Diaz Discourse: An Exclusive B&C Interview With Matt Diaz
Matt Diaz is baseball’s best hitter that you know nothing about. The Braves left fielder hit just under .340 last year and now in his sixth season in The Show, Diaz’s career average sits at a more...
View ArticleTeflon Twinkies: A Poll to Determine the Greatest Twins of the Metrodome Era...
The hot corner wasn’t much of a surprise, Gary Gaetti took it home in a landslide, bringing our roster to three: Teflon Twinkies CL Joe Nathan 1B Justin Morneau 3B Gary Gaetti That brings us to the...
View ArticleWednesday Walk Watch: Week fouW
With apologies to Ernest Thayer: “The air was crisp at the ‘yard that night, ‘Twas a chilly Seattle May. The home fans cheered in the starry light For the M’s to rule the day. In the ninth they...
View ArticleWednesday Walk Watch: Week fiWe
The bar, she has been set. And she has been set high. This Monday was May 11th. The season was more than a month old. Mother’s Day had come and gone, the May Day decorations were long put away, and tax...
View ArticleWednesday Walk Watch: Week sWix
Everybody poops. R.E.M. tells us that everybody hurts, and, if you believe the ads on TV, everybody needs a little KFC. Also, everybody walks. Eventually. No matter how many pitches they randomly hack...
View ArticleWednesday Walk Watch: Week seWen
The king has been crowned. Last week, Cristian Guzman earned the inaugural Last Man Standing (at the Plate) award with 121 consecutive walkless appearances to start the season. So are we done? Is that...
View ArticleWednesday Walk Watch: Week twentyWon
The King is dead; long live the King. A few short weeks ago, I didn’t think it possible. There’s no earthly way, I thought, that Benjie Molina manages to lose the What, Me Walky? race for the fewest...
View ArticleWednesday Walk Watch: Week tWenty-thWee
The 2009 season is hurtling to a close, and we’re down to brass tacks — or brash hacks, if you prefer — in the What, Me Walky? race. For most of the summer, it appeared that Giants backstop Benjie...
View ArticleTK’s Take: B&C Interviews Former Twins Manager Tom Kelly
“Twins Baseball” arrived with Graceville, Minnesota native Jay Thomas Kelly near the conclusion of the 1986 season, and culminated in a pair of World Series championships in 1987 and ’91. Kelly is the...
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