It is baseball. Kind of.
Here is the preview of the game from covers.com. They don't like the Twins chances. I can't really say I blame them.
Minor Details: Games of 5/7
Daisuke shuts down the Red Wings. The Miracle makes it 25 runs in two games. Sano hits another home run.
May 8, 2012: Worse Yet
I'm sort of saddened by the fact that I'm sitting through Twins losses and feeling nothing. I remember that feeling, but man, it's been a long time.
Happy Birthday–May 8
Dan Brouthers (1858)
Edd Roush (1893)
Turkey Stearnes (1901)
Mike Cuellar (1937)
Steve Braun (1948)
Orestes Destrade (1962)
Todd Greene (1971)
John Maine (1981)
Adrian Gonzalez (1982)
Mike Cuellar pitched in AAA in the Twins’ organization in 1961. He does not seem to have belonged to the Twins, however. It may be that he was temporarily loaned to them, a practice which was not uncommon in the 1960s.
Game 28 Recap: LAAAAAAAAAAA Angels 8, Minnesota Twins 3
Dead Kennedys – Holiday in Cambodia
The next couple of days will be programmed by Mrs. Buffalo. She is way tougher than me.
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Loading... 2012 Game 28: Heavenly Host at Gemini
First Pitch - 7:10 PM CDT
Television - FSN
Game Notes
Lineups
Jeebus, did the guys at the MLB Genius Bar secretly realign divisions and put us back in the AL West? This makes three series against this stupid Angels team in just over a month. Know how many series we've had against division opponents in that time? One. So yeah, I'm sick and tired of Torii Hunter kicking our collective ass (stop throwing him breaking balls in the strike zone, already!) and having to counter real starting pitching with our currently constituted rotation. It's like charging the beaches of Normandy with a slingshot and a bag of marshmallows for ammo. Oh, and Pujols is starting to hit the ball again. So we have that to look forward to. On the bright side, our offense this year is better than Oakland's. But on the dark side, they are the only AL team with an offense worse than the Twins at the moment.
ON THE HILL
Jered Weaver (4-0, 1.61 ERA, 2.00 FIP, 2.88 xFIP) - Last time out this guy threw a no-hitter. He was one walk and one passed ball from a perfect game. To be fair, he was facing one of the worst hitting lineups since the '62 Mets, but you have to tip your hat anyway. Weaver is the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter, then face the same team in his next start since Derek Lowe did it in 2002.
Francisco Liriano (0-4, 9.97 ERA, 6.75 FIP, 5.44 xFIP, ) - This guy is yet another reminder that spring training hype has all the substance of a popcorn fart. By now everybody except Liriano knows what Liriano's problem is. If pitching smarts were chocolate density, the F-Bomb would be a Three Musketeers bar. Because consistently overthrowing sliders when you get behind in the count only gets you further behind in the count. Consistently.
Play ball!
Minor League Team Leaders
Minimum 60 at bats; minimum 15 innings.
First Monday Book Day: Digging deep and piling high
This month, I succumbed to marketing. I'd seen multiple copies of Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth 
around my used book store, trumpeting the new miniseries. Ken Follett seemed like such a familiar name, but I'd never read any of his stuff. So I figured, what the heck?
Well, heck. This sprawling novel plays out like a Behind the Music episode. The good guys get ahead, then SLAM! back to square one they go, over and over and over again. Yet good triumphs over evil in the end.
I was not particularly enamored with the writing in this book. Follett maintains a third-person omniscient perspective throughout, which I found somewhat tedious. "He said," "she thought," etc. It just seemed a bit wooden. The dialogue is a bit too "modern" to really sell the story as a period piece, despite the obvious efforts Follett made to tie the story into real history from the 12th century.
Still, I'm an easy audience. Despite the rather ludicrous Series of Unfortunate Events that befalls the lead characters, and the inevitable triumphs that bring them back from the brink time and again, I found myself fairly engaged. If you enjoy learning a few tidbits about early English history, the Catholic Church, architecture and the building trades, then maybe this novel is right up your alley. It was interesting enough for me to finish in fairly short order, despite its hefty 1,007 page length.
What are you reading?
Minor Details: Games of 5/6
Aaron Hicks has a big day. Daniel Santana has a bigger day. Fort Myers scores more than the Twins score in a week.