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Link-O-Rama According to the Washington Post , each week fewer people listen to Nationals games on radio than read this blog. Seriously . My only regret about not going to the state fair this year is missing out on the ridiculously tasty Sweet Martha's cookies , but until this week it never dawned on me that there's actually a sweet Martha . Given how she's looked in a swimsuit lately, ...
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Lamb Chopped Lost in Eddie Guardado 's return to Minnesota is that the Twins cut Mike Lamb loose to make room for him on the roster. Signed to a two-year, $6.6 million contract this winter, Lamb is still due around $3.5 million for the remainder of this season and all of next year. Between the $3.5 million still owed Lamb and the money due to both Craig Monroe and Juan Rincon after they were ...
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Everyday Eddie: The Return The original fire is died and gone, but the riot inside moves on. - Audioslave, "Original Fire" After missing out on LaTroy Hawkins last month the Twins decided to bring back another key member of the 2003 bullpen yesterday afternoon, acquiring Eddie Guardado from the Rangers for 21-year-old pitching prospect Mark Hamburger . Like Hawkins, Guardado left the ...
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Twins Notes: Sub-1.00 ERAs, 100 RBIs, and Two Strikes After watching yesterday afternoon as the Twins' bullpen coughed up another late-inning lead while the stud closer with a 0.98 ERA went unused because it wasn't a "save" situation, my curiosity about Joe Nathan 's amazing run prevention led me to the indispensable Baseball-Reference.com for a little digging. So far this season Nathan has ...
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Link-O-Rama First Batgirl and now Ubelmann . Sadly, real-life responsibilities have robbed the Twins blogosphere of another great writer . Luckily, I'm in no danger of getting a life. Slamming someone in the face with a shaving cream pie is not all fun and games . Now a mother, former Official Fantasy Girl of AG.com Jessica Alba is making the most improbable, dramatic comeback since Josh ...
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Twins Notes: Slowey, Hicks, Revere, and Sweet Fancy Moses Kevin Slowey tossed seven innings of two-run ball against the A's last night , shattering his previous career-high with 12 strikeouts. Through his first 30 career starts Slowey struck out six or more batters just seven times and totaled more than eight strikeouts just once, when he fanned nine in a win over the White Sox on September ...
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Aaron and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day One sign that you're probably having a fairly bad day is when shelling out $500 for a new toilet is merely your second-biggest expense of the morning behind dropping $1,000 on a new water heater. Oh, and then after coughing up $1,500 you sit down to watch your favorite team lose at home to a team that was 5-23 since the All-Star break. ...
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Jarrod Washburn
Jarrod Washburn?! Help, I have done it again I have been here many times before Hurt myself again today And the worst part is there's no one else to blame - Sia , "Breathe Me" One of my favorite blogs, U.S.S. Mariner , has been chronicling the Mariners' horrendous season full of bad decisions , management changes , and mistake-correcting personnel moves . Jarrod Washburn 's situation ...
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Link-O-Rama Having discussed this disturbing news with a fellow member of the tribe last night, we decided that there should be some sort of vote on whether or not to let her in, like when a condo board decides on a new resident or something. And if we can't do that, then we should at least be able to trade one of our undesirables to whichever religion she came from, like a prisoner exchange ...
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Twins Notes: Breakouts, Overuse, Upgrades, and No Such Thing Delmon Young provided one of the more dramatic moments of the season Tuesday night when he sliced a fly ball down the right-field line that wrapped around the foul pole for a game-tying three-run homer off Mariano Rivera . Unfortunately his clutch bomb and Rivera's first blown save of the year were wasted when Matt Guerrier fell ...
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Won't Get Fooled Again (Kielty for Stewart, Revisited) News of the Twins inking Bobby Kielty to a minor-league contract brings back all sorts of memories for me and this blog. Five years ago, in the early days of this blog, Kielty was the subject of perhaps my very first campaign for freedom . A switch-hitter with good power, excellent plate discipline, and a strong minor-league resume, he ...
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Twins Notes: Cuddyer, Casilla, Liriano, Everett, and Korecky Initially scheduled to come off the disabled list today following the completion of a brief minor-league rehab assignment, Michael Cuddyer will instead be out for an additional 4-6 weeks after breaking his left foot in a Triple-A game Friday. Occupying first base with Garrett Jones at the plate, Cuddyer's jump to avoid a line drive ...
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Link-O-Rama My first attempt at publicly shaming myself into re-starting a weight-loss plan failed, as displaying my complete lack of progress via the sidebar's Fat-O-Meter apparently wasn't sufficiently motivating. Sadly I'm still way too fat after gaining back a big chunk of the 90-plus pounds that were shed a couple years ago, so it's time to give the public humiliation angle a second ...
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Twins Notes: Washed Up, Called Up, and Used Up Mercifully designated for assignment last week after posting a 5.48 ERA in 23 starts with the Twins, Livan Hernandez was claimed off waivers by the Rockies yesterday. After trying unsuccessfully to get something in return for Hernandez, the Twins decided to simply let the Rockies assume the remaining $1.7 million on his contract. Unfortunately ...
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Ick Sorry, but there's just no way I'm writing about that . Or that . Blogging will resume when the Twins' streak of making me throw up at midnight stops. Or tomorrow. Whichever comes first. Oh, and this didn't help any either. Yuck. Here, watch this . You'll feel better.
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Liriano's Return: Take Two "I was really nervous. I don't know why. It's been a long time." - Francisco Liriano When Francisco Liriano returned from Tommy John surgery on April 13 to take the mound against the Royals for his first MLB start since September of 2006, he predictably struggled with both velocity and command. His average fastball clocked in at just 90.2 miles per hour and ...
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Francisco Liriano
Link-O-Rama Today marks the sixth anniversary of this blog, which seems unfathomable to me. Seriously, six years . When this blog debuted on August 1, 2002 the guy writing it was a teenager home from college for the summer, searching for any kind of way to write for some sort of audience after failing to grab a spot on the school newspaper . Six years, 1,458 entries, 8,471 links to Elisha ...
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Open Chat: Trade Deadline Day There are a few Twins rumors swirling around as this afternoon's trade deadline approaches, and for anyone interested in keeping up with the moves and endless speculation my advice is to abandon work and spend your day hitting "reload" on Rotoworld's constantly updated player news page and the blogs run by Joe Christensen and LaVelle E. Neal III (whom I ...
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