Lew Ford will take his online gaming skills someplace else next year.

Thankfully not all that much happened during our brief hiatus over the last couple of weeks. However, one of the things we didn't get a chance to talk about was the Twins cutting loose Lew Ford. Yesterday Lew announced he would opt for free-agency rather than take a minor league contract with the Twins. Can't say we blame him.

We like Lew, always have and always will. He carried our Heights Suburbanites fantasy baseball team for the first half of the 2003 fantasy season and his "Mini Vlad" stats made us a champion.

Good luck Lew and if you find your way back to Minnesota, we won't be booing, we will be Lewing.

Take a good look at the ALCS MVP.

This is Fausto Carmona and he is a starting pitcher for the soon-to-be World Champion Cleveland Indians. You are going to be hearing a lot about him over the next three weeks.

Cold Predictions:
Cleveland over the Red Sox in seven.
Rockies over the Diamondbacks in five.
Cleveland wins it all with a rock-solid six game series against the Rockies.

Even though the Twins aren't in the playoffs, I haven't been this excited about post-season baseball in a long time. Four really good offenses and four pitching staffs with great and not so great attributes.

Should be fun.

Forget recruiting, Brewster can’t even keep the players he already has on the team.

Two more Golden Gopher football players have left the team, bringing the total to three guys jumping ship in the last seven days.

Receiver Mike Chambers is already gone. Now fullback Tom Becker and defensive end Sean McWhirter are also leaving. Both cited differences with Brewster as being at least part of the reason for their departure.

From today’s Strib:

“"I was not happy with what was going on," said Becker, a Wayzata graduate.”I was a [Glen] Mason recruit, and Brewster has his own ideas. It wasn't about wins and losses."

Good times in Gopher Nation. Maybe Pam Borton can teach Brewster a thing or two about player retention.