Twinkie Town Talk: the Montreal Ex-Rays edition

In case you missed it:

• Joe Mauer is beloved in Minnesota, maybe because he was just a little bit of everything, all in one milk-drinking package.
• Here are 17 things you can do in the amount of time that it took the Twins and Red Sox to play 17 innings the other night.
• Sean Poppen was demoted and Kohl Stewart called up. This was good, as Stewart pitched four scoreless last night.
• Stewart held the Royals, but unfortunately the Twins still couldn’t win, and Tawny made a bunch of Megaman puns.

Elsewhere in Twins Territory:

• Jay Jaffe must have missed an memo somewhere at ESPN, because when he organized teams into tiers, he put the Twins and the Yankees in different ones.
• Who has the best fastball in the majors? Well, Fangraphs says its a member of the Twins

Elsewhere around baseball:

• The Rays have a weird idea to split time between Tampa and Montreal. I suspect it might be a ploy for new-stadium-leverage (paging Mr. Fillmore.)
• Max Scherzer broke his nose practicing bunting. The next day he pitched a very good ballgame.
• An interview with a very good boy; Finn the Bat Dog from the Las Vegas Aviators

Discuss:

Bottle water or tap water? Why?