Article: Meltdown Countdown: Thank You For Joining Us

[John Bonnes]

It was an incredible event at Brothers Bar & Grill on Saturday night as Twins Daily readers were joined by Michael Cuddyer to talk Hot Stove and start gearing up for the 2019 season. Thank you so much to everyone who attended and to all our sponsors for making it happen.This year’s Winter Meltdown included two free 612 Brew craft beers, a free Winter Meltdown pint glass, drink specials, a Pick & Shovel prize pack, autographed prizes and swag from Pizza Luce. We also had a panel discussion with our new Twins beat writers - Betsy Helfand of The Pioneer Press, Do-Hyoung Park of MLB.com and Dan Hayes of The Athletic.

 

But Michael Cuddyer was the headliner and lived up to every kind word that was written about him over his 15-year major league career. He entertained on stage, wandered through the crowd, had endless pictures taken with fans and even performed a magic trick for some of Twins Daily's forum moderators.

If you want to be part of the fun, you can download the Gleeman and the Geek podcast of the event and start looking forward to next year. You can also participate in Fan Duel's Winter Meltdown Contest and win an autographed picture of Justin Morneau.

 

Thank you to all those who came and all those who continue to support Twins Daily with their work and attention. We could not do any of this without you.

 

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[Squirrel]

Great event, as always! Thank you to everyone who made it happen.

[bighat]

Looks like it was awesome, I'll have to make a note to join next time!

[NapoleonComplex]

First time I've attended a Winter Meltdown. Excellent work to all involved. Got a decent picture that Gleeman added to his thank you note on Twitter. I'll definitely be going next year.

 

http://imgur.com/a/50an0nL

 

[Guest]

As always, it was a terrific event. A big thank you to the TD crew and everyone who put a lot of work into making it such a great time for all of us.

[snepp]

All I wanted was a bit of Cuddyer magic, and rather than a trick for the entire crowd, we got a personal bit of card play right there at the table. Couldn't have drawn it up any better than that.

 

 

Huge thanks to all of TwinsDaily, both cast and crew. John, Nick, Tom, Seth, Parker, was great to see you all again, another fantastic event.

[Seth Stohs]

 

All I wanted was a bit of Cuddyer magic, and rather than a trick for the entire crowd, we got a personal bit of card play right there at the table. Couldn't have drawn it up any better than that.

 

 

Huge thanks to all of TwinsDaily, both cast and crew. John, Nick, Tom, Seth, Parker, was great to see you all again, another fantastic event.

 

That was pretty awesome, wasn't it?! I was just kind of awed. Just grabbed the deck of cards right out of his back pocket. 

[Squirrel]

 

That was pretty awesome, wasn't it?! I was just kind of awed. Just grabbed the deck of cards right out of his back pocket. 

And I was really watching his hands closely to see if I could spot the slight of hand and didn't see anything. It was really magic!!

[Tibs]

I might be moving to the Minneapolis area in the summer. Hopefully I can make it next year!

[D. Hocking]

So no one volunteered to be part of this trick?  I think it would have really made the evening memorable.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW8YnEobznw

 

[ashbury]

the evening memorable.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW8YnEobznw

That's nothing.

 

So no one volunteered to be part of this trick? I think it would have really made

I can saw a post in half, and put it back together in reverse order.

[Richie the Rally Goat]

Looks like it was awesome, I'll have to make a note to join next time!

I missed this year but went to the first official 4. They were awesome and I’m sad to have missed the last two.