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Pettitte Shop Boys (Or, "How To Sell Your Soul To Steinbrenner Twice")
2007-04-11 01:32:00
PREGAMERK has a late class, so you're all stuck with me for the time being. And no, this won't be like Garth without Wayne. Once upon a time not so long ago, Mr. Pettitte had an approval rating similar to the Anti-Christ from Kalamazoo's--might we say, he was the Beelzebub from Baton Rouge. In any case, his much heralded return to college-home Houston wasn't so magnificent after posting a 4.20 ERA last year and failing to lead the 'Stros to the playoffs. Naturally, the Yanks shelled out 16 million clams to bring another aging, declining pitcher...uhh..home. I suppose that whenever someone gives you that amount of incentive to go somewhere you can call that place whatever you want to. The Lookalikes Who Happen To Be Siblings have Bonser and Herzegovina going, and after Pontoon last night, the Metrodome's mound has had a couple of stressful days. As long as the Garza Strip remains in Rochester, the Boof is our only opportunity to uneasily make light of war torn countries.TOP 1ST...
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Is It Lake Season Yet?
2007-04-10 00:51:00
PREGAMEAs I've mentioned before, it's unseasonably cold down here in Virginia. Which means it's pretty much unseasonably cold everywhere else. Cleveland comes to mind. Minnesota too. My sister in Fargo said that there's snow issues! Point is, none of you in the land of ten thousand have fully gotten into lake mode just yet. And that's a problem, because that's when you break out the pontoon. And you know how it is when you haven't used the implements in a while, you gotta make sure they run good enough, and the first time out, maybe in the back of your mind, you think, "This has always been a sturdy pontoon, but it's getting old, and has somewhat recently been arrested abroad for being drunk and bellicose." And that's where we are tonight. The Twins are spring-testing the Pontoon. and I understand that the metaphor isn't perfect, because they do have spring training after all, but spring is not in March. I refuse to accept the logic. So let's see what happens when Pontoon...
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John Danks + Dank Day = Working Title
2007-04-08 19:56:00
PREGAME With RK out getting some grub, it's my turn to man the fort. I've decided only to live blog games this season in which Santana pitches and leave RK the rest. Or so it seems. The real challenge today will be, how long will it take for me to refer to the website "Heave the Hawk". Oops. Well, you can't mention it enough times. And RK is here to save the day. That's good, I was starting to feel like Garth after Wayne ditched him to do...whatever it was he went to do. I suppose it's a good thing I haven't seen Wayne's World in quite a long time. How else would I have time to watch RV Bloopers 600 times. TOP 1ST WV: And hey, we get WGN announcers!RK: Seriously, they go wild for every pitch Danks throws. Is he related to all of them?WV: Ha, for sure. You'd think he just won the cy young by retiring the side in order.RK: News flash, bitches: it's been happening for a while now. BOTTOM 1ST WV: It's nice that the best you can hope for from Santana is 4 runsRK: I can see a...
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Sometimes, We're All A Little Silva
2007-04-07 22:16:00
PREGAME AND FIRST INNINGI want you all to know that I wasn't abandoning you again. I ran home from basketball (with no feats of strength to relay today), and clicked the TV icon on mlb.tv to watch the game but then I remembered that I probably can't watch it because of wacky weekend restrictions. I just wish to God I could watch the damn games. I didn't know it at first so I tried it with Safari, Firefox, Opera (?) and getting frustrated, came back to my friend John Gordon. HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, NAMESAKE.Then I heard the recap. I see a run, a walk, and 30+ pitches. Oh baby, it's on.TOP 2NDCuddles is having himself a nice start to the season... wait, Darren Erstad is a bitch sock? The pride and joy of Jamestown, ND? There's an albino buffalo nearsabout there. I've seen it. It's white, as you might expect.Haha, oh Anthony John Pierzynski, surely you know enough baseball to know that throwing to second when walking a person on a hit and run situation that it doesn't matter! I...
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Almost Out of the Wilderness
2007-04-05 01:57:00
PREGAMEI hope your Passover is going well, and I for one, am looking forward to the Orioles getting the hell out of Minnesota so I can finally start watching the games. It's just been too long since I've heard Bert being Bert. But Gordon just called Ortiz "Ray-moan" so I'm already feeling kinda good about things.TOP 1STI'm just sort of afraid to listen. William was right. I have utmost faith in JoJo and more or less in Bonser and Herzegovina, but the rest remains to be seen. But 2 up, 2 down.When I get nervous, I pace. Pacing and liveblogging don't work well. Ordinarily, I'd be striding back and forth in the living room, yelling and stuff. Everything else, I'm fine. I'm not a competitive person (but if you cheat, I will cut you), but when it comes to watching these boys, I want to see winning.Raymoan has thrown approximately 80 pitches in the first inning, and now has his first walk. Don't act so surprised everybody. Hahaha, John Gordon's giving stats from this season. Tej...
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Approaching the Brink
2007-04-04 20:48:00
You may or may not have noticed that neither William nor I liveblogged the game last night. And surely, you cried real tears. I did too. But let's look at the situation.1. RK had a pedagogy class, becuase he wants to be a professor, and certificates on your degree that say you know how to teach will help him to that end. 3 hours every Tuesday night though? Yes, you should indeed feel sorry for him.2. WV went to California because he's arranging for his impending transfer to Stanford. I know, right?3. RK is still unable to watch the games due to blackout restrictions and his cable provider not carrying the channel the games are on. 4. RK is also in the midst of frantically preparing to defend his proposal so he can write his thesis, so he can get a piece of paper that says he's smart, so he can be a professor. It's a vicious chain of events.Enough of talking about myself in the third person. I have no consolation to give, we can't undo the feelings of abandonment that can really...
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If I Had A Heart, I'd Leave It In San Francisco
2007-04-04 08:40:00
Loyal readers, Good news or bad news first? Good news is that a trip to the Pacific Time Zone has rescued me from the grey and dreary New York climate. Bad news is that live blogging this week shall be problematic. No fear, RK will drop in now and again and I'll see what I can do from out here. I'm also preparing a post for Bat Girl's page later this week. Watch for that and the subsequent cutting off of all ties when our lame sense of humor drags down her readership. Oh yes, and nice win tonight. It seems like at least 2/5ths of our rotation is decent, now is where the fun starts. This is like upstate New York after leaving NYC and going through Yonkers. There's some gems, but they tend to be overshadowed by run down factories and abandoned farms. Let's hope for the best --WV
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Anxiety, Thy Name is Broadcast Restrictions
2007-04-03 01:17:00
PREGAME:OK, I'm not sure where WV is, but hey, I can handle myself. I'm an adult (legally), and I put my pants on 2 LEGS AT A TIME (yeah, it's like that. I organize them on the ground in just such a way and jump off my bed into them. But you should see me undress. Or not). Probably the highlight of my day. Moving on. But let's talk about why I'm not watching the game. They're playing the docile orange birds (Baltimore Tejadas?), adn that's in my coverage area so I can't watch it on the ESPN2, you feel me? mlb.tv realizes the same thing, so I can't watch it on the series of tubes called the interwebs, so there's that.DON'T PANIC.But panic I did. My cable provider doesn't carry the channel that's broadcasting the game! But all is not lost, I remember that I got the mlb.tv premium package (because that's how I roll, baby), so I can listen to John and Dazzle (did you know he knows where to get the best bock beer? Such alliteration! I'd like Wade Boggs' opinion though)TOP...
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Baseball Gods, A Word
2007-04-02 01:27:00
I believe in the baseball God s. And before this turns into a theological discussion/fire and brimstone hailing thing, just that when good people associated with the game die, they go to The Big Game, where the grass is always green, it's always 75 degrees without a cloud in the sky, nobody ever gets hit with a ball or injured, and the umps always get the call right. It's like Field of Dreams mixed in with my Catholic school upbringing. But let's not get into that. That in mind, let's be sincere for a minute: Herb Carneal died today. It was his voice I heard when I'd listen to the Twins with my grandpa when I was 5 (he preferred to put the Cubbies on TV).It was his voice I heard when I couldn't watch the games anymore because of that MSC debacle.His was the only voice I wanted to hear on the AM radio (with apologies to Paul Harvey and the entirety of his story).It was his voice I heard when I was speeding back home to St. John's after visiting my family when they moved to Nebr...
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"Show Me That Smile Again... Don't Waste Another Minute On Your Cryin'"
2007-03-29 06:11:00
Because it's baseball season. And it's on.Like Donkey Kong. Here at Pulling A Blyleven. That said:Welcome to our opening day extravaganza! Pizza for everyone! (as long as you get it yourself). This may take a while. To help you out:TABLE OF CONTENTS:I. How we doII. Who we areIII. What we doIV. Why we do itV. Looking ahead, and always twirling.I. How we do RK: Well, I suppose they need to know that we post things like a conversation.WV: Right, sort of our raison d'etre, to be a dick about it.RK: Well, that segues nicely into a discussion of the barer formulation of how we do, which is how we don't do.WV: There's a lot of "do's" going on here. I like it. But anyway, we pretty much liveblog Twins games.RK: So the off-season doesn't really do much for us. As bat-girl (more to come on that later!) would say, the off-season is the suck. Not the Vietnam kind of suck. Like, uh, the boring kind of suck. Like that Sunday afternoon headache that just won't go away suck.WV: It doesn't...
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What do you get when you cross an aesthete with a phenomenologist?
2007-03-03 21:36:00
Like Sidney Ponson, we figured that a change in the old color scheme might do us wonders. Unfortunately, we're most likely still egotistical, obese and stuck with a fastball whose MPH is rapidly decreasing with each passing day. Nonetheless, we hope you all enjoy the interior decorating job and if there's any suggestions, have at it. --WVp.s.--If you haven't googled it already, the answer is an interior dasseiner. Get it? Neither did we.
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Stadium Catastrof#©k: A Lesson In Inevitability
2007-02-28 05:43:00
WV: Now, I know nothing about building stadiums but it seems like a good idea to secure the property first, right?RK: You would think.WV: It's like strapping on a condom before a blind date.RK: I'm reminded of Benjamin's essays on violence.WV: Ha, how's that?RK: Well, the state has a monopoly on legitimate violence, right?WV: Indeed.RK: So it just said we're taking this land, and yeah, we didn't do it correctly, but ti's gonna happen anyway. That's an act of violenceWV: Right, eminent do-fuckin'-main man.RK: Right, but they even screwed that part up. They're just straight taking the land.WV: You know, it's all the same. I'm no libertarian so if the government wants to defraud a bunch of greedy businessmen, so be it. My economic mindset pretty much revolves around what helps me...oh wait, I am a libertarian. Or a Yankee....RK: Yeah, in the grand scheme of things, this may essentially boil down to the following: a bunch of businessmen prospected the site for a new park and...
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Jumping The Gun
2007-02-26 05:19:00
Grandpa Bill, sheepish after his bourbon-induced rant last night, has decided to take a lighter approach and look at a few of the intriguing match-ups for the Twins coming up in April. Because like most men out there, I'd prefer to skip this foreplay we call Spring Training and dive right into the real thing. 2nd-4th: Baltimore Orioles WHY TO WATCH: Besides being the home opener, we can all marvel at the scowl on Miguel Tejada's face as he intensely tries to remember when he was last American League MVP (2002). He then wonders to himself if his recent lack of notoriety has anything to do with the docile, orange bird on his cap. WHY NOT TO WATCH: The 2nd and 3rd games may provide a poignant snapshot of the steep decline in starting pitching after Johan. I'm pretty sure that Ponson will run out of gas half way to the mound before even throwing warm-up pitches prior to the game. We can hope, though, that what's really inside his gut is Flubber, a green rubber-like form of energy t...
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Even A Broken Clock Is Right Once A Day
2007-02-25 05:33:00
We're anxiously awaiting the start of the season here at PAB, being that our only real comfort zone is making jackass remarks during the course of ballgames and then choosing a saviour or goat to praise and/or bury after the contest. It is to say, making small talk and throwing around spring training anecdotes infringes upon our non-sequitur line of commentary. And with columnist-cum-bloggers like La Velle E. Neal start providing us with such nuggets as a media softball game, replete with everything including Terry Ryan-taunting (did this really happen or is this a journalist's version of A Nightmare On Elm Street ?), how is a lowly blogger, who's main source of Twins info is other blogs, to compete? Well, if you're still reading and got this far, we must have something. Ragnarok? Likely. Or maybe it's that we're bringing Sexy Back . That's also likely, if not downright certain. That said, here's my somewhat serious thoughts (since I reserve my flippant ones for gametime...
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Diversification and Robust Portfolios
2007-02-12 21:51:00
Hey everybody, it's been a while! I figured I'd dust this thing off and let out a huge sigh of relief that Mighty Joe Mauer has been signed to a 4-year contract. But...Don't you wish Morneau had been offered a multi-year deal too?I don't want to alarm you, but pitchers and catchers report tomorrow. The season draws nigh, the times are upon us once again! RAGNAROK! (Oh wait, that's right, we're taking a long-term approach. We'll see how long that lasts as the fervor increases) I just get caught up in things so easily - I mean honestly, how can you watch just Die Hard when you've got Die Hard 2 just sitting there? How do you watch just a couple episodes of the Sopranos? How do you do the voodoo that you do so well?Here's an offer from us to you: do you have a facebook profile? Do you want to congregate with other people who are dysfunctional enough to read this site? Do you want some insight into the personal/professional/academic lives of the authors of this blog? Then log o...
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Oh Leroy, I Wish I Knew How to Quit You
2007-01-19 20:18:00
A warm cup of nostalgia is always sure to cure what ales ya, hence the appearance of a new post on Pulling A Blyleven. The Hot Stove has been decidedly frosty for the Twins thus far this off-season, prompting CNN.SI's John Heyman to generously grade Minnesota's little team that could a "D" for their winter transaction activity. Well--and speaking of nostalgia--that was before the news of Matt Lecroy inking a minor league deal surfaced. And we know how it happened too--Leroy , bamboozled by the open bar at Cuddy's wedding, stole Cuddles' cell phone and drunk dialed Terry Ryan in a mojito-induced haze. "You know Terry...if you don't mind me saying so...I think I forgot my throwin' arm in the Homer Dome's storage room next to the leftover Cristian Guzman bobbleheads...uh....what's that? Oh the belly..yeah, I didn't forget that." While Matty is a longshot to make the squad, perhaps he can be sent down to the Red Wings in time to defend his eating records at area Rochester eateri...
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Un-Dell? Sweet God
2006-12-29 23:17:00
There aren't very many things for which I like to come out of my alcohol-induced holiday coma (bringing families together since, I would imagine, about the beginning of time) - but the re-upping of Rondell? Sometimes I think Gardy just likes a challenge. Perhaps he accidentally told Terry how much fun it was digging themselves into a hole and then getting out of it and except for the whole getting swept by the properly punctuated A's thing, it was WAY AWESOME. Perhaps Terry got the wrong idea (Terry and I are best of friends, which is why I can use his first name like that - pictures from last Labor Day forthcoming, but let me tell you friends, they are a wild time!) Wait, where was I?Look, all I'm saying is that there's only so much pig blood that can be dumped on Gardy before he starts ruining everybody's prom night with the psychokinesis and whatnot.--RK
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Alternate 1985 Hill Valley -- UPDATE
2006-12-08 00:46:00
The glorious thing about being a Twins fan during the off-season Winter meetings is that one short blurb can pretty much sum up all of Terry Ryan's activity. Indeed, this 4-day orgy of gluttonous revery makes Liz Taylor's relationship to vicodin and Maker's Mark seem salubrious (That's right, I said salubrious instead of healthy. Big whup, wanna fight about it?). Initially I figured I would avoid commenting on the mess, being that calling baseball's GMs and owners out on their inane greed is akin to telling Nicole Ritchie she's got a weight problem...Oh ok, I know there's a line where edgy humor crosses over into inappropriate land. She should've thought of that before agreeing to do a Simple Life 5, am I right? So, now I've decided to wax critical (doesn't it seem weird when you don't say philosophical?) on baseball's annual swinger's party because Gil Meche happened. Wow, 55 million clams to a guy whose career ERA is 4.65? Deessspppeeerate. Seriously, Bud Selig proba...
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So Many Feelings
2006-11-21 21:31:00
Admiration!Canadian National Anthem! (Shut up, you can feel it)Schadenfreude!Triumph of good over the Antichrist from Kalamazoo!Honestly, you can blame a lot of things on Derek Jeter. Michigan's loss to THE Ohio State University (Troy Smith saw his permasmirk and thought, "How dare you. I will now go win the Heisman.") But can you believe JustIncredible has won the AL MVP? Who would have thought that (at least some) of the writers could unplug themselves from the Bos-Wash Sports Media Superstructure long enough to realize that Morneau truly deserved the accolade. Sure, Jeter had a career year. And that should tell you all you need to know about his career (as a hitter, mind you) on a stacked team.Tony Kornheiser will probably throw a fit on PTI, but only because Joe Namath didn't win and he only knows 3 athlete's names.But to be totally serious with you for a second, here's the rationale: would the Twins have done what they did without Morneau? (even down the stretch) The answer...
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That's a Prediction That Makes it Easy to Look Smart
2006-11-17 00:27:00
Everybody on the planet thought Johan would win the Cy Young? Well thanks for the hot tip, Quincy. I was hoping at least one sports writer would have had the chutzpah to throw in a Josh Beckett or a Kris Benson or a... um... Kelvim Escobar?IN THAT SAME VEIN, WE AT PULLING A BLYLEVEN OFFER YOU PREDICTIONS FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR:-It will be called "2007"-The Democrats will be in control of both houses of Congress-Robert will turn 25 sometime in August (yeah, it is kinda sad that this is the output you get from a supposedly fully functioning adult. Make s me want to drink too)-April showers will bring May flowers-Rush Limbaugh will pop some pain pills-Russel Crowe will assault or verbally abuse someone-The course will be stayed-In the quarterly war to see who can make the most ridiculous pizza, Dominos will win 3 out of 4, with the "upside down raw pizza" narrowly beating out Pizza Hut's "Spaghettio's 'n' corn pizza"-There'll be another British rock invasion. Again. Seriously. Every...
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Reading Too Much Into Something and Overuse of Acronyms
2006-11-15 20:56:00
We here at P.A.B., as much as our lack of posting proves otherwise, do pay attention to the news wire during the off-season. And no, it has nothing to do with the Vikings tanking and the...uh..what are they called again..oh yes, Timberwolves playing basketball. 1. Kiko places 3rd in R.O.Y. voting. The real issue that chaps my behind is that Neshek didn't get a single stinking vote. No, I'm not saying he should have been R.O.Y. But that delivery deserves something right? Anyways, back to Kiko. Well, he was International League R.O.Y. in 2005, so he'll have to be content with that for now. The third place finish is nice, but doesn't it sort of feel like getting a tax refund check a few days after being notified that you're being audited? 2. Gardy Finishes 2nd in M.O.Y. Voting. You know, if Gardy is given whatever talent 10 million extra dollars in payroll would afford like Leyland, we could be discussing him winning a World Series and an *already* well-deserved M.O.Y. award. But ...
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Oh word?
2006-11-05 06:32:00
Some commentary on recent moves not having to do with UCL replacement surgery: 1. Torii wins gold glove. In a world where the haves are the have nots, Little Nicky Punto would be hoisting an amorphous block of gold above his head instead of Sinn Fein. In a move that confirms that Rawlings Sporting Goods suckles from the same teet as the Augusta National Golf club, the status quo reigns supreme. As much of a homer that I am, it's difficult to argue that a man whose defensive limitations were painfully apparent LONG before his botched dive in the ALCS, is worthy of another defensive honor. That said, let's hope Torii avoids Fenway as much as possible this off-season and reverts back to a semblance of his old self next season. But, I've got 12 million bucks that say otherwise. 2. Gardenhire extensionIn a world where Kyle Farnsworth makes 5.5 million dollars, it's nice to see one of the good guys get his due. Ken Macha, whose winning percentage is close to Gardenhire's in a similar...
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*UPDATE* Thomas Edward John, Jr. Surgery and You! (Or: Oh Shit!)
2006-10-25 17:50:00
Before beginning this post, consider this list of names: Chris Carpenter, Mariano Rivera, John Smoltz, Tom Gordon: All pretty good pitchers who have succumbed to Thomas Edward John, Jr. surgery and come out ok. Carpenter, indeed, won a Cy Young a couple of seasons after jettisoning his bothersome ligament. This all brings me to everyone's favorte pie-in-the-sky, Kiko Liriano. Yeah, I called him Kiko. Big whup. Wanna fight about it? So his "rehab" isn't going well. That's not a shocking revelation. I could link to a previous post where we predicted that this would be the case, but every other blogger and armchair orthopedic surgeon did so as well back in September. Which, not coincidentally, should have been when this surgery decision was made. Rather than continuing the current course, I hope the Twins wrap him in a box, put an "Extremely Fragile" sticker next to the address label, and ship him straight off to Dr. Andrews in Birmingham. In this event, we can at least get Kiko ba...
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Things That Haven't Happened Since 2003
2006-10-22 22:21:00
---Yugoslavia has not existed.---Gray Davis has not been governor of California.---Catherine Zeta-Jones has not won an Oscar; and now dedicates herself to cell phone commercials.---Evanescence has not won a Grammy...or been seen. Get it? ---Brad Johnson has not won a Super Bowl. Look it up, it happened. ---Counting Crows, Kid Rock and Train have not had top 10 singles. Thank sweet Jesus. ---And until yesterday, the National League had not won a game in the World Series. So there you go, welcome back to the real world, National League. As impressive as Pujols and Rolen looked last night, I still look for Detroit to settle down and come back in this series. Verlander, the rookie he is, might have felt jittery and missed his spots. If he lets the cameras get close enough, look for Kenny Rogers to bring a veteran presence to the mound tonight and even up the series. In other news, we at Pulling A Blyleven wholeheartedly agree with the decision to extend Ron Ron's contract. Going to the...
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Impossible is Nothing--Both for Aleksey Vayner* and the Detroit Tigers
2006-10-15 02:24:00
*Your'e about to see a video about a senior at Yale named Aleksey Vayner. He sent this video to UBS as part of his resume. Keep this in mind. He wanted to use this video to secure a job as a finance banker But it was all a pack of lies, apparently. His 140mph serve, benching 495. The charity he's a CEO of is fake (and the copyright infringement may get him in even more hot water!) Anyway, we put this on here because we have severe Ivy League schadenfreude and because we like seeing bad people having bad things happen to them. He says he wrote a book about the holocaust in terms of gender studies - fabricated whole cloth. It's all on Gawker.com. Anyway, we put it up here so you could enjoy the stupidity and it's justifiably up here because he calls himself a professional athlete, and this is a sports blog, right? The difference between Vayner and us? Sure, we make stuff up. But we're not assholes.---RK CEO and Professional Athlete.Coincidentally, like Aleksey, the Tiger s hav...
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It's Not A Matter Of Life And Death: A Polemic
2006-10-14 02:00:00
On October 11th, somebody died far too young. Not much is known about Charles Wayne Holland II, from Rocky Mount, Virginia. He was 23, had a job, and probably was thinking what he wanted to do with his life. You don't know what his job was or anything about him because he didn't get paid millions of dollars to play a boy's game. You probably thought I was going to talk about Corey Lidle. I didn't know Charles or Corey, and as such, I can't speak to either of these two guys. But you know about Corey and you don't know about Charles. Why is that?Sure, we're in the realm of sports. But the death of a baseball player, active or not, the stuff of a panegyric does not make. The touching tributes to Buck O'Neil? Where are they? Is he still in your prayers? Are you really praying for Corey Lidle and his family? Do you pray for everybody who dies by their name?Look, I know this has the capacity to make me extremely unpopular, but it's my position that if it takes the death of an ath...
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They Can Talk!
2006-10-12 18:26:00
To prove that I neither have a face for TV nor a voice for radio, go and check out the latest episode of The Last Shot Podcast where I was brought in to assist in reviewing the Twins' 2006 season. Buen provecho. Episode 43, Last Shot Podcast --WV
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Oh Sweet Cheeks, I Could Never Quit You
2006-10-10 23:52:00
Hey, looks like we'll see Sinn Fein in a Twins uniform at least for the first part of next season. Let's hope a contract extension can be hammered out, but for now it's good to know that he'll be back in the spring.I'd put a link to the article, but I don't know how to do that... so what the hell good am I?Enjoy the baseball tonight!-RK
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Denouement
2006-10-08 18:01:00
RK: That really was a hell of a season. But a hell of a time to have the bats go totally silent. Ask the Jankees for more information.WV: At least we weren't paying somebody 20 million to go 1 for 14.RK: Right, but like you were saying before, it's because it's the postseason it's all magnified. When the offensive slump before the All-Star break happened in Texas, it was similar. Just a bad break here.WV: Bad break, but some positives if you squint hard enough. Justin Morneau, for example. Great defense, 5 for 16 on offense with 2 dingers.RK: Yeah, there was some decent production from the 3-7 guys. If only some of the pirantas had been on base for those blasts. All the homers were solo shotsWV: Right. The series wasn't totally out of our reach. Without a couple of errors and a few clutch 2-out hits and we might still be playing.RK: And that's what made this one tough. Some lapses in the team's strengths (bullpen, getting on base, defense) were hard to swallow.WV: Indeed, lik...
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Let's Make Some Space
2006-10-07 01:57:00
We're just going to take a step back. I was red in the face watching this game, between Bartlett's error, Torii's being safe, Radke leaving it all out there, we're going to wait for tomorrow to say anything. Rant all you want today, tomorrow is the catharsis.
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