Time for a breather

You had to see this coming.
With the newpaper industry in the toilet, as free websites and blogs slice into subscriptions at an alarming rate, there has been more of a need for me to focus on my other blog, the one I get paid (sort of) to do.
And as you've certainly noticed, keeping up two blogs has been difficult for me.
So I'm going to make the break here at Twinstown official.
I'm not officially quitting, and I'm not going to take the blog down. You never know when something will come up that I can't write about (the way I want to, anyway) on the Argus site.
But regular updates will continue to be few and far between.

I'm not really going away, though. My Argus blog is basically the same as this one, just without the F-words, and, admittedly, with stuff about local Sioux Falls sports a lot of people probably don't care about. But if you can wade through that stuff, I still think it's a worthwhile place to stop by on your morning rounds through the internet.
Now that I'm officially taking time off from this blog, I'll try to include more Twins stuff at the Argus site.

The one thing I've noticed about blogs, even some of the best ones, is that it's a lot more work than people realize, and you're starting to see more and more bloggers get burned out on it. I mean, once someone offers you money to blog somewhere else, it's hard to keep going on the one you do for free.
So I guess we're all a bunch of sellouts after all.

Miller Time

For the second year in a row, I'm heading to Milwaukee for the Twins/Brewers series, though it's not part of a honeymoon this time. Just an excuse to get hammered and waste money.
Turns out a bunch of friends from town are also making the trip, so there's a chance to do some serious "tailgating".
And lucky for me, the Twins are heading to Miller Park on a hot streak, having won 1 of their last 8 games.
I might not be exactly correct on this, but I believe the Twins ERA over the last two weeks is 344.89.
Last year they limped into Miller, but got healthy. Maybe I'll get lucky, which would be nice, since there will be as many Twins fans there as Brewers fans.

A great weekend

This was really a pretty good weekend for the Twins.

*Delmon Young hit his first home run. He's now only two behind Alexi Casilla, who is slightly larger than my right nut (notice how people always compare things to their left nut? Well my right nut is bigger, so I'm going with that one).
*Michael Cuddyer hit his third homer. Jason Kubel hit his 7th.
*Carlos Gomez made a really awesome, full-throttle diving catch even with the team down 12-1.
*The aforementioned Casilla hit another homer, and moved closer to his first AL batting title. (This guy was hitting .210 in Triple-A when they called him up, and now he's hitting .342/.393/.519.
In the majors.
What. The. Hell.
*Speaking of batting titles, Matt Macri upped his averaged to .429.
*Mike Redmond got some hits, and now he's hitting .310.
*Craig Breslow, Jesse Crain, Matt Guerrier and Dennys Reyes all quietly continued to throw well. Juan Rincon continued to be awful, and practically begged for his release when questioned by reporters.
I get why they don't want to get rid of Rincon. He's making $2.4 million, and they don't want to just eat it.
But really, what sense does that make? You have to pay him either way, and aren't you getting more for your money by replacing him (and hence improving the team) then stubbornly throwing him out there just because you already paid for it?

So, anyway, back to all the positives from this weekend.
Uh...Delmon Young homered.
Yep, it was a pretty good weekend.