Twins Daily Community Awards: 2022 Offseason

[Brock Beauchamp]

It has been a long, dreary winter full of boredom followed by even more boredom followed by two weeks of the most fun Twins fans had in an offseason since the Butch Huskey signing. And now it’s time to award those posters who make the Twins Daily community so awesome.

It’s Twins Daily Community Awards time! If you’re unfamiliar with our community awards, it’s something we organized last year to recognize the top participants in the Twins Daily community. We award two prizes: most popular post and most popular blog entry. We also recognize some of our most prolific posters and contributors but award them nothing for it. We don’t want to inflate anyone’s ego, after all.

Our prizes have a theme for the first time: “Johan Santana visited the Big Apple, and all we got was this lousy t-shirt.” Enjoy, Twins fans!

Top Posts of the 2022 Offseason goes to…
Honorable Mention: @Sielk and their comment in the topic Twins Acquire RHP Sonny Gray from Reds for Chase Petty. After months of hearing Twins fans scream about pitching, sielk offers the quite-reasonable opinion, “wait… so they went and got pitching, and you’re still complaining?” I feel you, sielk. I feel you.

The Top Post and Prize Winner: @4twinsJA and their comment in the topic FO's tentativeness is killing the team. During the more-than-mildly-concerning period of the offseason when the front office seemed to want to do nothing, 4twinsJA went the tried and true route that always plays up in the Twins Daily community... taking a swipe at Jake Cave. This is a textbook comment, but its excellent execution puts it over the top. For that the comment wins the ultimate prize: a ticket stub from game one of the 2004 ALDS in Yankee Stadium, more colloquially known in Minnesota as “the last ****ing time the ****ing Twins won a ****ing postseason game.”

Blog Entry of the 2022 Offseason goes to…
Honorable Mention: @cjm0926 and their blog entry A Different Idea For Twins Catching. Writing this entry in early November, cjm0926 had a crazy idea… trade your catchers! All of them. Ultimately, the Twins front office got halfway there, trading Mitch Garver to the Rangers in a shocking move. This entry deservedly gained a lot of traction with our users, as illustrated by its popularity and honorable mention in the blog entry category.

The Top Blog Entry and Prize Winner: @Doc Munson, long-time Twins Daily stalwart, takes home the prize for their entry. What are we waiting on to complete our roster? After a flurry of moves followed by radio silence, Doc wasn’t the only Twins fan left scratching their head. Why haven’t we seen more pitching acquisitions? Are we really going to take such half-measures? In the wake of this offseason, what stands out the most was Doc’s now-humorous idea to overpay Trevor Story on a one-year contract… check and mate, Doc.

As a token of our appreciation for this wildly popular blog entry, I present to you yet another Johan Santana visited the Big Apple, and all we got was this lousy t-shirt prize: a ticket stub from Johan’s no-hitter in a Mets uniform, something he never did in a Twins uniform.

*weeps silently for a moment*

After further consideration, these prizes suck.

Most Popular Topic of the 2022 Offseason…
@MMMordabito wins the no-prize for the topic T-Mobile to offer Free MLB.TV again in 2022. This is a rarity in the Twins Daily awards category, as it’s only Twins-adjacent but highly informative. Personally, the free MLB.tv is half the reason why I’m with T-Mobile to this day. Thanks for the topic, and keep it coming!

Most Read Blog Entry of the 2022 Offseason…
@Doc Munson must have spent the offseason ‘roiding up because they’re flat-out dominating the blogs with yet another entry, Post Lock out Moves: Potential Twins Trades. This entry examined some potential trades the Twins could have executed post-lockout, bringing over 1,800 readers to check out what Doc had to say on the subject. Well done yet again, Doc!

Prolific Posters of the 2022 Offseason…
We have a new postmaster for the 2022 offseason! In a surprising out-of-nowhere appearance, @mikelink45 brings home the no-prize with 1,514 reputation points over the offseason! But, as always, laying in wait with a second-place finish is the ever-present @Mike Sixel with 1,283 reputation points… Watch out, Mike, uh… Mike… is coming for you. Wait, what?

That’s all we have for today; thanks to everyone who makes this site such a great place to hang out every day of the year, even through multiple years of difficult baseball. It means a lot to us that you’ve stuck with Twins Daily through a pandemic, a shortened season, no-attendance games, and a lockout. Without all of you doing your thing daily, Twins Daily would be a shell of its current self.

We’ll see you mid-season, and let me tell you, that prize is incredible, so get typing, you fools…

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[Mike Sixel]

My goal is to be under 1000 this year ...

[tarheeltwinsfan]

Congratulations to all the winners.  Well-deserved my fellow posters. You, above all others, are most worthy. While I do   realize I am not worthy, it does hurt, not being at least mentioned in passing, for the heart and soul which I put into my posts. 

[cjm0926]

Thank you for the Honorable Mention!!

[4twinsJA]

Thanks for award. Enjoy TD, I am daily visitor. Twins had put Cave on the tee for me and had to take a full cut. Snarky comments do seem to be the most popular. 

[Sielk]

Wow, I got an honorable mention. Certainly didn't expect that with my rather occasional comments. 

Great to have Twins Daily, especially as someone living so far away from other Twins (and baseball) fans. Thanks!

[mikelink45]

Now I am challenged to figure out what to do with my non-prize.  But don't worry I will use it in a significant way and try to make you proud.

[Mike Sixel]

34 minutes ago, mikelink45 said:

Now I am challenged to figure out what to do with my non-prize.  But don't worry I will use it in a significant way and try to make you proud.

I plan to like every post you make, to ensure I don't win next time, just so you know.

[Squirrel]

1 minute ago, Mike Sixel said:

I plan to like every post you make, to ensure I don't win next time, just so you know.

Ooou … the gloves are off now …

[MMMordabito]

Thanks,  I'm happy to help myself and others spend as little money as possible watching baseball.  If Twins Daily ever wanted some posts on "How to ...." (Nevermind)