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Please do enjoy this picture taken no fewer than 15 minutes outside the Metrodome. That is your humble proprietor and faithful reader (and blogger) Erin, who was in town for a top-secret mission (or maybe the Lady Gaga concert). She brought us an Ottawa Fat Cats shirt from her fair city -- fair payment, she says, for the RandBall shirt we doled out some time ago. Her boyfriend, who wishes to "stay off the Internet," nevertheless gets photo credit. We are bound at this point to say: You fat cats didn't finish your plankton!

Also: Assuming weather permits, we are slated to be on FSN tonight during the top of the sixth inning of the Twins game to talk about the new high school football partnership with the Star Tribune and FSN. So if you are listening to the dulcet tones of Dick and Bert and suddenly hear a third voice interrupting their chemistry, that is likely us.