I spent a lot of time on Sunday writing a post summing up the state of the Twins offseason for Monday morning at Twinkie Town. It touched on free agent news and arbitration news and a few stories about possible front-office moves that didn’t seem very important.

Monday afternoon, the Twins fired general manager Bill Smith, surprising everyone, not least me. I madly typed out a reaction in less than five minutes. It reads like an AP newswire article written by someone who’d had eighteen cups of coffee. I used the word “pilloried” and took a shot at Trevor Plouffe. We really need to write these things in advance, like obituaries, so that this sort of thing doesn’t happen. I’m going to get a start on this: “Monday, Tsuyoshi Nishioka was eaten by wolves in an unfortunate and unlikely accident in downtown St. Paul. Police suspect mafia involvement.”

I also wrote about the Twins and TV ratings for the World Series, this being the kind of thing you write about on a day that there couldn’t possibly be a lick of news.