What's a cubit?

Well...that was ugly. Of all the craptacular efforts at the plate last night, I'd like to highlight Mr. Cuddyer and Mr. Young in particular. Not one solid swing from either of you the entire night. Gavin Floyd (#4 overall pick in the Joe Mauer draft, btw) should be sending you breakfast in bed this morning.

Moving on...enough with all these days off. What the heck am I supposed to do with all this free time? 40 games in 41 nights. I'm going to go way out on a bibilical limb and say this is a fairly important stretch of games.

Flood Watch Day One: Twins in first by one game over Chicago...High and Dry.


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Kaiser: The best thing about last night was the comment in Lavelle's blog today basically saying, "Wow! Two big hits by Joe Mauer in two nights." If that isn't enough to get Hops' head exploding, I don't know what is...

Hops: I don't listen to LaVelle any more than I listen to you.

Check-out Rick Ankiel's AMAZING throws from last night.

http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200805072655396

Kaiser: That's always been your fatal flaw.

Non-Great Baseball Mind question of the day: Why is Ankiel pitching from center field? Shouldn't he be on the mound?

Hops: It's like when a basketball player sucks at free throw shooting...so he takes a step back off the line.

Some people do better with a higher degree of difficulty.

Kaiser: Is that why Nick Swisher has that facial hair? To challenge himself with the ladies? And why did Jenks steal the rest of his beard?

Hops: Nick Swisher is footloose and fancy free. He has no time for your facial hair criticisms. If you're not careful, he may be inclined to challenge you to a dance-off.

Kaiser: More Swisher talk (shudder)...what do you have to say about this?