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  1. Teflon
    Soderholm had one of the freakier injuries that I can remember - he missed the entire '76 season after falling into a storm sewer. He ended up signing as a free agent with the '77 White Sox so was part of those fun contests with the Twins that summer. One game in particular I remember - the June 26th showdown for first place in the AL West at Met Stadium. It was one of the biggest regular season games I can remember for the Twins. They entered the game tied with the White Sox atop the AL West division and Rod Carew was getting a lot of national attention as he was approaching a .400 batting average. It was a hot (87 degrees) windy day at Met Stadium and 46,000 fans had come out to see the game. Carew went 4 for 5 with a homer pushing his batting average over .400 and getting huge ovations. Glenn Adams also homered and drove in 8 runs. which is still the most in Twins history. (Later tied by Randy Bush.) Soderholm was one of four White Sox players to smack a home run in that game, but the Twin prevailed in a wild win, 19-12! To this day, this is still among my favorite Twins games trailing only the 10-inning Game 7 win in the 1991 World Series, .
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    The 9-25 Miami Marlins have decided to not wait for the Trade Deadline to start selling off assets. A trade is being finalized that will send Luis Arraez to the Padres in exchange for right-handed reliever Woo-Suk Go and three prospects: OFs Dillon Head (Padres No. 6 prospect) and Jakob Marsee (No. 9) and 1B/OF Nathan Martorella (No. 13). Read Cole Jacobson's story on MLB.com
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    The Twins were actually so desperate they looked into hiring courtroom sketch artists to depict the on-field action but it turned out that three solid years of sketching the same thing over and over again had ruined the lot of them. Twins Manager Rocco Baldelli Taking Questions
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    The MTM-produced Mary Tyler Moore show was also better than the MTM-produced Bob Newhart show, reinforcing the Minneapolis over Chicago axiom. (apologies to Suzanne Pleshette❤️)
  5. Teflon
    Nice write up! It makes perfect sense for the Saints to have multiple Doggie Nights as their ballpark is conveniently on the same plot of land as the Lowertown Dog Park.
  6. Teflon
    Nice seeing Matt LeCroy again and hearing the Gardy stories. I seem to recall Gardy referring to Matt as "Softball Sammy" a time or two in his postgame comments.
  7. Teflon
    Tonight's Promotion at Target Field is not to be confused with the La Crosse Loggers "Park in the Bark" night.
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    Bally's is now running political ads during their broadcast. As if the Twins weren't already difficult enough to watch.
  9. Teflon
    Twins v White Sox, 4/22/24: The Unmovable Object meets the Irresistible Force
  10. Teflon
    Nice way of referring to getting sent to AAA. Good piece on Varland. I hope he can turn things around.
  11. Teflon
    The Twins' farm system is loaded. "Windy" the winged stallion has undoubtedly been the "mane attraction" in AA Wichita where his between-innings "Breaking Wind" routine has been a breath of fresh air for the woeful Wind Surge.
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    Q: This team is fun, right? A: The Orioles, Dodgers and the Guardians certainly think so.
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    A very strange year already in the Twinsverse. https://www.yardbarker.com/mlb/articles/twins_acquire_second_diego_castillo_in_span_of_week/s1_13237_40200170 https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/04/orioles-trade-diego-castillo-twins.html
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    And if the Twins lose on Thursday, potentially three.
  15. Teflon
    I was going to say the love child of Chris Elliott from There's Something About Mary and Anthony Michael Hall from 16 Candles.
  16. Teflon
    After 5 games, the Oakland A's have committed 13 errors, with 10 different A's players having committed at least one error. After 5 games, 3 of the 5 Oakland starting pitchers have ERAs over 12 Please feel free to add your own fun facts.
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    As a baby boomer, I'm at a point in life where I'm annoyingly reminded by my body that I have a finite number of stair-climbing reps remaining in my hips and knees. If I started climbing more stairs at present to increase my speed and endurance in climbing them, I'm reasonably assured the added reps would also shorten the remaining service time for those hips and knees and put me at more risk of breaking a hip in the process. Thinking along those lines but for an elite athlete instead of a sedentary baby-boomer, does intensive training actually make the body more prone to injury? My understanding is that muscle growth is based on creating micro-tears through exercise that the body then repairs, adding more mass and and improving performance capability in the process. What does the recurring micro damage and repair from that repeated training do to the resiliency of the muscle, however, and what kind of cumulative stress does such frequent training impart to the supporting tendons and ligaments? Is a player who trains more moderately actually at less risk? I'd be interested to know how the per capita rate of ACL tears and quad injuries compares to present from when Spring Training was the extent of a player's physical conditioning.
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    There is precedent for this... with the Dodgers, no less!
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    They won't need to bother as there's no shortage of Twins Daily readers who will do that for them.
  20. Teflon
    These 2024 Nike MLB uniforms can proudly take their place next to Zion Williamson's Nike PG 2.5 shoes in the Nike Shoddiest Products Hall of Fame.
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    Kinda makes you think better of the 1976 ChiSox unis.
  22. Teflon
    An interesting list from Jay Jaffe's X post concerning Corey Kluber but also showing the high historic standing of Johan Santana's peak 5-years.
  23. Teflon
    Joe Mauer, please include this in your 2024 HOF induction speech: "And as I'm thanking my teammates, a special thanks to my two-time Cy Young winning battery mate, Johan Santana. I look forward to the day he joins me here in Cooperstown." He can put that right after, "Thanks to Mike Redmond for showing me you can still be a big league catcher with a dad bod."
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    Sort of like "hockey day in Minnesota" I have a fantasy where Target Field hosts a Saturday doubleheader with the Twins playing an MLB afternoon game and the Saints playing a AAA nightcap. Saints players would mingle/sign autographs at the MLB game and the Twins players would do the same for the AAA game.
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    Walker Jenkins's dad bears an uncanny likeness to Kirk Cousins.
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