Twinkie Town Talk: Have yourself a merry little Linksmas

Merry Christmas, to each and every one of you, and your families. Its an odd one, but hopefully you find it enjoyable.

Twinkie Town Linkie Town

• I look at an oddity of history that ends up connecting to the Twins franchise
• The inimitable Mr. Fillmore provides a couple book reviews and some more thoughts on history.
• The first part of some excellent analysis of Twins pitching, and spin rate in particular from JohnFoley.
• Zach wants to know who you think the biggest Grinch in Twins-dom is
• Matt ends his tournament of sadness. The tourney was fun, but man were those teams bad!

Twins links from other (possibly inferior) sites

• Okay, they’re probably not inferior. Let me dream though!
• Brad Hand apparently would love to play for the Twins, but isn’t sure the Twins want him. Pick up your phone and make a call, Falvey. At least find out what the cost would be.
• Apparently Calvin Griffith wanted to call the team something other than the “Minnesota Twins.” Do-Hyoung Park looks into this piece of the Twins story.
• The Twins signed a bunch of players to MiLB deals this month, including former Royal Glenn Sparkman. I love when I get things right in the simulated offseason!

Baseball links

• ‘Twas the night before Cubmas
• The Pirates traded Josh Bell to the Nationals.
• Old Friend Sam Fuld is going places. Like Philadelphia. Terry Ryan is there too, by the way.

• Tony La Russa was sentenced to a day at home, for his DUI.

• Yeah....

• I’m going to let Amazin’ Avenue suggest your soundtrack, via their very excellent music recommendations.

Discuss:

2020 wasn’t a great year for a lot of reasons, but lets focus on the positives today. What was something good that happened this year?