He was absent for a little while, but now he’s back with a vengeance. Jon?

If you’re from Minnesota, you can barely contain your excitement today.
It’s snowing!  There is weather happening!  One of our three standard
small-talk topics may stretch beyond four words!  So look out the window, determine the current weather and then, Choose Your Own Adventure-style, pick the appropriate small talk from the list:

NOT SNOWING YET: “Geez, they say it’s supposed to come down real hard later. Better get the errands done this morning, eh?”
JUST STARTING TO SNOW: “No, it’s not coming down too bad yet, but they say it’s supposed to get worse real soon.”
SNOWING STEADILY: “Yeah, it’s coming down pretty good out there.  Not so bad yet though.”
BLIZZARD/WHITEOUT: “Looks like we’re really gonna get dumped on today. It’s not so bad though, I remember back in [pick year and ramble about snowfalls past].”

(Note: if you’re wondering, the appropriate response to any of these statements is to chuckle indulgently, then remark, “Oh, ja, better get them done this morning,” changing the last part of the sentence to approximate the last part of the original statement.)

Anyway, here’s a batch of links to try to push the snow out of your mind for a moment:

*First, a trio of Twins links.  It’s been posted everywhere, but one more time won’t hurt: it’s famed Twins blogger Bat Girl, returning with a Lego-ized look at Delmon Young’s first visit to the Twin Cities. Look closely for special appearances by Star Tribune bloggers!  If it’s a fact-based, less-funny trade breakdown you seek, Aaron Gleeman has you covered. And finally, the fellows at Fire Joe Morgan have been busy, first taking apart the Torii Hunter signing and then … [link to asinine trade proposal from across the river metro daily has been removed to protect the author from further ridicule].

Ah, the Hot Stove League.  You can’t beat it.  Especially because a thousand trades are suggested, all based on one premise: the other team is run by half-wit sub-humans who consistently get baseball confused with foxy boxing. (This premise works in the NBA, but not in baseball.)

*Roman Augustoviz has got the scoop on the lineups for Sunday’s Minnesota-Iowa State 1-vs.-2 wrestling showdown. It’s the Match of the Century — you know, if dual meets mattered at all in college wrestling. Sadly, with the Vikings blackout falling through on Friday morning, it couldn’t come at a worse time (2:00 on Sunday).

*From Awful Announcing: Tom Brady is in the running for Sexiest Woman Alive.  This would be funny, except for the 25,000,000 votes that will be cast from the Boston area for Mr. Brady.

*Required hockey content: Good thing — NHL approves new scheduling system that involves actual inter-conference play.  Bad thing — One of the cities everyone now has to visit is still Nashville.

That’ll do it for me.  My hope is that Stu’s comedy stylings will get all of us through the rest of the weekend … and here’s hoping that God is going to let Jon Kitna go it alone tomorrow.

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