Tuesday Morning Twins: Mauer, Buxton, and the Rest of the Twins (Who Reportedly Suck)

The off-day was horrible. Here are some links too help you through:

• Joe Mauer is leading in All Star Game votes for AL catcher. And he only has 5 home runs!
• Please tell me the "stout, black gentleman" in this Byron Buxton FanGraphs interview is Tommy Watkins. (Plus: Buxton sounds startlingly mature.)
• Remember when Detroit's Anibal Sanchez almost no-hit the Twins recently? (I know, I know.) Turns out that experience provided our boys with some motivation to stop sucking.
• Luckily, Rant Sports is still here to remind us not to "get too caught up in the moment" because the Twins still suck. Thanks guys!
• Did you know Jeff Trout, father of baseball and Subway super-star Mike Trout, used to play in the Twins minor leagues? And that the Twins had a chance at Mike Trout and passed it up? (Would this be a bad time to also mention the Twins passed on a chance at Miguel Cabrera?)
• As the Star Tribune's Phil Miller reports, however, the new draft rules under MLB's 2012 CBA are much in the Twins' favor.
• They have a lot of interesting ideas in St. Cloud about how to "fix" the Twins.
• Ron Gardenhire, on the 2013 Twins starting rotation: "It's kind of hard to sit and say, 'Well, we were expecting this.' .... [Kevin 'The Drizzle'] Correia's been good for the most part. I think he's done very, very well, which we were hoping he would do. The rest of them have kind of had their moments."
• Joe Mauer, on getting to wear the St. Paul Saints throwback uniform last week: "It's pretty special."
• Our friend Darin McGilvra, who manages his son's little league team, gives Gardy some tips.
• Former Twin Al Newman Still "a baseball nut" (That's it. That's the entire headline and your teaser for this link.)