Secrets of the City

Great choice, Matt. If a guy can’t talk a little baseball on a beautiful Friday, what’s the point in livin’? Diablo Cody’s been done enough (probably not in her estimation). Any band that stays in these backwaters isn’t going to make it big, anyway.

And we still have the Twins. That gives us a leg up on Omaha.

As far as I’m concerned, baseball talk is always welcome. I have a feeling MNSpeak is in no danger of ever resembling a locker room.

where did my comment go? Oh well. Thanks Dave.

Liriano. 6.2IP, 12K

good lord he’s off to an amazing start.

They have better steak, and, um, a great zoo.

Don’t tell too many people. Omaha could never handle the exodus from the Twin Cities south.

What, no love for Balls?

I hate the guy in my fantasy league who picked up Liriano last year (it’s a keeper league).

Coming back on the plane Thursday night, the guy sitting next to me was paging through a couple fantasy league magazines. Someone asked him if they do any good. He said no. There’s too much raw information and nothing in them about what’s inside the players’ head.

Here’s another good one.

(Okay, actually I know nothing about basesball, and this is my cousin, but strangers have told me he’s really good.)

No trash talk on Omaha, the home of the College World Series, where I saw Dave Winfield, Reggie Jackson, Tom Seaver, Pat Burrell and more, play as mere college kids. Also saw Bob Gibson as a minor leaguer when I was eight. The barbecue on the patio is great, and the zoo is just behind the right field fence. T

Will’s win-probability charts are awesome in the dorkiest way possible.

Omaha was my home for six years. And, but for all the oversized people in red jackets and sweaters, I really enjoyed it.

Break up the Twins. Four in a row, and how sweet to beat Mussina.

If the Twins take this series, they may actually get some coverage in the major sports media.

Because for them, it’s all Yankees, all the time. And a little Red Sox.

The Twins have always been the darlings of the press, though. Every year for the last 5 or 6, at least a few ESPN or Sports Illustrated guys have picked them to go all the way.

Wake me up when the Vikings hit Mankato for the start of training camp — then I’ll hit the snooze a couple times until that last week of preseason games.

I liked it when ESPN magazine called the Twins “The team that saved baseball.”

But face it, if you’re watching day-in-day out television or catch a sports update on the fly, it’s Yankees and Red Sox.