Every year, baseball’s movers and shakers gather somewhere in the South to… well, I don’t know what the stated purpose of the Winter Meetings is. I do know that every general manager, free agent, and player representative in baseball is there, right now, making deals. It’s the pinnacle of the Hot Stove League, and for four days in December the media covers baseball offseason news like it’s Super Bowl week.

At Twinkie Town, we figure that if everybody else is going to cover things wall-to-wall, we might as well, too. I spent Monday writing updates – one the night before, one in the morning before work, one at lunch, and one after racing home from work – about baseball rumors that may never, ever come to fruition. It’s an entertaining time, not least because it’s a departure from what I usually do when writing about the Twins, which is to lay around thinking up new jokes with one of the same eight premises I’ve been using for four years.

Below are links to the updates, though they’re a day out of date by now. By the time you read this, they will seem pointless. But I take some shots at the team’s absurd re-signing of Matt Capps, and that’s always fun.

Early Morning
Morning (Mark Buehrle rumors and others)
Afternoon (Josh Willingham rumors)
Evening (Capps signs)