This morning at Twinkie Town, I looked outside the Minnesota news sphere for once, at the things making news around baseball.

Since this is still me writing at Twinkie Town, though, I couldn’t help but add a few lists, one for each story, of seriously weak jokes.

If I had a tagline, it’d be, “Providing indignation, and very weak jokes, for 30 years.”

Also: Here’s a Twins-Oakland series preview.