Something that might make you revisit your breakfast…
Posted on September 25th, 2008 – 9:17 AMBy La Velle
Got word late last night that this man would start for the Tigers if the they have to play a makeup game on Monday against the White Sox.
And here’s confirmation of that in today’s Detroit Free Press.
Don’t know what to make of this. There’s always the chance Garcia would be motivated to beat the team he won a World Series with in 2005 - and get back at manager Ozzie Guillen.
But his long absence because of shoulder surgery can’t be ignored.
Here’s the write-up of his Sept. 17 start against Texas.
The Twins could win their final four games but still have to root for Garcia to go Ponce de Leon on the White Sox on Monday.
On to better things.
Writers often second-guess themselves, and I kinda wished I would have thrown in a detail in today’s gamer about the 42,126 who showed up at the Dome last night. They yelled for Nick Blackburn when he got in jams and were fired up as Jose Mijares opened with three balls to Jim Thome in the eighth before settling down and getting three outs.
I was mildly surprised that only 35,225 showed up on Tuesday but fans responded on Wednesday. I checked with a Twins official this morning and they are so busy with ticket sales for tonight’s game that they think it could be the largest crowd of the series.
I scanned the crowd last night for old Homer Hankies but saw few. Maybe there will be more out tonight with first place in the division up for grabs. But I want everyone to know that I checked yesterday and, yes, the 2008 Homer Hankies have been ordered.
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I think the large crowds the past 2 nights have really given this club the boost it needed coming off an uninspiring road trip. The 10th man comes through!!
the Chicago Tribune suggests that Garcia will be motivated to beat his former team: http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports_hardball/2008/09/bring-it-on.html
Garcia is terrible and has hardly pitched. It’s a shame that Detroit would give the Sox a freebe like that.
I noticed that the Brewers have their own “hankies” out at their games now…How original
Any reason it would be Garcia? Is it his scheduled start or something?
I noticed someone last night had a “Homer Blankey”! CLASSIC!
Gardenhire and Jim Leyland are tight. Maybe he can make a call and tell Leyland not to play the “B” squad that day. It would be greatly appreciated here.
Although it’s just 10 innings, Garcia hasn’t been that bad for Detroit so far this year.
3 HR’s allowed in those 10 innings isn’t good…but you know.
Quick question for LEN3…
Is Mijares eligible for the postseason roster?
Is Mijares eligible for the postseason roster?
Good question! I don’t think so because the playoff rosters are set at the end of August and I don’t think Mijjares was even on the 40-man roster then. I hope I’m wrong because the Twins would need him to have any success.
This question has been asked and answered several times the last few days on these blogs…
Technically, Mijares is not eligible since he was not on the 40 man roster before Sept. 1. However, as we know, there are technicalities made famous by the Angels and Francisco Rodriguez the year they won the World Series (2002?). The Twins have a pitcher DL spot for Neshek that Mijares could take. So, technically he isn’t, but through that loophole, he will be on there!
I don’t think it would be bad if Leyland did play the b-squad. Those guys would at least be motivated to try and prove something. Based on how they have been playing, I think most of the Detroit starters are already working on their golf swings.
It’s good Gardenhire did not put Cuddyer in the lineup. The Curse of the Cuddyer has been avoided by not putting him in the lineup and leaving him on the bench the past two games. The result was two consecutive wins for the Twins. The Curse of the Cuddyer would doom the Twins to losing the race for the division championship with the White Sox. Cuddyer is a jinx upon the Twins. Lets hope Gardenhire does not put him in the lineup tonight. The Twins will be in first place if Cuddyer is kept out of the lineup and the Curse of the Cuddyer is avoided.
“I don’t think it would be bad if Leyland did play the b-squad. Those guys would at least be motivated to try and prove something.”
Agreed… either way they’re a bad last place team. It’s not like pitching Dontrelle Willis or Nate Robertson or Kenny Rogers or Justin Verlander would be any better!
What does anyone think of a repeat of the 2 teams from he 65 series this year?
Great defense showed last night, the play by Harris, and Gomez in the 9th. Crowd lovin it. Lets hope the Twins carry it into tonight and can rough up Gavin Floyd. Hopefully there are a few more homer hankies than last night, just wish fishwrap factory West Side would have been all over that before the start of this series. Regardless…2 down, 4 to go, lets hope Cliff Lee and those pesky Indians (who are only 7.5 games back of the South Siders) can shut down the White Sox and we don’t have to worry about that Garcia start.
can anyone explain to me why the website http://www.coolstandings.com has the twins percentage points ABOVE the Sox as favorites to win? I understand the Sox (possibly)have another game to play against Detroit, but I guess I’m missing the math on that one.
Works for me, jimmy bee. Just don’t ask me to put any money on it.
Seth, I agree, too. There’s nobody on that Tiger staff I would feel excited about having start that Monday game and pinning the Twins’ playoff chances on their performance. All the more reason for the Twins to just win out and let Cleveland nail the BitchSox coffin shut.
JimCrikket maybe Verlander
MikeEsq, I would assume it has to do with the Twins probably being favored at home tonight and then somewhat favored to win more games against KC over the weekend than the Sox are likely to win over Cleveland.
Not that it matters much. This is pretty much a toss-up right now with the advantage shifting immediately to the winner of tonight’s game.
maybe, jimmy bee… but I’ve got the guy on a fantasy team and I can assure you he’s stunk the place up early and often this season. He just wants this season to end. Garcia is at least in a position to give a damn about the result. Verlander would just be mailing it in.
Who is hotter as of lately KC or Cleveland
Answer to if Majires is eligable for the post season roster. Credit goes to Howard Sinker’s blog post “A Fan’s View” today:
“K-Rod Clause. The quick version: If a team has a player eligible for the postseason who is hurt and can’t play, it can get permission from the commissioner’s office to replace him on the postseason roster with a player who was in the minors with that team as of August 31 and is still with the organization at the end of the season.
Players on the disabled list as of August 31 are among those eligible for postseason play. The rules require that a pitcher be swapped out for a pitcher and a position player for a position player.
Can you say Pat Neshek?”
Can you say Pat Neshek?”
Return of the “Tin Man” very interesting
Didn’t the Angels bring up K-rod in 2003 right at the end and nobody had seen him before in the postseason? Not saying the Mijares is the next K-rod, but don’t the Twins have the option to do the same thing with him?
@ MikeEsq
That’s strange. Especially because they are .1 down in the Exp W column.
Occasionally, if it’s a big series, I go to the web site of the main paper of the city the Twins are playing & see what their writers are saying. ChicagoTribune.com is the place & they have Ozzie on there with a video waxing about how the Sox aren’t hitting in the clutch, but is giving no excuses for their veteran players. Interesting … he wasn’t at all impressed with Blackburn, saying he was often one pitch away from being out of the game. I agree, Blackburn eeked along by the skin of his teeth — Twins very fortunate. Funny, one of their writers is proposing the Sox forfeit their game tonight & just come back home and focus on sweeping the Indians
It’s hard for me to get upset over who Detroit plays or doesn’t play if it comes to that when the Twins would have popped the champagne by now with just the reasonable facsimile of a bullpen performance in a handful of games.
Another interesting thing there … unlike the Strib, the Chicago Tribune doesn not allow reader’s postings to automatically appear beneath articles, they filter them. Here’s their disclaimer: “Comments are not posted immediately. We review them first in an effort to remove foul language, commercial messages, irrelevancies and unfair attacks.” With some of the harsh & stupid comments that show on some Strib postings, it may come to that here also.
Mijares is the man, Gomez too. Who needs Detroit, we can win this on our own.
Amazing team, amazing fans, what more needs be said. The spirit of Kirby is watching over this team!
I need someone to clear this up for me-
A friend of mine, whom I do not trust much, tried to convince me that Pohlad has been kicking around the idea of throwing down money for a retractable roof on the new stadium…
I still don’t believe what I was told, anybody got an answer to this?
~Situ
1 more game and then walk the plank Ozzie
Basically the ChiTrib only filters out foul language on messages posted to their site. It’s like the seven second delay on radio. There are plenty of criticisms posted, much of it well deserved.
baseball_insighter-
It’s that freedom of being able to post whatever you want on this site immediately that makes this such a successful blogging atmosphere.
You just have to weed out some of the abusive comments, or argue with them, which can prove to be fun or frustrating
You wouldn’t have the back and forth conversations like we do here on that Chicago Trib website
How do we get 40,000+ people tonight NOT to chant “MVP” when Morneau’s at the plate? It hasn’t worked, it’s not what we are there for and really, it’s just annoying and stupid. I think it’s a distraction, but that’s my opinion.
Carry on.
The Situationer My guess is sorry but no. I don’t think so and not because Pohlad is cheap. I just don’t think that we would be shown a picture constantly of an open air stadium and then all of a sudden a roof is now being put on the new park. I think I heard something though regarding Wilf doing this to the Metrodome. Or was it a complete remodeling.
MarkW,
Agree.
Its a distraction to Morneau and that is counter-productive.
Chanting is supposed to distract the opponents, not the Twins.
Gardenporker-
Thanks for the attempt…I doubt it will happen too…I thought I heard early on that there wasn’t enough space on the sight to even include a retactable roof
sane your alive???
Yes JustinCB the Angles brought up K-Rod right before the playoffs. He pitched a total of like 5 or so innings before the playoffs. Majires would be eligable because he could “replace” Neshek as far as I know as long as he ends the season on the major league roster which he will.
“How do we get 40,000+ people tonight NOT to chant “MVP” when Morneau’s at the plate? ”
Easy to do just hand out free kool aid
I was at the game last night so I wasn’t able to look back on this one:
Thome hits a grounder between Morneau and Alexi and gets a double. How did that happen? The next time up Denard was playing toward the right field line. Was he shaded toward center the first time? Did he slip?
Anyway , some insight would be appreciated.
This is definitely the year to appreciate the Twins performance, even if they do not win another game!
I agree, the MVP cheer is childish and way too premature.
Going against the grain of public opinion: I have enjoyed Ozzie and the White Sox. They have been a great rival that seem to bring out the best in our Twins.
But, only one team can win and of course I hope it is the Twins.
LEYLAND DOING US A FAVOR… Otherwise Robertson would be throwing that night.
Well Galarraga will have 3-1/2 days rest on Monday as he is pitching as I write this.
He could do long relief Monday.
I either heard or read a story about Morneau and his batting average when receiving MVP-chants, and it is low. Really low. Seriously, fans: shut up, let the man hit, and chant MVP when the ball is flying into the upper deck and he rounds the bases.
Posted this earlier but somehow it got deleted:
If Harris had not caught that ball, it would have been called Fan Interference. The fan clearly reached over the field of play and touched Haris’s glove, if not the ball. I’m glad Harris caught it, taking the play out of the hands of the ump. Imagine if he doesn’t catch it and the ump doesn’t call fan interference. Gardy might still be kicking his hat.
In the Bartman play, Alou reached into the stands and Bartman was clearly in in the stands when he interfered with Alous’ attempted catch, so no fan interference was called, nor should it have been.
It’s always amazed me the abuse he has taken. Cubs fans practically expected him to deflect the ball into Alou’s outstretched glove or something. He was just minding his own business trying to catch a foul ball in a playoff game when Alou reached over to catch it. It would have been a great catch even if Bartman had not reached up (but not out over the field) for the ball. Even Alou himself said the ball was barely catchable and Bartman did little to change that. Yet he’s the most hated man on the north side (and much beloved on the south side) for mostly being an innocent bystander.
On the Thome double, Denard got to the ball but was on the warning track and couldn’t put on the brakes. Had to let his momentum carry him into the wall to stop. That was enough time for Thome to plod into second.
Once and for all:
There was no practical way to put a retractable roof on the stadium at that site. As it is, they have to build the walk-up plaza and one of the ticket offices over the freeway. The roof infrastructure would not fit on that small footprint.
If they had managed to secure the land on the river before the Guthrie got it, maybe we would have gotten a retractable roof. But the anti-stadium crowd (led by Tim Pawlenty) was just too organized to let that happen. It makes me laugh that the same folks are now crying because we didn’t add a $250 million retractable roof to the plan. If they’d wanted it two years earlier, they could have gotten it. I guess history was never their strong suit.
I’m glad someone brought up the Thome double. Why on earth was he playing so far toward center? If he’s positioned normally, that’s a harmless single and nobody scores that inning.
Bartman allowed those of us who are not White Sox fans to see how lame Cubs fans are.
I have to admit that the look on AJ’s face last night when the crowd was booing him was that of a gamer. He seemed to feed off it…I don’t see why we don’t flip the script and start cheering for him…a case could be made that he facilitated the building of our quality squad today…liriano…nathan…boooooooof. I say cheer for AJ.
please clarify…
why was it a dead ball after hitting the roof last night, but not on Tuesday?
Also…what would have occurred if the MN bartman had actually touched the ball?
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RichKid,
I believe the rule used to be that any ball that hit the roof in foul territory and came back into the field of play could be caught. Then they changed it so now it is a dead ball. I guess that on Tuesday it hit a speaker or the roof directly over fair territory.
Heinie Manush,
“Thome hits a grounder between Morneau and Alexi and gets a double. How did that happen?”
That was an inexcusable screwup.
The outfield and infield alignment were not coordinated. The outfielders could see that the infield was not playing Thome to hit oppo, so they should have corrected themselves (or the infield) before allowing the Blackburn to pitch.
Some coach (White?) is responsible for coordinating the outfield and infield alignment with the pitching plan-of-attack.
But Mauer and the outfielders should have noticed that that particular alignment did not pass the stink teat.
the stink TEST.
I hope you meant stink “test”.
Some typos are just funnier than others.
First thing that popped in my head when I saw Freddy Garcia was starting…isn’t he married to Ozzie Guillen’s daughter? I thought I remember hearing that at some point when he was with the Sox.
Can someone back me up on this or am I out of my mind?
Walter,
Some typos are more Freudian than others.
I know Denny McClain was Lou Boudreau’s son-in-law.
Are people really concerned about a guy’s performance if he gets cheered for? c’mon…this is the big leagues…and he is a one time MVP…buck up Justin.
Garcia is married to Guillen’s wife’s cousin’s daughter.
“Garcia is engaged to Guillen’s second cousin, technically the daughter of Guillen’s wife’s cousin.
…Guillen’s wife helped raise Garcia’s fiancee, Glendys Bracho, and they supported her financially as she grew up…”
You’re cheering for someone standing at the plate that hasn’t yet done anything in the AB. Clap and yell when he comes to the plate, then let him do his work… then cheer loudly after and yell “MVP” all you want… it’s old, it’s childish and needs to go, just like the stupid wave.
Justin is a humble man and I suspect the MVP chant is embarrasing to such a person.
so, Is anyone else going to the game tonight?
Kinda funny story(at least for the great guy we got the tix from) on how we got the tickets, click my name and check out my site to read how and various other thoughts about the Vikes/Twins/etc… and vote in the poll.
also…never boo…that hurts their feelings.
La Velle (or anyone else)….
Do we know that Mijares can be on the postseason roster? He was added after August 31st….
Nice to know that in addition to the blog police, we’ve also got the crowd cheer police situation covered.
Good luck getting 50,000 people to play by your “rules”.
Do you honestly think the player “hears” what’s being yelled. Interviews with opposing players have revealed that they just hear the cheering and act like its for them. (Since 9/10 it’s a clutch situation for either side)
And like I said, the first time I was at the game during an MVP chant, Morneau deposited a ball in the upper deck in right field for the Twins second homer in as many ABs.
In the playoffs.
Regarding roof for new stadium:
It’s not that it isn’t practical to have a retractable roof for the new stadium. The issue is that the design doesn’t support it. When the State wouldn’t pay for it the Twins designed the stadium without it and provided no support to add it in the future.
Regarding Dead Balls:
I don’t believe a ball hitting the roof is dead. A ball hitting a speaker/guy wire in foul territory is dead.
maybe if cheering hurts mourny’ AB’s we should boo and see if that has an oppostite effect
Do you honestly think the player “hears” what’s being yelled.”
Ron Artest??? Milton Bradley???
When AJ gets booed on the road, it only turns his smirk into a smile. That’s exactly what he wants Twins fans to do.
How about when Yankees fans used to chant “Paul O’Neil”
If a person can’t deal with whatever a crowd of 50,000 people might yell at him… be it MVP cheers or boos or anything else… he perhaps should not be a professional ballplayer.
Or at least he should ask to be traded to the Marlins.
Yeah, not hard to hear 40,000 people yelling the same thing.. I think they can hear it, the appropriate reaction is to ignore it and go about your business. I’m not trying to be the “crowd police” I’m saying it’s a stupid thing to chant in the 1st inning of the game when he hasn’t gotten a hit yet. He hits a HR, by all means, chant away.
I guess it annoys me more than others, but whatever…
Lew Ford could hear the fans. He asked “Why are they booing me?”.
I guess when the Braves were in the playoffs for a million straight years the players couldn’t hear that annoying dumb chanting with the war drums. I must have been the only person on earth hearing it with my extra sensitive dog like hearing powers
The Dome last night was just nuts. Just before the game started, crowds of people in the lower concourses moving opposite ways — a massive block of humanity with nowhere to move. Good thing a new stadium is on the way. More enjoyable going to games only about half full. The Twins won the tough one last night, but Slowey still needs to be on his game tonight. Seems he’s on about 2/3rds of the time.
Anyone else notice that Joe Nathon was topping out at 93mph last night. Earlier this year, he could regularly hit 96 on the radar. And why has he started taking forever to throw a pitch when no one is on base!
He got the job done, so who cares. But it just seems like he used to go after the hitters more aggressively and now he is trying to nibble and finesse.
TxRyan no making fun of quiver cheeks.
Besides not chanting “MVP” when Morneau’s up at the plate …. fans should not do The Wave when the Twins are batting. It’s very distracting for both the offense. They were doing it last night — some hyped up kids started it in CF & it actually made it around a time or two. Didn’t The Wave go out with the 80’s? Here it is about 20 years later. Half the fans who go to games know nothing about baseball. They’re just there to eat, drink and scream. They’re paying customers, too, but those antics are very dumb.
Lew Ford could hear the fans. He asked “Why are they booing me?”.
They were at the end.
TxRyan-
I didn’t notice Nathan’s speed, but I thought he definitely challenged the hitters last night. He pitched around Swisher, just didn’t want to give him anything good to hit, but wasn’t going to intentionally walk him.
I don’t know if I’ve seen Nathan pump it up to 95+ much at all this year, I remember wondering earlier in the year what was up with his velocity because it was always reading 92-93. I think he has been using his other pitches more this year, and that can contribute to a loss of velocity due to the more inconsistency of pitch delivery.
Not like it matters though, he’s still an incredible closer.
Twins Geek
Read up on the posts, we have already talked about that. Majires from what I understand can be added as long as he finishes the season on the roster and will replace and injured pitcher who could be Neshek for his spot on the 40 man roster. Correct me if i’m wrong LaVelle.
I’m glad there will be no roof on the new ballpark. It just seems natural to play outdoors. April showers bring July double headers, or split double headers to retain the gate receipts. I believe both balls that hit a speaker or guide wire were “out of play”. The one on Tuesday simply wasn’t caught so no need to even make a call there. Both were foul ball strikes.
Yes, Nathan pitched around Swisher last night. You knew he was gearing to put a good swing on a fast ball for a solo home run, but Nathan wasn’t going to give him much. I agree that Nathan waited so long between his pitches with nobody on base. ?? Maybe he realized he didn’t have his best stuff going, as shown from the Ramirez at bat, so he was extra careful. He had to have thrown 20+ pitches. I wonder what the amount of pitchs for him before Gardy decides he’s not available the next night?
If we would have kept Santana who of our starters would now be in the bullpen for us
If we would have kept Santana who of our starters would now be in the bullpen for us
Perkins. Boof would’ve likely been dealt. (Or Reyes)
Ron Artest??? Milton Bradley???
Ron Artest got hit with a cup. I recall Bradley getting upset over radio comments he was told about later..but never anything with fans.
T why don’t we put you in LF with your super volleyball jumping skills to snag potential HR’s and move DY to DH
Hey, here’s one for you baseball old timers: Why don’t they steal home any more? Rod Carew stole home 7 times back in the late 60’s, and I probably haven’t seen it attempted since the 70’s. Have pitchers changed their technique (throwing out of the stretch instead of a windup?) to shut runners on 3rd down? Maybe Go-Go should try it sometime. Might be a good question for Dick & Bert to muse over.
Half hoping if it comes down to it, that the Tigers will be figting to stay out of last place against KC. Then they’d have something to fight for.
Back then, pitchers were more likely to go to their windup instead of stretching with a runner on 3B. Now, especially if it’s anyone with speed, they’ll usually pitch from the stretch. Makes it almost impossible to steal home.
I wonder what the pitchers during the rag arm era threw in the way of MPH???
it was nice to hear dick and bert talking about punto getting his unifrom dirty in the new stadium 2010. guess he will be getting at least a 2 yr new contract, could be longer if gardy has anything to say about it.
what would we do without those 20+ rbi every year and needless slides into first???
baseball_insighter,
“Why don’t they steal home any more?”
Here is a guess.
Because signals are more complicated(to avoid signal theft) these days, more signals are missed by the players.
Stealing home, when the batter misses the sign and swings the bat, is dangerous to a baserunner’s health.
Stealing home already has an inherent success risk.
Adding the risk of (accessory to)manslaughter to the equation may be the cause of its lack of popularity with coaches.
I’ve got a great kid. He got an extra ticket to tonight’s game and is taking his old man. I’ll be 2nd row, next to Red Dog.
Let’s do this thing!
Carlos G are u going to have a sign or anything???
baseball_insighter,
This doesn’t really answer your question, but it’s an interesting link:
The perfect starting line-up/batting order for the Twins: 3rd - Punto, 2nd -Punto, Catch - Mauer, 1st - Morneau, SS - Punto, LF - Punto, CF - Punto, RF -Punto, DH - Punto… You gotta love Punto!!!
JimCrikket and Sane … thanks for the input on stealing home. I’ve been watching baseball for almost 40 years & have never seen anyone try it. I just remember seeing a grainy replay of Rod Carew doing in, like, 1968. I think someone should try it again, as long as they get their signs right. 
It’d be interesting to know who last tried it in a MLB game and who last was successful at it. Maybe it was Carew.
ES16 …. got it - thanks.
It doesn’t say whether anyone ever got injured trying it in MLB, but maybe over the years they’ve decided there’s too much money in this whole deal to be messing around like that. Still, you know someone’s going to try it sometime again, eventually, and maybe we’ll be watching.
Have fun Carlos
“don’t know if I’ve seen Nathan pump it up to 95+ much at all this year,………..Not like it matters though, he’s still an incredible closer.”
I disagree- I think it does matter. I think that Nathan is down a good 2-3mph from past years. That’s fine when he is locating the ball, but the fastball that he used to blow past people, will now occasionally get blasted. I think this is a trend to monitor over the next year.
I am always hoping someone will try to steal home on Jackie Robinson Day.
i saw Molitor steal home on the Twins in 91 when he was with Milwaukee
actually it was probably 92
Shawn in Binghamton hope u had fun in Baltimore. Did you go to Boog’s?
baseball_insighter,
This should answer many of your questions:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_9_63/ai_n6154585
Jimmy,
it was fun but i picked the wrong game. didn’t get to Boog’s this time, i think it was moved…. i kind of forgot.
Shawn in Binghamton I think it is still called Camden Yards. From what I have heard Boog even goes to the stand durinng games. The only 3 stadiums I have seen a game at are. The big A in Anaheim. Chavez stadium for the Dodgers and the dome.
Shawn and jimmy bee,
Thanks. Should be a good time. I’ll be the one not holding a circle me sign and the one not chanting MVP until after Mornie gets his hits. Hopefully we have a relaxing game and can chat up Red Dog again. He will visit when things are going well. Good guy.
I agree Carlos G regarding Red Dog. From what I have seen of him he is a great presence that keeps the clubhouse loose and everyone laughing. Have a great time at the game. If the Twins win tonight I am thinking of going this weekend. Does anyone know if playoff tickets can be bought in single form or what the break down is
here is something interesting and not that much known about Freddy Garcia:
He is married to the niece of Ozzie Guillen’s wife
http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports_hardball/2008/09/bring-it-on.html
I have faith that the T-Wolves will do the right thing after watching the Detroit Lions lead and get rid of McFail.
2008 Homer Hanky? Why not sell mini 9V fans with the Hanky to help the non power team hit the ball out too….Twins need something that represents THIS team better than the home hanky
“here is something interesting and not that much known about Freddy Garcia:
He is married to the niece of Ozzie Guillen’s wife”
It might not be “that much known” but it was posted in this same thread about 3 hours ago.
Shawn,
I was at the Twins-Brewers game too in 1991. Good old County Stadium!
I seem to recall a time with Carew where he stole home while Killebrew was hitting… and didn’t know he was coming.
Not a good thing, when you think about it.
Have a great time tonight, Carlos… and yeah, you’ve got a great kid. Nothing like going to a big ballgame with your dad/son. It’s what the game is all about imo.
