Twins

Because this is your last chance, that’s why. Three weeks from now the bottom is going to drop out and you’re going to be faced with five months of winter and six months without baseball. Plus the good lord has smiled on us with 70-degrees-and-sunny weather and the baseball gods have smiled on us with a weekday play-hookie game. If that isn’t reason enough to nab some cheap Target Field seats this week, then I don’t think we can be friends.

It wasn't so long ago that the Tigers were the laughing stock of baseball. From 1998 through 2005 they lost an average of 97 games, including a 119-loss season in 2003 that was among the worst in major-league history.

To say that Detroit has come a long way would be an understatement, as the Motor City Kitties have now won the American League Central four years running. But times are changing at Comerica; erstwhile ace Justin Verlander ain't what he used to be, and the stud who replaced him in that role, Max Scherzer, recently signed a monster contract with the Nationals.

Can these restructured Tigers retain their roar?

The Midwest League’s Eastern Division All-Stars took two hours and forty-four minutes to top their Western Division counterparts 5-0 in Peoria Tuesday night, but any Cedar Rapids fans who made the trip hoping to watch the Kernels’ representatives had to be careful with the timing of any trips to the concession stand.

I hope you all enjoyed the holiday weekend and survived the Fourth. Now you find yourself back at work - and trying not to work - so you’ve come back to Twins Daily to see what you’ve missed. Perfect. It’s all here for you.