How'd Ya Like Them Apples?

This piece of information doesn’t exactly qualify as comfort, but on a rainy Saturday in late April it will perhaps serve as a grim and modestly entertaining diversion: For two days, late in the first month of the 2006 season, the Minnesota Twins were the worst baseball team on the planet.

And maybe this will make you feel as optimistic as it does me: Albert Pujols is the same age as Jason Bartlett.