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  1. Longdistancetwins
    Terrific post. I have no argument, but oldtimers (even more “oldtimer” that me) talk about a mid season home run that Harmon Killebrew hit against the Yankees in 1965. It meant that the 1965 team was for real. And besides, you do want to include a Killer home run on this list.
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    I mean, yes, Calvin should be there, but it’s hard to forget the damage he caused in his later years as owner and GM.
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    Fun question. Completely off the top of my head: Kelly, MacPhail, Rantz, Brophy? (and I have a soft spot for Mauch).
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    Hard choices, but have to include Puck. I’m a long term fan, and I think he really changed the dynamic toward winning and the way fans began to relate with real love (and not just “Minnesota niceness”) for the team.
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    Maybe it is just a matter of taste: I happen to prefer a team that plays great defense and is able to play small ball when needed. The Bomba squad had good chemistry and was fun, but it isn’t what I will cherish most in my 50 plus years of being a Twins fan.
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    Also, not claiming Leo Cardenas was the best, but sooo steady, with a solid bat. Thompson’s 1972 season was promising enough that it almost helped us forget Leo. The rest is pretty tragic history.
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    As a New York commentator said last week, Boras has every incentive to build up a good relationship with Mets owner Steve Cohen, given that he is now the MLB owner most willing to throw money around to Boras’s clients. The failure to cinch the Correa deal is indeed an odd one.
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    40 Years? Let’s keep out the Biblical analogies. It makes it worse than it is.
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    For what it is worth (not much, I concede) I didn’t like Quilici, Molitor, or Baldelli as managers. What did they have in common? Lack of managing experience as high as the minor league level. And in Baldelli’s case, we seem agreed that he hasn’t learned a whole lot by managing a major league team.
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    Thank you: As a Twins fan mostly in the New York area for over 50 years, I’ve been saying that here for years. I think the problem really began in the 1970s; the ‘60s may have been a wash.
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    Some random observations; Was at the games and heard Yankee fans admitting that they were fielding a mostly a AAA team, and then being thankful for the good fortune that they were facing the Twins, where that wouldn’t matter. Got jealous seeing the Yankees steal all those bases. Why can’t we? Correa really gets a lot of “Cheater” boos. Does that happen in all stadiums except Houston and Target Field?
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    Thanks for all this background (don’t follow prospects much). I’ll be at the doubleheader and am fully expecting heartbreak.
  13. Longdistancetwins
    Kind of fun to see that several Twins Daily posters are pastors!
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    Lew, not Dan…
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    I suspect this is very, very true: I heard well-placed rumors at the time that the minor- league Morneau was not at all respected by his teammates. And somehow he turned into the model of good guy as a major leaguer. Thanks, Joe!
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    There was a lot of talk here in New York about who would hit the first home run in the newly renovated Yankee Stadium in 1976 (channeling The Babe’s home run christening the stadium in 1923). It turned out to be Dan Ford, a letdown for Yankee fans ?
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    Pat Meares came up with the Twins, I believe. Before that, Danny Thompson and Zoilo Versalles were from our system. We did know how to find good shortstops in trades: Leo Cardenas, Smalley, Gagne, and Guzman, but we gave up big names to get them when they were little more than prospects (Cardenas excepted).
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    The 1972 baseball season was shortened by labor trouble (I think it was a lockout, a little deja vu here). So the teams played about 154-155 games. Any player who appeared in 140+ games really earned his salary. Rigney started Darwin in centerfield, and that probably wasn’t the best idea, but Darwin’s hitting was the talk of the league for the first couple months of the season.
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    Yeah, my Athletic “feed” is only Twins baseball and hockey, so it was a kick to have them mesh! A general bit of life advice: Get in a pick-up game of whatever sport you like, and don’t stop playing, no matter how old you get. It is truly one of life’s joys.
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    For those of us Twins fans who resolved with delight to go the HOF induction of Tony-O and Kitty, this will change the dynamic: Now we will be joined by plenty of Red Sox fans taunting us for letting Big Papi go. Actually, I’m looking forward to it!
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    I know I voted for Tovar and Gladden; can’t remember about Gardenhire. It’s pretty rare for me to “win” in elections. This has made my day!
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    Bert’s 28 is retired, judging by the illustration I see above on Twitter, so that horse has left the barn. There is something to be said for retiring numbers of Cooperstown Hall of Famers who go in as Twins and played honorably there for a long time. Others (like Hrbek) can be debated. (If you told me in mid-1976 that Bert’s number would be retired by the Twins, I would never have believed it. It’s great that life is funny and unpredictable at times.) Didn’t know that great fact that Kitty would have won the Cy Young in 1966 had it not been for the retiring Sandy Koufax (I didn’t become a fan until 1967).
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    I became a Twins fan as a kid in 1967, so I remember Chance as “The Man” when it came to pitching in that eventful year. But, you are right, outside of the no-hitter, he is sort of forgotten in Twins history.
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    Offerings in the dumpster. I love it! Thank you for sharing your creativity.
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    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.
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