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Why We Watch – 2008 Minnesota Twins

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

There’s 200 days or so of baseball to come this season and it can be quite intimidating to jump into the deep end of the baseball viewing pool.

To help, Refrigerator Logic is providing a list of reasons to watch every Major League Baseball team for the 2008 season. Anyone that’s read all the team lists should be able to pull up the MLB schedule on any day in early June and find reasons to enjoy any contest on the board that night.

Please join in the comments to add your own reasons. Tell everyone why your team is worth three and a half hours of their lives on any given day. Make us care and we’ll be there with a tasty beverage and an appreciation for what you feel each time your team takes the field.

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I Admire Your Notion of Fair Odds

When Joe Mauer found himself besieged on all sides by Tigers and Indians and the Royal guard and very ill-fitting Socks, he set out to find a new band of brothers to help him defend his baggy village after losing so many compatriots over the winter. When he returned, he presented to the villagers…

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Joining him on the field of battle are:

  • Justin Morneau (the Most Valuable Bat-slinger) and Michael Cuddyer (the gent standing well behind the Most Valuable Bat-slinger on the field) – Two valued warriors from old skirmishes
  • Delmon Young – Quick to anger; quick to love; quick to smash the hell out of the baseball
  • Mike Lamb and Adam Everett – Joe Mauer knows what the brains in Toronto do: it’s bad luck to break up the left side of the infield, so always import them in pairs (from Houston, in this case)
  • Brendan Harris – Sparring with Little Nicky Punto(™ Bat-Girl Enterprises) for a spot on the horse, he has the distinct advantage of knowing which end of the weapon to hold
  • Jason Pridie – Can never be photographed

As Mauer knows from painful experience, it matters more who returns from battle than who you go to battle with. Yet each of these men will defend the baggy village with honor… at least until the first lousy home plate umpire rolls into town.
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Livan Hernandez ‘Lifted to Minnesota

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
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Yes, officer.  We’ve been watching Bill Smith come in here to shop for months.  Usually, he just browses, which is what made us initially suspicious. People that just browse without buying every day for four months are usually casing the place.  Y’know, checking where the blind spots are in the camera arrangement, seeing which cashiers are attentive to ticket switching, etc.

We thought we were in the clear when he paid full price for all those prospects in the New York apparel aisles, though.  We did have li’l Timmy Kurkjian shadow him after awhile to let him know we were watching.  After all, we have a lot of shoppers to keep an eye on and we can’t keep wasting time on one guy that doesn’t seem to be doing anything, right?

Then I’m watching the cameras today and damned if I don’t see Smith back in the store again.  Before we can get anyone on the floor, he pulls open his oversized elastic pants, jams Livan Hernandez down the front, and yanks his huge coat down all the way.  Then he tries to make a break for the door, real casual, right?

We start moving towards the front door and he spots li’l Timmy.  He tries to run, but that’s a really big ticket item in his drawers.  He drags his feet and gasps for air.  Dude’s sweating like a sprinkler system just went off in his coat.

Still, we weren’t expecting him to move like that, so we were way behind him.  By the time we got to the door, we thought we had him, but damned if Boof Bonser’s not waiting out front of the store for him in a pickup truck.  Bill drags himself into the truck bed and they’re gone before we can even call you guys.

Yeah, I imagine we’ll catch him in July when he hauls Hernandez out to the flea market to flip him.  Still, that really pisses me off.  We could have sold him for $8m, easy.  That’s gonna ruin our stats for the year.

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