Well here it goes. My first post on TD. Been a fan a for about a year now. Believe it or not my first real year as a Twin fan was 1982. Yes, that 1982, the one where the Twins lost 102 games and of course their first year in the Dome. I spent much of the summer, when not hanging out with my friends, listening to Herb Carneal on the radio. I was enthralled with all the talk about this team loaded with rookies. Kent Hrbek, Gary Gaetti, Tim Laudner, Lenny Faedo, Jim Eisenreich, Dave Engle, Randy Bush and Frank Viola and later joined by Tom Brunansky. I was too young to really appreciate how dreadful they were in 1982. It didn't matter. Something in my naïve and untainted mind told me that this was a special group of players and that this was going to lead to something big. I remember taking all kinds of flack from my friends for leaving whatever game we were playing early to go home and listen to the Twins(not many on TV back then). I actually kept track of all the homers they hit. Well all that loyalty paid off with 7 game series win in 1987. I see the same glimmers of hope for the Twin's future now that we saw in 1982. Yes, we are going to have to be patient. But the likes of Sano, Buxton, Meyer, Stewart, Gibson, Hicks, Arcia, Pinto, Gonsalves, Rosario, etc,etc give me even more optimism than that naïve teen back in 82. Good times are ahead ladies and gentlemen and I am truly glad to have found a site that will allow us to relish together as hardcore Twins fans in the joyous moments to come! With all that said, my avatar will tell you that I was even more of a North Stars fan.....and if I ever saw Norm Green in person...........
