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Twins Batting Stances

This guy is impressive.

McKinnie Suspended

Out for first 4 games of the season for clubbin' and brawlin'. I think he had made 85 consecutive starts before this....

New Member Update!

Piranhas is in the building!!!

Welcome, amigo. The rules of the blog are on the right toolbar...check them out.

Always feel free to hate on RedDog 20/20.

Feel free to invite more people.

And try not to get too distracted from all that reading about THE LAW.

Steroids? Hall?

Right now, there are 7 'active' players with 500 or more home runs. Here is the list:

Barry Bonds 762
Sammy Sosa 609
Ken Griffey Jr. 609
Alex Rodriguez 546
Jim Thome 535
Frank Thomas 521
Manny Ramirez 517

Bonds and Sosa are not technically acitve, but neither has officially retired and are still looking for jobs. My question is, who on this list do you believe took steroids and who do you believe is a hall of famer?

Your 2008 Most Hated Starting Lineup

Your personal most hated players....all on one hateful team! Fill in the blanks...
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MLB Awards

Pick your award winners for this season: MVP, Cy Young

Eddie to the rescue...maybe

Finally, we get some good news about the Twins bullpen...the team aquired Eddie Guardado for a 'Hamgurger'. Anyways, with the Twins up 2-1 in the 8th last night Guardado came on and looks great, inducing three weak popups in a quick 1-2-3 half inning. Then, the usually automatic, Joe Nathan comes on to blow the save in the 9th. Twins end up losing when Crain gives up 2 runs in the bottom of the 11th. I still hate our f'n bullpen.

Vikings / NFL Predictions

With the NFL preseason well under way, what are everyone's predictions for how the Vikings will do this season? Pick your division and wildcard winners and also you superbowl matchup and champ as well.

Fantasy Football

Next Sunday at 2:15 we will be having a fantasy football draft. Details:

League - Bonzers Pub
Password - schooner
Website - espn.com
Red Dawg - gay

Twins over Angels in Series Opener

Nick Punto hit a lead off triple in the top of the 12th inning and was later driven in by a Denard Span single to give the Twins a 2-1 lead. Joe Nathan came on in the bottom to shut the door for the Twins. The Twins are now tied for the Wild Card and only a half game behind the Sox.

Booyah Naps!

GF Update

So, i've been gone for about a week and a half and was wondering whats happenin' up north. I hear we got swept the last softball game..figures since I wasn't there. Any good hook up stories? How was WeFest? Has our apartment become the North end Southgate? And why haven't you guys got Jay on here? Get on it

Who is your MVP?

you guys saw through my other one, so heres a new one:

Candidate 1: .292/.410/.514
25HR, 95R, 116RBI, 43SB
team record: 98-64, playoffs
gold glove, silver slugger

Candidate 2: .319/.363/.519
22HR, 94R, 86RBI, 10SB
team record: 94-68, playoffs
batting champ
Candidate 3: .302/.391/.492
18HR, 102R, 100RBI, 2SB
team record: 98-64, playoffs
silver slugger, all-star

Casilla off DL

Casilla took Bass's spot on the roster today after going 4-7 in a rehad stint in the minors. This should be a big boost for the Twinks, especially offensively, where Nick Punto is looking more and more like his 2007 self. With Casilla in the 2 hole playing 2B and Everett, Harris, Buscher and Punto alternating starts on the left side of the infield, I feel much better about our chances to make a run and do something in the playoffs.

I called it...

Anyone see 1st and 10 lately? Our boy, Skip, said Bolt's performance in the Olympics is more impressive than Phelps'. No further comment necessary.

Olympic Sports

Naps and I got in a drunken argument about this the other night (I know, weird). Anyways, my feeling is that the only sports that should be played in the olympics are the ones where winning a gold medal is the pinnacle of your sport. So, that means, basketball, baseball, tennis, soccer, (golf) should NOT be olympic sports. Just my opinion, and Naps, I already know yours.

What does everyone else think?

Lightning Bolt

Apparently 12% of ESPN viewers believe that Usain Bolt's world record in the 100 m dash was more impressive than Michael Phelp's 8 gold medals.

On a side note: Apparently 12% of ESPN viewers are complete retards.

add fox to the list of hated networks

i hate fox saturday baseball.

if you're going to steal three games a week, at least give people the option of which one they want to watch.

because fox needs to show three regional games, and not allow anyone else to broadcast those games, i am not able to watch the angels because they aren't in my region. and because fox owns the rights to those games, the mlb package that i pay for "to see every game in the country whenever i want" isn't allowed to show the game either.

could it get any worse? yes.

so they decide to show the twins game this week, not allowing me to watch it on fsn, where at least the booth guys know how to pronounce the players' names. (if i hear punto pronounced 'punt-o' one more time, i'm going to throw my laptop through the damn television).

oh yeah, let's not forget fox's sound issues. the one time the angels were on, there was no sound until the 7th inning. now, as i write this, my television volume is set to 60 so i can hear the god forsaken broadcast. 60? what's the big deal you say? well, i usually have the volume set somewhere around 18, so now when i change the channel, my ear drums just about explode if my thumb isn't quick enough to the volume button.

mlb network!!!! where are you!?!?!?!

How boring is South Dakota...

...you tell me!?

I'm calling it right now...

Skip Brainless and a number of other ESPN "journalists" will take away from Phelps' accomplishment by saying that he didn't break a world record in all of his races. True, but swimming is much deeper around the world than it was 36 years ago.

And those youtube videos below, well, I tried to post them literally about 3 weeks ago and the just popped up now.

Would you rather...?

...see Aaron Rogers suck it up this season or Brett Favre tear it up?

...see Adrian Peterson have a horrible season but stay healthy or have 3 great games then suffer a season-ending injury?

...watch the Twins lose to the Angels in the ALCS or the Cubs in the World Series?

...have your eyeballs glued open while a never-ending Dale Jr. interview with Tim Cowlishaw was on TV or while Woody Paige continuously kept modeling each wig/outfit he's worn on Around the Horn in his career?

...give Steve Phillips a Cleveland Steamer or John Kruk a Cincinnati Bowtie?

Who had top year?

Candidate 1: .321/.375/.559
34HR, 97R, 130RBI, 3SB
team record: 96-66, playoffs
Silver Slugger

Candidate 2: .287/.413/.636
54HR, 115R, 137RBI, 1SB
team record: 86-76
Silver Slugger, All-Star

Candidate 3: .315/.385/.622
44HR, 103R, 120RBI, 7SB
team record: 90-72
Silver Slugger, All-Star

Candidate 4: .270/.381/.545
39HR, 77R, 114RBI, 0SB
team record: 93-69, playoffs
about 100 less ABs than the rest,

Candidate 5: .343/.414/.483
14HR, 118R, 97RBI, 34SB
team record: 97-65, playoffs
Silver Slugger, Gold Glove, Hank Aaron Award, All-Star

Candidate 6: .277ERA, .997WHIP
233.7IP, 245K, 47BB, 1CG
team record: 96-66, playoffs
Cy Young Award, Triple Crown, All-Star

Thought some of you might appreciate this...

Guess who?

Stretch Run

We're Comin!...to the stretch run of this baseball season. Midway through August and division battles are heating up. What's everyone's opinion on how things will shape up? Tight races in the AL East and Central, and all of the NL divisions....

I think that the injuries to Longoria and Crawford are really going to hurt the Rays and expect them to fade coming down the stretch. I expect the Red Sox to leap frog them in the division and then the Twins to do the same in the Wild Card, which would lead to a very ugly week at apt. 215 with the Angels and Twins going at it in the ALDS.

As for the NL, which I really don't care about because they are a second rate league...I think the struggling Mets bullpen will cause them to lose ground to the Phils and Fish, and I pick the Marlins (who would have guessed they would be in the race this late??) Central goes to the Cubbies with the Brew Crew winning the Wild Card. The addition of Manny is going to push the Dodgers to the playoffs.

he's comin...

Phelps vs. Thorpedo

Phelps is REDiclulously good. He absolutely murured the field in the 200 Free yesterday and lowered his own world record. This with Ian Thorpe in the stands watching. Thorpe was quoted as saything that he doubts Phelps' ability to even match Spitz's 7 golds, much less pass him. We'll c about that Mr. Thorpe. If you want to talk shit, come out of retirement so you can get "smashed" just like the dirty French.

Already tied for the most golf medals of all time, Phelps is 3 for 3 this year with his toughest race, the 4 X 100 free relay, (in terms of winning the gold) out of the way. He is favored in all of his remaining races. The only questionable race might be the 100 butterfly, where fellow American Ian Crocker could present some competition, but I don't see it happening for Crocker. This seems to be history in the making here and we are all privlileged to witness it.

I hate the French

How sweet was it watching the anchor from the American relay team chase down the dirty French bastard that said their team was going to "crush" the Americans? That last 50 meters has to go down as one of the best swimming performances of all-time. Please comment, especially the ex-swimmers.

Favre Trade Details

link - to - report

Deatails of what the Packers get in return for Favre.

P.S. The weather is pretty nice our here in SoCal, in case you all were wondering...

Already agitated by football announcers

I've only seen two preseason football games so far this season, but I'm already sick of Tony Kornheiser in a football booth.
Who is the genius who says we need an "Ordinary Joe" in the booth to offset the play by play (Mike Torico) and the boring football mind (Ron Jaworski)?
They tried it with Dennis Miller. I don't like it.
Kornheiser is not funny. He's not a great football mind. What's he bringing to the table here?
It almost makes me yearn for the third-rate FOX announcers the Vikings always draw? Curt Menefee and Joe Blow Baldinger or whatever their names are.
Fuck I hate bad announcers. And Brett Favre.

Coincidence???

Liriano gets called up and Twins take over sole position of first place in the Central in his first start. Coincidence??

Well probably, but Liriano looked pretty good, pitching 6 scoreless innings with 5 Ks, 3 hits, and 3 walks. Maybe I was wrong about the rag tag infield, maybe we can still win this way. But I'm still worried about that bullpen, hopefully we can pick someone up off waivers.