If you can tear yourself away from setting your fantasy football lineups and ironing your Favre jersey, there is still baseball to be played. Somehow, someway, your 70-70 Minnesota Twins are still not out of the playoff hunt. They enter tonight's game 5.5 games behind the Detroit Tigers, who start a four-game series against Toronto at Comerica Park. (Detroit has dropped 8 of their last 11 to the Blue Jays. KNOW HOPE.)
Your starters:
After a punishing stretch as the worst starting pitcher in the history of forever, Blackburn has caught a mild strain of respectability, going 1-2 with a 3.42 ERA in his last four starts.
Mortensen is one of the players the Athletics acquired from the Cardinals in the Matt Holliday trade. True fact I just made up: he weighs 104 lbs. (Check out that ERA. KNOW MORE HOPE.)
Lineups:
Enjoy the game, everybody.