According to Joe C, we might see Jason reactivated in time for the Friday game against the Tigers.
He will be flying in tomorrow.

This is good news.

I just put myself through watching a little video featured on the Stribs page from the ESPN show 1st and 10.
At some point it felt like I was watching an "opinion show" on Fox News or MSNBC.

If Jim Thome isn't as hall of fame worthy as they come, then I don't know.

This is taken from an article over at MLB.com.

Nishioka is currently on a 13 game hitting-streak. Awesome, you say? Not for Nishioka. He is clearly not impressed::

"If I continue to get one hit per game, then I'll only have 162 hits," Nishioka said through translator Ryo Shinkawa. "So I'll try to get more."

As they talk about in the article over at wired.com the guys at Easton have developed a pitching "helmet" to protect from headinjuries of liners etc flying back at the pitcher.

Obviously this would be more of a youth-baseball aimed thing, but I wonder if it actually catches on.

According to SI's Jon Heyman this is coming from Gardenhire himself.

Congratulations to the Pavstache.

Clearly, Liriano was the better starter last year, so does he get the first home start?

I am stealing this from Beyond-The-Boxscore who point to the first over/under on MLB wins.

Twins are their favorite in the AL Central, get 87, Whitesox one ahead of Detroit with 84.5.

Interesting article over at MLB.com on outfield prospect Artis Hicks and his father, who wanted him to become a golfer.

EDIT: Nevermind, I see I am too slow and this was already posted.