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  1. Longdistancetwins
    It was a quiet day at work, but, I forgot!! Maybe I'm not really a Twins fan...
  2. Longdistancetwins
    Just saw this now! I’m delighted! I do have a tradition of watching the game for decades. I also happen to be in Denver tonight for totally unrelated reasons. Don’t think they should have moved from Atlanta, but I have to admit I’ve enjoyed the festive atmosphere. Have met a lot of Twins fans in the last three days. Justin Morneau was at the Convention Center Sunday, being interviewed and chatting up fans.
  3. Longdistancetwins
    Sometimes I really like to face the lights-out reliever because I know the odds have to change at some point. Witness Jason Kubel’s grand slam against Mariano Rivera.
  4. Longdistancetwins
    Me, too, Melissa. Went to sleep in the 8th.
  5. Longdistancetwins
    I’m in New York and not ready to say that, but it’s not just Trevor May: there’s an inordinately large number of Twins who have been Mets (and vice versa) over the years. It makes for a great trivia question.
  6. Longdistancetwins
    Yeah, I heard that, too. I was pretty shocked they actually had that as a statistic!
  7. Longdistancetwins
    Yeah, I’m old and really like unwritten rules in sports—what would hockey be without traditions? But I also think it’s fine to swing on 3 and 0 in any case. And surely one wants to move the game along in this kind of blowout. But ignoring your coach’s sign or manager’s verbal instruction? There really is nothing “unwritten” about that; it’s considered wrong in any line of work or play.
  8. Longdistancetwins
    But didn’t it take Harmon 4 tries?
  9. Longdistancetwins
    Sweet! Merry Christmas.
  10. Longdistancetwins
    Charley Pride’s death prompted me to watch the Letterman segment for the first time. I really came to appreciate Letterman for doing it in his way. Still I felt some sadness, knowing that suffering was ahead for Allison and that Harmon’s life was actually going to pieces at that time. Sorry to be a downer...
  11. Longdistancetwins
    Things seemed either easy or really hard. I did pretty badly. Loved the questions about the 1991 World Series. Ideal trivia!!
  12. Longdistancetwins
    Awesome! Thank you. And Happy Birthday!
  13. Longdistancetwins
    Concur. I’ve kept my M cap only because I associate it with the 1987 and 1991 teams, but I only wear my TC cap. Agree about the uniforms, though.
  14. Longdistancetwins
    YIkes. Shudder. You’re right.
  15. Longdistancetwins
    My good friend has been a White Sox fan for about 60 years. Since he is my tennis partner, I see him frequently. We manage to root civilly for each other, and he’s been explaining for these past few years how they are rebuilding. Our friendship survives because we have this strange thing in common: we’ve rooted for decades for these out-of-town teams without ever having lived anywhere near where our team played. Still, I’m jealous because now it looks like they did everything right.
  16. Longdistancetwins
    Being an out-of-towner, I didn't hear his broadcasts. But being an old-timer, I never tire of delighting in his return to the organization. Anyone who was around in June of 1976 would never have believed this could happen. Write your memoirs, Bert. Think of all you have seen and participated in!
  17. Longdistancetwins
    It was the weirdest of seasons: the team went from being the worst in the league until late June, to being the hottest in the second half. It wasn’t at all a .500 team in the usual sense.
  18. Longdistancetwins
    Maybe "no evidence to back it up," but these were my thoughts, also. Never thought of myself as a socialist or anything, but there's no reason to honor ownership at a ballpark unless such a person really made an outstanding contribution to society along the way.
  19. Longdistancetwins
    Dan Monzon (died in an auto accident in the '90s. RIP)
  20. Longdistancetwins
    Bobby Randall
  21. Longdistancetwins
    Agree on the need to mention 1967, 1969, and 1970, but I'm glad you included 1988. My memory of 1988 was that we were going on a strong clip but couldn't catch Oakland. It felt like literally match for match: if we won, Oakland won that day; if Oakland lost, we lost. It happened that I was driving cross-country, east to west during that time (beastly hot summer, by the way). When I got to the Bay Area, in August, I remember watching the newscast, and the announcer saying, "The A's won today, so, of course, that means the Minnesota won also." I felt so vindicated that someone else noticed this bizarre pattern. But in September, we ran out of steam and couldn't keep up Oakland's pace.
  22. Longdistancetwins
    Thanks. Jacque Jones; Delmon Young.
  23. Longdistancetwins
    Is that charming or what? Someone should go all through the alphabet.
  24. Longdistancetwins
    Became both a baseball and a Twins fan in 1967, being caught up in the great pennant race. As my moniker suggests, it was always a long distance love, growing up in the New Jersey suburbs. But the teams I followed most closely were indeed those of the early/mid 1970s. It was free agency that killed my passion; not only seeing every (no exaggeration) player of quality leave, but having to endure their war of words with Calvin (I mean Calvin could even insult an all-around good guy like Larry Hisle). Then I lived for a time in the Rocky Mountain West before they had major league baseball and returned to New York just in time for the strike-divided season of 1981. What brought back my passion? One night late in 1981, I didn’t bother going to Yankee Stadium when the Twins were in town. And in the middle of the 11th inning, I congratulated myself for being a working grown-up and turning off the TV. The next morning I heard all about a rookie from Bloomington, Minnesota—of all places—hitting a home run in his first game to win it for us. I was so thrilled by the story that I couldn’t even be mad at myself for not staying up to see it. Yes, Herbie’s home run made all the difference; I had my first love back, just in time to see the Class of ’82 fail and eventually blossom into the 1987 champs (and, as one might imagine, having Blyleven and Smalley back for that ride was a special and delightful irony for me).
  25. Longdistancetwins
    I remember seeing the movie "Moneyball" (I never read the book). They way they depicted it, those Oakland A's starting winning when the chemistry, confidence (to play a new position), and leadership kicked in.. I was amused how Hollywood negated the book's argument.
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