May 25, 2012
Link-O-Rama
• Dmitri Young sold his baseball card collection for $2.5 million. And here's my favorite part of the story: "Only seven cards in the entire collection received no bids and all were rookie cards of his brother, current Tigers outfielder Delmon Young."
• Anyone know if this team needs a blogger?
• Oddly both brilliant and creepy: The evolution of a family, one picture per year.
• Joe Mauer and Snoop Dogg, together again at Thursday night's White Sox-Twins game.
• Financing the remake of a Pauly Shore movie is a sure sign that you have too much money.
• Thing that made me feel elderly: This week is the 20th anniversary of The Real World on MTV.
• Friend of AG.com and former Gleeman and The Geek guest Lindsay Guentzel beat out 22,000 applicants for a spot in the MLB Fan Cave, but now they're voting out residents, Survivor-style, and she needs your help to stick around and keep living in New York all season. Go vote.
• LeBron James reads The Hunger Games in the locker room, obviously.
• Michael Cuddyer is in a new league and on a new bad team, but the newspaper articles about him and "clubhouse chemistry" predictably live on.
• Curt Schilling: Great pitcher, not-so-great businessman.
• Saying this will inevitably lead to ridicule, but whatever: John Mayer's new album is really good and also quite a bit different than most of his previous stuff.
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• Fat-O-Meter update: I wrote on March 7 about losing 153 pounds in one year. Since then I've dropped another 23 pounds and now weigh 179 pounds, compared to 176 pounds lost.
• My weekly appearance on KFAN with Paul Allen was fun and you can listen to us talk about the Twins and the MLB draft and my life as a robot by clicking here.
• On a related note, I showed up at the radio station immediately after this took place:
Not so long ago I'd have been excited about the fact that there were still donuts around.
• I'd like this cake for my next birthday, please. But definitely not the blond version.
• Aroldis Chapman was arrested for driving significantly slower than he throws.
• Jim Thome is single-handedly trying to prop up the housing market by selling his old place for $3.8 million and buying a new place for $4.6 million.
• Someone bought Babe Ruth's old jersey for $4.4 million.
• Torii Hunter has yet to rejoin the Angels two weeks after his 17-year-old son's arrest on sexual assault charges.
• My former Sunday school classmate Leora Itman writes about how my old temple in St. Paul has a new, supposedly "cool" rabbi. And he has a sports blog called The Great Rabbino.
• Chris Brown and his fans truly deserve each other.
• Albert Chen of Sports Illustrated wrote a lengthy profile of Georgia high school center fielder Byron Buxton, who might end up being the Twins' choice with the No. 2 pick next month.
• I've never tuned in specifically to watch this show, yet cancellation is probably the only way to stop me from watching five episodes in a row every time I stumble across a marathon.
• NBC renewed Community for another season, but creator and show-runner Dan Harmon got fired and it's tough imagine the quality and creativity not suffering without him.
• Who is Cole De Vries and what is he doing in the Twins' rotation? I'm glad you asked.
• In similar news, I'm taking myself out of consideration for People's sexiest man of the year.
• Jesse Thorn's long-form interview show Bullseye is always a must-listen, but that's especially true this week with Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey as his guest.
• Finally, this week's AG.com-approved music video is the studio version of the title track from Mayer's new album, "Born and Raised":
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