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":