tough game last night in Denver. But, the T-Blazers were in Golden State last night and got beat by 13 against Nellie's crew. Plus, the T-Blazers stink. The Wolves [...]

I'm no Denver fan, that's for sure. 'Melo doesn't do it for me. I will admit that he played a lot better last year than I anticipated that he would.
After one game: KG outside of the fourth quarter: 19.93 points per 40 minutes. KG in the fourth quarter: 36.43n points [...]

We could use a victory here. That's what I'm saying. A victory would be nice. How about a win today. That's what I'm talking about. I'm saying the Twins need to outscore the A's. Yep.
I've had one server outage today that lasted about 2 1/2 hours. [...]

The site has been down most of the moring. I have hope that it will be up during the crush of game 2.
Methinks that the Twins need to win this one. Go Boof!

I have a new idea! How about you post your thoughts about the game right here?

My host has been having problems today. Sigh. Hopefully, this will be available for today's game.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the Game Logs. It has been a lot of fun for me and I hope for you. I will post playoff Game Logs for the Twins (of course) and [...]

Well, it was a good time last night and a bad time.
I met up with SBGer Geoff at Hubert's before the game and had dinner and visited. We had a good time and one of my old law school friends joined up. But, when it was time to go get a [...]

Your best buddy SBG will be at the game. Prior to the game, I'll be meeting up with SBGer Geoff, who's in town from Utah for the game.
I wonder that the odds are that I'll see an A.J. bat flip. Heh.

Give it up for BRadke!
Um. Let's win this one, fellas.

Your first place Minnesota Twins win!

The KCRs are sitting on 99 losses. Let's make that an even 100.

Aw Crap. Twins lose.

It's the hangover bowl. I still like our guys.

Twins Win!

Tonight could be the night that the Twins clinch a playoff berth. If so, they'll do it on the field. That would be fun.
At the very worst, Chicago is going to have to come to Minnesota and sweep the Twins. More likely is that the Twins will be the only team with [...]

It's the last road game of the season. Our boys have clinched a winning record on the road, something that seemed absolutely impossible a couple of months ago.
I wonder if the Orioles are having any "fan appreciation" events this weekend. I wrote about it in the "Cup of Coffee" but some Oriole fans [...]

Ol' Patrick actually wrote the following in his Saturday column:
Shucks, gentlemen, if your club keeps messing around as it did in the 7-3 loss to Baltimore of Friday night, you might need Johan Santana to pitch the season finale against the White Sox a week from Sunday.
The Chisox have lost 8 of 10 and are [...]

Carlos Silva returns to the sight of his most humiliating defeat of the season. What we needed in that game was the old slowpitch softball rule limiting the number of home runs a team can hit, making the rest of the balls hit over the fence an out.
Of course, the night was not a [...]

Last night was (ho hum) another come back win against the worthless Red Stockings. Our friend Will Young expresses his contempt for those on the Boston bandwagon. I agree Will. In a way, the Boston fans (at least some of them) are more contempible than the Yankee "faithful".
We got our best guy [...]

There is no player that I despise more than Curt Schilling. Great pitcher, tough competitor, proven winner, two-time world champion. I hate this guy. Can. Not. Stand. Him.
Maybe I need therapy. If so, nothing would be more therapeutic than a win over this guy.
By the way, thanks to [...]

Got no love for the bloody soxers. And right now, I really got no love for them. Hopefully, they are demoralized and sleepwalking from this point forward.

Twins Win!

I Would Loves Me Some Series Win.
The Twins have decided to give everyone a day off in the rotation because of the day off. As a result, the Twins are looking at Garza, Bonser, and Santana lined up for the final series of the season. Honestly, I'd like to see that lineup be [...]

Aw Crap. Santana pitches and the Twins lose. And now it's Sabbathia v. Silva. It don't get any easier.

Twins Win!

Let's see. Cliff Lee started last night and Eric Wedge went through 9 pitchers. The over/under on tonight's game -- to be started by Fausto Carmona -- is being set by your best buddy SBG at 8.
The current line is at -230.
Meanwhile, the Chisox are at Oakland. Jon Garland is starting against [...]

Energy level down some from where it was prior to game 145. Nevertheless, this team is still in the running. Booferdoodle is going today and one has to be hopeful that the big guy can keep it going on. We might even have a Nevin sighting with lefty Cliff Lee going for [...]

Yesterday, I wrote that 12 dozen games had energized Twins fans, not worn them down. Feelin' energized yet?
The Twins are 8-3 in their last 11 series, including this one. They have swept none of the previous ten and haven't swept a series since their four game beat down of the Royals [...]

A gross worth of games. 12 dozen. And 18 more after tonight. It's a long season, but Twins fans are invigorated, and not worn down by five and a half months of (mostly) scintillating baseball. Coming off of last night's game in which Carlos Silva was damn good, if not dominant [...]

When I was a kid, I hated the Oakland A's. They won the god damned World Series every year. Then Reggie left and the thing fell apart. Then, I hated the Jose Canseco A's. I hated Jason Giambi's A's. This unit, though, I don't hate. I do hate their [...]

Lucy and I will be there in the cheap seats. I'll have on a long sleeved purple shirt, if you are looking for me. NBB, check your email.
This is a huge game. The Twins win and the division is in play. The Tigs win and the Twins are not in the [...]

The server is working great, at least right now, and the game is a big one. Can Boof continue his run of effective outings (his ERA has dropped in 5 consecutive starts)? Can the Twins pull closer and hold off the Chisox? Can the Twins be heading to Sunday with a chance [...]

It's Wilfredo Ledezma (2-2, 2.38) against Matt Garza (1-4, 5.88). Is it me, or are there a tremendous number of rookie pitchers in the league this year? Actually, Ledezma isn't a rookie, he's a fourth year guy. But, he's thrown just 228 innings in four years, including 29 starts. This year, [...]

This is post number 1500 at this site.
More importantly, this is the beginning of a huge four game series.

Longball Silva is all that separates us from enjoying a sweep of the D-Rays by the Twins.

Let's see. Johan on the mound. Half game lead in the WC with 26 left to play. Can you say MUST WIN? I can. No pressure, Johan, just be your usual fantastic self.

Another game against an AL East powerhouse.
LINE UPS

NO.
MINNESOTA
TAMPA BAY

1.
L.
Castillo,
2B
R.
Baldelli,
CF

2.
N.
Punto,
3B
D.
Young,
RF

3.
J.
Mauer,
C
C.
Crawford,
LF

4.
M.
Cuddyer,
RF
G.
Norton,
1B

5.
J.
Morneau,
DH
T.
Wigginton,
3B

6.
T.
Hunter,
CF
K.
Witt,
DH

7.
P.
Nevin,
1B
D.
Navarro,
C

8.
R.
White,
LF
B.
Zobrist,
SS

9.
J.
Bartlett,
SS
T.
Perez,
2B

It's Morneau,and not Hunter, who is the DH.

Rain? Will they play?

I hear this baseball thing that we love so much has spread toward the East Coast and now New York has a team. Our local nine will be in the Bronx tonight battling their tails off.
Tail feathers everywhere.

A loss today and things could get ugly in a hurry.

Thank goodness 2006 All-Star Mark Redman isn't pitching tonight.

What's that you say? The Twins are playing good ball? Winning series?
All true.
Now it's time to take care of business again.
Update: A little more on the Bert Blyleven homerun record, courtesy of retrosheet, truly one of the greatest websites in all of history.
Blyleven allowed 5 homeruns and nine runs in [...]

It feels like we are now playing with house money. The unthinkable just a month ago or maybe even two weeks ago, or hell, Wednesday -- that the division might be in play -- now seems thinkable. So, every game is important.
Butch and Mrs. Butch are still visiting, so no time for a [...]

The Twins patched one together last night and tonight it's the Ace. Two in a row? A girl can dream.

Butch and Mrs. Butch are here, so it would be rude of me to set up a big pre-game post. I'll be watching and might pop in here and there to comment on the action.
Butch and I are having a barley pop. I have my Minnesota Twins coozie on my Summit and Butch [...]

Match Up
Minnesota Twins, 73-52, 3rd AL Central, 6.5 games back. The Twins are 29-32 on the road.
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Baltimore Orioles, 56-70, 4th AL East, 20.5 games back. The Orioles are 24-38 at home.
So, a win on Thursday means that the Twins go into Chicago with a 1/2 game between them and the Wild Card [...]

Match Up
Minnesota Twins, 72-52, 3rd AL Central, 7.5 games back. The Twins are 28-32 on the road.
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Baltimore Orioles, 56-69, 4th AL East, 19.5 games back. The Orioles are 24-37 at home.
I suppose you could say that last night’s loss didn’t hurt that much because both the White Sox and the Red Sox [...]

Match Up
Minnesota Twins, 72-51, 3rd AL Central, 7.0 games back. The Twins are 28-31 on the road.
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Baltimore Orioles, 55-69, 4th AL East, 20.5 games back. The Orioles are 23-37 at home.
It wasn’t that long ago when the Twins’ road record was atrocious. But, when you win pretty much every game for [...]

Match Up
Chicago White Sox: 73-49, 2nd AL Central, 5.5 GB. The White Sox are 32-26 on the road. The Chisox lead the AL Wild Card.
Minnnesota Twins: 71-51, 3rd AL Central, 7.5 GB. Minnesota is 43-20 at home.
Last Ten Games
Chicago White Sox: 7-3, 47 Runs Scored, 42 Runs Allowed
Minnnesota Twins: 5-5, 31 [...]

Match Up
Chicago White Sox: 72-49, 2nd AL Central, 6.5 GB. The White Sox are 31-26 on the road. The Chisox lead the AL Wild Card.
Minnnesota Twins: 71-50, 3rd AL Central, 7.5 GB. Minnesota is 43-19 at home.
Last Ten Games
Chicago White Sox: 6-4, 53 Runs Scored, 44 Runs Allowed
Minnnesota Twins: 6-4, 34 [...]

Match Up
Chicago White Sox: 72-48, 2nd AL Central, 6.5 GB. The White Sox are 31-25 on the road. The Chisox lead the AL Wild Card.
Minnesota Twins: 70-50, 3rd AL Central, 8.5 GB. Minnesota is 42-19 at home.
Rankings
Runs Scored
Chicago White Sox: 681 Runs Scored, 1st in AL
Minnesota Twins: 604 Runs Scored, 8th in [...]

I hear the locals have a nooner going on today.

I'll be out for a while, but back later. Have fun and Go Twins!