Paul TostoBaseball hates change. Things get changed, players perform differently. The change gets blamed, for better or worse. That’s where we’re headed in this year’s Minnesota Twins baseball season. Read more →
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Bob Collins
Construction is already underway. The Twins open the season on March 28, against the Cleveland Indians, who have become an entirely beatable team in the off-season. Read more →
For a little less than a week, Jason Gabbert was the most hated person in Minnesota sports, based on the Star Tribune’s report of how the Minnesota Twins have banned him for a year for his aggressiveness in chasing foul balls in the nice seats behind the dugout.
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During the downpour on Saturday, probably three hours into what turned out to be a four-hour rain delay, nobody was in the entire upper deck of the outfield seating at Target Field in Minneapolis except a father and his little boy (7 or 8 years old, I’d guess), who were under the scoreboard overhang. The boy was patiently waiting, his baseball glove still on his hand. Read more →
Nobody gets upset when a country music star plays at Target Field, but country music hasn’t stolen baseball’s popularity.
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Tomorrow night, people will sacrifice their children to give him polite applause and then, like Ortiz, they’ll move on.
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How do you sneak in a big ‘She Said Yes’ sign with your girlfriend without her seeing it because you haven’t proposed to her yet? Read more →
The Twins and the company that runs the concessions at Target Field have bused in workers from Chicago and Milwaukee to fill the jobs at the concession stands. Read more →
Baseball long ago figured out if you feed reporters, they’ll write just about anything you want them to, and miss the story you don’t want them to write. Read more →
Somewhere around the third inning last night we noticed a quadcopter over Target Field during the Twins-Brewers game last night and anticipated the view from whomever was flying it.
It’s now been posted. Read more →
The Twins aren’t a good team. Who to blame for this? Where to start? Read more →
Today’s temperatures are a stark reminder that spring is coming and there’s nothing you can do to hold onto winter, try as you might.
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Fans don’t have any responsibility to support a bad team any more than a car buyer has an obligation to buy a lousy car, but criticism of Minnesota fans is unwarranted. Read more →