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1987 All Over Again!

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“Buy” The Team

“Buy” the Team!

I’ll make a proposal that we do indeed start a GoFundMe to “buy” the team.    No, our little group of middle-class folks could never be able to raise the requisite $1.4-$1.7 billion.  And we’d likely be just as miserable and incompetent as the Pohlad heirs.     And yet, we could aim towards $100,000 and beyond to say we are truly tired of this ownership and want to be partners in a new era.    We could designate the money for the Twins Community Fund, accessible once the new
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Baseball History

The St Paul Saints/Apostles

The note in the MLB Power Rankings for the Twins included mention of the 1884 St Paul White Caps, a team that hit below .200 for a season.    Further research showed that “White Caps”, “Saints” and “Apostles” were all used for the St Paul franchise.  Some standardization to “Saints” came in 1915.     But, hey.. who doesn’t want to be a baseball sicko and refer to the Saints as the Apostles or even the White Caps? (Every 140 years, our area gets blessed with a sub .200 batting
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1987 All Over Again!

Pickoff Play as Turning Point

1987 - Laudner to Gaetti nabs Darrell Evans at third base.  Twins were ahead 4-3 in bottom of the 6th, 1 out, runners on 2nd and 3rd.  Our team goes on to clinch the series and bring a title back to a raucous party at the Metrodome.  Read the New York Times article about it here. 2023 - Gray to Correa leaves Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. waving for air at second base.  Twins were ahead 2-0, 2 outs in the top of the 5th, runners on 2nd and 3rd.  Now able to run off the field with their lead in
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