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The Dugout: Not Twinkies

The one thing I hate about the Mets having a disappointing season is that I don't get to hear what awful, cringe-inducing playoffs anthem they'd come up with. The Minnesota Twins are trying to fill that hole in my life with "Don't Call Them Twinkies," which you can listen to here. It isn't perfect, but it's the best I've...

The Dugout: Thome In Minnesota

I swear I don't have a Google Alert or anything, but it turns out that free agent slugger and The Dugout favorite Jim Thome could be picked up by the Minnesota Twins, putting him back in the American League and AL Central where he belongs. Thome made his home in Cleveland from 1991-2002 and in Chicago from 2006-2009...

The Dugout: Favre Signs With Twins

Brett Favre, seen here speaking with his agent, can no longer be rightly described as a polarizing figure in the baseball world. Nearly everyone is weary of his habitual false retirements and underwhelming comebacks. Yet again, though, Favre finds himself unable to walk away from baseball. Today, he announced that he will...

Beware the Dugouts of March: The Minnesota Twins' 2009 Preview

Here is everything you need to know about Minnesota: they have the biggest mall on Earth, it is negative thirty-eight degrees in the middle of July, nobody would ever want to go there, and their baseball team is next up for the AL Central leg of our The Dugout Spring Training Event. We started it off yesterday with the...

The Dugout: No Room For Delmon

All Twins, all the time! We just started covering the Twins again recently, and here comes the news that Ron Gardenhire has his outfield for next year and it does not include Delmon Young, the young star famous for throwing a bat at somebody and for helping assault the same woman like 200 times over the last few years of...