Twins officially DEAD.

White Sox Suck

Well, at least we can devote all of our energy to the Halos now.

The Twins are Dead.....Again

I really have a terrible feeling about this game tomorrow. I don't like the Twins chances. Blackburn has been pitching on fumes since August and the Twins are a dismal 2-7 in Chicago this year. Doesn't seem promising. I hope I'm wrong. Maybe I am. After all this Minnesota team isn't the Vikings who always seem to manage to choke down the stretch in some absolutely heart breaking way.

But hey, either way, still an increadible year and the future seems very bright with a young, talented starting rotation and outfield with a couple of perrenial all-stars / MVP candidates leading the way.

Lets hope they can pull it off tomorrow night, but I'm not gonna get my hopes up. But I will say that my hopes are sky hight for next year and the years to come.

New Head Coach Talk

So if this guy actually does end up getting fired....

Who would you like to see brought in? We're talking realistic guys on the market for head coaching jobs.

Like Monkeys F***ing a Football

"You've got to be kidding me!" of the game: Brad Childress

Playoff Picture

Here are the possibilities (assuming the Rays win the East):

(WC)Red Sox @ (W)Angels
(C)Twins/White Sox @ (E)Rays

(WC)Mets @ (C)Cubs
(W) Dodgers @ (E) Phillies
or
(WC)Brewers @ (E) Phillies
(W) Dodgers @ (C) Cubs

White Sox....Dead.

Call 'em what you want...

Stained, run through the wash with the reds, in the dirty clothes hamper, smelly, sweaty, got a couple holes in them, your mom mismatched them with a different pair, hard and crusty from sitting in your gym locker for a month, whatever...

The White Sox are Dead.

Celebrity Look-alikes

Watching the game last night, I realized that Grant Satrom could be Justin Morneau's long lost brother. Then, just now, i was on cubs.com and saw that Rich Harden is pitching tonight. His profile picture might as well be Marty Johnson. Anybody got any others?

THE TWINS ARE COMIN!!!!!!!!!!

1/2 GAME, HOMEBOY!

WHITE SOX.....STAINED!
RED SOX......BLEACHED!
RAYS.......STUNG!

WE'RE COMIN!!!

MNF crew

Me and Naps are sitting around ripping on Tony Kornheiser or however you spell that jackass' name. And I felt this would be an appropriate blog topic.
Why does Monday Night Football feel they need to have this "common man" feel to the booth?
I think it's almost insulting. Like we "need" Kornheiser to dumb football down enough for all of us to understand it.
Before him it was Dennis Miller, John Madden, Dan Deer Dork (or Deirdorf) and Boomer Esiason. All douche bags. The comedy is forced (Miller) or the commentators are just bumbling idiots (Madden, Deer Dork).
I've rarely had a problem with the play-by-play guy whether it was Al Michaels or Mike Torico. I also like the "football mind" guys. Jaws, Dan Fouts, Joe Theismann.
It's the "funny" guy who I always hate.
So I pose this: Who would you like to see in the booth with Torico and Jaws? Or would you just like two guys? Or are you frickin retarded enough to like Tony Kornhole? Weigh in, friends, weigh in.

Easy as Ping Pong

Gus Frerotte is Comin!!!

Since we've already dipped into the topic...

Let's play the free agent game!

I'll give you the future free agent, you tell me who he's going to play for next year.

Pudge Rodriguez
Jason Varitek
Nomar Garciaparra
Mark Teixeira
Orlando Hudson
Orlando Cabrera
Casey Blake
Joe Crede
Milton Bradley
Pat Burrell
Adam Dunn
Raul Ibanez
Manny Ramirez
Juan Rivera
Rocco Baldelli
Bobby Abreu
Ryan Dempster
John Garland
Derek Lowe
Andy Pettite
C.C. Sabathia
Ben Sheets
Frankie Rodriguez
Kerry Wood

*List does not include anyone with a club option, nor does it include middle relievers.
**I also just picked the guys I felt were worth the discussion.

David Ortiz

I'm watching the morning Sportscenter and Mike & Mike in the Morning, and they just showed the highlights from last nights Red Sox beat down at the hands of the Rays. In a 6-2 game in the third inning, Gabe Gross knubs one back toward pitcher Javier Lopez. He can't control it, and Willie Aybar scores giving the Rays seven runs with two outs in the bottom of the third. The next camera shot is of David Ortiz shaking his head in disgust as his pitcher couldn't make the play. David Ortiz is so bad that he is yet to take the field this season! How is some big ogre that has started less games in the field than Ryan Braun fit to judge anybodys fielding ability? Go down the tunnel and get in the cage or else get on the phone and call Fred McGriff, maybe he has an old Tom Emanski video lying around for you.

Big Z's no-no

Sunday night when Zambrano blanked the astros, he became the third venezuelan to throw a no-hitter. American-born pitchers have thrown the most no-nos. The dominican republic have also had three pitchers not allow a hit in a game. Can you name the two countries that have had two pithers throw no-hitters?

BREAKING NEWS

T-Jack is benched, and Gus will be the starter barring injuries for the rest of the season. Thoughts and comments...

Twins...DEAD!!

After suffering another superbly frustrating defeat, the Twins find themselves 2.5 games back of the ChiSox with 11 games to go. Really tough one to swallow, but even if the Twins found a way to make the playoffs, they wouldn't have been a factor anyway. So, I propose to you guys, what off season moves should the Twins make to be better next year?? Does Punto stay or go? What to do with Cuddyer?? Which scrub veterans are we going to bring in for "leadership"?? Do we need another quality arm?? Are we ever going to find a power hitting 3rd basemen?? Have at it...

Fire Brad Childress

Let's see everyone's prediction as to when Chili will be fired.

Rams

St. Louis has to be considered in the poll for worst team in the NFL. They've been pathetic in the first two. They made Donovan McNabb look like a capable QB in the first game.

I'm back

I'm going to reannounce my presence with authority.
Typical Minnesota Vikings ineptitude has brought me out of temporary retirement.
The Minnesota Vikings would lose this way. A bad team, a normal bad team, say the St. Louis Rams, would have lost 35-14 to Peyton Manning's Colts. They would have rolled over and taken their whooping like a real bad team does.
Not the Vikings. The Vikings have to torture you for a little bit. THey have to give you that little bit of hope that they can actually pull this off. The Vikings are the worst kind of bad team. They lose, and they make it sting a little while they're at it.
Once again, it was T-Joke leading the charge. It's real damn bad sign in the NFL when you're a better quarterback outside of the pocket than in it. That means the only way you're any fricking good is if you're running for your life. You have the best running back in the world behind you to free up space for the passing game, and you still can't throw a touchdown pass.
I'll give Jackson this, though: He doesn't have a whole lot of receiving targets to pick from. Bernard Berrian is the field-stretcher? Yikes. Visanthe Shiancoe is your red-zone option? crap. Then again, let's get real. Jackson would find a way to screw up the 1998 corps of Randy Moss, Cris Carter and Jake Reed.
This Viking team would have to go 8-6 now the rest of the way just to finish at. 500. They might do that. They might rattle a few wins off solely on the play of their defense. They'll have people in the Twin Cities drinking the purple Kool-Aid.
But don't forget; this is the kind of bad team that likes to bait its fans into hope just to make the failure sting a little more.

Cooked, Steamed, Simmered

"You've got to be kidding me" of the game: Brad Childress

Go ahead, let it out...

College Football

College football is gay.

Simple question...

If the Bucs are looking to get rid of Garcia, should the Vikes go after him?

Ya, I'm calling YOU out Squints

So Mr. big bad Herald sports writer gets his own blog, and now he doesn't have to post on here any more?? What the hey?? How hard is it to write a high school football story any way?? Stop creepin out the high school girls at the volleyball matches and get back on We're comin, we're comin.

The final stretch...

So we all made our pre-season and mid-season predictions as to how we thought the mlb season would pan out. Well now its time for a quick rundown of where the teams are actually at and your chance to give a final home-stretch analysis of what you think is going to happen.

AL East:
Tampa Bay has a 1.5 game lead over the Sawx going with about three weeks to play, while Toronto has taken a lead over the Yankees for third in the division (they've won 10 in a row). Boston seems to be closing in fast...can the Rays fight them off for the division???

AL Central:
Chicago has a single game lead over the Twins, which is both lucky for them and ridiculous for Minnesota. Chicago has sustained injuries to Contreras, Quentin, and now Konerko, and has been giving the Twins about every opportunity in the world to take the lead in the division by a few games. Unfortunately, Minnesota's bullpen had their own agenda, which consisted of blowing what seems like 10 late game leads in the past two weeks.

AL West:
Angels failed to reduce the magic number to 1 last night. Lead division by 16.5. Nuff said. The only thing giving them any sort of motivation at this point is the fight for the best record in baseball and home field advantage throughout the playoffs.

NL East:
The Mets are holding on to a 2.5 game lead over the Phils and are hoping the don't duplicate their monumental choke job from last year. For some reason, I don't think they are going to let that happen again, but then again, they are the Mets.

NL Central:
Chicago has been struggling of late, but still maintains a 4.5 game lead over the Brewers. If they maintain their division lead, they have pretty much sealed home field for the first couple rounds of the playoffs. Milwaukee, on the other hand, is fighting for a playoff spot for the first time in, like, 20 years with about a 3 game lead over the Phillys in the wild card. This could be an interesting race...

NL West:
The Common Man's division: the best of the lousy, and the lousiest of the best. The Dodgers have opened up a 2.5 game lead over the D-Backs recently and are looking to steal some of the Angels thunder, being LA's other team in the playoffs. Its probably going to come down to pitching out west, being that both offenses (other than Dunn and Ramirez) pretty much suck. This one could be a toss up, as there is no real clear favorite. One would have to give the Dodgers the upper hand right now, simply because of their lead with time running out.

Alright, your turn. How is the playoff race going to play out? Who makes it? Who just misses is? Who wins it all?

TARvarisED and FEATHERED

"You've got to be kidding me" of the game: Tarvaris Jackson

LA Angels Front Office PG

the best hitler parody i've seen to date.

Twins Rant

Some things i'm sick of seeing:
Alexi Casilla softly foul out to 3rd or 1st. He did it twice in the game last night. His swing is "looping" which causes him to make terrible contact. He has not been what he was earlier since coming off the DL.

3rd basemen make trowing errors to 1st. I know, i know this might sound very hypocritical considering my struggles playing third, but c'mon, these guys are big leaguers. Tolbert last night and Buscher consistently make great stops and proceed to lob the ball over to 1st. Throw the ball hard!! Morneau is above average defensively and a big freakin Canadian. At least give him a chance to dig it out of the dirt...

Joe Nathan blowing saves. Not for sure, but has he blown three in a row?? He is by far our most rested arm in the bullpen, so why is he struggling so much against the M's, the A's, and the Jays? In the game last night he was facing a rookie with 10 MLB at bats for the 3rd out. He gets ahead of the guy 1-2 and proceeds to try to fool him on off speed pitches. Blow this rook away with the heater!!!!!!!!!!! One of the best closers in baseball is trying to fool a rookie!?!?!? Throw the cheese and challenge him!!! AH!!!!!!!!

At least the Chi-Sox are faltering as well, but the Twins better figure it out or they will be golfing in October.

Team Name and Logo Ranking

Alright, I want to hear your top five favorite professional sports team names and your top five professional sports team logos. Two separate lists. You must stick to baseball, basketball, football, and hockey.

If you're feeling up to it go ahead and give your top three NCAA team mascots and logos.