Courtney Cronin

You may or may not recognize the name, but Courtney is an ESPN staff writer that followed the Vikings draft.

All I can say is, "Wow! She knows her stuff."

Her analysis  of our offensive line needs , and the draft overall was amazing and spot on. If you have a chance look her articles up. She covered this better than anyone.

Twins Blown Out

Again.

Twins Win One!

And Buxton is out with a broken big toe.

8 Straight Losses

This looks like it's going be a nightmare season...

Rodney Painful

When a 60-year old (or so) closer comes into the ninth with a 3-1 lead, you shouldn't expect more than what you get.

The final 4-3. The losing streak is now at 7.

heavy sigh

Minnesota Sports

The Wolves eliminated. The Twins on a 6-game losing streak.

Not much to talk about.

Twins Lose Again

8-3.

The pitching is dead.

Twins Blasted by Yankees

14-1.

sigh

Wolves Blasted by Rockets

Ricky Rubio?

His new team, the Jazz, now have a 3-1 lead in their playoff series with the Thunder.

sigh

Twins

26 runs given up on the weekend. They lost all three.

sigh

Twins Tanked

Just awful.

Wolves Sink The Best Team In the League

AND...

...they looked GOOD doing it.

That's the first playoff win for the Wolves in a really, really long time.

More, please!

Twins Comeback, Lose Stupidly

sigh

And the Wild were eliminated last night, too.

sigh

Pujols

Albert Pujols got his 600th homer last year, and he's within 10 hits of 3,000. He'll probably get his 2,000th RBI this year, too.

But reading an article about him, yesterday, made me admire him more.

He has never struck out 100 times in a season.

For a guy known for his power, that stat is amazing. Yes, he's more than a power hitter. His .305 lifetime batting average tells us that. But when guys that big swing that hard and don't have a 100 strikeout season on their resume, that's really impressive.

17 years in the majors and no failed drug test, either. I'm rooting for this guy. I always have.

Twins win 2-1 in 16 innings!

Lots of pitching. Nobody even scored until the 14th!

Houston Crushes Wolves

It's nice to get to the play-offs, but it'd be even nicer to do something with the opportunity.

Wild Lose

They're down 3 games to 1 to the Jets. I don't think they're coming back from this.

Twins Lose

No big deal. Cleveland is great and they had three days off, too. Corey Kluber and a rested Indian bullpen.

The Twins didn't have a chance.

Baseball

With the Twins held hostage by winter, I figure I'd talk a little about Bartolo Colon.

The Twins got the biggest, oldest pitcher in baseball last year as a stop-gap. I questioned the decision, but his last few starts last year were spectacular. He's pitching for the Rangers this year, and had a perfect game going into the eighth inning against Justin Verlander and the Astros Sunday night on ESPN.

Neither stater got the win as the game went 10 innings.

But Colon this year? 1.45 ERA in 18 innings so far. Still throwing primarily fastballs.

He'll wear out someday. Not just yet, though.

Not just yet.

Wolves Lose

They outscored Houston in the second half, though...

Snowed Out

As I type this at 7:05 Sunday morning, it's still snowing. Snowblowers went through late yesterday by friendly neighbors and it is all blown in again.

Best guess at this point? Well over a foot of snow, which makes over 2 feet of snow in April, with another 6 inches or so predicted for Wednesday.

It took President Trump a year to fix the economy and only two years to fix global warming.

Go Trump!!!

Twins

Because of weather, the Twins didn't play last night. They most likely won't play today, and they might not get tomorrow's game in either.

And they have Monday AND Tuesday scheduled as off days.

And then they play Cleveland on Wednesday in Puerto Rico!

Baseball is not what it once was.

On the other hand, the Wild finds themselves down 2-0 in their playoff series.

Somethings never change.

The Wolves? They start their series with Houston, the team with the best record in the NBA this season, on Sunday night.

Does anybody REALLY expect an upset in that one?

Minnesota Sports

It's been a nice run for Minnesota sports lately. EVERYBODY made the playoffs in the last year.

The Wild and Wolves are still playing. The Lynx took the WNBA crown. The Vikings made it to the NFC championship game. And the Twins are taking up where they left off last season.

Go Minnesota!

Twins Win! Mauer number 2000!!

Berrios had 11 strikeouts in 7 shutout innings.

The other three games with the Sox this weekend? We'll see what the weather produces.

Bottom Of The Ninth, Two Outs...

...Kepler hits his second home run of the game.

Twins Win! Twins Win! Twins Win!

A pretty good start to the season. Now if the weather would only start cooperating...

Wolves!

For the first time in 14 years, the Wolves have clinched a playoff spot. In OT, on the last day of the season, against the other team going for that same spot. The last 6 minutes of game time and 5 minutes of O.T.? That took 47 minutes of real clock time.

That really needs to be fixed.

But congrats to the Wolves. 14 years is a long time!!

Seniors in highschool ready to graduate weren't even in kindergarten yet the last time the Wolves made the playoffs.

It's no wonder an entire generation of Minnesota fans had lost interest.

Odorizzi, Twins Win

That was a real long, cold game, but Odorizzi got his first win as Brian Dozier walked 4 times.

I'll take it. Today's game should be much warmer.

Minnesota Sports

The Wolves won last night. Wednesday is their last game of the season. Only ONE playoff spot is open, and that spot will either go to the Wolves or the Nuggets.

Did I mention the last game of the season is at home against the Nuggets?

It's basically a one game play-off to see who makes it to the post season. The loser is done for the year.


The Twins lost on the frozen tundra again last night. Their games would be much more comfortable to watch if the temperature was above freezing.

Japanese Babe Ruth

I mentioned that he had hit home runs in three straight games a couple of days ago,

He gave up one hit in seven shutout innings yesterday.

This guy is so cool...

Minnesota

The Twins got clobbered in the cold yesterday.

The Wolves still have not secured a play-off spot. And may not, with the Nuggets on such a roll.

The Wild have secured a spot in the play-offs and have had a winning record, now, for six straight seasons. They never get far enough to brag, though.

Minnesota Duluth? They won the NCCA hockey championship last night! Go Bulldogs!!

Japanese Babe Ruth

During the off-season, I mentioned that the Twins were after Japan's greatest prospect in years. Not only could he hit, he was very good at pitching as well. As a result he was nicknamed the Japanese Babe Ruth.

He ended up signing with the Angels.

His home run streak is now 3 games.

sigh

Twins!

Three more home runs. A bullpen that hasn't given up a run in 4 games!

All that and the men's gold-medal Olympic curling team throwing out the first pitch (all five of them, horribly)!

Go Twins!!

Dozier!

The Twins rallied to win yesterday and Dozier now has 4 homers in five games.

It was cold and snowing most of the game. I guess that gets them ready for the upcoming home stand.

Lots of Cold And Snow

The Twins home opener is tomorrow. Predicted high? 37.

I still think they should have a dome. This next week is going to be rough baseball weather.

They finish with Pittsburgh today. I still don't understand planning a day off between a two-game series, especially this early in the season. Today should have been the travel day...

Twins 2-2 On The Season

That first inning was disappointing.

The Twins outscored the Pirates 4-0 the rest of the way.

And Dozier blasted another one.

But we still lost.

sigh

Berrios!

Complete game, 3-hit shutout.

4 more home runs! Dozier got TWO.

STILL no runs given up by the starters.

Go Twins!

Twins!

A no-hitter into the eighth. No earned runs by starters so far.

And the offense is showing some life with THREE solo homers: Sano, Castro, and Kepler.

WHOOO!!!