Does anyone else feel like an ump tossing people so quickly is a sign that he has less control, and not more control?

I love watching the Twins win.  I love watching the Red Sox lose.  And when those go together… it is a sweet thing.
The Twins have been playing really great ball lately.  Even their one loss in the past 7 games was a close match where they battled back.  Usually we have to wait until around [...]

This is the first real post on this brand new page.  Pretty exciting stuff.
And to kick it all off we get to celebrate a Twins win over the hated Red Sox.  Suck it Boston.
Seriously though, these are the nice kinds of wins.  The Chairman was a little off, but other people were able to carry [...]

We’ve missed a few wins here, so we’ll throw out H.O.W.’s for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. We’re going for brevity, since who wants to read a recap of games from several days ago, right? So, here goes:
The cycle gives Cuddyer Friday’s Hero Of the Win.
General awesomeness gives Mauer Saturday’s Hero Of the Win.
And even though [...]

Due to some significant computer problems and a nice long weekend trip with Mrs. DCTF, the site will be silent over the next few days. For all of the Twins’ victories I’ll determine an H.O.W. and post the results when we return.
And when we come back hopefully we’ll be ready to make a nifty [...]

Offense is great, but we were in dire need of some amazing pitching. Rule 2 comes into play, and today’s Hero Of the Win is Nick Blackburn.
Season total: Mauer 4, Crede 3, Blackburn 2, Morneau 2, Slowey 2, , Casilla 1, Cuddy 1, Harris 1, Kubel 1, Nathan 1, Perkins 1

It would be easy to focus on the negative after four painful losses to the hatable Yankees, but here at DCTF we pride ourselves on our ability to take the long-view, to highlight the positive, and to appreciate the inherent worth in good baseball the way a philatelist might appreciate the new Simpsons stamps.
So what [...]

A great date overall (it is, after all, my birthday), but not a great date for the Twins to play the Yankees.

1998 David Wells throws a perfect game against the Twins.
2002 Jason Giambi walk-off grand slam with the Yankees down by 3 in the 14th.
2009 Walk-off homer by Johnny Damon makes the third straight walk-off [...]

A long time ago, in a galaxy identical to our own, I went to see Star Wars: Attack of the Clones on my twenty-first birthday. (This probably says something about me, that rather than go to a bar I opted for a sci-fi flick (there was some drinking at midnight the eve before, but [...]

The second rule of Hero Of the Win is that when the team has been lacking in one area and a player comes through with a much needed performance that changes all of that, then that player needs to be given extra love.
The third rule of Hero Of the Win, heretofore unseen, is that proxies [...]