Tonight I watched an extremely bad episode of “Beat Bobby Flay” on the Food Network. If you’re not familiar, it’s a show where two cooks face off against each other to win a chance to bea...
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As many of my tens of loyal fans might know, I’m a big Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan (a.k.a. MST3K). I’m not a knows-every-riff-in-every-episode-type fan, or even a donated-to-the-MST3K-re...
I'm a Vikings fan. I'm not a very big football fan, but sometimes baseball isn't on, so I watch football. When I watch football I root for the Vikings, and my absolute favorite part about it is ...
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I remember that night, in early June of 2010, when Junior announced his retirement. It was very unexpected (to say the least), and I wrote about it then , because I like to write my way through...
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Minnesota's current NHL team—the Minnesota Wild—was gifted this year with an outdoor stadium game, which includes an alumni game of former players and is pretty darn cool! Since the Wild are...
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In the following, I have ranked all 30 MLB teams onf how much I personally liked them as of April, 11 21 2015. These are the definitive rankings. Without further ado: ALL 30 MLB TEAMS RANKED...
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This has nothing to do with baseball. Sorry. I just watched 10 Star Trek movies in 48 hours, and I have to share my observations. 10. Star Trek 1 -- Sucks. I hated it. I watched it drunk and d...
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MLB has apparently come to the conclusion that there is something wrong with baseball's pace of play. American football—the most popular sport in America (and also the slowest sport in America...
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Hi gang. Long time no write--I know. But this is important. I have to stay up (wake up?) for this baseball game. As you may or may not know, a MLB "All-Stars" team (heh, it includes Drew B...
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Tweet Because I just can't get enough of the Biogensis suspensions handed out yesterday (and have entirely too much free time), I decided to read what the reporters are saying in Japan. Becau...
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Tweet Two World Baseball Classic games were played at Marlins Stadium yesterday, which inevitably brought up the subject of the greatest thing the Marlins franchise has ever given baseball. ...
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I was living in Manhattan when Kirby Puckett died on March 6, 2006. And I remember the first time I ran into a Minnesotan after that. It was obvious--to both of us. "Oh Kirby! People don't unde...
Said blog post has been moved to SB Nation's Twinkie Town. Read it here .
http://www.kirbyslefteye.com/2012/10/the-end-of-twins-tsuyoshi-nishioka.html
You may have noticed I haven't been posting here as much this year, for which apologize. However, I do post at Twinkie Town at least a couple times a week. So if you really miss me, I suggest ...
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The Twins have completed their first home-stand of the season, winning 2 out of 6, and ultimately leaving them 2 for 9 on the season total. Accordingly, hence, we can say the Twins suck−excep...
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It’s that time of year. You know what I’m talking about. That time when you find yourself watching reruns of Seinfeld you’ve seen a million times. When the days get shorter, and you have no...
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The Minnesota Twins sucking it up against the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night. So far in the month of August, the Twins have won 5 games and lost 17. They were just swept by the Baltim...
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If you aren’t living under a rock, you heard that yesterday was bobblehead day at Target Field. And you know that it wasn’t just any ol’ bobblehead day—it was the EPIC 1991 World Series ...
In the stands at Target Field, basically. Last April, the Twins rescheduled a rained-out game against the Indians for July 18, 2011, setting up the double header that was played yesterday. ...
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This post is about the current debate over replacing Tsuyoshi Nishioka with Trevor Plouffe at shortstop. Yes, I know many of my posts this year have been about Nishi. But no, I’m not in love wi...
In 2006, the ever-delightful Ozzie Guillen called the Twins “little piranhas.” This week, after the Twins swept the White Sox in a rain-shortened two-game series, Ozzie had this to say about...
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His name is Brian Dinkelman. Now he plays for the 2011 Twins. Last night was his major league debut—and on the very first major league pitch he faced, he was hit and awarded first base. DIN...
Unfortunately, the Twins seem destined to spend 2011 learning the hard way how many different ways they can lose a baseball game. In Monday’s game, the Tigers broke a 5-5 tie in the bottom of t...
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For the Twins and Twins fans, this week has mainly been about celebrating the life of Harmon Killebrew. Wearing 3s On Monday night—the first home game since Harmon’s passing—everyone was ...
“I went to all three games!” “All the pitches he threw right over the plate today and Kubel didn’t even swing at any of them.” “That Delmon...” “Oh my god, that was the most d...
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