bq. "I can’t palm the ball." Marcus said. "I don’t know if ya’ll ever knew that, but I never palm the ball. I always cup it like that."

This to me is interesting. I'm a 6' tall white dude with a 4" vertical and even I can palm a basketball. Maybe this explains why at times it seems that the Twins' hands are covered in Astro Glide.

Earlier, I wondered out loud if Sasha Kahn had FedExed his hands to the Twins from Moscow but now it know it was more likely Dave Krieg.