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Just stuff that I feel like writing from time to time. 

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You Helped Design My Man Cave

Thanks, folks.  A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog inviting feedback for some paint schemes for the wall in a room that has transitioned from our youngest son's bedroom to our office. Alas, he got married and moved to North Carolina -- we like the married part, just wish he didn't live so far from northern Indiana. That post is here: https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/23701-help-design-my-man-cave/  The goal was to combine a Fathead with some shelving to create a space to display the set
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Pastor/Former Twins pitcher Tom Johnson's perspective on baseball, church

I'm an ordained minister and this is Good Friday, but this is intended as a sociological post, not a theological one. Tom Johnson was a favorite relief pitcher for me as a kid, though he had a pretty meteoric rise and a similarly quick fall, perhaps at least in part to Gene Mauch using him for 146.2 innings in relief in 1977. He was also the winning pitcher in the most exciting game I've ever been to, the "Rod Carew game" on June 26, 1977, when he threw 6.2 innings in relief (really!) in a
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Help Design My Man Cave

Alrighty, folks.  Mrs. IT thinks I spend too much time on TD, but I tell her it's a community worth trusting. I could use your help in proving me right.  Here's the deal. When Tony O got elected to the Hall of Fame last year, I took it upon myself to collect each of his baseball cards, including the All-Stars, League Leaders and other special cards, from Topps, Hostess, Kellogg and a couple more. There's a total of 38 cards, including two which are oversized.  Then I decided they
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50th Anniversary of 715

Unless I missed it, no one on Twins Daily posted anything about the significance of this past Monday in baseball history. Here is an adaptation of something I posted on Facebook that day. There's no Twins connection here, but hopefully this is okay, given the historical significance. ---------------------------------------------------- The eclipse was amazing. But between that and the place the Iowa Women's Basketball team has had in my brain space lately, it nearly snuck by me that to
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