In the strange-but-true department, it turns out that an obscure quote from the bodybuilder/action star-turned-governor has found its way into the locker, and the mind, of Craig Hansen The reliever is so locked into the quote that, in addition to memorizing it, he keeps writing it down on small slips of paper. He then places the freshly transcribed quote in his locker, or in his pocket.

“Here, take this one,” Hansen said to a reporter yesterday in the visitors clubhouse at the Metrodome. “Keep it. I have another one.”