Category: Dennis Martinez

December 26, 2025

Is El Presidente to blame?

You never know when you’re going to have an unsettling Minnesota Twins moment. As I mentioned in my previous post, I recently opened a 32-year-old pack of Topps baseball cards with a friend and immediately found a Kirby Puckett card, only then to discover that there were two cards stuck together. As I peeled them... Continue Reading »

December 14, 2025

The Dodgers seem to get everyone. Even Rocco Baldelli

The term “evil empire” used to be synonymous with the New York Yankees, but now the Bronx Bombers look absolutely tame and tepid alongside the Los Angeles Dodgers, a money-spending, player-hording, behemoth of a team that appears willing to hoover up any talent in sight to maintain their World Series-winning ways. The latest example? The... Continue Reading »

Hi, I’m Rolf Boone, Twins fan.

I became a fan of the Minnesota Twins after a friendly wager in the early 1980s. I survived Ron Davis, the meltdown in Cleveland, Phil Bradley at the Kingdome and then marveled at a rising generation of stars and two World Series wins in 1987 and 1991. Brad Radke made the 1990s bearable, while Kirby Puckett’s eye injury, exit from the game and eventual death made it almost too much to bear. The new century ushered in more talent — Joe Mauer, Johan Santana, Joe Nathan, Torii Hunter, Justin Morneau — and consecutive seasons of playoff baseball, followed by consecutive seasons of losing baseball. A winning season returned in 2015. So here we are. Go Twins.