Monday Morning Minnesota: Goodbye Yankee Stadium Edition

Previously on Twinkie Town:

• Resident Draft Dude, Kyle Edelbrock looked at the history of the 13th overall draft pick. Trea Turner is the only name I even recognize so...
• SooFoo Fan joined us all in being BooHoo Fans and sadly recapped a sad (and wet) loss to the Yankees.
• I did a Twinkie Town Talk. In fact I did it so well that I can’t find many links for today, so check that out if you need additional reading material. Because of said lack of links, I’m trying out a new section. Exciting!

Fanpost Featurette:

• Less cowbell, more ‘neau wrote a fanpost that is best described as a 2018 Twins/Star Wars comparison piece. I don’t even care about Star Wars and I still liked it, so go read it to cure your Star Bores...? (I’m sorry.)
• 2wins87 (Did the Twins only get 2 wins in 87? Seems wrong.) wrote about the Falvey and Levine’s relief prospect shuffle, which I was dismayed to learn is not the newest dance craze and is instead talking about the ever rotating bullpen.
• Too Rich To Write Checks previously polled us on how we thought the Yankees series would go. I regret to inform you that 73% of you are absolute dummies who got it wrong. (Including me :| )

Elsewhere in Twins Territory:

• STRIB’s Chris Miller lists four keys to the Twins’ hot start. I assume number one is “Scored more than opponents.”
• Miguel Sano can hit balls very hard.

• Even birds from New York are assholes.

Other Corners of the Baseball ‘Verse

• UNP Blog has an except of OPS creator Richard D. Kramer’s book When Big Data Was Small: My Life in Baseball Analytics and Drug Design. It is about the origins of sabermetrics back when it was a handful of dudes talking through the actual literal mail. I actually might buy the book.
• Sports Info Solutions looks at the effectiveness of the Infield In defense.

Conversation Starter:

Who is your favorite band/musician? I promise to reply to you tonight and tell you how bad your taste is.

Today’s Soundtrack is some heavy nonsense and my favorite opening track to a video game ever.