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September 26, 2017: The End.

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Could be today is the end of meaningful September games for the Twins. If you told me at the start of the season, or probably even in June, that meaningful games would last this long, I would have happily taken it.

53 thoughts on “September 26, 2017: The End.”

              1. It hung there for me in Chrome and Firefox on Windows. It eventually finished on Firefox when I moved it to the background to let it spin for a bit on its own. Chrome is still stuck though. It loaded with no problem using Firefox on Linux.

  3. Got an email informing me that someone had requested a password reset for my wgom account. Ummm, what? I did not.

  5. Fangraphs today gives the Twins 99.5% probability of making the Wild Card... higher than the Yankees.

    * SelectShow

  6. Well... yeah. But still... shit.

    From Trueblood's newsletter today:

    I have to confess that I was far too late in coming around on the Yankees. I thought they were a year away from competing, even after the impressive strides they took toward reloading and rebuilding during 2016, and I persisted in that skepticism up to and through the trade deadline. Here’s the truth of the matter: the Yankees are an incredible team. They have the second-best offense in the American League, fueled by two of the best 25-year-old sluggers of their generation. They have turned a higher percentage of opponents’ fly balls into outs than any other team in baseball. With the mid-season addition of Sonny Gray, they have a formidable playoff rotation, in Luis Severino, Masahiro Tanaka, Gray, and CC Sabathia.

    They also have something close to the best bullpen ever

    Also, here's a reminder, in case you missed it, that Trueblood is doing a daily newsletter. I have been enjoying it immensely, and I'm finding it a very good way to consume some extra baseball stuff that I otherwise wouldn't have, but at the same time it doesn't feel like too much.

    2. I've subscribed, and I'm very glad he's writing it. I don't play fantasy baseball anymore, so I don't really have as much reason to maintain a Baseball Prospectus subscription as I once did. I believe his posts are available for a limited time before they go behind the paywall, so that's good. But I'd rather give him some money and get more of his content this way.

    1. The jalapeno is going to love that. He's been watching lots of baseball highlights on YouTube, and he always tells me about the "Nicest Player Moments" videos.

  9. The Princess Bride is going to be in theaters briefly for the 30th anniversary. I was my daughter's age the first time this came out. My whole family is going on October 18th. My 10-year old son has re-read "As You Wish" and "The Princess Bride" about 800 times and can basically recite them from memory. He repeats random facts about Andre the Giant now. It's pretty great. The movie will be fun:

    http://tinyurl.com/y76cqhxb

    3. Arbor Lakes, October 15, tickets acquired. The Mrs. and I saw it when we were first dating, it's automatic.

  10. I finished the Washington Post Presidential Podcast series today. Highly, highly recommended. Now starting the Washington Post Constitutional Podcast.

  11. At 1:30 pm, Stef and I welcomed Cecelia Anne into this crazy world. It's a little brighter now.

    No congratulatory posts on Facebook please until we post first.

        1. Cecelia is her grandmother's sister's name, though we changed the spelling.

          Anne is after Green Gables, Stef's favorite book

    9. Whew, good thing I haven't gotten around to posting all LTEs to Twitter and Facebook.

      Congrats! Welcome to the two-fer club.

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