Top of 8, Twins hold a 5 to 1 lead. Jason Kubel gets the first official Target Field homerun, and some lucky Iowa kid gets the ball.

Pavano looks sharp. The lineup looks sharp. We're on track for 160-2, which, I believe, would be a Major League Baseball record of some sort.

We can continue our comments in the thread below.

These final thirteen words are around so that I can post this thread.

And it got me thinking. Maybe Little Nicky Punto's real value is the fact that he is loved by secondary baseball fans. In other words, he sells the tickets that eventually get on the Kiss Cam. (LNP is Minnesota's aphrodisiac.)

That's my hypothesis. Let's use a scientific poll to test the hypothesis. Then we should discuss in the comments as if this was the most important question facing our fandom this year.