1979 Twins commercial from tcmedianow.com via It's a long season.

The 1979 Twins went 82-80. Something to shoot for this year!

Now You Know: Danny Valencia

Gardenhire looks ahead to 2012.

Jamey Carroll talks about signing a two-year deal with the Twins and returning to shortstop.

San Francisco Bay Area Earthquakes re-enacted with Twins bobbleheads

As those who were on the gamethread yesterday may have noted, I experienced my first pair of earthquakes since moving to California and may or may not have over-reacted. Gamethread regulars may also recall that I bought the 1991 bobblehead doll set on a capricious whim and now have 26 bobbleheads that I don't know what to do with. So I used them to re-enact the earthquakes and set it to the Homer Hanky song from back in the day. It's highly possible that I'm too easily amused.

Yankees star in "Too Much Moneyball"

Hey White Sox and Tiger fans! It's alive! BUWAHAHAHA!!!!!

Something Silly: Those Were The Plays

In honor of the 2010 Minnesota Twins, inspired by yesterday's game thread... "Cue Archie Bunker." Except he wasn't available, so I had to do it. (I may have taken this joke too far.) Apologies to Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton for my horrendous impressions.

This will only encourage Bert'nDick to make more of these "I'm calling it"s

h/t Big League Stew

This is absolutely brilliant. (via Fangraphs)