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  1. Longdistancetwins
    Of course I agree on Tovar! But I’d certainly consider Smalley, as well. For quite awhile he was the best player on the team. And then he had that reprise with the team for the 1987 championship that counts for something in the sentiment department.
  2. Longdistancetwins
    I get this: I’ve been a Twins fan since 1967, but the teams I paid least attention to were those of the late 1970s and 1980. Ironically, all the attention paid to the “Terrible Twins” of 1982 revived my interest, so I could fall in love early with that core.
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    Yeah, the pleasant surprise when they handed the shortstop job to Danny Thompson in 1972 was seeing that he could indeed hit—especially when shortstops weren’t expected to. He became a favorite player for me at that point.
  4. Longdistancetwins
    I don’t think you are alone: I believe Kirby really changed the way the people of the Upper Midwest related to their team (I’m far away, but the change was obvious from my vantage point).
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    Not to speak ill of those who are gone, but, from what I’ve heard Willie did not have Tony’s charm and kindness off the field.
  6. Longdistancetwins
    I had the opposite perspective. I was a far-away Twins fan in the days well before the Internet. Tony-O was my favorite player, but I really didn’t know if he was a good guy or not. I was devastated by his knee injury (he was having a career year when it happened, which is saying a lot for him). But I had no idea that he remained so engaged with the team until the Internet age. That continues to delight me: that he is loved for his character and personality as well as for what he did in the 1960s and 1970s.
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    I didn’t know when the announcement would be made yesterday, so I checked a few times. Then I went to do an annual Messiah sing-in in the early evening: Hallelujah!! For sure! When I returned home, I got the news in an email from my friend the White Sox fan (see, they can be good friends).
  8. Longdistancetwins
    Concur all around. We are about the same age.
  9. Longdistancetwins
    I was at Cooperstown for Rod’s, Kirby’s and Bert’s inductions in 1991, 2001, and 2011. I wanted to keep the pattern going: “Whom would I go see in 2021?” I’d wonder. Well, COVID threw us off a year, but that’s my only regret!
  10. Longdistancetwins
    Good post, but I would add that Tony-O’s knee injury was, at the time (1971), a traumatic one: torn cartilage before they did arthroscopic surgery. It wasn’t about age. He was just determined to play and put up with a lot to keep in the game.
  11. Longdistancetwins
    My most intense years as a Twins fan (during the regular season) were 1972-1975. The very definition of mediocrity! (We finished at exactly .500 two years in a row, and then, when we finished two games over in 1974, I counted it as a great hope for the future).
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    Thanks. Went to bed, so I didn’t see this live!
  13. Longdistancetwins
    Way to start a rally, Eddie!
  14. Longdistancetwins
    This Kike Hernandez show has been fun, especially since the TV cameras capture his facial expressions.
  15. Longdistancetwins
    Thanks, Otto, for this tip. I can watch while I fold laundry. I don’t hate the Red Sox, so it’ll be okay.
  16. Longdistancetwins
    Just curious: Why is there so much dislike of the Red Sox on this site?
  17. Longdistancetwins
    White Sox looking like the Twins against Houston. Not getting any satisfaction out of that for some reason…
  18. Longdistancetwins
    Worked out for me: Got to play tennis this afternoon with my White Sox-fan tennis partner.
  19. Longdistancetwins
    Wow, my bad: forgot/didn’t know their third-base coach had been a Twin! Some karma there!
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    Hansel Robles pitching now.
  22. Longdistancetwins
    Yeah, I wanted to go to bed (I’m on Eastern time), but now it’s a game. Only getting it on the Yankees radio. The amazing Bogaerts now just scored the 4th run.
  23. Longdistancetwins
    Oh, but we still clinched last place. ?
  24. 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…
  25. Longdistancetwins
    Laid an egg on this one. Not funny…even the best fail occasionally.
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