Category: Sports

  • The Three Pointer: Sick and Twisted

    Regular Season Game #3, Home Game # 2: Orlando 111, Minnesota 100 1. Not Enough Talent The title of this trey is more than a tad melodramatic for what in many respects was the most mundane of the Wolves’ three losses thus far this season. "Sick" refers to the flu bug that made Theo Ratliff…

  • The Three Pointer: A Decent 0-2

    Home Game #1: Denver 99, Wolves 91 Road Game #1  Wolves 93, New York Knicks 97 1. Egos in the Backcourt For people who imagined that the Timberwolves might surprise the dour prognosticators and post thirty wins or more this season, it was probably a frustrating opening weekend to the 2007-08 campaign. But for those of us intrigued…

  • Preseason Three Pointer: Scratching From Start

    1. Theo In the Pivot Let’s begin with some positive news, eh? Theo Ratliff, valued first and foremost for the $11 million he will take off the books when his contract expires at the end of the season, is alive and swatting, providing the best interior presence this franchise has ever seen, at least as…

  • Ok, Maybe not Sabathia for Santana

    How’d you like to see this coming at you? If last night was any indication, either I’ve severely overestimated C.C. Sabathia or Eric Wedge way overused him during the season. Over 240 innings in a year is a lot these days. (Santana pitched 219 this year.) Last night (and in game one of the Boston…

  • Why I Like the Clevelands

    I was in the ticket sales office for the new Twins ballpark a few weeks ago. Actually, it must have been more than a few weeks ago because the Twins hadn’t yet given up and fallen off the pennant chase earth. On their big screen TV was a replay of the previous night’s game with…

  • Is Anybody Alive Out There?

    Is anybody still paying attention? Some of us, of course, can’t help ourselves. Some of us actually watched that game tonight. And some game, huh? I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a game end on a dropped pop-up to the second baseman. That there qualifies as tee-ball heroics. Still, the Twins did come back after…