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tom moore

minneapolis, MN
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Posted on 07/07/10 at 12:26 pm in response to The beguiling Juana Molina beckons at the Walker Saturday night

wow! thanks! will look it up!

Posted on 06/25/10 at 02:05 pm in response to The beguiling Juana Molina beckons at the Walker Saturday night

britt!!!!!!! hey, man, i just googled you to read a decent piece on the nba draft. you posting one here, on cnnsi.com, somewhere? oh, and i'll check out the audio clips of juana molina. thanks.

Posted on 05/25/10 at 02:01 pm in response to 'Sports Armageddon?' Supreme Court issues landmark ruling favoring Vikings and individual teams over NFL

i wonder if one of the first and/or effective challenges related to this ruling will come not from third parties like merchandisers or broadcasters, or even from labor/players, but from an owner like, say, jerry jones. he doesn't like the revenue sharing with teams like the vikings and also wants to cut his own merchandising deals. the nfl nixed this in the past. but now he may have the courts on his side.

Posted on 05/25/10 at 02:19 pm in response to Should the Twins trade for Houston pitcher Roy Oswalt? Probably not, and here's why

or, they could have just signed santana long-term a year before he went free agent. would have won the division two years ago, not needed 163 last year, and potentially advanced in the playoffs (who knows how far?) with an ace on the staff one or both years.

at least one of the two years, the twins would have had a good chance of going far had they signed santana long-term.

and he can't be making much more than oswalt.

Posted on 04/26/10 at 11:13 am in response to Vikings' draft pick of Toby Gerhart raises the specter of the unspoken NF-Elephant in the room

gerhart is more of an ottis anderson. or an eddie george than he is a riggins or alstott or any, white running back i can think of.

Posted on 03/25/10 at 01:58 pm in response to Strikeout! Ruling means most Hennepin County officials can't land Twins' opening day tickets

seems fair enough. am sure they can afford a ticket on stubhub or craigslist on their salaries. and am sure they can have a blast just "milling around" all the pubs and patios. no big deal.

Posted on 03/10/10 at 01:08 pm in response to Life without Nathan: Closer likely facing Tommy John surgery

thanks for the rundown on the seemingly available options.

i like the mijares/neshek angle, myself. am not sure why gardy couldn't or wouldn't go with a closer-by-committee thing for at least a little while, though - just seems like it would give your bullpen more versatility (not that you wouldn't trade that versatility for having nathan back) if you're not locked into a daily/nightly closer.

then, if someone starts to look the part of a true closer as of, say, a few weeks or...

Posted on 01/29/10 at 01:17 pm in response to Jim Thome is a great addition for Twins, but they need to give him a bigger role than pinch-hitting

i love this move. there are so many scenarios where having thome on the bench (should the starters stay healthy and should delmon young revert to his slap-hitting ways) will be more of a plus to the twins than just one at-bat.

if thome pinch-hits before, say, the ninth inning, then the opposing manager has to decide if he's going to use his only lefty reliever at that point (and possibly pulling a starter he'd hoped to go another inning, thus getting to the bullpen earlier) as...

Posted on 01/11/10 at 12:10 pm in response to Head & Shoulders' homoerotic ad with Troy Polamalu

seems more homophobic than anything. in stereotypical straight-guy speak: "dude, he called you out on checking out his hair. you're so gay."

i think (straight) guys are supposed to watch this ad and think "ha ha, he totally called that reporter gay." (and thus associate head-and-shoulders with what tough guys are cool with using - as in, "it doesn't make me less tough that i have dandruff shampoo in my shower"). but there's nothing homoerotic about it - calling other guys "gay" as...

Posted on 12/11/09 at 10:19 am in response to Minnesota Daily investigates Gopher wrestling program

the Daily obviously wasn't concerned mainly about just bringing these issues to the athletic department's attention and then "letting the process play out". Otherwise, why the sensational cover with giant, color photos of the head coach and three assistant/former coaches?

There is no "smoking gun" in the article. Yes, it's interesting that the people involved with the wrestling team are so heavily involved in off campus housing (one, anecdotal example of this elsewhere from off the...