Bob CollinsStar Tribune columnist Patrick Reusse appears to have stepped in it again with a column today in which he lambastes the Minnesota Twins players for celebrating when they win a game. The Star Tribune sports department must be an utterly joyless place because this is the sort of thing that Reusse says is shameful. Parents: Read more →
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Tomorrow night, people will sacrifice their children to give him polite applause and then, like Ortiz, they’ll move on.
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A wild ending gives the Twins another win in Seattle. Read more →
Why do baseball teams have people sitting on chairs in foul territory? This is why. Read more →
None of the young players are getting any better, none of the trades from the front office worked, the baseball season could, for all practical purposes, be over by Sunday afternoon in Minnesota.
But at least the Pohlad family is happy.
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The Twins and the company that runs the concessions at Target Field have bused in workers from Chicago and Milwaukee to fill the jobs at the concession stands. Read more →
Baseball long ago figured out if you feed reporters, they’ll write just about anything you want them to, and miss the story you don’t want them to write. Read more →
Pitchers and catchers reported for spring training yesterday, in preparation for the return of the last remaining sport in which fans don’t have to get hammered to enjoy it.
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Rod Carew is 70, a fact that’s a cold bucket of water in the face for baseball fans who idolized the Minnesota Twins and California Angels hitter, one of the best pure hitters in the history of baseball.
So perhaps it shouldn’t surprise us that his health is in peril, and yet it does. Read more →
The chess pieces are moving over at Target Field and some of them are beginning to point to the beginning of the post-Mauer era. Read more →
Torii Hunter has announced that he’s retiring with plenty of baseball accomplishments to admire. But at least for his legacy, he made a fatal mistake. He answered a question honestly, and he talked about his religious beliefs.
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Nothing makes you feel older than when the baseball players of your childhood die. Read more →
David Ortiz, the former Minnesota Twin, provided the opportunity for Twins fans to wonder what might have been last week when he hit his 500th homerun, pretty much guaranteeing him a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
That’s 442 homeruns more than he hit for the team that gave up on him when it released him in December 2002. Read more →
It was ‘tear your heart out night’ at Target Field last night, and that was before the Twins and Indians played.
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All Colin McLain of Brainerd wanted last night is to spend a nice night at the ballpark with his daughter.
But it was a rainy day and fans outstate no longer have the luxury of a domed field, you may have heard.
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