July 4, 2014

Link-O-Rama

Headline of the week/weak: "Thief Forgets To Log Off Facebook After Burglarizing Home."

Molly Fitzpatrick's illustrated guide to the best and worst sleeping positions for couples is all kinds of great.

• In fairness, who among us hasn't gotten lost in a ...

• Next month the A's are holding a "Jewish Heritage Night" and I really want the giveaway hat.

• One of the best and most underrated soul singers of all time, Bobby Womack, died at age 70.

• Someone hacked into the Astros' internal database and leaked 10 months of trade discussions, but sadly there was nothing Twins related to be seen.

Lauryn Hill is one of my favorite musicians, but I skipped her show at First Avenue this week for fear it would be weird and sad. Based on the reviews, I'm going to be kicking myself forever.

• Now retired and 39 years old, Livan Hernandez throws batting practice for the Nationals and mimics opposing pitchers.

• On this week's "Gleeman and The Geek" episode John Bonnes and Kate Butler teamed up to make fun of me for 90 minutes, and then walked a little about the Twins' bad starting pitching.

• Red Sox television analyst Jerry Remy lost a tooth on the air:

"Can you put it back in?"

• There's no "Gleeman and The Geek" show on KFAN this Sunday because my co-host is out of town and it's a holiday weekend, but if you still need to get your fix listen to me as a guest on the "No Juice Podcast" with Parker Hageman and Dan Anderson. We talked about a bunch of weird stuff, including a surprising amount of baseball. If you like me, you'll like it.

• Speaking of the holiday weekend, I'm going to a bunch of Twins-Yankees games at Target Field and this is basically my nightmare.

• A local stripper claims Royals pitchers Bruce Chen and Yordano Ventura weren't the best patrons while in town to play the Twins.

Zach Lowe of Grantland is my favorite basketball writer and his breakdown of Kevin Love and Klay Thompson was very interesting.

• You know the list of celebrities for the All-Star softball game is star-studded when one of them lives in Chanhassen. Oh, and Love has already canceled his scheduled appearance.

• I enjoyed Joe Posnanski's long read about Raul Ibanez the player and the person.

• Friend of AG.com Maggie LaMaack put together some helpful writing tips, including something (that) I'm guilty of regularly.

• What does Jorge Polanco's early Twins debut mean for his future?

• One-time Twins minor leaguer Yangervis Solarte turned back into a pumpkin for the Yankees.

• Finally got sick of my Honda Fit and traded it in.

• I ate No. 1 on this City Pages list Sunday and it's legit, to the point that I've been thinking about it pretty much non-stop since.

Todd Glass was a great guest on "Never Not Funny" with Jimmy Pardo and Matt Belknap.

• Movie recommendation: "They Came Together" starring Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd is a funny parody of romantic comedies and you can rent it on iTunes instead of going to a theater.

• Some of this week's weird and random search engine queries that brought people here:

- "Fat bearded Twins blogger"
- "Three-pork gnocchi Gleeman"
- "What does built like a fire hydrant mean?"
- "Drew Butera dude"
- "Aaron Gleeman brunch"
- "Elisha Cuthbert feet"
- "Perkins restaurant bar stools"

• Finally, in honor of his death this week's AG.com-approved music video is Womack's classic "Across 110th Street":

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