Your best Twins memory

[Squirrel]

In last night's game thread, @sampleSizeOfOne asked us to share what our most memorable moments were as Twins fans. This was mine ... and I've had many ... three years ago tonight (Sept. 30, 2018), this was the only baseball moment that moved me to tears. Joe Mauer was a special player, and I say that as one who wasn't pie-eyed over him, but nor was I a detractor.

 

 

[tony&rodney]

Yes, this. Mauer, a Hall of Fame catcher comes out of the dugout like it is a movie ... amazing.

[Richie the Rally Goat]

And We’ll see you tomorrow night https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rRD2IbYFf7o

[Craig Arko]

Second only to the immortal Jerry Burns tirade.

[gunnarthor]

Game 7. 

[wsnydes]

17 hours ago, Squirrel said:

In last night's game thread, @sampleSizeOfOne asked us to share what our most memorable moments were as Twins fans. This was mine ... and I've had many ... three years ago tonight (Sept. 30, 2018), this was the only baseball moment that moved me to tears. Joe Mauer was a special player, and I say that as one who wasn't pie-eyed over him, but nor was I a detractor.

 

 

That one got me too.  My belief that it was going to be his last game was the one and only reason that I was in attendance for that game.  I had plenty of other things that I should have been doing.  Not one single regret after how that game played out.

[jmlease1]

An all-timer for me was when Morneau & Cuddyer went back-to-back in the playoffs at the Dome. That's the loudest I've ever heard anywhere, ever...and after the first dinger (which nearly blew the roof off) I turned to my friend and said "Oh my god, they're going to go back-to-back, I can feel it!"

My best called shot ever, lol.

[Nine of twelve]

This is like asking me what my favorite Beatles song is. There is no one answer.

[chaderic20]

2009 games 162 & 163. Making the four hour drive to Minneapolis for 162, and then back home through the middle of the night while friends spent half the trip calling the box office over and over until they could get through to buy tickets for 163. Then making the drive again the next day for 163. And then the amazingness that game 163 was.

[spanman2]

My best memory was staying up late watching the games with my dad during the '91 playoffs as a 14 old boy having relocated to Pennsylvania.  My stepmom lets say did not think that was a good call on my dad's part.  When Kirby hit the game winner in Game 6 we nearly put a hole in the floor jumping up and down.  Every time I watch highlights from that time I think of watching it with my dad as much as the outcomes of all the games.  That got me hooked on baseball for life.   When Kirby passed I was back in Minnesota (most unfortunate memory)...I cried like a kid who lost his puppy.  Living in Willmar at the time I nearly drove to Mpls in a blizzard but ended up staying home.  Imagine a Twins team with Joe in the 2 hole and Kirby behind him.  GOOD LUCK pitchers! 

[Longdistancetwins]

Non-game related memory:  I saw a video of the opening of Target Field.  Watching beloved, one-time Twins open specially numbered gates and raise pennants really moved me.  I’ve always been a fan from afar, so it was wonderful to see how meaningful these memories and people were to all Twins fans.  I kinda lost it when I saw Jim Perry raise a pennant.  I have to find that video again…

[terrydactyls]

Watching players in the Metrodome trying to find fly balls.  That was hilarious.  What a crappy stadium. 

[twinssporto]

My favorite memory was sitting with my dad at game 7 in 1987. I was 15 years old back then....What a great World Series and so much fun! We sat behind Lou Brock about 10 rows behind first base. Watching Hrbek throw his arm up after getting the last out was a memory I'll never forget.  

 

 

[Linus]

Game 7.   When Morris said let’s get it on you just had a good feeling. 
A strange second one: when Herb Carneal would open the broadcast with Hello again everyone 

[Nine of twelve]

3 hours ago, Linus said:

A strange second one: when Herb Carneal would open the broadcast with Hello again everyone 

There's nothing strange about that. Herb was one of the best two announcers in the history of baseball and anything he said that brings back a memory is wonderful.

[IndianaTwin]

Easy. It's 6/26/77, which I recounted in a Game Thread intro a couple years ago. 

 

 

[IndianaTwin]

Just now, IndianaTwin said:

Easy. It's 6/26/77, which I recounted in a Game Thread intro a couple years ago. 

 

 

I'll also add that Rod Carew has called it the most memorable day of his Twins career. If it was his best day as well, I can't be wrong, right? 

[nclahammer]

Getting to help roll out the huge American flag at the 2014 All Star Game at Target Field.   That entire week, ASG FanFest, Homerun Derby, celebrity softball game, was all such a rush, but being part of the pregame festivities witht he flag was the cherry on top.

[Zip100473]

In honor of my recently passed grandfather, I believe it was 2011, Kent Hrbek took a chunk out of Target Field… it was the last time i went to a game with him. He was 80 then. We chose this game because of the throwback exhibition before the game. It was meaningless in the Twins history but meant everything to me. 

 

[Sousy]

My favorite Twins memories usually have nothing to do with the actual baseball product.

• Going to games in the early years of the Metrodome with my dad / uncle. They were usually the cheap seats, were absolutely terrible for watching baseball but for some reason the Metrodome seemed absolutely magical at the time. There's a way you look at baseball when you're 11 years old that never quite feels the same again.
• Collecting the 1986 baseball card set.  I had a spot on the school bus and a box of cards in my bag.  I let it be known that if you had a Minnesota Twins card in your possession I was open for business. That baseball card set is sitting about five feet away from me right now. Still has a "Win! Twins!" sticker on the cardboard box.
• The whole vibe around the 1987 World Series.  I don't really have a particular game memory of that series, but I remember the excitement that was in the air.  (Down to the local radio station playing that parody song "My Baby Waves the Homer Hanky".)
• I had a red plastic Twins helmet-like hat that I probably wore way too much. 1980s kids fashion, man.
• Jack Buck, 1991: "THE TWINS ARE GONNA WIN THE WORLD SERIES!" I was a junior in high school and I remember catching the back half of that game after whatever school activity I had. That sticks out in my memory more than the Game Six Puckett home run for some reason.
• July 24, 2020.  Of all the games that really seem memorable - it was that first one that opened the 2020 baseball season because it seemed that was the first 'back to normal' type of event and the first game that I think my youngest (at the time nine) seemed to get really excited about baseball.