Twinkie Town Talk: the “Eduardo Escobar lives in fear of kittens” edition

In case you missed it

• Let’s take a look at how consistent and/or inconsistent the Twins starters have been.
• An entire caravan of dedicated Sano bashers has disappeared from the Anoka area, moving on to harass a different disappointing team.
• Matt gives you his take on which Twins should be selected as starters in the All-Star game. Remember to vote for your favorites on Wednesday afternoon.

Elsewhere in Twins Territory

• Charley Walters noted that the Twins are seeing an uptick in season ticket sales, likely in order to get first dibs on playoff tickets. Also in this article: You can get pitching lessons from Cole DeVries, if you want to learn how to be a Quadruple-A pitcher.
• Bring me the news, which has an annoyingly long name to type, looks at the Cody Allen signing, and also suggests another has-been reliever the Twins could consider acquiring. Maybe they can do the “six-million dollar man” routine on a few more guys?
• At Fangraphs, a look at a Minnesota starter’s Cy Young case. It’s not Jake Odorizzi this time, but Jose Berrios.
• Martin Perez continues to just be the nicest freaking guy on Twitter

• Cooper and Matt have another podcast up, talking about the Twins “slump,” so give them a listen if you have some time.

Around Baseball

• Apparently Eduardo Escobar is incredibly terrified of cats (huh, who knew,) His teammates took advantage of this fact

• The venerable Tom Verducci thinks that the MLB has a relief pitching issue on its hands, and the system is broken.
• An old friend is going to get a chance with the Nationals. I suppose he is almost everyone’s old friend by this point. Anyway, I suspect arrows will be fired.

Discussion:

Who is a famous person you have interacted with? How did it go?