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dld 9.22.10 - twins are in

With last night's Oakland win over Chicago, Minnesota clinched the AL Central division.

Remember what celebration feels like?

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On this date in baseball:

1988 - Jose Canseco became the first major leaguer to hit 40 homers and steal 40 bases in one season as the Oakland Athletics beat the Milwaukee Brewers 9-8 in 14 innings. Canseco hit his 41st homer and stole two bases, giving him 40 for the season.

Updates: Blevins day-to-day, Ben Sheets wins award, Cramer's good to go

With his slow-paced southern drawl and hilarious attitude, Ben Sheets won over the A's clubhouse this season. On Tuesday, the team announced Sheets as this year's winner of the Jim "Catfish" Hunter Award, which recognizes his contributions to the team both on and off the field and is voted on by coaches and players.

"I don't know if it's that they really like me or I threatened their lives," Sheets joked over a conference call. "I'm pretty tough."

Joe Posnanski had a great story about White Sox GM Kenny Williams, who might be angling to take the GM job in Oakland.

Relax.

Kenny Williams is thinking about something.

"You know I love this city," he says. "I love my job. Understand that. Get that part right. I love what I do, and I love where I am. But if the Oakland Raiders called tomorrow and asked me to run the team, I would go. I would do it."

He wants me to write this down. I write it down. He is joking. He is not joking.

Do you miss Fire Joe Morgan? Do you hate the normal decorum/posts on Deadspin? You're in luck. FJM has taken over the site today.

Disgruntled Chargers receiver Vincent Jackson has to be dealt today, or not.

Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post says the obvious: english iz ded.

On Aug. 6, the very first word of an article in the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal was "Alot," which the newspaper employed to estimate the number of Winston-Salemites who would be vacationing that month.

The Lewiston (Maine) Sun-Journal has written of "spading and neutering." The Miami Herald reported on someone who "eeks out a living" -- alas, not by running an amusement-park haunted house. The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star described professional football as a "doggy dog world." The Vallejo (Calif.) Times-Herald and the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune were the two most recent papers, out of dozens, to report on the treatment of "prostrate cancer."