Baseball starts, NHL resumes If it’s the last week in July, it must be time for Major League Baseball to start up, followed immediately by the start of the National Hockey League playoffs. What a bizarre year! We are looking for big things from the Twins, who will play one exhibition game against Colorado, then go to Chicago to face the Cubs once, and get serious by taking on the Chicago White Sox in a real series. Real, that is, if you don’t think fans in the stands are necessary to make baseball real. With the Covid-19 shutdowns all over the world, however, we are fortunate to have real ballgames in real stadiums, brought to us by real
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broadcasters – even if they won’t be at the games, but will be back at Target Field, watching the game on satellite just like you and I will, and giving us their take on what we’re watching. But the Twins are loaded, adding to their record-breaking home run forces with the acquisition of Josh Donaldson, who will play third base, giving Miguel Sano a better chance to stay healthy by moving to first base full time. If the pitching staff’s young lions come through, the Twins could be a force in the shortened 60-game season, which turns the marathon baseball season into a sprint. The Minnesota Wild also will be starting up next week, facing Colorado on July 29 and then starting an incredibly interesting playoff structure that begins in Edmonton for the West and Toronto for the East. The way it’s set up, it is like one final week of a hotly competitive regular season, which was halted by the virus
Tony Drissy wins the Cotham Memorial.
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