It snowed this morning. It’s supposed to snow again later this week. It’s now been over five months since the first snowfall of the year. This is ridiculous.

At any rate, here’s this week’s weekend links, which as always first appeared on RandBall.

Happy Saturday! Quite often, I lead off with something about the weather, but I just don’t want to talk about it this week. On with the links!

*We start this week with a look at what the Timberwolves need to do this off-season, as summarized by commenter Brandon. Somehow, I read through the whole thing in a pretty positive frame of mind… until I got to the part about the current state of the rotation, where I realized two things: A) Brandon thinks the Wolves are short four starters at the moment. B) Brandon is completely right.

*The ladies of Babes Love Baseball, Sooze and Marea, got a chance to interview Joe Mauer and his mom. Though Mauer is suffering from bilateral leg weakness, neither Joe nor Sooze nor Marea collapsed during the interview, so I think we can consider it a success all around.

*About 85% of the conversations I’ve had in the past week have gone like this:

Person A: How about those Twins, huh?

Person B: I know. (shakes head sorrowfully)

And with that in mind, two Twins links: first, Parker Hageman examines the root causes of the Twins’ offensive failure. Second Jesse Lund at Twinkie Town examines Francisco Liriano’s last start, and, despite the disastrous number on the scoreboard, has some positive thoughts.

*I really enjoyed this article from SI.com, which looks at a company that analyzes pitching videos to explain why some guys are “sneaky fast,” and how a guy who hits 91 on the radar gun can actually be effectively throwing 93 or 94.

*And finally: Spring football’s in full swing, and that means it’s time for Spencer Hall to bring out the spring edition of the Howard Schnellenberger Top 25. The usual rating (PG-13 for adult situations and slight nonsensicality) applies.

That’ll do it for me. Here’s hoping the sun comes out and the Twins win. And not in that order.