Interesting Blogs

Minnesota Twins Blogs

Twinkie Town

http://www.twinkietown.com/

I selected this area of focus because I love watching the Minnesota Twins and am very interested in baseball.

The names of the players and their positions drew me to this particular blog because I like to know who is on the team and is out on the field.

The blog was visually appealing by including polls and a fair amount of pictures.

The blog is user friendly with links to find news and posts to make it easier to find.

There is a lot of advertisements and writing on the blog that makes it feel crowded. It adds to your thoughts on if it will be time efficient.

I would follow this blog because it keeps information up-to-date, includes details and news that I would be interested in, and is a well-maintained blog.

Twins Target

http://www.twinstarget.com/

Both of the blogs seem to have the same information or posts listed, so when you’re browsing and you want to find different information it wouldn’t help very much. They have the amount and names of players that the Minnesota Twins are interested in for the 2011 season too.

This blog has a little space where it lists the other sports teams in Minnesota and the news about them which the other one didn’t. It also includes the professional leagues in this little scroll box too. It doesn’t have the players that are on the roster that I would like to have listed.

I would prefer the Twinkie Town Blog instead of this one because it presents a lot more information, stats, and player’s names on the roster. This blog wasn’t as helpful in that and it wasn’t loaded with a lot of information like the other one was.

Twins Locker-Minnesota Twins Blog

http://www.twinslocker.com/

All of the blogs have recent news about the Minnesota Twins. This is a good thing because it can get me informed and the articles aren’t long. They also include the recent players they have signed or are interested in signing.

This blog has links to other MLB blogs and Minnesota sports blogs. Compared to the other blogs this one doesn’t have much information, it only has about three or four paragraphs.

I would prefer the first one over all of the blogs because it had more information than I would use. It relates to a lot of the details I am looking for too. Overall, I think this is a blog I might start checking up on regularly to learn more about what is happening with the team.

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