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I really like this kind of content. It explains in detail things baseball fans take for granted. It is fit for a site like The Athletic. Great job.

1.) Where are you from? St. Paul, but have lived in Sioux Falls, SD for 25 years. Hard to believe I have now lived in SD longer than MN. But still consider myself a Minnesotan. 2.) Age Range? 49 3.) What brought you to Twins Daily? Before Twins Daily, the Strib's website carried some of the original blogs of the TD writers. I followed them to TD. 4.) Highest level of baseball/softball played? 9th grade JV. Our school cut nobody from JV. I feel like we had 60-70 players on the JV. That was fun getting into one of every 3-4 games, and not even getting many reps in practice. I played HS golf the next year. 5.) Favorite Twins Player, and favorite underappreciated Twins player, and if you want, favorite current Twins player? Hrbek/Puckett, Mack/Koskie, batting=Boomstick...fielding=Buxton. 6.) Favorite non-Twins Daily site/authors? Michael Lewis 7.) Favorite Twitter follows? @Super70sSports, @Patrick_Reusse 8.) Other interests outside of baseball. Golf, travel 9.) Favorite part of Twins Daily... forums, blogs, articles, topics... All of it. 10.) Tell us what we can do better. What features or other topics would you like to see in-season or out of season? N/A 11.) Have you been to any of the Twins Daily "events? No, but always think to myself they would be fun. If only I still lived in St. Paul instead of South Dakota.

So what are the options now to see the Twins game if you don't have cable? I have YouTube TV. Are there just two choices: switch to HULU or go back to cable? Are there other options? I appear to be int he MLB.TV blackout area. Is there any other way to subscribe to FSN North online? Is there any direct subscription to FSN North? Fox Sports Go only seems to work if you subscribe to cable, then you can watch games on a laptop, tablet, etc. Is that all Fox Sports Go is?

I agree, but does Schoop have any value?

They are going to win the World Series this year. I said it. Only injuries can derail them.

I was also thinking of the turtle when Cron came up.

I like your work. Before reading I would have said Santana, Blyleven, Viola, either Perry or Pascual, Kaat, Radke (check your spelling). I love your comment, "Johan Santana 8 mostly under-utilized years." What could he have been if inserted as a starter sooner? And how bad were the results of that trade? I was hoping for a better return that Viola.

Your breakdown by decades narrows the field. I really think of Killebrew, Carew, and Mauer as something other than first basemen, so I would not choose any of them. All three are obviously great baseball players, but I don't think of them as first basemen. Next cut...Mientkiewicz was awesome, one of my favorites for those early 2000s teams, but simply not as good as Hrbek or Morneau. I lean toward Hrbek, but the 1980s Twins are when I really started paying attention to the Twins. Am I just choosing that era and Hrbek nostalgically? Morneau seems like he had better annual numbers but for a shorter period of time. My deciding factor will be World Series championships--therefore Hrbek is the man!