Twinkie Town Talk: The “I’m Still Excited from Thursday’s Game” Edition

As usual, feel free to use this as a place to talk about anything you would like—within the limits of reason and the community guidelines.

Are you still riding a wave of euphoria after La MaKꞰꞰKKKꞰKKKina’s performance on Thursday afternoon? I know I am.

I know it was an off day yesterday, but in case you missed it:

• Cole gives us 25 must-know stats - one for each player - for the Minnesota Twins this season. I will be quizzing you on these later.
• TeamCrazyMatt breaks down FiveThirtyEight’s and ESPN’s projects. You’ll be surprised on how different both predictions are.
• Zach opens up his memory bank and takes us back to 2009, reminiscing about his attendance not at that season’s Opening Day, but the rather game two.
• Thanks are in order for another great annual Twinkie Town Community Prospect Vote by DJL44! Here’s the list of prospects in order as you - the community - voted them in.
• Dig in your closet for your crystal ball and make your prediction for the 2019 Home Run King of the Twins in another installment our our community’s predictions for this season. If only there were a JI option.

Around the region that is Twins Territory:

• Brandon Warne writes about Ryne Harper’s birthday present this year. It’d be really cool if he did well in the majors.
• Treasure Island Baseball Network Broadcast Engineer Kyle Hammer has a simple solution to long game times in the MLB.
• If you’re still on that high of José Berríos’ performance on Thursday, here’s a clip of his ten strikeouts - three called with a complementary dose of umpire Tom Hallion’s fantastic strikeout looking call.

Around Major League Baseball:

• If you didn’t hear: MLB awards a toy championship belt to the team that did “best” in the arbitration process... well best for themselves - and the players union is none too happy about that (and rightfully so).
• You’d think something like this would be finalized already, but the Facebook and MLB signed a one-year deal to stream MLB games on Facebook. It’s less games than last year, and that’s fine by me.
• MLB.com took a look at one major prospect per team that didn’t make the Opening Day roster, but would still make a major contribution to their team this year. The Twins prospect they chose surprised me. Did it surprise you?
• Finally, a former Twins player became the worst player in another team’s franchise. No, it’s not Kevin Jepsen.

Today’s discussion question:

What is your favorite kind of cheese and why?