Twinkie Town Talk: Bring out the brooms edition

This is your daily open thread, talk about whatever you want, within the community guidelines!

Good Morning Twinkie Town!

In case you missed it:

• The Twins swept the Royals, with an ugly 7-6 comeback victory that still counts.
• dwintheiser wrote a fanpost that really makes you think: Why are strikeouts paradoxically viewed differently for pitchers than hitters?
• The latest fanpulse results tell us that 93% of Twins fans are confident with the direction of the team.

Elsewhere in Twins Territory:

• The early grades are out for the Twins walkup songs. I’m officially uncool, because I know exactly one song from the list—Mitch Garver goes old school on his selection.
• Judd Zulgad has hawt taykes about Byron Buxton’s habit of crashing into walls and breaking himself.

and around the world of baseball

• A strange play for the Red Sox last night involved Rafael Devers losing his glove and his team losing the lead

• Our division rivals in Cleveland have extended their manager, Terry Francona through 2022

• The Cubs also jumped on the extension train, this time for someone named David Bote. My reaction was “who?”
• From the Athletic’s Dale Murphy, Minor Leaguers make less than they did in 1975, when adjusted for inflation (paywall)
• Over at Lets Go Tribe, Chris Davies chatted with Rob Neyer about his book Power Ball, the changes in baseball, and some other great baseball topics.

Today’s discussion question:

What are some of your favorite board games?