When Lucy told me a while back that she was pregnant again, my first reaction was, man, I have a lot of work to do. I need to clear my office out of that last bedroom, move BabySBG's stuff into the guest room and move the guest room down into what was the office. [...]

Thursday, as you may recall, was my birthday. As the day wore on, I was excited about the prospect of a nice birthday dinner at home with Lucy and BabySBG and kind just enjoying the day. I left the office about 5:15 and headed home. On the way home, my dad called. [...]

Here is BabySBG with, from left to right, freealonzo, SBG, Cheesehead Craig, and Shane from Greet Machine. We met at Chipotle on Friday night. Lucy took the picture.

All our best.
SBG, Lucy, & BabySBG

My dad turned 65 years old yesterday. I've always thought of Dad as a young guy, but I suppose there aren't all that many young 65 year olds out there. What I mean is that the age difference between him and me isn't very big. I'll be 43 in just over a [...]

This is a story of my basketball life. It is a story of how I have become accustomed to losing. It is a story of how I have been conditioned to be a Timberwolves fan. Warning, it is long and rambling.

Last year, about this time, Lucy and I traveled to Wisconsin to attend a wedding anniversary party for Lucy's godmother -- 50 years. We met up with Lucy's parents that day and it was a shocking and sad day for both Lucy and me.
Lucy's mother has cancer. She's been living with the disease [...]

If you haven't already, but you want me to, tell me how many $20 tickets you want for the September 22, 2007 game.
If you have e-mailed me or responded to the last post, I have you down as committed. That means you, Andrew, Scot, E-6, Gleeman, CarterHayes, Will (I am assuming), Banjo(?). [...]

I'm sorry that I've been neglecting the WGOM, but this moving business can be time consuming and everything. First some stuff on the convention and some other stuff.
I want to get the SBG Convention figured out within the next couple of days. I would like to order $20 seats ahead of time. [...]

It's early Saturday morning and I should be sleeping, but I'm keyed up about the day. We took possession of the house last night about 6:00 PM and I brought a couple of loads of kitchen stuff over in the Explorer so that Lucy would have an opportunity to work on something on Saturday [...]

I still remember that hot August day 30 years ago when I heard that Elvis was dead. It was hard to believe -- the King was Gone.

Here's what all the fuss was about. (And yes, I want this in the main column.)

How about Hound Dog? Uncle Milty loves him!

Ah hell, it's Elvis! How about a couple more

This ain't Elvis, but he's dead, nonetheless.

He was worth the fuss, too.

After the Twins game, I headed to bed. About 3:30AM, I was awakened by a loud whistling sound. It was as if a basketball referee was calling an infraction. Having only been in bed for a couple of hours, I struggled to awaken and gain my senses. The whistling continued. [...]

There'll be no game log today, of course. When something like this happens, one immediately starts to think about who you might know that could have been on that bridge. I don't normally travel in that direction and I was maybe on that bridge ten times in my entire life, but the phone [...]

There is a minute portion of the SBG Nation that likes to hear about my tales from SBGville. I kind of enjoy writing about some of my life outside of an obsession with baseball and the Twins, and part of the original idea on the blog was to talk about life in general. [...]

Lucy, BabySBG, and I are on the road to South Dakota (hello, JeffA and SDfan!). It is baptism day for my brother Putzer's daughter. Lucy and I are the godparents, so we are cruising over there for the day.

Part of what I used to do more of was post on life in SBGville, where I grew up and where my parents and brother still live. I thought I'd give a little rundown on things out there for the masses (because I knew you were wondering).
Lucy and I went to SBGville over Mother's [...]

You probably have heard that Bat-Girl has decided to call it quits.
I can understand her decision. Blogging is tough when you have a baby, and I'm sure the challenges of dealing with a pre-mature baby were very difficult. I've been surprised at how this baby has absolutely changed my priorities. [...]

It's somewhere between late at night and early in the morning and I'm awake. No, it's not the baby -- she's sleeping soundly like she does so much. I had a nightmare and I woke up thinking about a bunch of different things. I guess maybe this is part of fatherhood that [...]

So, BabySBG is now just over eight days old, I'm trying to catch up on all the work that didn't get done over the past three weeks or so, and Lucy can't drive for up to six weeks because she had a C-Section (man was last Tuesday an extremely tough day). I have to [...]

Stupid website! It's time for some cats.

Jags is a ferocious killer. Don't you forget it!

Jags and Theo were wrestling. They seem to really enjoy playing together.

Elly loves to play fetch with the play mouse. She retrieves it just like a dog.

Elly and Theo in the baby's room.

That's it. I am [...]

1. It's Saturday morning and I'm brewing a pot of coffee. The pregnant wife is sleeping and we've got a big day ahead of us. We are going out with our realtor to look at some houses. We've been living in an apartment and I've been living in an apartment since [...]

With the first spring training game just a few short hours away (should I open up a game log?) I got an early start by having lunch today with Uber-blogger Seth Stohs. We grabbed a bite, chatted about blogging, the Twins, the dreadful Wolves loss last night, ScruFi, Terry Ryan, etc. A good [...]

This weekend, Lucy had a baby shower that was hosted by my two sisters-in-law for my side of the family. One of my aunts couldn't make it, but she sent a scrapbook full of pictures from way back. It was a fantastic family history, including my great-grandparent's wedding picture, several shots of my [...]

I haven't really written much lately about life with a pregnant wife. I'm really waiting until next week to start talking about the 2007 Twins in earnest, so I thought I'd talk about life tonight.
Lucy is about two months away from the due date. In fact, Saturday will be exactly two months from [...]

I'm not much of a programmer, in fact I'm not a programmer at all.
I used to be able to do some programming back in the day, and I can tinker with code on this site a little bit, but I'm not about to become an expert in web site programming -- that's not happening.  I [...]

Congrats to Scot at Coffeeville Whirlwind on the arrival of his new son. With B-G's early arrival and Scot's new baby, only Lucy is "currently constructing" the next generation of Twins bloggers (that I know of).

As if I didn't know it already, I'm reminded again today that not everyone goes through life in the way that I do.
I'm standing in line for a sandwich at Subway. The woman (who is about 35-40 years old) behind me clearly does not understand that she gets to choose the toppings on her [...]

I am on call for Jury Duty at the US District Court in Minneapolis for the months of March and April -- right when BabySBG is due to be born. Good grief.

Lucy just called me and she's got a flat tire. I'm on my way to investigate. Wow, are we having bad luck with vehicles lately.
Update: Lucy's right rear tire was blown out with about a two foot hole in the sidewall. Good gravy.
Update: The guys at Goodyear informed me that the rear [...]

Lucy and I went out last night about 7:00 PM and met another couple for dinner. We went out right at the height of the snow event and skidded our way halfway across the city. We were safely home by 11:30. Shortly after midnight, I went to bed. I'm old, I [...]

The calendar on the wall of my den says January 2007. It's off by a day.
I was reading the Coffeyville Whirlwind (which I enjoy quite a bit, by the way) the other day and he linked to an article by the Washington Post's George Will, the unofficial winner of Pompous Ass of the Year [...]

It's Christmas morning and Lucy is sleeping.
We've had a memorable Christmas so far, to be sure. I think we'll remember Christmas 2006 for some time into the future.
I did some cooking and it was all right, but made a little flub and it was memorable. My mother-in-law gave me my 12 pack of [...]

It's early and my darling wife is sleeping about 10 feet away. I'm in my father-in-law's basement, and I'm pretty sure that next time I'm bringing an air mattress. I dread the thought of sleeping on that hide-a-bed the next two nights.
Last night the Timberwolves won in Indiana in a game that wasn't [...]

Lucy and I are off to South Dakota to visit my brother Putzer. Actually, everyone in my family will be there.

About a month ago, I noticed that the tranmission on my vehicle wasn’t shifting properly. I believe I mentioned here that I ended up getting a rebuilt transmission, which cost me about $2300. Then, the day before Thanksgiving, it went out completely. The shop that did that work came and got me [...]

Hello everyone, I'm Lucy, SBG's wife.
I used to write on this site once in a while and I posted pictures of our cats. But, I don't post very much anymore. However, we got our annual cat pictures back on Sunday, so I thought that I'd take over this site and post a couple [...]

Lucy was volunteering to work in the nursery on Sunday at noon over at the church. She drove over there (it's about two miles) and she called me on the way and told me that she couldn't control her car -- she thought that there was something wrong with the steering. I asked [...]

When I get older losing my hair many years from now
will you still be sending me a valentine birthday greeting, bottle of wine
If I'd been out till quarter to three would you lock the door
Will you still need me Will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four
You'll be older too And if you say the word [...]

One last day in November. It's been a pretty good month -- not insane like October -- but good.
Albert Pujols thinks that the MVP should come from a playoff team. So, if someone from Tampa Bay hits .475 with 120 home runs next year, he wouldn't be eligible if the Yankees hold off [...]

I had a conference call with a client late last night (different time zone) and I missed the Wolves game. Oh well. Actually, it wasn't that late and the game was on (fourth quarter) as I left work. I walked by WCCO and saw Dark Star hustling from the lounge at the [...]

I'm not exactly inspired these days on the WGOM front. I've got a few irons in the fire, but I thought I'd check in.
The Wolves lost in Dallas, but made a huge fourth quarter push to get back in the game. They were down 20 in this game but tied it up with [...]

Since the NBA began keeping track of steals and blocked shots in 1973, a player has reached 100 steals and blocks in the same season 51 times. KG has done it 8 times, third behind Hakeem Olajuwon and Julis Erving, with 12 each. KG's not a premier shot blocker and I think that's [...]

I was driving home from work last night and my brother Putzer called me. It was late and I was tired after a long and punishing week. I hadn't talked to Putzer in some time and it was good to hear from him. He was excited. SDSU women's basketball team beat [...]

One of the attorneys that I work for is a pretty big Twins fan. I had to talk with him about a file this afternoon and mentioned to him that our guy Johan Santana won the Cy Young Award. While he wasn't at all surprised, he was thrilled that the vote was unanimous. [...]

Lucy and I are headed off to North Carolina for the weekend to visit some friends. Is there a more basketball crazy state?
No, I don't have a golf game scheduled with Mike Jordan. That old knucklehead! I hate taking his money on the course all the time.
See you next week, [...]

• I’ve decided that the coffee machine at work makes some damned strong coffee. On Friday, I was tired and I was drinking a little more coffee than I might usually. I actually started to not feel well, and I’m pretty sure it was the coffee.
• I read the column by Alan Schwarz reflecting on [...]

Back when I announced to the world that Lucy and I were expecting, I got an e-mail from esteemed blogger and frequent commenter here, frightwig. He let me in on a little secret. He was expecting a baby, too. Well, he's expecting no more. frightwig is the proud father of a [...]

Thump-thump. Thump-thump. Thump-thump. Thump-thump.
My mother heard that sound this morning.
Thump-thump. Thump-thump. Thump-thump. Thump-thump.
The sound that will change everything for SBG. He’s been thinking a lot about the Twins this summer, but not as much as you might think. Because one thing has been on his mind more [...]

Doug Grow writes a story in the Strib about baseball and football. I really wish that Minneapolis was a baseball town. As someone who is thoroughly fed up with the NFL, I wonder why more people wouldn't be pushing the Vikings to the back burner last night. I flipped over and watched [...]

Last night, I was minding my own business, watching the game when the phone rang. Lucy's dad is in the hospital. He's had some heart problems in the past and wasn't feeling well yesterday. It's unclear to us exactly what the situation is, but it's not good news when anyone is in [...]

Got this text message from the wife this afternoon:
I like yankees b of a cute player

Butch and Mrs. Butch are heading down from the Fatherland this afternoon for a weekend stay with Lucy and me. We are excited to have them in town for the weekend and only wish that this crucial three-gamer with the White Sox was being played right here in Minneapolis.
I’m sure we’ll have lots to [...]

Hi SBG fans, this is Lucy, SBG's long suffering wife.
I don't understand the attraction of this website. Every day a Twins game. Don't these guys ever get tired of baseball? I know I do. In fact, I can't stand watching even five minutes of any game.
What I like is gymnastics! [...]

I was sitting in the living room last night with my lovely wife, Lucy and she said that I should head on into the den and write on my blog. Now, you can about imagine how insulting that was for me. She basically wanted me out of the way so that she could [...]

My brother Putzer, who has a hockey team at home (six kids -- all 10 or younger), had an incident occur yesterday. His wife and the kids were out at her mother's place, which is on a farm. On the way home, my sister-in-law realized that a couple of the kids had smuggled [...]

Jeffrey S. Straub has run out of ideas. Actually, that's not true.
Mr. Straub runs a podcast of the Minnesota Twins called MNTWINSTALK and this week, he has yours truly as a guest. I listened to it this morning... there is a little audio issue, but you can listen as Jeff and I talk [...]

There’s an old saying that the two best days for a boat owner are the date he buys the boat and the date he sells the boat. I think that’s pretty true, being a former boat owner. When I bought my boat back in the summer of 1997, I was pretty excited. [...]

Lucy is spending some time with her parents, who haven't been feeling all that well lately. So I'm going to go to the games on Friday and Saturday night. If you are headed that way, I can be talked into a pre-game beverage at Hubert's. E-mail me for an opportunity to chat [...]

Back home from ND. Lucy and I really enjoyed our time back home. On Saturday, we went out to the Hutterite colony that is about 20 miles from SBGville. We got a bunch of meat (including some dandy pork chops) and produce. Wow, they have some great stuff. We got [...]

This blog turns two years old today.
I can't believe that I have been plunking away at the keyboard for two years, ranting about ScruFi, Derek Jeter, Barry Bonds, KG, and all of my pet topics for 730 days. But, it's true, I have.
A lot has happened in those two years. On July 17, [...]

I've cut out the bag of Doritos from my daily Subway run. No, I haven't replaced it with some other form of chip. Just the sandwich. It's all part of a campaign (probably widely supported) in which there will be less SBG. More details as it warrants.

Hi everyone, this is Lucy, SBG's long suffering wife. When SBG is chatting about Twins, I'm usually slaving over a hot fire, washing clothes in the river, or running. But once in a while I demand some time on the SBG website. Today is one of those days. And what do [...]

I had lunch with old friend Drew this afternoon and we were shooting the breeze, covering our favorite topics. The topic of bicycling came up again. First, some background. I wrote a while ago complaining about people riding on a very busy street during rush hour instead of on the bike path [...]

I have learned a little bit more about the spam program that I have installed and I set up the program to be a little more friendly to letter writers. As a result, some spam is filtering through, but also, regular letter writers are getting a much higher "karma", which is separating them from [...]

It was one of those days. I mentioned that we had a power blip last night. My computer got destroyed. We went to the office today and they said that they think our building got hit by lightning. I'm not sure about that, but I do know that an electrical panel [...]

I went to Subway a few minutes ago to get my daily sandwich. I usually get a bag of Doritos to go with it. I know, I know, they aren’t good for me. What I should do is pack a decent lunch for myself. But, this is where I am right [...]

If you've read my online magazine for awhile, you know that from time to time I will talk about my family. Some of my family members actually read this stuff, although it is well established that my mother, who is fully capable of surfing the Internets, has never actually read this page. I [...]

Or, at least I've been to the Summit Brewery. I went to the new ballpark celebration to visit with Shane and his Packer lovin' neighbor, Cheesehead Craig. I got a chance to meet some of Shane's readers, some of whom also read here. It was a fun event and a special thanks [...]

I should be at the Summit Brewery Twins Ball Park Celebration around 6:00PM or maybe a little earlier. I'll be the tall guy in grey slacks and a light blue shirt with the somewhat diagonally striped dark blue tie. And the blond hair that needs a visit to Schmitty's barbershop badly. Don't [...]

I'm going to head over to the Summitt Brewery Twins Stadium party to see my buddy Shane Nackerud on Thursday after work. I should get there around 6 PM. Stop by and give me some guff.
The story that I linked to on Hank Aaron yesterday was dubious at best. Certainly, the Brewers [...]

Lucy and I were very excited to have my parents, Butch and Mrs. Butch, visit this weekend. This is the first time that they have visited us since we got married. We put a lot of work into our apartment and wanted them to see it. They really liked our apartment -- [...]

Butch, Mrs. Butch, Lucy and I are heading to the great indoors to watch Johan and the Twins.

I don't know what it is about me that I have defended certain characters in sports so fervently in the face of criticism. I'm a Barry Bonds guy. I know he's a dink. I know that it's all but proven that he did steroids. I still like him. Why? [...]

Am I the only person in these United States that doesn't watch American Idol? Unlike with Survivor, I can't say that I've never seen it. Really, you don't have to watch it to know all about it. It is on the news all the time and there are enough commercials for it [...]

I've been sitting on some news that my blogging buddy Seth let me in on last week.  Go on over and say hi to Seth this morning and see what in the heck he's been holding back.  Congratulations, Seth!