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"You people" is referring to all advocates of gay rights, including the New York Times and many other so-called respectable media outlets, as well as people on Twins Daily, who use the word "bigotry" to refer to those who oppose same-sex marriage. So, we have nothing more to talk about--except the Twins, brother. (Don't call me "brother" back because I am a girl).
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The very next thing in the U.S. Constitution, after describing the roles of the three branches of government (that you learn about in civic class), is the “full faith and credit clause” of the Constitution. This actually obliges Congress to act when states disagree on what contracts to honor. Doesn’t get talked about much, but DOMA makes sense. I do think, however, that all its language about protecting marriage undermines this issue. I also think some allowances could have been made in Federal tax law, etc., for these differences, out of charity and kindness, if nothing else. As for “equal rights” and all that language, any definition of marriage is discriminatory. All the advocates for same-sex marriage are discriminating mightily against those committed relationships that are not sexual partnerships: elderly siblings, for example, who live together. They may have inheritance rights, but little else. And all this comes from the same people who wanted to take “government out of the bedroom.” Nothing is as open and shut as you people make it. That you can’t see that and resort to name-calling is ugly, in my book. Now let’s get back to talking about the Minnesota Twins.
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I'm against same-sex marriage. Guess what? We are not monsters, bigots, or segregationists.
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Souhan: Twins Pitching Loaded With Questions
Longdistancetwins replied to John Bonnes's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Hey, that's funny, but we are really not bad against the Mets, are we? I don't know the stats, but I happened to see Johan and Scott Baker make a couple of their earliest starts against the Mets that were beautiful. Out here in New York, I decided that was best for my morale--go to games against the Mets. -
Hey that's really super about the foul ball, in 1965, no less! Even though I'd vote for Kirby, I'm heartened by how Twins fans have now embraced their early history. From my far-off perspective, I had the feeling that local fans had pushed that in the background for many years. I thought the 50th anniversary of the franchise and the way Target Field was dedicated brought that heritage back in a healthy way. I know I started to cry when I watched Jim Perry raise a pennant, on my crummy computer screen here in New York.
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Thanks for mentioning Herbie. I could never get over that the guy was from Bloomington and had that kind of a dramatic career, literally from his first game to his last.
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Remembered them both and loved 'em both, but it was Kirby who was the catalyst for two amazing World Series championships, and Kirby who really changed the way Twins fans related to the team.
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Reusse: Always are Angry Twins Followers
Longdistancetwins replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I like this and I like Reusse (what little I’ve read of him). My two-cents, as a 45-year, far-off fan, is that I never bought into “The Twins have some of the best fans in the country” line that I often hear. The bulk of local fans are extremely affectionate when we win—and that’s delightful—but the fans that follow most closely and are most knowledgeable are indeed, quite critical. I remember a line in Danny Thompson’s book about how about 1500 fans came out for a game in the mid-1970’s, and they turned out to be the team’s biggest booers. No, they are not quite Phillies fans, but the whole “Minnesota-nice” thing doesn’t wash with me, and that’s fine. -
Walters: Mauer to have Twins?
Longdistancetwins replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Yes, great line! I think the Smalleys also had twins while Roy was with the team. -
Good point, and the quality of pitching was alluded to in the piece. Anyway, thanks for pointing the article out. I'm in New York and am not used to looking in the Times for Twins news.
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Your loyalty is admirable, you folks, who survived the 1984 meltdown to become and remain Twins fans.
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Bobby Darwin, this 29-year-old former pitcher playing his first full season, was the talk of baseball at the start of the 1972 season. One suspected it wouldn’t last—that the pitchers would get to know him the second time around—but all the optimism and Twins talk was fun after such a lousy finish in 1971.
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I get you. Even though it wasn't his "fault," Lombo's memory is always tarnished for me for something he had no control over.
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Gotta tip the cap to Allison, although I don’t remember the World Series catch or anything specific. I do maintain a soft spot for Gene Mauch: it’s odd that I paid the least attention to the Twins teams of the late 1970s, mainly due to the discouraging losses of free agency and Calvin’s battles with his players. But I thought Mauch added some professionalism and passion to the organization, and I always wished him well.
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A bunch of good guys, these number 5’s. A painful memory is how much the Twins gave up on Danny Thompson in the late spring of 1974. They put him on the disabled list, then didn’t take him off, with the rather obvious intent of just letting him get four years vested in the pension plan before releasing him. Because the matter of his illness was well known, it was an embarrassing mess that even made the New York Times, where I read it from my New Jersey vantage point. The management did restore him to the roster, where he warmed the bench for a bit. Then when the team’s fortunes were at its lowest (we had the worst record in the league) and Calvin was publicly threatening the manager’s job at the start of a road trip in Texas, Quilici penciled Thompson into the lineup. The guy came off the scrap heap to go four-for-four with an inside the park home run. I would try to pick up a faint WCCO signal late at night, and tuned in just in time to hear Herb Carneal call that fourth hit. It was the closest I came to bursting into tears during a ballgame. Quilici kept his job (for better or for worse), Thompson finished the season at short, and, for whatever reason, the Twins played the about best baseball in the league from that June 24 onward.
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Living in New Jersey, I became a Twins fan in 1967, and soon enough Tony-O was my favorite player. In August 1969 we had the good fortune to visit relatives in the Twins Cities area, and so it happened that my first live major league game was at the old Met. Twins beat the Yankees 6-0, and Tony obliged by hitting not just one, but two home runs. I still have a picture of the Twins-O-Gram giving the measured length of one of them.
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You're right. My bad.
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[ How’s this for a meaningless homerun: Since he didn’t live too far from there, my brother invited me to see Rod Carew inducted into the HOF in 1991. The Twins were also in the Hall of Fame game that was also played that weekend. We were sitting in right center in that little Doubleday Field, so when Herbie first came up, my brother echoed my thought and said, “Get ready to catch one.” On the next pitch, Herbie hit it right toward us, but it went over our heads into someone’s backyard or something (now it is a parking lot). Yet another way that 1991 was a great year. Went back to Cooperstown for Kirby (2001) and Bert (2011). Once a decade thing, I guess.
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All of the above, but also Herbie’s first home run in Yankee Stadium. I’ve always rooted long distance, growing up in New Jersey and living in New York City: Was I there? No. Was I watching on TV? No, I turned it off to go to sleep in the 11th inning, the first time I’d ever turned off a Twins game. But I was so excited to read about this rookie from Bloomington, Minnesota hitting a home run in Yankee Stadium, that my somewhat waning interest in baseball was thoroughly renewed. And I was able to follow with passion as the Terrible Twins of ’82 blossomed into the champions of 1987.
