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We need a top 5 free agent pitcher, who loves ice fishing, moose hunting, snow sledding, whose mother-in-law lives in St Paul. and who attended University of Minnesota. I'm sure we can find someone who fits this description. Now let me see....

Stay the course. A thousand lights.

Well thought-out post. Thanks.

Welcome back to Mr. Romo. Good news.

That was a head scratcher for me. If I were a Red Sox fan, I would be upset.

Exactly

This was a fun read. Thanks everyone who posted. I feel better now.

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Good article.

WHAT THIS GUY SAID.

Lots of water makes me pee.

He wasn't pitching down the stretch. He was banned.

Rooker

I don't think Steamer is very accurate. Just saying.

They are my NL team also. Through the years when my son was young, I had taken him to lots of Tar Heel games, Final Fours, Atlanta Braves, Hickory Crawdads and Baltimore Orioles games. Several years ago, he took me to several Cardinals games. I particularly enjoyed it because he planned the trip and drove most of the way. Once when he had just gotten his driver's license we went to a Final Four in Indianapolis. We stayed in Bloomington in a hotel on the Indiana University campus. We were driving from Bloomington to Indianapolis for the 1991 Final Four Championship between Duke and Kansas. Two days earlier, Kansas had eliminated our Tar Heels. I had graduated from UNC and my son graduated there years later. We were not happy about the Jay Hawks having beaten UNC. However we hate Duke (or Dook) as we call the college which is less than 12 miles away from our alma mater, UNC. We were talking about who we should pull for in the Final game...whether we should support the ACC and pull for Dook, or pull for the team which had just eliminated the Tar Heels. Our car had a personalized UNC license tag and Tar Heel banners in the rear window. As we were driving on the 4-lane highway, discussing which team to pull for, a large SUV passed us. My son was driving. He said: Dad look!" The front passenger in the SUV had his bare rear end hanging out the window at us. We had been mooned. As the SUV sped away, we saw the Dook stickers and banners on it. We pulled for Kansas. We were ashamed that we had even had any thoughts of possibly rooting for Dook.

Thank you. My son and his son are Cardinals fans.

I was born in Washington DC in 1944 during WWII while my father was in the army overseas. My first major leafue game was the Senators and Tigers in 1954. Of course the Senators lost.My brother and I got some of the Washington Senators' players' wives autographs. They were sitting behingd us. Mrs. Clint Courtney was my favorite.I used to write Herb Heft, the Senators information director. He was so generous to this North Carolina boy. I got decals, pictures and yearbooks from him. I wrote the players and got pictures from them. My grandfather moved to North Carolina, but continued to subscribe to the Washington Post and saved the sports pages for me I was in college when the Senators moved to Minnesota, but I remained loyal to my franchise. The Charlotte minor league team was a Senators'/Twins' farm team, so I kept up with many of the minor leaguers by reading the Charlotte Observer. I requested and got Camilo Pascual's jersey number when I played high school baseball. I was a terrible pitcher, but I loved the game. I tried out for the UNC baseball team, but only lasted until the first cut. Played softball off and on. Lost track of the Twins during my time in the army (Sept 67 to June 69). Mark Davidson was from my hometown and played on the '87 World Championship team. I flew to Minneapolis in '87 and '88 to see Mark and his wife, Linda. Sat next to Mrs. Mark Davidson, Mrs. Kirby Puckett and Mrs. Greg Gagne. (I guess I was still interested in the players' wives.) Mark introduced me to Tony O. and Harmon Killebrew. Twins Daily has been an amazing addition to insatiable thirst for daily knowledge about the Twins. Thank you owners, writers and contributors for your dedicated and informative writing about the Twins.

Do the Twins have a binding contract with Elizabethton, which will be breached if the Elizabethton team is eliminated by MLB? Who pays for the extensive renovations which the city of Elizabethton has done recently?

Wait. What?

I'd rather spend half my summers in Minneapolis. However the winter is a different story.

The Twins need 2 starting pitchers more than anything. Kick tires at 3B all you want FO, but get 2 quality starting pitchers first, please. Hopefully both new SP's will produce at high levels, but if only one is a true "Ace", even that moves the Twins closer to a World Series Championship. At least one successful free agent "Ace", plus an improving Berrios and Odorizi. A really good staring 3. And hopefully the second free agent SP will also produce in any of the 2,3 or 4 slots. Imagine Ryu and Wheeler in the Twins lineup? Cuba Gooding said it best in Jerry McGuire when he said: "Show me the money, Jerry. Show me the money". Offer these 2 SP's enough money to get them to sign. Then see how much $ is left for 1B or 3B or SS. Frankly I'd rather move Arraez to 3B and Polanco to 2B and sign Iglesias for defense at SS. I contend these moves would form a really good starting pitching staff and improve fielding at SS and 3B and possibly even 2B. I feel we need better IF defense plus two "number 1 quality pitchers" to be added in order to win the World Series next year. The Twins have the money...now is the time to "show" it.

Good article . Thanks. I hope at least 2 out of these five make a positive difference in the major leagues.

What about all the expenditures which the Elizabethton town spent last year to update its stadium and field and clubhouse facilities? Will MLB reimburse the town for that? Does this proposed elimination allow the Twins to just walk away from the contract with Elizabethton?

Timely and important article Tom. Thank you.