Archive for December, 2010

ROCHESTER — Minnesota Twin’s legend Harmon Killebrew has released a statement reveling the 74-year old Hall of Famer has been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. “While my condition is very serious, I have confidence in my doctors and the medical staff and I anticipate a full recovery,” Killebrew said via his statement. Killebrew is currently undergoing treatment for his cancer at the Mayo Clinic. “The Mayo Clinic is one of the largest and most experienced medical centers treating esophageal cancer in the world. In the past decade, they have made tremendous advances in the treatment of this disease,” he said. ”(My wife) Nita [...]

I did a Minnesota Twins 2011 Season Preview guest post on the SeatGeek blog today. You can find Minnesota Twins tickets on SeatGeek, the leading ticket search engine that enables fans to discover the best deals for sports, concert, and theater events. You can go to the link above to read my post, and you can follow them on twitter here

If you tune into MLB Network tonight at 9 Eastern, you will get to see game 163 featured along side some of the other great games of the decade when MLB Network airs a new episode of MLB Network Countdown: Games of the Decade 2000-2009. Where will the game rank? Tune in to find out.

Obviously, it was a long time ago, but before he became one of baseball’s greatest villains (though he’s still a distant second behind Alex Rodriguez; at least Sox fans and A. J.’s teammates seem to like him a little bit); and before he was the centerpiece of one of the most lopsided trades in MLB history (though I think Brian Sabean may have gotten the last laugh), Anthony John Pierzynski was the Twins’ starting catcher. In honor of his recent re-signing with my least favorite team ever, he’s the Random Twin of the Week.

MINNEAPOLIS — First, they take away football and now the effects of the Metrodome roof collapse are hitting home for the Twins. Even thought they no longer play there, and even though they have escaped it’s clutches by building a new state of the art outdoor stadium, the Twins are still suffering because of the Dome. Although it won’t be a game that is cancelled, for thousands of fans, it mind as well should be. TwinsFest draws thousands of Twins fans from all over annually, and has become as important to the Twins as much as a regular season game [...]

Dear Bill Smith and co.: I’ve got a lot of problems with you people, and now you’re going to hear about it.

And as the 294th inductee to the Baseball Hall of Fame… Despite 11 years of getting snubbed… And being the voice of a ballclub to thousands… And being 2 time All-Star… And 2 time World Series champion… And being named AL Comeback Player of the Year in 1989… And throwing a no-hitter September 22, 1977…

For the first time in my brief blogging career, I have a full 10 man Hall of Fame ballot. And, as an added bonus, I actually got to submit a ballot for the Baseball Bloggers Alliance. My ballot here is going to differ slightly from the one I sent in there, because the Google doc that we voted on didn’t have one of the players on there (unless I had a total brainfart and missed it). When trying to conceptualize this post I had a few different ideas in mind, but I think I am going to break up my [...]

While we wait to find out whether Bert is going to get in or not, let’s look at all of the Twins already inducted in baseball’s Hall-of-Fame. In all, there are five Senators and three Twins enshrined in Cooperstown, though Bucky Harris was inducted as a manager, and Clark Griffith got in as an executive. Here’s a brief look at all of the inductees who got in as players:

MINNEAPOLIS — With the news coming down today that the Milwaukee Brewers have acquired Royals Cy Young Award winning pitcher Zach Greinke, Twins fans should feel no sadness over losing out on the sweepstakes. In fact the Twins may be getting something even better out of the deal: Carl Pavano. The Brewers were the main competition with the Twins for Pavano, with the two sides even having dinner in Wisconsin, much to the displeasure of Twins fans. However with the addition of the former Cy Young award winner, the Brewers not only have less of a need for Pavano, they have less money to [...]