Twins Extend TC Bear Through 2023

Good ending. Did not see that coming.

Surprised by the violent ending.

I still blame Bruno to this day for any Twins hitting woes when they are in the middle of a team slump.

Stu - please join the full time beat

Genius

I’m a little concerned about his age. Maybe they should’ve only gone four years. He had good LAR(laughs above replacement) last year but they weren’t as high in the decibels. Is this just a one year hiccup or the start of a new trend?

I have some under ten aged nephews and they weren’t so excited to see him as I’d hoped. The Cedar Rapids Kernels have a nice up and coming mascot in Shucks. It’s always nice to see homegrown talent make it to the big league club and I’m concerned they may have blocked him with this move.

Good stuff!

Breaking News!!

It's the little things that make these so great.  It says so much the Twins' management wouldn't pony up for anything stronger than "soapy water" to clean the headgear of cat birthing matter.

Did they front load the contract? If not, pfft.

This might be the deal that convinces Berrios, Rosario and Gibson that we're serious about competing and that they should extend as well.

Thank you for using keywords so Google can file this with the other articles on this topic.

“The barn cats used the head to birth their litters,” said Levine.

Gold.

Well, I was searching "feral cat births" earlier this morning, but this article did not appear in the results, so, yeah not really.

All I know is the Pohlads have done a great job of burying the Clete Thomas story and Stu is showing great courage by trying to put it back out there.

When you google this there is scarce information on it. We need to keep this story alive!

The Twins have multiple bobblehead giveaways every year just to push what happened to Clete down in the search results.

Let me get this straight - this team has missed the playoffs for 1 straight seasons and instead of signing a real bear that could maybe charge, attack or otherwise startle the opponent they sign this bum? A mascot bear who can’t even pull it together to run in the mascot race? Noooo, instead for him we have a designated runner (thank you Wanda, an actual athlete) so that TC can busy himself shooting fans, including children, with a cannon? Unconscionable.

I'm guessing the financial terms are staggering.  TC seemed to be on the outs at Twins Fest and was being pursued by the Boston Bruins.  Twins must have realized how important he was and ante'd up.

Could this be where the Mauer savings went?

I'm glad they extended him. I was worried they were going to flip him for some prospect mascot in July.