With the Twins and Royals beginning a four game battle tonight, I thought I'd go see what kind of buzz there was about the series in the local media. There is none. I checked the two local Twin Cities papers, no preview piece. I checked the Kansas City Star. No preview piece. I even checked Twins Geek and Aaron's Baseball Blog. They are much more concerned about Johan Santana's role on the club.

If this were the Yankees coming into Fenway for a four game series with the Sox four games back, there would be three pages in the globe devoted to the series. It would get space on the back pages of all the tabloids in both cities. The New York Times might even send a stringer to the event!

KC and Minnesota both need to attract fans. Creating a buzz about a series like this does so. The PR people for both teams have to work on their local media to get them to promote big games and big series. These four games should be sold out. Let's hope that a good game tonight generates the needed buzz.