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Photo by David Berding/Getty Images Someone get him to Fogo de Chao stat! In July of 2012, the Minnesota Twins gave up on SP Francisco Liriano. Despite singular years of dominance—2006 & 2010—and one of the strangest no-hitters ever thrown, Frankie simply proved too inconsistent to be part of longer-term plans. So, Liriano was traded to the Chicago White Sox for … [Read more...] about Is Willi Castro the ghost of Eduardo Escobar?

“Getting clean for Gene” was a slogan of political volunteers in 1968, working for Gene McCarthy; read about that here. This is Gene Conley. Different guy. Shape up your Boston accents! Joe Ryan will be serving the chowdah in Fenway. First pitch: 6:10 Central Weather: National Weather Service still gutted, slight chance T-storms, 71° Opponent’s SB site: Over the … [Read more...] about Game XXXIII: Twins @ Red Sox

This sort of joyful celebration can result in injury, so the Twins are being safe by never having anything to celebrate. | Eric Canha-Imagn Images Even soccer fans are like, “you gotta score more than once a game.” Joe Ryan is a good pitcher but can’t score, Jarren Duran is a good fielder, Brayan Bello’s pitching is helped by bad Twins bats. Inning-by-inning notes: 1: … [Read more...] about Red Sox 6, Twins 1: Offense continues teaching us what the dead-ball era was like