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2013 Season Crystal Ball Challenge Predicting the playoff results at the end of the season? Child's play! What we really need to see is just how good your crystal ball is right now. First, select a winner for each division and two wild card teams from each league. Then select the League and World Series champs at the bottom. Prizes will be awarded when this season is in the books. (See the official rules below.) Good luck and Win Twins! Official Rules 1. Only one entry per screen name and email address. Duplicate entries will be discarded. 2. All entries must be received before the first pitch is thrown on April 1, 2013. Extended to April 15! 3. Entries will be scored based on their overall accuracy. Most accurate overall submission wins. 4. A formal scoring algorithm may or may not be developed, but basically, Rick or his algorithm will decide the winners. 5. All entries will be visible to anyone visiting this page once the entry period ends. 6. Any ties not resolvable in a more logical way will be broken by random drawing. 7. Winners will be notified by email. 8. Any issues which arise will be resolved by Rick, whose decision is final. |
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."– Rogers HornsbyExplore the Site This site currently contains Random Image  TCF Bank Stadium (click to enlarge)
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Reflections on the last days of a bad baseball place. 78 pages, with over 50 full color images. Available on Amazon. Random Image  Items promoting the Twins 2014 All-Star Game bid. I got to bring one of these buckets home, and Noah got his first-ever taste of Cracker Jacks.
"Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move."– Satchel PaigeRandom Image  You have to wonder just what happened here. Will it remain forever embedded in cement?
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference."– Tommy LasordaRandom Image  Research Library Random Image  "Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will."– Harry CarayRandom Image  "All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon."– Branch RickeyRandom Image  You can get a hand-carved sandwich, or ice cream while pondering the career of Julio Becquer.
"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us."– Walt WhitmanRandom Image  Our engineer.
"Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain."– Casey StengelRandom Image  A view into the park down Sixth Street from just beyond Hennepin. Note that one side of the street contains century-old, classic buildings -- structures which are likely to last another century or more. The other side, not so much. (Click the image to see what it looked like from exactly the same spot 97 years ago.)
"You talk about the magic, the aura, but what really makes a stadium is the fans. Concrete doesn't talk back to you. Chairs don't talk back to you. It's the people who are there, day in, day out, that makes the place magic."– Bernie WilliamsRandom Image  New Year's Eve, 2008
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