Twins' Blackburn earns first career win (AP)

Hey Detroit, baseball is fun again

Peter@BaseballReflections posted 4/19/2008 from www.detroittigersweblog.com

It’s amazing what a big come from behind victory can do for the spirits of a team, or a fanbase, or a blogger. I was freezing in the stands for this game. Cracking sarcastic remarks about the fates of our Tigers. I saw a glimmer of hope when the team plated 4 runs in the 6th inning to cut the lead to 1 run. I seethed in the top of the 7th as I began to compose my post game report in my

Why does Justin Morneau have two middle names?

Center Field found this 4/19/2008 on sports.yahoo.com

We posted DB's second great ' Answer Man ' feature, an interesting session with Justin Morneau , late last night. However, it became quickly buried under a few posts about Oriole magic, Cubs fans stirring up trouble and the Padres-Rockies playing 13 ...

Happy Birthday, Man Muscles

sooze posted 4/20/2008 from www.babeslovebaseball.com

Well, Joe Mauer . You're another year older, another year wiser, and still have one of the sweetest swings in the game. Last year for your 24th birthday, I got you a stripper who was supposed to jump out of a Twins cake, but Dennys Reyes (who is also celebrating a birthday today) devoured the entire thing, and scared her away.

Hey, How About Nick Blackburn?

Babes Love Baseball found this 4/20/2008 on scuffedballs.blogspot.com

You may notice that over the years we don't care much around here about the NBA playoffs. We'd much rather a good pitcher's duel than watch Game 1 of Round 1 of the aforementioned NBA playoffs. And we got one when we watched the Twins play the ...

On Nick Blackburn and Playing Possum

Babes Love Baseball found this 4/20/2008 on twinsgeek.blogspot.com

"For a baseball fan to fail to see that strikeout rates are closely tied to career length, I would argue, is very much like a basketball fan failing to notice that basketball players tend to be tall." - Bill James in The New Bill James Historical ...