- Joe Mauer's contract extension/lack of same. You need something to stress about over the winter, right?
- Joe Nathan's elbow chips. Keep telling yourself this is the only reason Game 2 turned out the way it did, and that it's all going to be better now.
- O-Cab or C-Pav? Both? Neither?
- The five blissful months where you won't hear John Gordon screw up even the most basic of calls.
- The slowly dawning realization that Phil Cuzzi didn't even make the worst call of the playoffs. Hi, Tim McClellan! (PS: Cuzzi, you still suck.)
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- Justin Morneau's broken back. Don't tell me you're not a little bit worried about this.
- Forgetting the horrors of the ALDS and savoring the brilliance of Game 163.
- Hoping for Chone Figgins, settling for J.J. Hardy, ending up with Brendexi CaPunto.
- Insane optimism that you're talking yourself into. Current favorite: "2010 is when Delmon Young figures it out! He was really good those last two weeks!"
- Dick Bremer's non-Twins broadcasting efforts. He just looks so forlorn working a 4th-tier Big Ten men's basketball game. Deep down, I suspect he knows that he needs that farting, Dutch madman beside him to talk about maintaining downward planes and circling farm wives from Paynesville.
- Danny Valencia. If not him, who? If not now, when?
- Wondering who gets to pay Joe Crede's MRI bills in 2010.
- Guessing what form the precipitation will take on Opening Day in Target Field.
- Weaning yourself off constantly checking LaVelle or Joe C.'s blog every afternoon for the starting lineups.