It's sort of sad that the Twins will never win another baseball game. I was a fan of the occasional win, but if I can't have that, I guess watching errors and strikeouts will have to get me by.
I'll be listening to this one, driving to Brainerd on a road trip with the wife. Since this one is obviously impossible, let's at least make it close.
Gomez vs Swizzlestick, who seems to be our best starter lately. Who knows, maybe we'll only lose by three?
We've entered 1993-2000 territory. We've entered (Rhu_Ru, close your ears) Ron Davis territory. This was a staggering fall from grace, dudes.
Ezra Sutton (1850)
Shiki Masaoka (1867)
Willie Sudhoff (1874)
Frank Schulte (1882)
Sheriff Blake (1899)
Hughie Critz (1900)
Chase Riddle (1925)
Orlando Cepeda (1937)
Bobby Wine (1938)
Thad Bosley (1956)
John Franco (1960)
Dan Haren (1980)
There do not appear to be any players with connections to the Minnesota Twins who were born on this day.
Alright, let's get back to what we're here for. Here's Deerhunter performing this song from their 2010 album Halcyon Digest on Conan.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsmSIyUDQeM
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Jimenez's rWAR since being traded to Cleveland: -0.1.
Slowey's rWAR since being acquired from Rochester: -0.1.
I think that means Slowey has a chance to slow the Race to the Bottom. He is 0-5 though, so maybe not.
Something like food poisoning sent me to bed at about 9:30 last night, so I couldn't put up a post. Apologies.
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Words cannot express how difficult it is to track down good beer in most of LA. I looked in eight places today, and just barely missed having to settle for Stella.
Heinie Mueller (1899)
Hillbilly Bildilli (1912)
Gary Ross (1947)
Robin Yount (1955)
Orel Hershiser (1958)
Tim Raines (1959)
Mickey Tettleton (1960)
Mel Hall (1960)
Chris Pittaro (1961)
Mark Parent (1961)
Paul Shuey (1970)
Desi Relaford (1973)
Bobby Korecky (1979)
I figured I'd do a Friday post using last week's Stuff I Listened to in High School theme, with the band Guster. Their big gimmick used to be that they used only percussion played by hands - no sticks - but they don't do that exclusively any more since hand percussion is pretty hard on your hands after a while. I think I first heard of them opening for Barenaked Ladies at a show I went to in high school; yeah, when the other dudes I knew were listening to your post-grunge, your pop-punk, and your nü-metal, I was pretty solidly in what seems to me now like the adult-alternative arena. Anyway, they were pretty funny and I still like some of their harmonies. Ryan Miller sings the lead on the verses in this one, at Bonnaroo in 2004.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjJF3SYe57M
(There's another one down here...)
Continue reading Guster – Fa Fa
(3 votes, average: 6.00 out of 10)Loading... Doc Bushong (1856)
Nick Altrock (1876)
Hugh McQuillan (1895)
Harry McCurdy (1899)
Fritz Ostermueller (1907)
Charley Smith (1937)
Gaylord Perry (1938)
Frank Linzy (1940)
Don Carrithers (1949)
John Pacella (1956)
John Christensen (1960)
Doug Simons (1966)
Paul Abbott (1967)
Rich Robertson (1968)