What has given the Twins' owner Carl Pohlad so much confidence after they were summarily dismissed from the playoffs by the Yankees in 2003 and 2004? I don't know.
Now if this were the Angels talking, I might begrudgingly accept it...
In any case, here are the words that just may come to haunt Mr. Pohlad:
"I'd rather play the Yankees because I know we can beat them," Pohlad was quoted as saying yesterday in The St. Paul Pioneer Press.