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  1. Longdistancetwins
    Jorge! Always the guy you want up there in the clutch.
  2. Longdistancetwins
    MAT!
  3. Longdistancetwins
    Same experience here. For me, I’ve discovered, it is not the end of the world at all. It can even disappear for about a year, and I do play pick-up sports. I hope that’s true for CC.
  4. Longdistancetwins
    Didn’t see it, but Mets radio broadcasters said that Polanco’s shovel wasn’t on line.
  5. Longdistancetwins
    Royce Lewis is already “the very dangerous Royce Lewis” to the Mets radio broadcasters.
  6. Longdistancetwins
    A staggering number of players have been both Twins and Mets over the decades (a good trivia question), but I don’t see this one happening.
  7. Longdistancetwins
    Had to leave for an hour of volunteer work with C4’s DP in the 12th. Came back dreading what I would find. Well, pleasant surprise. Have a good night everyone.
  8. Longdistancetwins
    I was vaguely trying to recall that, as well.
  9. Longdistancetwins
    A national audience for this…😪
  10. Longdistancetwins
    No more getting beaten by former Twins, please.
  11. Longdistancetwins
    Jax’s father was an NFL player? I didn’t know that.
  12. Longdistancetwins
    Just tuned in for that!!
  13. Longdistancetwins
    I had no excuse not to watch at least part of this game: Isolating because of an extremely mild case of Covid. Why weren’t you folks doing something else and sparing yourselves the misery?
  14. Longdistancetwins
    I grew up in northern New Jersey where an older brother decided he would not be a Yankee fan, but be a Twins fan (I think because his first live baseball game was at Yankee Stadium against the Twins). We would both be up early in summer, and he’d be checking the standings in the newspaper and explaining things to me like what a “1/2 game behind” means—not at all obvious to ten-year old me. I followed along and then realized how much every game mattered: It was 1967 and even as a brand new fan, I was aware that I had stumbled into the still greatest pennant race in history. Of course I was disappointed in the result, losing out to Boston on the last day of the season, but, yeah, I was hooked and have remained a long distance fan. (As for the brother, decades later he moved to New England and became a Red Sox fan who still cares for the Twins). He wears a David Ortiz jersey, so there’s not much I can say…
  15. Longdistancetwins
    Yes, I admit, I was one of those with a fan-crush on Correa for the way he conducted himself last year. Unfortunately, it’s still possible to have leadership qualities and bad ideas—like supporting Popkins or deciding unilaterally that Buxton should DH. Yes, he can still be a leader, but he needs to hustle consistently (like running out of the box, rather than admiring his rare home runs) and be a little humble about his analytical smarts Thankfully, his D is still good. I enjoy that.
  16. Longdistancetwins
    I go back further than that, and I’ve felt this humiliation for a longer time here in the New York area. Yes, the championship teams of 1987 and 1991 probably did well against the Yankees, but the mediocre Twins of the early 1970’s still lost A LOT to the mediocre Yankees of that time.
  17. Longdistancetwins
    There are plenty. They are my friends here, and they worry a lot.
  18. Longdistancetwins
    “Concur,” as Chief says.
  19. Longdistancetwins
    I used to sit on the first base side to see into the Twins dugout. Nowadays, I usually let a Yankee-fan friend get the tickets, and he likes to see the pitches by sitting behind home plate high up. The secondary market works well for these tickets. I noticed a few Twins fans, but it seemed less than usual, perhaps because it was a Sunday outing for Yankee fans and absolutely perfect weather.
  20. Longdistancetwins
    Yeah, being at the ballpark today made me embarrassed for—and worried about—Buck.
  21. Longdistancetwins
    Especially for me being at Yankee Stadium; make the torture quick. But there were sacrifice attempts and stolen bases (wish we could steal a few…).
  22. Longdistancetwins
    For the record: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIN/MIN197107300.shtml
  23. Longdistancetwins
    Sorry about that: 11-9
  24. Longdistancetwins
    I tuned in on the radio here in New York in the second inning, having missed all the fun. And with my long memory, I recalled a game in the Bill Rigney era where we blew a 9-1 lead against the Yankees and lost 11-2.
  25. Longdistancetwins
    Can’t argue too much, but this is my personal memory: I was working here in New York on the Saturday of the 1987 Game Six. It was late afternoon, and I ran out after work to a Manhattan bar to watch the rest of the game. Herbie’s GS literally took my breath away; all I could finally say to the strangers sitting next to me was, “That is the best thing I ever saw. Ever.” (I must have sounded tipsy to them!). I mean, Herbie was the home grown talent. With the game over, I walked up Broadway the couple of miles to my apartment, giddy all the way. I was listening to commentary on a radio ear-set, and heard Jim Kaat say that the grand slam was the greatest moment in Twins history. And I thought, “Who would know better than Kitty? He’d been there for every other great moment [so far].”
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