Random: John Mayer, the new Vin Scully
From NESW Sports, via Awful Announcing, comes a video that is, well, pants-wettingly funny. It’s apparently John Mayer doing play-by-play of the Red Sox-A’s game in Japan, and it’s funny because,...
View ArticleMLB: Brian Runge fans continue to get money’s worth
You might remember Brian Runge from last week; he was the rabbit-eared umpire at the center of the Brendan Harris incident, in which Runge called a third strike on Harris despite the latter asking for...
View ArticleMLB: Brian Runge forgot to call "No Comeuppance"
The postscript to the Brian Runge, Worthless Umpire story from earlier this week: Runge’s been suspended a game by Major League Baseball for bumping Jerry Manuel. From the Associated Press: Umpire...
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MLB: Rays Fans Celebrate!
I thought this was nice – the Rays held a gathering this morning, where they spared no expense to get every die-hard Rays fan together. Every person that has lived and died for this team, sweated and...
View ArticleMedia Watch: Baseball writers finally acknowledge internet exists
The Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA), for those of you uninitiated, is the notoriously old-boys-network, hidebound organization that regularly screws up the Baseball Hall of Fame voting....
View ArticleThe Uninformed Fan’s Guide to the World Series
This week at Twinkie Town, I take a research-free look at the St. Louis – Texas World Series. I haven’t seen the Cardinals play, and I can’t remember much about the Rangers except for the night they...
View ArticleA Baseball News Roundup, Illustrated With Lists
This morning at Twinkie Town, I looked outside the Minnesota news sphere for once, at the things making news around baseball. Since this is still me writing at Twinkie Town, though, I couldn’t help but...
View ArticleWeekend Links
NOTE: This appeared first at RandBall, your home for Vegas trips. The Twins have had three games canceled this week, leading to some down-the-road scheduling problems, including a pretty good...
View ArticleTwinkie Town: MLB announces steroids gone from baseball
I was a little surprised how self-congratulatory everybody in baseball was for the Biogenesis suspensions that came down last week. And so, to the satire machines! (/cranks up satire machine) (/sound...
View ArticleThe Weekend Lowdown: A new format
Changing it up at RandBall this week, with a touch of a new format. I first went to Safeco Field in Seattle in 2006. At the time, I had been to very few major-league parks; I’d been to the Metrodome,...
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