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  1. Longdistancetwins
    Last night at a Mardi Gras dinner, my Yankee fan friend accused the Twins of sticking pins in Yankee dolls...
  2. Longdistancetwins
    The Sporting News was huge for me as a kid rooting for an out-of-town team. I read Bob Fowler on the Twins whenever I could.
  3. Longdistancetwins
    Add: Danny Thompson's fatal illness.
  4. Longdistancetwins
    I visit Colorado occasionally, but I lived there before there was Major League Baseball. The Denver Bears were great that year, but, at that time they were an Expos farm club, not a Twins Triple A.
  5. Longdistancetwins
    I finally got to make my first visit to Target Field this past summer (Yes, I've been to the old Met and the Metrodome), and I had the bad luck to be there for Players' Weekend. Bad planning! So much for seeing my team in their home uniforms...
  6. Longdistancetwins
    At least the belts are there now. The Pittsburgh Pirates introduced the elastic, pajama look. Really dreadful.
  7. Longdistancetwins
    I'm old, and I agree. When did it happen that players were allowed to play without their stirrup socks showing? I'm sure glad that some of our players have adopted the "retro" look.
  8. Longdistancetwins
    Thanks. Jacque Jones; Delmon Young.
  9. Longdistancetwins
    Is that charming or what? Someone should go all through the alphabet.
  10. Longdistancetwins
    Became both a baseball and a Twins fan in 1967, being caught up in the great pennant race. As my moniker suggests, it was always a long distance love, growing up in the New Jersey suburbs. But the teams I followed most closely were indeed those of the early/mid 1970s. It was free agency that killed my passion; not only seeing every (no exaggeration) player of quality leave, but having to endure their war of words with Calvin (I mean Calvin could even insult an all-around good guy like Larry Hisle). Then I lived for a time in the Rocky Mountain West before they had major league baseball and returned to New York just in time for the strike-divided season of 1981. What brought back my passion? One night late in 1981, I didn’t bother going to Yankee Stadium when the Twins were in town. And in the middle of the 11th inning, I congratulated myself for being a working grown-up and turning off the TV. The next morning I heard all about a rookie from Bloomington, Minnesota—of all places—hitting a home run in his first game to win it for us. I was so thrilled by the story that I couldn’t even be mad at myself for not staying up to see it. Yes, Herbie’s home run made all the difference; I had my first love back, just in time to see the Class of ’82 fail and eventually blossom into the 1987 champs (and, as one might imagine, having Blyleven and Smalley back for that ride was a special and delightful irony for me).
  11. Longdistancetwins
    Oh, I watched a lot of this series, but I must have blinked and missed Doz entirely (other than seeing him in the dugout). Well, I'm happy at least for his (non) plate appearance.
  12. Longdistancetwins
    I remember seeing the movie "Moneyball" (I never read the book). They way they depicted it, those Oakland A's starting winning when the chemistry, confidence (to play a new position), and leadership kicked in.. I was amused how Hollywood negated the book's argument.
  13. Longdistancetwins
    So, we are not going to see Dozier tonight because he is being kept as the reserve catcher due to Suzuki's injury. Meanwhile Fernando Rodney is being lit up. Probably time for this Twins fan to go to bed...
  14. Longdistancetwins
    Well, Judge is playing good D against Houston, too, doubling off that runner
  15. Longdistancetwins
    Shulz was from the Twin Cities, right?
  16. Longdistancetwins
    I only listened on the radio in my apartment and was actually getting a few cleaning things done. But I admit to throwing a slipper at some point late in the game. But I slept well enough, late as it was on the East Coast.
  17. Longdistancetwins
    You mean Ozzie Guillien . He was a trip,and I miss him, too. He may have even invented the term "piranhas" to describe the Twins teams of that era. He meant it as a compliment. For that reason, I could never hate the Mighty Whitey's as everyone else does (full disclosure: I have a good friend who is a White Sox fan).
  18. Longdistancetwins
    It's the trend now, but I'm still not a fan of skippers taking on an MLB team without managing experience. Managing in the minors is fine experience, as far as I'm concerned: that's the difference between Tom Kelly and some of these current rookie managers. Even going back, I wasn't a fan of Frank Quilici as a manager and felt relief when Gene Mauch took over.
  19. Longdistancetwins
    Crushing, but we didn't embarrass ourselves in '65, as far as I've heard. I mean Koufax and Drysdale, what are you going to do? Hat's off to Kitty, Mudcat, and Camilo for keeping us in it.
  20. Longdistancetwins
    I get that, but I soon reconciled to it as just being the Angels year. The Oakland series was fun, and is forever enshrined in the last scenes of the movie, "Moneyball."
  21. Longdistancetwins
    Okay, now that the season is (predictably) over, I'll admit it: The Bombas were fun up to a point, but I prefer TK's teams--good defense, fundamentally sound, ability to occasionally steal a base. Admired, rather than feared. I know this is old-fogeyville, but, there, I've said it.
  22. Longdistancetwins
    Thanks, absolutely! Nice to have the names in one place.
  23. Longdistancetwins
    I’ve been a Twins fan for over 50 years, and I believe I have hit a new low. Given the postseason/Yankee futility and being so outclassed and embarrassed on a national stage, I’m not sure I’ve ever felt worse. How does this rank with other humiliations in a series of games? Here’s a short list (I’m keeping this in a human perspective and not including devastating injuries and illnesses to players) of crushing team debacles on the field: Losing the last two games of the season to the Red Sox in 1967 (mitigated somewhat by being part of the greatest pennant race in history and that Carl Yastrzemski was superhuman that year). The late season collapse in 1984 (mitigated somewhat by our probably not belonging in the pennant race to begin with). The entire 1982 season (mitigated somewhat by the novelty of the new stadium and the critics recognizing that we had a core of players with bright futures) Losing six straight to the Orioles in the playoffs in 1969 and 1970 (mitigated by the fact that this is worse!) Anything else on the list? How do they rank?
  24. Longdistancetwins
    Cool analogy. Thanks for sharing.
  25. Longdistancetwins
    It's what I've been saying, having seen too many Yankee-Twins games for so many regular seasons. There's no reason these two teams have to be cosmically linked to forever meet in the playoffs.
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