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Red Sox Broadcast Airs Video Of Metrodome Implosion That Never Happened

Yesterday’s NESN broadcast of the Red Sox-Twins game featured a mid-game interlude of the announcers discussing their memories of the dear, departed Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. It also featured video of the Metrodome being imploded—something that never happened....

Feisty Bert Blyleven Trashes Detroit

While today’s Twins-Tigers game was in a rain delay, former Twins pitcher and current analyst Bert Blyleven updated his Twitter followers with photos of the field, and took some cracks at Detroit’s expense in the process....

Anti-Gay Bigot Torii Hunter Calls Reporter "Prick" Four Times

Torii Hunter is an anti-gay bigot. This is something he has proven with his own words on multiple occasions. Yesterday, at the press conference to announce the one-year, $10.5 million deal he signed to return to the Minnesota Twins, beat writer Mike Berardino of the Saint Paul Pioneer-Press aske...

Ron Gardenhire has been fired as Twins manager after 13 seasons....

Phil Hughes Turned Down The Twins' $500,000 Offer

Yesterday, a rain delay took Twins pitcher Phil Hughes out of the game one out shy of achieving a $500,000 innings-pitched contract bonus. Today, the Twins offered to make things right—and Hughes declined....

A Rain Delay Cost Phil Hughes $500,000

Phil Hughes has been one of the only bright spots for the Twins, and one of the biggest surprises in baseball. After going eight innings yesterday, with five strikeouts and no walks, his K/BB ratio sits at an incredible 11.6/1—an MLB record for qualified pitchers. But if only Hughes could have gone ...

Listen To Cheryl Tiegs's Very Sloppy Appearance On Twins TV And Radio

Maybe Cheryl Tiegs is really tired. Maybe she's really intoxicated! But the former supermodel dropped in on both the Twins' TV and radio broadcasts tonight during Minnesota's game against the Tigers, and she sounded.. sloppy....

Twins Rip Tigers 20-6, Get A Couple Homers Off The Shortstop

Andrew Romine came in to pitch the eighth inning for the Tigers in what was then a 17-5 thumping by the Twins. Andrew Romine is the the Tigers shortstop, but he filled in admirably and was thanked by his manager for doing so. Eating up the inning and saving a starter or Joe Nathan from having to pit...

Minor-League Pitchers Combine To Finish Very Strange No-Hitter

Logan Darnell of the Rochester Red Wings, a Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins, put the finishing touches on a no-hitter against the Durham Bulls Monday night. Darnell only pitched the last six innings of the game, though, and the man who originally started the game isn't even a member of the...

Twins Prospect Byron Buxton Carted Off Field After Outfield Collision

Byron Buxton, baseball's top prospect, suffered a concussion in his first start in Double-A tonight, playing center field for the New Britain Rock Cats. In the fifth inning he collided with right fielder Mike Kvasnicka and remained motionless, in a heap for several minutes immediately after....

Phil Hughes Spazzes Out, Tries To Catch Invisible Liner

This happened on Wednesday night, but it's worth pointing out today because LOL, Phil Hughes, what are you even doing right now?...

The Twins Have Apparently Found The Real-Life Sidd Finch

One of the weirdest baseball stories of the year is about Brandon Poulson, a 24-year-old pitching prospect whom the Twins just plucked from the void for the price of $250,000. Nobody's ever heard of Poulson until now, but if the early stories about him are to be believed, he's basically the non-ho...

There Is No Explanation For Blowing This Call

This was a trapped ball. It was pretty clear, and indisputably so on replay. Yet umpires upheld their initial ruling of a catch, even after Ron Gardenhire's challenge. My headline up there isn't some huffy hyperbole on just how baffling the call was—it's about how umpires literally didn't give an ...

Underrated Baseball Thing: A Good Bat Snap

There are few things more satisfying than seeing a player snap his bat over his knee after a strikeout. Minnesota's Oswaldo Arcia came yesterday through with a good, solid break, with plenty of shrapnel, a sumptuous audible crack, and plenty of replay angles. ...

Chuck Knoblauch Charged With Assaulting Ex; HOF Induction Called Off

Chuck Knoblauch's induction into the Twins Hall of Fame has been canceled—not just postponed, but canceled, as in, he simply won't be put into the Twins Hall of Fame—after the former player was arrested and accused of beating up his ex-wife....

We Have Another Minnesota Twins Back-Hair Jersey

It's hard to say if it's the same guy who sported the Joe Mauer hir-suit a few years back, but we have a few clues. Our first clue is: a dude with enough hair to legibly shave words and numbers into his back hair. Our second clue is: similar male pattern baldness on both men. Our third clue is: a wi...

Target Field Now Has Self-Serve Beer Machines

Here's some good news for Twins fans who want to get drunk at baseball games but really hate having to engage with human beings when purchasing beer: Target Field has just installed a self-serve beer machine, the first to ever exist in a major-league stadium....

Yankees' Zelous Wheeler Makes Terrific But Meaningless Catch In Dugout

OK, this catch by Yankees rookie Zelous Wheeler—who's got a quality name—didn't count as an out, but it was still pretty wild....

Twins Fan Gives Finger To Little Girl Who Won't Throw Back HR Ball [Update]

This is from Wednesday's game, a David Ortiz home run that was retrieved by a girl in the first row. When the girl made it clear she had no intentions of tossing the ball back onto the field, the woman in red let the girl know to her face what she thought of that decision....