Wow, beth… I bow to the Master of the run-on sentence (or is it Mistress… I dunno but that sounds a bit too kinky for a baseball blog, doesn’t it?) and recognize that I have SO much more to learn about run-on sentences (and so many other things) before I can honestly compare myself to you (or just about any other writer in Twins blogdom (but especially the great Batgirl), for that matter), but I promise I won’t rest until I become worthy of such comparisons.

Also, it totally reminds me of something someone said in the comments on Batgirl’s site years ago, when the question was pondered, “Is the Brewers-Twins really a rivalry? Does anyone have strong passions about it?” Someone proposed, ‘Before the next series, we should call up a couple of pitchers from AAA, have them plunk the first three batters. That will turn it into rivalry.’ It was written much better than that; I can only paraphrase. (Speaking of writing, you need to work on your run-on sentences. It was good, but to be a great run-on sentence, you need at least two parenthetical statements, and at least one parenthetical statement inside another parenthetical statement (something like this) and it’s even better when you end up finishing the sentence after all the parentheticals and people have to go back before the parentheticals to figure out what the sentence really is.)