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  1. Longdistancetwins
    Thanks for all this background (don’t follow prospects much). I’ll be at the doubleheader and am fully expecting heartbreak.
  2. Longdistancetwins
    Kind of fun to see that several Twins Daily posters are pastors!
  3. Longdistancetwins
    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!
  5. Longdistancetwins
    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).
  7. Longdistancetwins
    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!
  10. Longdistancetwins
    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.
  14. Longdistancetwins
    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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    Not to speak ill of those who are gone, but, from what I’ve heard Willie did not have Tony’s charm and kindness off the field.
  16. Longdistancetwins
    I had the opposite perspective. I was a far-away Twins fan in the days well before the Internet. Tony-O was my favorite player, but I really didn’t know if he was a good guy or not. I was devastated by his knee injury (he was having a career year when it happened, which is saying a lot for him). But I had no idea that he remained so engaged with the team until the Internet age. That continues to delight me: that he is loved for his character and personality as well as for what he did in the 1960s and 1970s.
  17. Longdistancetwins
    Concur all around. We are about the same age.
  18. Longdistancetwins
    I was at Cooperstown for Rod’s, Kirby’s and Bert’s inductions in 1991, 2001, and 2011. I wanted to keep the pattern going: “Whom would I go see in 2021?” I’d wonder. Well, COVID threw us off a year, but that’s my only regret!
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    Laid an egg on this one. Not funny…even the best fail occasionally.
  20. Longdistancetwins
    Concur. 2011, 2016, 2021 in no particular order for me.
  21. Longdistancetwins
    But it was the year Tony-O injured his knee! He was so awesome until then, and then he just limped into the batting title with Bobby Murcer trying to catch him. The relief pitching was a train-wreck that season.
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    I know this thread is supposed to be about “recent” collapses, but I do remember these. Interesting that the won-lost record in 1968 wasn’t as bad as I recalled. But the rebound was great: I guess with The Killer coming back from his injury, the addition of Leo Cardenas (an overlooked Twins player), and—I don’t know—the Billy Martin factor?
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    The mediocre Twins of the 1970s were pretty bad against the mediocre Yankees of the early 1970s. I went (as a Twins fan in the New York area) to some doubleheaders where the Twins would lose both games.
  24. Longdistancetwins
    Same situation for me!
  25. Longdistancetwins
    I appreciate a Cave appreciation! Thanks.
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