Pulling A Blyleven

__________
A NON-BASEBALL RELATED WORD FROM RK:

Thanks for the happy thoughts and good vibes during these strange events (to those not in the know, I'm a student at Virginia Tech). Send even more thoughts, or pray if that's your thing, to the victims and those more directly affected by the tragedy than myself. I didn't go to campus today, and even though they haven't released names, it seems like all my friends are accounted for. So many bodies, infinitely reducible. Therein lies the tragedy. People being treated as bodies by someone. That's the parallax we can't breach, the big Other we can't wrap our minds around.

The amount of outreach and support that I've gotten from friends, family, and perfect strangers, however, has more than once today moved me to tears. My little world in Blacksburg has been shaken, and plenty of people like Sister Jensen have volunteered to be Hokies for a while, helping to get the foundations set back in.

I'd like to do the game tomorrow, and we'll see what happens; but a deep thank you to those who read this thing and reached out. It goes farther than one might think.

--RK

Now enjoy the humor. Seriously. Laugh a lot everyday. Laughing is like inner jogging.
__________



After a 7-5 start, it is evident that a significant number of Twins are still shaking off the off-season rust and trying to get into mid-season form. Our beloved namesake, however, must have had a strict Winter training regimen, because he's clearly on his game:





At this point, Dick's reactions to Bert's shenanigans are so blasé that he would make an ideal case study for Simmel. Enjoy the day off and we'll see you after hours against Seattle tomorrow night.

--WV