Countdown to Opening Day

[ashbury]

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"Mother Machree?"

[ashbury]

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Everyday baby.....best 18 ever.

 

I must have told you my Eddie Guano story, right?

[snepp]

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[ashbury]

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If he's comin' down the baseline, I ain't blockin' no plate.

[Thrylos]

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[ashbury]

The player Eduardo Escobar wants to be when he grows up:

 

[twinsnorth49]

This calls for another '87 bobblehead

 

[Thrylos]

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[Don't Feed the Greed Guy]

 

A boyhood hero blocks the plate.

[twinsnorth49]

 

"Who the hell decided to put the toilet all the way up of these freaking stairs"!!

[Bark's Lounge]

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It was hit right at him. Decent arm though.

[Thrylos]

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[snepp]

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[Bark's Lounge]

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The best trade of a player the MN Twins Made that never really benefited them.

[Bark's Lounge]

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http://www.grolschfilmworks.com/media/uploads/images/no-country-for-old-men-no-country-for-old-men-23-01-2008-21-11-2007-1-g%281%29.jpg

George Mitterwald (West Texas, June 1980)

[Guest USAFChief]

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I can't explain it, but one of my all time favorite Twins.

[ashbury]

 

For about a year there, he looked like he might be an answer...

[ashbury]

http://www.grolschfilmworks.com/media/uploads/images/no-country-for-old-men-no-country-for-old-men-23-01-2008-21-11-2007-1-g%281%29.jpg

 

No Country for Old Catchers, you're saying?

[Bark's Lounge]

No Country for Old Catchers, you're saying?

Double Like!

[twinsnorth49]

 

Nice to know he'll be around for a lot longer.

[snepp]

It's Kent Hrbek day on TD.

 

http://a2.espncdn.com/photo/2014/0114/mlb_metrodome_07_1336x1670.jpg

[Bark's Lounge]

It's Kent Hrbek day on TD.

 

http://a2.espncdn.com/photo/2014/0114/mlb_metrodome_07_1336x1670.jpg

 

Ahh... the good old days, when drinking Miller High Life, Ice Fishing, and eating Double Bacon Cheeseburgers was a ballplayer's off season workout regimen.

[Thrylos]

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[JB_Iowa]

It's Kent Hrbek day on TD.

 

 

Somehow it seems fitting to have Kent Hrbek day on a day when a lot of beer is consumed .... maybe his mama is Irish?

[ashbury]

A rare photo of the Twins manager with his uniform number visible in the front:

 

 

/ there's a reason it's rare...unique in fact....

[ashbury]

It's Kent Hrbek day on TD.

 

Not many players have worn this number. Must be considered unlucky, or something.

[Guest USAFChief]

Ahh... the good old days' date=' when drinking Miller High Life, Ice Fishing, and eating Double Bacon Cheeseburgers was a ballplayer's off season workout regimen.[/quote']It can still be the days of a fan's workout regimen.

[ashbury]

It can still be the days of a fan's workout regimen.

 

So you are rounding into shape for the season, even as we speak, Chief?

[Guest USAFChief]

So you are rounding into shape for the season, even as we speak, Chief?

Rounding? More like fully rounded.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

A day late ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

... and a dollar short:

 

 

 

We now return to Kent Hrbek.