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  1. Longdistancetwins
    I still love having starting pitching. It will help this team turn around, but maybe next year.
  2. Longdistancetwins
    Okay, MAT!
  3. Longdistancetwins
    Chatted with a Cleveland fan yesterday. He made the same complaints about the Guardians.
  4. Longdistancetwins
    So, so sorry. Happy to have you back and hope the Twins (along with others can bring you joy)
  5. Longdistancetwins
    What is this team without Polanco?
  6. Longdistancetwins
    Confession time: I quit watching with Pablo’s meltdown! But I came back in the 9th and am still in shock!
  7. Longdistancetwins
    Oh, yes!!
  8. 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.
  9. Longdistancetwins
    There are plenty. They are my friends here, and they worry a lot.
  10. Longdistancetwins
    “Concur,” as Chief says.
  11. Longdistancetwins
    Yes, I hear the boos for Hicks when I am at Yankee Stadium. No, they are not as loud as those directed at Correa, but pretty shocking to be directed at your “own” player. BTW: Old Yankee fans don’t get it when I compare Pagan to Ron Davis. They still remember Davis as a pretty good pitcher.
  12. 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.
  13. Longdistancetwins
    Yeah, being at the ballpark today made me embarrassed for—and worried about—Buck.
  14. 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…).
  15. Longdistancetwins
    For the record: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIN/MIN197107300.shtml
  16. Longdistancetwins
    Sorry about that: 11-9
  17. 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.
  18. 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].”
  19. 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.
  20. Longdistancetwins
    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.
  21. Longdistancetwins
    Fun question. Completely off the top of my head: Kelly, MacPhail, Rantz, Brophy? (and I have a soft spot for Mauch).
  22. Longdistancetwins
    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.
  23. Longdistancetwins
    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.
  24. Longdistancetwins
    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.
  25. Longdistancetwins
    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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