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My baseball obsession has kind of taken a backseat this summer, mainly because of the other stuff I have going on, but it doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate a good scruffy-faced injured-catcher from time to time.
Big Joe Mauer, you should lose the razor every once in a while. I’m just sayin’.

I’m a little scared the [...]

You know how I can tell it’s a rough start to my Twins’ baseball season? I look to see what the score is, and is and find out some homeboy named Julio DePaula is starting against Cleveland tomorrow night. I mean, a lump of shit gives me more hope than Sidney Ponson, so I can [...]

I realized this weekend that I’d been neglecting my weekend wrap-ups that I enjoy so much.
Friday: There were five us in the office for most of the afternoon. The other 25ish people in our department were nowhere to be found. It made for a long afternoon. On the drive home, I started stressing about the [...]

“I do good things. If you want to make a good thing into a bad thing, then so be it.” - Torii Hunter

Not that there needs to be any other reason for me to love Torii Hunter, but his big Major League Baseball rule violation has quite possibly made me love him even more.
Hunter’s gift [...]

Man, after Sidney Ponson threw like a douchebag off the mound against the Yankees last night, I knew I had to get a ticket for tonight’s game. Ahh, baseball during a winter weather advisory. I don’t see how it could get any better.
Speaking of baseball (okay, not really), I got home from work last night [...]

I know. It’s December. What could a baseball team possibly have done to make me mad during the off-season? Try wasting money ($1.25 million plus incentives) on a 37-year old backup utility infielder/designated hitter. Because that’s where we struggled during the playoffs? No, it’s not.
Sure, he batted .319 with the Brewers last year, and I [...]

And I happen to think he’s worth it.
MINNEAPOLIS — Torii Hunter will be back with the Minnesota Twins for at least one more year. The Twins said Tuesday they picked up Hunter’s $12 million option. [link]
He’s spent his entire career with the Twins organization and, even though he’s ran into a few walls causing injury, [...]