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I do not believe in hyperbole. I don’t even really believe in praise. On July 22 after an 0-3 performance in a 16-1 loss to the Oakland A’s, Joe Mauer’s batting average dipped to a season low .357 In his first 45 games Mauer hit .417 with 14 home runs and 42 RBI, he was slugging .744 [...]

Notes on a (little, but nice) winning streak, with a quick look at the somewhat mind-boggling RBI production of Brendan Harris

After going 5-2 to start inter-league play this season the Twins dropped two disappointing games at home to the Houston Astros to fall one-game under .500 at 35-56 and four games behind the Tigers in the AL Central. Since that game the Twins are 8-4 having won four consecutive series, including this weekend against the division [...]

Finding a way to live: a few thoughts on grandma’s, happiness, baseball, gambling, drinking, smoking, kitchen’s, friends, children, parents, love, life and death.

1. I was 12-years-old when my grandfather Dennis Poduska died. It was my first experience with death and, as most first experiences go, I was bad at it. After the burial as everyone was walking from the grave to their cars I turned to my uncle and said something along the lines of, “Well, at least now Grandpa [...]

A Long Time Gone

We at Twinscast would like to apologize for our continued and perpetual absence on both the website and the podcast. It has been a hectic and personally trying month for the two of us - both professionally and existentially. Starting next week we will be back with regular site updates and regular twice-a-week shows. Until then, enjoy Joe [...]

Finding success in the face of failure

Through 21 games the 2009 Twins season is already starting to gain a certain impressive level of disjointedness. This is nothing new if you’ve followed the Twins at all through this millennium. The 2000’s for the Twins have essentially been one long succession of disjointed successes and failures that have nonetheless allowed the Twins front office [...]

Rule of 10

I have a certain rule in life that I follow (one of two rules) whereby I try not to judge anything until I have absorbed it 10 times. This rule stands for most anything (except books, no one can read a book 10 times unless it’s a children’s book) CD’s, movies, friends, family members, co-workers, [...]

Trying to live in the here and now

Over the past week I have seen an inordinate amount of predictions regarding the 2009 baseball season and the Minnesota Twins. All of them are predicated on something, I just have no idea what. Baseball Prospectus predicted that the Twins would once again finish neck-and-neck with the Chicago White Sox in the AL Central, with the [...]

Crede signs

According to La Velle E. Neal III the Joe Crede signing is a done deal. The Twins and Crede danced around one another for about two months and seemed to reach an impasse a week ago when the Twins were not willing to bring their offer up to Crede’s desired one-year $7 million contract. So, [...]

Off-season recap

Ed. Note: Twinscast.com has been experiencing technical difficulties when it comes to uploading episodes onto the website. Bryant Johnson, our technical director, has proven rather incompetent at fixing this problem but the recent episodes - for the eight people who listen - are currently available on iTunes, and we are working towards getting the problem [...]