The Ciskie Blog

Baseball is back. I'll have to admit: I didn't watch much of it last year. The Brewers stunk, and the Twins were much worse. Our loc...

We're a week from Opening Day. Actually, it's less than that. So I'm going to throw a few baseball thoughts out there. Fir...

The Montreal Canadiens did the expected Thursday morning, firing general manager Pierre Gauthier . This has been a disastrous season for the...

Where Bruce rambles about topics that interest him but have nothing to do with college hockey. Haven't done anything like this in a wh...

As we get wound up for the hot stove season in baseball*, the Minnesota Twins made their first significant move of the offseason Monday. (...

Interleague play begins in Major League Baseball Friday, and you know what that means ... Bigger crowds. AL pitchers having to (gasp!) h...

As the Minnesota Twins have dealt with the death of a franchise icon and strung together a couple of wins on the road out west, there has be...

As I wrote last week, it's not like the Twins are doing one thing wrong in their hideous start to the season. They can't score, can...

Just hours before the first pitch, I filed a piece talking about how the Twins had to find a way to get this wayward ship turned in the righ...

Sometimes, when a team gets off to a slow start, you can pin the problems on one or two areas. (This can be true in any sport. A basketbal...

The winter meetings are closing down in Florida, as baseball's biggest free agent (Cliff Lee) still doesn't have a contract for 2011...

The Minnesota Twins have won four of six from the hated Chicago White Sox in the last week-plus. They have three games left together later i...

Congratulations, Minnesota. I didn't make it, but I haven't heard one bad word yet, and from the view on television, it looks like y...

Not too long ago, the American League Central was a laughingstock. It was in a position where it simply didn't appear that anyone in the...

When the Minnesota Twins lost closer Joe Nathan for the season to Tommy John surgery, I linked a LaVelle E. Neal III blog post where he sp...

Joe Mauer was set to be a free agent after the 2010 season. The 27-year-old opted to instead sign an eight-year deal with the Minnesota Twi...

One of the enjoyable aspects of the internet and how it's affected the way we cover sports is the advent of statistical analysis. This i...

The news Sunday about Minnesota Twins closer Joe Nathan sure wasn't very good. While Nathan has to undergo season-killing elbow surgery,...

A test of Joe Nathan's bum elbow Sunday didn't go very well. After a light throwing session in Florida, Nathan told reporters he ha...

Spring training has just started, but a contending team already has to deal with a major loss. Minnesota Twins closer Joe Nathan has been di...