By Joe Posnanski and Michael Schur



Three years ago, my buddy Mike Schur more or less ordered me to write a specific column. Mike doesn’t often ask me to write things, just as I rarely ask him to produce television show ideas that I have. But these were special circumstances.



Mike said: “You have to write about this Yankees-Twins thing.”



Mike was deeply troubled about this: The New York Yankees almost never lost to the Minnesota Twins. It was mind-blowing. We added it up: From 2002-2015, the Yankees beat the Twins 80 out of 109 times. That’s a .734 winning percentage — which would be a 119-win season over the Major League’s 162-game schedule.



It goes without saying that no team has ever won 119 games over a 162-game schedule.



It is hard to overstate the absurdity, the sheer preposterousness, of one Major League team having an 80-29 record over another Major League team. And it’s not like the...