Vern Gagne

You sure you're not taking about Ron Dayne of Wisconsin. The Heisman Winner in 1999.

An old favorite. Worst-They left it all on the field. Worst-We're taking this one game at a time.

Especially with the Astros in the same division. The Cubs are right near the top in the Wildcard standings. The Astros trail about 7 teams, and are closer to last place in the division.

The highest the Gophers have been ranked in about 40 years.

I've gotta be honest. I was very skeptical of Kevin Garnett.

Every canidate receives a bump in the polls after choosing their VP. Bob Dole went up has high as 15% after choosing Jack Kemp. It should also be noted these nation wide polls amount to squat. The only polls to look at are state by state.

Joe Mauer returned to the Twin Cities for x-rays on his knee. Fucking A he'll be on the DL, for another 6 weeks.

Bring back the 70's. So many memorable cheesy fades, movies, and tv shows to talk about. The 90's was a boring decade.Even the cast of regulars doesn't seem has enthused talking about Melrose Place, or the Macarena. As they would discussing Battle of the Network Stars, or ChIps.

OMG! FDR and Churchill must be evil.

It's not MY job to go find Bin Laden...that responsibility falls squarely on Bush's shoulders. It falls on every country whose been victim to Al Qaeda and Bin Laden.

Don't buy it. Hitler was completley insane even more so by the end of the War. He wouldn't of cared about escaping to Argentina or any other country.The bastard killed himself in Berlin.

Cheney never tied Hussein with 9-11. He like others in the adminstration said the two had ties. Something the 9-11 commission backed up, and the Clinton adminstartion said has well in 1998.

Ron Gardenhire wants him on the Twins. He recently said he's wanted Morneau on the team the entire year. Of course know the problem is with Stewart back, the Twins don't have a spot for him. Ford isn't sitting, and like it or not Dougie Alphabet isn't sitting. Hopefully Dougies wrist injury leads to a stint on the DL.

His OPS is down by over 30% from last year. Bud Selig would be foolish not to listen to offers for Hernandez. Jayson Stark last week reported, the Twins are the likely destination for Kris Benson if he's traded.

One idea for interleague I heard someone suggest was to have games throughout the year. So instead of having a 2 week span in June and July. Have the Cubs and Mariners play in April, or August. This also included having 15 teams in each league.

Just because a franchise lost a good player doesn't mean it was for cost cutting purposes. I don't have relevant salary data available for Carter or Carew. Essentially, the '95 Labor Agreement funneled revenue sharing money to the lowest revenue teams, and the clubs in Montreal and Minnesota had no incentive to improve their teams, because the losses in revenue sharing would be more than the gain from added gate reciepts and other revenues. What interest has the Wild Card created in the game? It was instituted in 1995, and I don't recall the baseball renaissance beginning at that point. Meanwhile under Bud Selig, MLB has funneled its TV Contract to the most dispicable bastards ever to broadcast live baseball, lied to Congress, lied to the fans about finances, blackmailed cities to build new stadiums with public money, permitted a convoluted sale which permitted a scumbag owner to piss on the Montreal Expos, and continues to piss on the game of baseball. Oh yes, and he attempted to sell advertising space on the pitching rubber to a fucking movie. With Carew, Larry Hisle, Lyman Bostock and other former Twins it was cost cutting measures. The former owner of the Twins Calvin Griffith was cheaper than Carl Pohlad, and traded away players for the sole purpose of saving money. So the benefits are supposed to happen overnight? It was 1995 a year removed from the first ever cancelled World Series. Fox gave MLB the best offer, and may have been the only network to even make an offer. Variety would be nice, but the 3 other networks didn't seem to care about showing baseball games. No one forced these cities do anything. They made the final decision on whether or not to finance a new ballpark. Who cares. 50 years ago, outfield walls where full of advertising. Making a quick buck has always been apart of the game. This was no different.

Well, competitive balance only became a problem when Selig took the job in the first place. Attendance wasn't a problem until Selig took the job. All the problems that Bud Selig "fixed," were created by Bud. Teams like Minnesota and Montreal can't compete? It was the economic incentives of the '95 Labor agreement that encouraged them to stop spending money on their teams so they could get a big, fat check from MLB. The Wild Card has done nothing more than create five new playoff games. It does not make the regular season more exciting, and it make the LCS and World Series worse, by giving inferior teams a chance to make it. What keeps teams competitive despite inbalances in payroll isn't revenue sharing, its the amateur draft. Any team, no matter how financially desolate, controls their players for the first six years of their careers. For the vast majority of players, this is where they have their best seasons. That's what keeps baseball competitive. Minnesota and Montreal had been cutting payroll long before Bud Selig was Commissioner. Gary Carter, Andre Dawson, Rod Carew are just a few marquee names dumped for cost saving measures. You not liking the wildcard doesn't mean it hasn't helped create more interest in the game.

McKeon wasn't trying. He treated the game like an old All-Star game. It's not an old All-Star game. The game does matter. Sheets should of started for the NL, and Soriano should of been intentionally walked, with Mulder on deck in the 1st inning.

Stewart's back for the Twins.

Yeah. Selig's so horrible. More teams are not only competive, but in playoff races. Attendance around the league continues to improve. Than there's interleague play and the wildcard which have been huge successes for the game.

Gammons is reporting the same thing. Until it does happen, let's wait to create a seperate thread. The rumored favorite is Phil Garner, with Don Baylor and Grady Little being considered. Let's see a two time failure in Garner, and Baylor and another Red Sox manager reject.

AL wins 8-5. MVP-Alex Rodriguez

Williams better not be the Astros manager on Thursday night.

ESPN's got a great imagination. Chris Webber never played at Michigan, and they certainly never played North Carolina in the Championship game.

I saw Fernandez and if I'm the Mariners I'd be worried about potential weight problems. The kids only 18 and he looks a little chunky.