Happy Saturday! The Twins won last night, no thanks to Matt Tolbert, who managed one of the single dumbest plays I’ve ever seen . Here’s a tip, Mr. Tolbert; if there are runners on the corners with one out, and a ground ball comes straight to you, feel free to flip it to second base to start the inning-ending double play. Alternately, maybe think about getting the lead runner and keeping the other team out of scoring position. I’m just saying that this could maybe save the two runs that Kansas City scored, is all.

You make that play in junior high, you get a talking-to. You do it in high school, you run laps. In the major leagues… well, I fully expected Ron Gardenhire to storm onto the field and clobber Tolbert with a pitching wedge.

Anyway, on with the links!

*Back in 2001, the Twins introduced dollar hot dog night, one of the best ideas they’ve ever had. That season, they also combined it with College ID night, leading to the only concourse food fight in Metrodome history — and to the near-abandonment of a game against the Yankees. It was a watershed moment for the Twins, as Tom Kelly had to wander out to left field to tell us all to get off his lawn. As proud as we Twins fans might be of that night, though — I’m sorry, but Phillies fans just do these things better.

*I link to this for two reasons: first of all, I don’t believe for a second that cricket is making any sort of significant inroads against baseball, even in New York City. Second, I just love the following sentence: “However, tarnished by the accusation, encouraged by the baseball lobby, that cricket was effete and elitist, the game died out.” Drat! Foiled again by that all-powerful K-Street baseball lobby! With their chewin’ tobacco and their Derek Jeter! CURSES!

*And finally: it only seems right to link to the latest salvo (and response) in the established-journalists-versus-bloggers war: this one’s by Junior at Fire Joe Morgan, in response to ESPN.com’s Rick Reilly, and is titled “Most Stuff Sucks.” Hard to not read something like that. Oh, and before any more journalists get up in arms about bloggers, they should be forced to read this column from Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports.

That’ll do it for me; enjoy the weekend. Last Monday, it snowed, and today they’re talking about a chance of thunderstorms. I hope you enjoyed spring — as it turned out, it fell on April 4 this year. (Rim shot.)

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