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Happy Birthday–April 26: via The WGOM April 26, 2011 at 05:06 AM; Jack Barry (1887) Ray Caldwell (1888) Hack Wilson (1900) Bernard Malamud (1914) Virgil Trucks (1917) Sal Maglie (1917) Ron Northey (1920) Merle Anthony (1926) Granny Hamner (1927) Amos Otis (1947) Tom Norton (1950) Mike Scott (1955) Steve Lombardozzi (1960) Curtis Wilkerson (1961) Brian Anderson (1972) Geoff Blum (1973) Joe Crede (1978) Alejandro Machado (1982) [...]
Happy Birthday–April 25: via The WGOM April 25, 2011 at 05:06 AM; John Henry "Pop" Lloyd (1884) George Fiall (1900) Bill Grieve (1900) Roy Parmelee (1907) Bobby Estalella (1911) Red Flaherty (1917) Ed Vargo (1930) Lew Krausse (1943) Kerry Taylor (1950) Greg Wells (1954) Larry Pashnick (1956) Tony Phillips (1959) Darren Holmes (1966) Joe Buck (1969) Brad Clontz (1971) Jacque Jones (1975) Garrett Mock (1983) A [...]
Happy Birthday–April 24: via The WGOM April 24, 2011 at 05:06 AM; Bob Ewing (1873) Howard Ehmke (1894) Harry Harper (1895) Andy Cooper (1896) Ed Musial (1922) Frank Lucchesi (1927) Lou DiMuro (1931) Terry Tata (1940) Ivan Murrell (1943) Bill Singer (1944) Pat Zachry (1952) Bill Krueger (1958) Mike Blowers (1965) Omar Vizquel (1967) Todd Jones (1968) Chipper Jones (1972) John Barnes (1976) Carlos Beltran (1977) [...]
Happy Birthday–April 23: via The WGOM April 23, 2011 at 05:06 AM; Harry Coveleski (1886) Elam Vangilder (1896) Sunny Jim Bottomley (1900) Dolph Camilli (1907) Warren Spahn (1921) Rheal Cormier (1967) Jason Tyner (1977) Andruw Jones (1977) Carlos Silva (1979) Sean Henn (1981) Outfielder Jason Reynt Tyner was with the Twins from 2005-2007. He was born in Bedford, Texas, went to high school in Beaumont, [...]
Happy Birthday–April 22: via The WGOM April 22, 2011 at 05:06 AM; Bob Smith (1895) Taylor Douthit (1901) Ray Benge (1902) Lew Riggs (1910) Mickey Vernon (1918) John Orsino (1938) Steve Jones (1941) David Clyde (1955) Moose Haas (1956) Dave Schmidt (1957) Terry Francona (1959) Jimmy Key (1961) Jack Savage (1964) Mickey Morandini (1966) George Williams (1969) Left-hander Steven Howell Jones did not play for the [...]
Happy Birthday–April 21: via The WGOM April 21, 2011 at 05:06 AM; Hardy Richardson (1855) Germany Smith (1863) Ken Strong (1906) Gary Peters (1937) Dick Green (1941) Al Bumbry (1947) Jesse Orosco (1957) Les Lancaster (1962) Ken Caminiti (1963) Kip Wells (1977) Terry Tiffee (1979) A member of the pro football Hall of Fame, Ken Strong played minor league baseball from 1929-1931 and played very well. [...]
Happy Birthday–April 20: via The WGOM April 20, 2011 at 05:06 AM; Tommy Dowd (1869) Charlie Hemphill (1876) Charlie Smith (1880) Mike Mowrey (1884) Dave Bancroft (1891) Roy Hofheinz (1912) Preston Gomez (1923) Tom Hutton (1946) Milt Wilcox (1950) Doug Clarey (1954) Floyd Chiffer (1956) Don Mattingly (1961) Greg Brummett (1967) Dan Smith (1969) Todd Hollandsworth (1973) Dan Smith was drafted by Minnesota in the twenty-second [...]
Happy Birthday–April 19: via The WGOM April 19, 2011 at 05:06 AM; Bucky Walters (1909) Hector Maestri (1935) Rick Miller (1948) Ed Hodge (1958) R. J. Reynolds (1959) Frank Viola (1960) Spike Owen (1961) Scott Kamieniecki (1964) Brent Mayne (1968) Jose Cruz (1974) Joe Beimel (1977) George Sherrill (1977) Dennys Reyes (1977) Joe Mauer (1983) Right-hander Hector Maestri was with the Washington franchise in 1960, making [...]
Happy Birthday–April 18: via The WGOM April 18, 2011 at 05:06 AM; Frank Navin (1871) Sam Crawford (1880) Duffy Lewis (1888) Jack Scott (1892) Steve Blass (1942) Mike Paul (1945) Doug Flynn (1951) Bobby Castillo (1955) Rich Bordi (1959) Jim Eisenreich (1959) Dennis Rasmussen (1959) Steve Dunn (1970) Rico Brogna (1970) Brian Buscher (1981) Miguel Cabrera (1983) Billy Butler (1986) Rich Bordi was drafted by Minnesota [...]
All the Cool Kids Are Some Place Else: via The WGOM April 17, 2011 at 11:00 AM; The WGOM is no longer here, it's here. Thank you for stopping by for the last seven or so years.
Happy Birthday–April 17: via The WGOM April 17, 2011 at 05:06 AM; Alexander Cartwright (1820) Cap Anson (1852) Tom Needham (1879) Jake Daubert (1884) Buzz Arlitt (1912) Solly Hemus (1923) Antonio Pollerena (1947) Tsutomu Wakamatsu (1947) Denny Walling (1954) Craig Worthington (1965) Marquis Grissom (1967) Gary Bennett (1972) This is also the birthday of Twins’ farmhand Deolis Guerra (1989). There do not appear to be any [...]
Game 14: Twins at Tampa Bay: via The WGOM April 16, 2011 at 02:36 PM; I had written something else last night, talking about the sky falling or some such. Obviously, with today's other news, this game log seems a little less critical, but hey this is what brought us here in the first place, right? Before the beer, the music, the memes, Rifding Hokme, conventions, and all [...]
Minor Details: Games of 4/15: via The WGOM April 16, 2011 at 01:00 PM; I don't know how interested anybody is today, but I already had it done when I learned the news, and it looks like I can still post here for the time being, so here it is. Lehigh Valley 9, Rochester 4 in Rochester. The Red Wings scored all their runs in the second. The [...]
The End: via The WGOM April 16, 2011 at 05:06 AM; I started this site, or more accurately, the original site, because I thought I had something to say. Oh sure, I was also avoiding studying for the bar exam, but really, I had been contemplating starting a blog for a while before that, because I thought I had something to say. It turns out [...]
2011 Game 13 Recap: Twins 2, Rays 5: via The WGOM April 16, 2011 at 03:18 AM; Weather: 72 degrees Wind: 0 (duh) Time: 2:34 Attendance: 15,342 Box Score Fan Graphs My daughter walked into the living room last night and told this joke: "Argon goes into a bar and orders a drink. "We don't serve noble gases in here," says the bartender. But Argon doesn't react." I [...]
2011 Baseball Contests, Game 2: via The WGOM April 16, 2011 at 12:30 AM; The second contest is up! This contest is centered around Twins position players. Entries are due by 11:59:59 April 20, 2011. Rules: Scoring will be on the 20 point ranking system that we always use, with 5 points for an exactly correct guess. There will be three chances to change your answers. [...]
2011 Game 13: Minnesota Twins at Tampa Bay Rays: via The WGOM April 15, 2011 at 05:06 PM; Nick Blackburn vs Wade Davis I like Blackburn's GB% trend. It was joked when Silva left that the Twins had his replacement in Blackburn. Damn am I glad he didn't exactly replace Silva. Three years later and it seems the Twins have Pavano's replacement instead. He's going to have good games [...]
This Week in Ex-Twins: via The WGOM April 15, 2011 at 11:06 AM; Arizona agrees to terms with Ron Mahay on a minor league contract and assigns him to Reno (AAA). Atlanta organization (AAA Gwinnett) places Jose Lugo on the seven day disabled list. Baltimore places J. J. Hardy on the fifteen day disabled list. Boston designates Dennys Reyes for assignment. Boston assigns Dennys Reyes outright to [...]
Minor Details: Games of 4/14: via The WGOM April 15, 2011 at 08:06 AM; Rochester 3, Lehigh Valley 1 in Rochester (Game 1—Scheduled 7 innings). Rene Tosoni hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh. Dustin Martin homered in the fourth to give Rochester a 1-0 lead, but the IronPigs scored in the seventh to tie the game. Eric Hacker pitched six shutout innings, giving up [...]
Taxday Music Day, 2011: via The WGOM April 15, 2011 at 06:30 AM; If, without representation, you were forced to pay taxes with your music, what mp3s would you dump into Duluth Harbor? Which Native American tribe's traditional garb would you don whilst dumping said mp3s? If the answer to the first question is not your weekly random ten or so, go ahead and list them as well.