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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Let me say that this was a rough night to be a D.C. sports fan. Ryan Zimmerman’s fantastic 30-game hit streak came to an end and the evil Penguins smushed the Caps in the NHL playoffs. Painful.
But nights like tonight make me glad to be a D.C. Twins fan. Because all the [...]

Yeah, that’s right, it’s Mauer again. I almost went for the other Joe (Crede, not Nathan), but good grief, Mauer is hitting .500. Five-freaking-hundred! With 4 homers. And he basically didn’t have a spring training to get up to speed. Sure, he’s only played in 10 games, but .500 [...]

For the second day in a row the Chairman has impressed. No need to rest him like they had originally planned… 2 for 3 with two walks, a homer, 3 RBI, 2 runs, and he threw out a runner. Beautiful. He’s even better than I remembered. And that’s why Mauer gets his second Hero [...]

Tonight, instead of listening to the game, I went to see Star Trek. As such, my hero is Captain James T. Kirk. But since he no longer plays for the Twins I’ve got to pick someone else. Looking over the box score it comes down to Harris and Mauer. Tonight, Mauer [...]

Another box score H.O.W. tonight. Things have been crazy busy here in DCTF land (a.k.a, D.C.). I’ve been quite occupied with a comedy course I’m taking. Discovering how unfunny I am hasn’t exactly encouraged the creative process. That’ll be winding up in just a little over a week and my devotion [...]

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I love Joe Mauer. He is my favorite baseball player. He will always be my favorite baseball player. My own child could play professional ball and I would prefer Joe Mauer to him. He is simply the best and he makes those around him better.
I waited through his high school career [...]

I was unable to listen to the game tonight because my real life interfered with my Twins duties, so this is a box-score determined H.O.W. And, having looked at the box score I have to say that it was nice to see production from the short stop position. I’m not one of the [...]