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  1. Squirrel
    Love this guy even more! Heh ... 'You will hear me during games' ... lol ... 'I'm the hairiest I've ever been' ... he's a jokester and prankster, but when it comes to pitching, he's all serious and focussed. I hope we get to see and hear all the antics, if games are actually played.
  2. Squirrel
    For many years I was hard-pressed to choose a favorite Twin ... and now I'm hard-pressed to choose one that isn't! Love Romo ... he's just got a great spirit.
  3. Squirrel
    I would actually try for no nickname that is meant in any kind of demeaning manner, or could be taken a such.
  4. Squirrel
    He just never seemed to find his footing elsewhere. Not sure if that was because of a lack of opportunity or if we just saw the best of him. He's a good guy and hope he finds his way post-baseball.
  5. Squirrel
    Romo cracks me up! Heh
  6. Squirrel
    We’ll have to discuss and figure out what we will do. Then, of course, we may have to just wait to see if we really do have a season and for how long.
  7. Squirrel
    Okay, then why is that interleague game more important than others? So not a fan of the Cubs
  8. Squirrel
    I’ve wanted Donaldson since he was with Oakland. When they traded him to Toronto, I was hoping the Twins would make a deal for him.
  9. Squirrel
    Why is playing the Cubs an important date? They won’t be that great. Also, all games against Chicago, both teams, are on weekdays. No weekend series against them, home or away.
  10. Squirrel
    Hopefully the first of many ... but against other teams.
  11. Squirrel
    GAME THREAD! You started it ... here is where it will be ...
  12. Squirrel
    This thread is now off the track of discussing Cleveland's name change. This isn't a football website. Nor is it a political website. Brock and Doc ... I encourage to keep your dialog going via PM's. Thread closed. Thank you.
  13. Squirrel
    Mod note: Please keep the Coronavirus discussion as it directly relates to baseball. If you want to have a more general and broad discussion of the virus, please head to the Sports Bar forum where there is a thread discussing this. Thanks.
  14. Squirrel
    really, really great article, Seth! Each and every moment forward, I am just so much more impressed with Baldelli.
  15. Squirrel
    I'm fine with the Twins. I call the Twin Cities home, even though I don't live there currently (but I will again when I retire.) But I do detest 'Twinkies.' I think that is used more by opposing fans than anyone else, kind of like us referring to the Yankees as something else that rhymes with Yankees. But no matter what we would change it to, opposing fans will find some nickname we don't like. But if they would ever change their name, I like the idea of the Lumberjacks ... we could get Thome back to do some Paul Bunyan commercials for us! But Bombers? As in the Bronx Bombers? No thank you.
  16. Squirrel
    Ennio Morricone passed away ... His music was beautiful ... just beautiful ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMgTCtSxOHE
  17. Squirrel
    I googled it and found this: https://ccamuseum.org/2018/04/28/1981-the-pekin-chinks-high-school-team-becomes-the-pekin-dragons/ That was the first of a long list of in the search results. The name was changed in 1981. And yes, it was as bad and blatant as it sounds. I think at the time they came up with it, no one thought it was bad, that it was somehow an homage, as these things usually go. But yes, it was a racial slur toward Chinese people, not, say, as in a chink in your armour. It was bad.
  18. Squirrel
    And their name was changed in 1981 ... they are now the Pekin Dragons.
  19. Squirrel
    You know ... that's just a thoughtful and sensible approach. And yeah, it will be a marketing decision, probably, but maybe there will be some thought of 'right vs wrong' in there somewhere, too. Because I think right now, more people (finally?) care about it, so there is some pressure to do so. But I wonder how thorough the marketing decision was for the Fort Myers Miracle to change the name of the team to the Mighty Mussels ... particularly with some of the logo design. (Okay ... another discussion we don't need to get into, but, it does illustrate a point I made above ... teams do change their names for various reasons.)
  20. Squirrel
    alswearingsomethinglikethat
  21. Squirrel
    I’m with Brock here. Nothing is being changed for the sake of change (if Cleveland even goes through with it). And this is not knee jerk because these discussions have been ongoing for as long as I can remember. And Cleveland’s announcement was that they will be discussing it, so it’s not exactly this out of the blue ‘We’re changing it.’ And, remember, they phased out the Chief Wahoo logo a couple years ago, so this change is already underway incrementally. This just isn’t a new thing. And there are a lot of people on this site who refuse to say ‘Indians’ or ‘Redskins’ when discussing these teams; they say Cleveland or Washington to avoid it. Perhaps these names are meaningless to you and to many, maybe some are just ambivalent or don’t care, but it does mean something to many. Do you recall the protests at the Dome in ‘91 over the chop? (And please, everyone, let’s not sidetrack down that discussion wormhole.) And what exactly is being rewritten by changing a name? Lots of teams through the years have changed their names, usually when a franchise moves, but still, sports team names have changed. A rose will still smell as sweet ... Perhaps think of it as re-righting things vs rewriting.
  22. Squirrel
    Yes
  23. Squirrel
    That's what I heard, too ... https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/twins-miguel-sano-reveals-positive-covid-19-test/
  24. Squirrel
    So in other words, you think the Rockers would be a much better name?
  25. Squirrel
    As a fan, I could see not wanting my team to take on the name of the team that was the worst team ever in baseball. Shrug. But as someone pointed out above, as a Twins fan, I’d be okay if Cleveland did that. I think Spiders is too generic and not really ... eh, not an elegant (?) enough name, although it would lend itself to some cool merchandise. How about the Rockers? Or something native to them? The Bobcats? Or Cleveland is called ‘the Forest City’, maybe a play on that? I think a name change is coming, or why publicly announce you are thinking about it, so now is the opportunity to really identify yourself, and Spiders just seems too ... generic.
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