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[FONT=Arial]Welcome to our Twins blog. We'll bring up some "facts" and "stats", from time to time, but our real strength lies in sarcasm, silliness and Yankee-baiting.[/FONT]

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Wha Happened? #3 (vs Mets and Angels)

Game 10 Mets 16 - Twins 5 [TABLE=class: tr-caption-container] [TD=align: center]http://www.newyorker.com/images/covers/1925/1925_02_21_p233.jpg [/TD] [TD=class: tr-caption, align: center]Artists rendering of a Metropolitan player [/TD] [/TABLE] Yeah...that happened. But on the plus side, at least our name isn't a shortened form of the snobby title "Metropolitans". As in: "Oh, how droll! The Metropolitans have bested those cold weather klutzes in Minnesota! I must broach the topic with my M
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Wha Happened? #3 (vs Mets and Angels)

Game 10 Mets 16 - Twins 5 [TABLE=class: tr-caption-container] [TD=align: center]http://www.newyorker.com/images/covers/1925/1925_02_21_p233.jpg [/TD] [TD=class: tr-caption, align: center]Artists rendering of a Metropolitan player [/TD] [/TABLE] Yeah...that happened. But on the plus side, at least our name isn't a shortened form of the snobby title "Metropolitans". As in: "Oh, how droll! The Metropolitans have bested those cold weather klutzes in Minnesota! I must broach the topic with my M
PeanutsFromHeaven

PeanutsFromHeaven

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Wha Happened? #3 (vs Mets and Angels)

Game 10 Mets 16 - Twins 5 [TABLE=class: tr-caption-container] [TD=align: center]http://www.newyorker.com/images/covers/1925/1925_02_21_p233.jpg[/TD] [TD=class: tr-caption, align: center]Artists rendering of a Metropolitan player[/TD] [/TABLE] Yeah...that happened. But on the plus side, at least our name isn't a shortened form of the snobby title "Metropolitans". As in: "Oh, how droll! The Metropolitans have bested those cold weather klutzes in Minnesota! I must broach the topic with my Mon
PeanutsFromHeaven

PeanutsFromHeaven

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15 Resolutions for 2015

In the spirit of the New Year, we have 15 New Years Resolutions to offer for 15 key parts of Twins Territory.   The resolutions are available in our New Gallery Album "Resolutions"...which hopefully will turn up as part of this post   Any additions you want to make, or suggestions for how to make these resolutions more attainable are always welcome.
PeanutsFromHeaven

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Adopt a Prospect Volume 2: Helping Luis Perdomo get his Groove Back

http://mobile.milb.com/images/players/mugshot/ph_466412.jpgWhen last we left Louie P. he was capping a stellar 2012 season with an abysmal September call-up full of tears, recriminations and the natural side-effects of too much time spent around Jose Bautista. It was a tumultuous offseason for Perdomo as well, getting cast down from the opulence of the majors to an out right assignment to Rochester. He also lost his bearded prominence among Twins' pitchers to a couple of guys who broke camp wit
PeanutsFromHeaven

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Our Minnesota Twins (Part 3)

As always this post can be seen in it's more easily formatted glory at our original site (where you can vote for a Twins player to go into our "Hall of Fame"...which given the calibre of my writing is a rather dubious honor)   It's time continue our introductions to this year's Minnesota Twins...if you're just joining us: we're here to answer that increasingly common question on Twins' fans (chapped) lips: "who the heck is that guy?" And we'll do it in the most Minnesotan way we know how: by pro
PeanutsFromHeaven

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Our Minnesota Twins (Part 4)

It's your last chance to cruise over to our original site and vote for the PFH Hall of Fame: honoring the funnest Twins players in the history of our blogging.   We're a week into getting to know OUR versions of the Minnesota Twins. And while there's plenty to cheer for already, there are others we have yet to meet...so here we go! Meet Trevor Plouffe! (Third Baseman/Infielder) Player's Background: Drafted in 2004, Plouffe's rise to prominence has been a whole lot more "mediocre" than "meteor
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Our Minnesota Twins (Part 5)

The Twins season begins in less than 1 week! And yet there are still more players to meet as we continue to get to know our versions of the major league roster. Meet Brian Dozier! (Second Baseman/Infielder) Player's Background: A small, scrappy infielder out of Mississippi, Brian Dozier earned the attention of Twin scouts at the University of Southern Mississippi (presumably because the same year he was drafted Brett Favre [another Southern Miss grad] was working out in Hattiesburg). After ju
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Our Minnesota Twins (Part 7)

It's our final Get To Know 'Em post this Spring and we're delighted to send it off in style with two rising talents in the Twins ranks. (And for those who have hated these posts, don't worry...they're done...for now) Meet Chris Parmelee! (Right Fielder/First Baseman) [TABLE=class: tr-caption-container] [TD=align: center]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jMaXCeYbXzU/STxicN4O5XI/AAAAAAAAA-M/OhpxprjM0V0/s200/Boras.jpg [/TD] [TD=class: tr-caption, align: center]Scott Boras at home [/TD] [/TABLE] Play
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The Twins' New Year's Resolutions

It's been a while since our last post (blahblahblah job, blahblahblah earning salary, blahblahblah spending holiday time with friends and loved ones). But we're back with a very special post as we consider the 2014 resolutions of your Minnesota Twins. Joe Mauer Baseball Resolution: Hit like a boss now that defense doesn't crush my legs. Life Resolution: Be hospitable while hosting my fellow all-stars this summer, maybe even say multi-syllabic words to them! Brian Dozer Baseball Resolution: Prove
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The Ken Burns' Test

In one week, the Hall of Fame will announce who (if anyone) was elected to Cooperstown. There are a privileged few who get to vote for those hallowed halls, but just because most bloggers don't have a say, doesn't mean we can't use our blogs to have a say about literally everything else, including silly little exercises in analyzing Hall of Fame voting. Last year I offered an economist's sense of how to vote in order to maximize your ballot. This year, as I continue to avoid numbers at all costs
PeanutsFromHeaven

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Adopt a Prospect #2: Dreams of Glory

It's been a couple of weeks since we last checked in on Luis Perdomo, and while the recent road trip has been kind to the Twins (winning four in a row for the first time since mid-June 2011) it has been a little tougher on the bullpen with favorites like Jared Burton suddenly giving up runs. So, is there a chance that Luis might get a call to the bigs? No. No, there is not. Even if, the bullpen suddenly developed a bad case of leprosy and had their arms fall off in the middle of a long toss sess
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Wha' Happened #10 ("Best" Games)

There's a fuller write up "recapping" the last week plus in Twins Territory at our main blog, but here are a few key samplings from each series   Game 76 Marlins 5 - Twins 3 The Twins have a good deal of early success against Miami's starter in the first inning, they run into trouble against Kevin "Killthrow" Slowey, who savored the opportunity to best the team that let him go. Elsewhere "Dr. Cakeburn"Nick Blackburn, and Boof Bonser plotted their revenges as part of the Legion of Pitching Doom.
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Wha Happened? #7 (Red Sox, Braves, Tigers, Brewers, Brewers, Mariners)

There was agony during the last two weeks of Twins baseball (including 7 straight losses to run a losing streak to 10) and ecstasy (including winning 6 of their last 7). The season continues tonight in Kansas City, but before you see that game, let's review what happened in the last few weeks. Game 40 Red Sox 3 - Twins 2 Remember about a month ago, when we went into Boston and dominated the Red Sox to win 3 of 4? Turns out they didn't like that very much. And brought a rather curt "Don't Mess Wi
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PeanutsFromHeaven

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Let's Make a Deal for Matt Capps

Welcome back to everybody's favorite form of roster-modification: LET'S MAKE A DEAL! That's right, I pretend to be Wayne Brady, you pretend to be Terry Ryan dressed up like a giant Radish! (Also, you pick a trading partner for an expendable player on the Twins roster) First, let's reveal what we came away with last week as we made a deal for Denard Span. Between the three comments on Twins Daily, the one comment here and the poll votes it winds up with 6 votes to keep Denard and 4 to trade him (
PeanutsFromHeaven

PeanutsFromHeaven

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An Alternate Reality Solution to the Twins Problems

I read this in the Economist last week http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/full-width/images/2013/10/blogs/game-theory/20131005_blp502.jpg Cuban athletes in all sports will now be allowed to compete in foreign leagues, as long as they pay taxes of around 20% at home and remain available to play for their country in major competitions. ... Unfortunately for MLB, however, the new policy will have only a minimal impact on the league’s access to Cuban stars....Th
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Cliff Notes to the 2014 Twins: Ch. 1 May

We know how it is. Life is busy: with work and family and social engagements, there are a lot of demands on your time. So, if you tune out for a while during the long season, you're perfectly normal. Missing baseball games is not unlike missing reading assignments for school, so we're happy to provide this series of Cliff Notes to summarize, explain and analyze the story that is the 2014 Twins Season. (This post is illuminated with pretty pretty pictures on our personal site: Peanuts From Heaven
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Dog Days: You Guys are Weird

[TABLE=class: tr-caption-container] [TD=align: center]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6032/6342798396_df65fee285.jpg [/TD] [TD=class: tr-caption, align: center]I SEE YOU READING THIS CAT!! [/TD] [/TABLE] Hello again. I am Sidney the Dog. And I am writing the August posts for my humans. They are training to run 10 miles. They are weird. I have noticed that many humans are weird. If you are a human who is reading this, think about it. (But if you are a cat on a human's lap reading this...HEY! ST
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PeanutsFromHeaven

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Back at Last

The regular season is so close you can taste it, and we Peanuts are back from our long hibernation with our season preview posts. Later in this week we'll post our preview of the Twins season (the optimistic, pessimistic, and realistic points of view) and predictions for the year ahead from the smartest analysts we know. But first, the reason for the prolonged delay between posts. It turns out that it's easier to post about things when you don't have a full time job to attend to. With Stinky in
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PeanutsFromHeaven

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La Mort de la Marquis de Marquis

We here at Peanuts from Heaven don't usually advocate for the French (they talk funny and haven't given us much since the Statue of Liberty, the Louisiana Purchase and Fried Potatoes) but we have to say that perhaps we underestimated the satirical French playwright Moliere whose stinging account of "The Death of the Marquis de Marquis" seems oddly prescient in light of this week's roster move. We provide the most relevant scene below: ...Bijoux and Pyjama [a pair of young sophisticates recently
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PeanutsFromHeaven

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There's no Punting in Baseball

From time to time, I pause in my pursuit of the goofiest possible photoshops, to write things about other things. Such writing reflects my opinions and is not reflective of the opinions of editors at Twins Daily or readers like you. I hope it inspires questions and discussion, and if it simply irritates you, don't worry I'll be back to the photoshops soon.   As you may know, people really like sports. Lots of people. Millions of people. And they like it so much that they will furiously dissect t
PeanutsFromHeaven

PeanutsFromHeaven

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A Little Bit Country

but not at all rock and roll...that's our prediction for what the Twins will do during this week's Winter Meetings in Nashville, Tennessee. Every offseason, when there is precious little else to write about, I make prognostications/recommendations for what will/should happen when the Twins' brass heads down to whatever exotic locale has agreed to host the most powerful people in baseball for four days. This year, there's a lot that could be done to improve the team; some would go so far as to sa
PeanutsFromHeaven

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Opening Day Preview!

Welcome to Opening Day! Before we begin we have a SUPER SPECIAL NEW FEATURE!!! If you don't know who to cheer for, we can help with that. Just check out a link to our "Find your Favorite" Feature and answer a few questions to help match you with a current Twin. We should also welcome the latest addition to our Peanuts From Heaven Hall of Fame: Jim Thome! http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mx1BkSnV68Q/UVjKwl7Zc0I/AAAAAAAACI4/Rzh5_l-W-uE/s400/JimboHOF.jpg Thome crossed the 75% threshold just ahead of oth
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Adopt a Prospect #4: Movin' On Up

Wonder of Wonder, Miracle of Miracles! Luis Perdomo's beard (and Luis Perdomo) got promoted to Rochester this week! (Ed. Note: Sorry for the unintentional mash-up of the Jefferson's theme and a Fiddler on the Roof ditty...hmm, I wonder if I could sell that to Glee?) This is the first time Perdomo's beard has played this high up on the East Coast since he made his major league debut against the New York Mets! (4/15/09). And thought he temptation to celebrate is great, clearly Perdomo's beard won'
PeanutsFromHeaven

PeanutsFromHeaven

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Why I Always Come Back

It hasn't been easy being a Twins fan the last few years (though if you're committed enough to the team to find my little corner of the blogosphere, I hardly need tell you that). It's been even less easy to be a positive Twins blogger, to dedicate time and energy to finding the silver linings in a team that often looks outmatched in almost every facet of the game. My writing life would be easier, and probably more pleasant, if I could just sign off from the blog, let it wither and dry up like th
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