I’ll be honest, last night’s loss to the Yankees didn’t really hurt all that much for me.
The reason? Because I turned it off early and finally watched Wall-E for the first time. A much better use of my time.

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 [...]