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The Twins kick off a 3-game series against the Tigers tonight at Target Field. Yeah… blah blah blah… Let’s get to the major news story of the day and that is my birthday!

Yes I was born on September 20th and my family will probably take me out to Buffalo Wild Wings or Red Lobster for supper. They said I could pick where my surprise party will be at. A birthday is just one day out of 365 and in most cases… it’s a pretty routine day. However… in my case… some very unique things have happened to me on my birthday in the past.

Here are some things to think about:

 

1. 1966 – Mom baked me a cake and brought it to my high chair and then the power went out. She grabbed a candle and put it down to find something to light it. Then the power came back on and everyone started laughing because she put the candle down right in the middle of the cake by accident. Every subsequent birthday that followed, she would add a candle until the cake was a fire hazard and this eventually spread across the globe as the standard birthday celebration tradition. With a slight alteration… instead of blowing out the candles… we eat them.

2. 1971 – It was on my birthday that I discovered that animals can sense changes in the weather. There was a tornado that day and we were pre-warned by the strange behavior of our family dog prior to the storm arriving. Our dog started barking while she circled around the living room a couple of times and then she grabbed the keys to the car and drove to a neighboring town.

3. 1976 – President Carter wasn’t sure if he should do an interview with Playboy magazine. He was worried that they may ask uncomfortable questions about things that were not presidential to talk about. It was my birthday when I told him that he had nothing to worry about because nobody ever reads those articles anyway.

4. 1985 – I made my first trip to Walt Disney World on my birthday and I was there the very day that they reached the 200 Million guest mark. All 200 million were at the park waiting in front of me for all rides.

5. 1987 – It was a painful time in my life so I don’t talk about it much but September 20th 1987 was the day I was fired from the group N.W.A. as the result of a power struggle between Eazy-E and myself. Cube and Dre’ were absolutely on my side but E became too powerful and I was forced out the door. My departure caused a divide and it never healed and eventually led to Cube going solo. I even recorded and rapped my own verse on “Straight Outta Compton” that was edited out.
I’m Straight Outta Compton…
Well… No Not really… I’m from Minnesota so that would be silly.
I eat hot dish.... when the weather goes cold… I dress warmly when it’s 20 below.
I take walleye… from the lake… the DNR tells me how much I can take.
Officer Jim… he is my neighbor… when I need something… He’ll do me a favor.
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Lineups:

TIGERS
Cameron Maybin® CF
Jose Iglesias® SS
Miguel Cabrera® 1B
J.D. Martinez® RF
Justin Upton® LF
James McCann® DH
JaCoby Jones® 3B
Jarrod Saltalamacchia(S) C
Andrew Romine(S) 2B

Matt Boyd(L) P

TWINS
Brian Dozier® 2B
Jorge Polanco(S) SS
Robbie Grossman(S) LF
Kennys Vargas(S) 1B
Kurt Suzuki® DH
Max Kepler(L) RF
Eduardo Escobar(S) 3B
John Ryan Murphy® C
Byron Buxton® CF

Hector Santiago(L) P

Game-time forecast: 75 deg F, party cloudy, it's not going to rain, winds from the ESE at 7mph. In other words, there is not going to be another tornado on Brian's birthday.

Go Twins!

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Riverbrian
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The Twins kick off a 3-game series against the Tigers tonight at Target Field. Yeah… blah blah blah… Let’s get to the major news story of the day and that is my birthday! Yes I was born on September

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I’m Straight Outta Compton… Well… No Not really… I’m from Minnesota so that would be silly. I eat hot dish.... when the weather goes cold… I dress warmly when it’s 20 below. I take walleye… from the l

HitInAPinch
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Casey Jones!  A well-know character in children programming for what seemed like decades.   The Birthday Song   http://lunchwithcasey.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/jwbirthdayphoto-500x395.jpg  

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Happy Birhtday! :). That said I am very disappointed in your dog. Weather experts could have told him that you never try and outrun a tornado in a vehicle. Our dog, Lathy, (he barked with a lithp) led us to the SW corner of the basement during the Comfrey Tornado of 1998, and showed us how to put our head between our legs. (Only years later did we find he had an ulterior motive) While Lathy had an acute weather sense, he suffered from gender issues. A dog psychologist finally figured out that when Lathy would bark, our constant question, "Whats the matter girl" was likely the root of the problem.

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I’m Straight Outta Compton…
Well… No Not really… I’m from Minnesota so that would be silly.
I eat hot dish.... when the weather goes cold… I dress warmly when it’s 20 below.
I take walleye… from the lake… the DNR tells me how much I can take.
Officer Jim… he is my neighbor… when I need something… He’ll do me a favor.

 

Uffda.

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Casey Jones!  A well-know character in children programming for what seemed like decades.

 

The Birthday Song

 

http://lunchwithcasey.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/jwbirthdayphoto-500x395.jpg

 

https://youtu.be/wfSkqMP-L-4?t=1

We used to make up very bizarre names to send in to Casey to see if he could read them on-air. I know we got him to wish a happy birthday to "Ignatz Guggenheim."

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Your most memorable birthday stories, Go! 

My three grown children totally surprised me on my birthday a couple years ago, by coming up from their individual distant starting points, and we "ran into them" at a certain turn on a familiar trail at Tahoe, which my usually-non-hiking wife (she's more of a distance bicyclist) talked me into going with her as a birthday outing for the two of us. I totally did not catch on what was going on, even as one of the kids got delayed and my wife started stalling about when we would leave the house.

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:). It would be the ultimate topping to the season! A wins streak and roar past Atlanta for that second pick! :)

It's like the inverse of the typical crushing end to a MN sports season.  Ends in a win(s), equally as devastating and disappointing.  :)

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I’m Straight Outta Compton…
Well… No Not really… I’m from Minnesota so that would be silly.
I eat hot dish.... when the weather goes cold… I dress warmly when it’s 20 below.
I take walleye… from the lake… the DNR tells me how much I can take.
Officer Jim… he is my neighbor… when I need something… He’ll do me a favor.
____________________
 

 

 

 

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Hmmm....best bday stories.....

 

Well, at 21 (even though the drinking age was 18....), my fraternity brothers fed me full up with Jagermeister, and then I did embarrassing things I don't need to type out here, including uttering "she wants me" about a waitress after she and others saw me puke. Proud moment.....I haven't even tried to drink that in the last 31 years...

 

At 40, my wife thru a very nice surprise party for me. More and more people just kept showing up, and I got to show off my new grill, and my old grill. I had one going for people that don't eat pork....and one for the majority of people.

 

for my 50th, we were in the Caribbean, on St. .John UVI, which was awesome. We did a lot of fun things on that trip. 

 

 

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