Comments on: A good night to teach, a challenge for you http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/sinker/2008/09/16/a-good-night-to-teach-a-challenge-for-you/ An expert fan's perspective on what's happening on and off the field Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:40:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: ' + title + ' - ' + basename(imgurl) + '(' + w + 'x' + h +') http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/sinker/2008/09/16/a-good-night-to-teach-a-challenge-for-you/#comment-20720 ' + title + ' - ' + basename(imgurl) + '(' + w + 'x' + h +') Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:07:36 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/sinker/2008/09/16/a-good-night-to-teach-a-challenge-for-you/#comment-20720 [...] entries that came in around 6 p.m. last night, especially the story of Dr. Don and his hunting dog. Go back and check ‘em [...] […] entries that came in around 6 p.m. last night, especially the story of Dr. Don and his hunting dog. Go back and check ‘em […]

]]> By: cmathewson http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/sinker/2008/09/16/a-good-night-to-teach-a-challenge-for-you/#comment-20719 cmathewson Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:34:24 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/sinker/2008/09/16/a-good-night-to-teach-a-challenge-for-you/#comment-20719 Out of gas: When your ace and your closer both implode on the same night, it's not a good sign. Out of gas:

When your ace and your closer both implode on the same night, it’s not a good sign.

]]> By: Ohio Twins Fan http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/sinker/2008/09/16/a-good-night-to-teach-a-challenge-for-you/#comment-20718 Ohio Twins Fan Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:52:38 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/sinker/2008/09/16/a-good-night-to-teach-a-challenge-for-you/#comment-20718 I was at the game last night and as I sip the morning java and reflect....this is a DAGGER....You want pressure? No more losses and you win the division...that's pressure I was at the game last night and as I sip the morning java and reflect….this is a DAGGER….You want pressure? No more losses and you win the division…that’s pressure

]]> By: kusick http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/sinker/2008/09/16/a-good-night-to-teach-a-challenge-for-you/#comment-20717 kusick Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:28:38 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/sinker/2008/09/16/a-good-night-to-teach-a-challenge-for-you/#comment-20717 No pitcher has became a stopper down the stretch. Remember even Boof doing that in 2006? What would it mean for Baker to beat Lee, to just shut him out? It's expecting too much, I know, but it's the kind of performance you need when you're in a race. A Viola, a Tapani, a Santana. A Blackburn? Flipside: I got to have more Tolbert. Third or short every day here on out. No pitcher has became a stopper down the stretch. Remember even Boof doing that in 2006? What would it mean for Baker to beat Lee, to just shut him out? It’s expecting too much, I know, but it’s the kind of performance you need when you’re in a race. A Viola, a Tapani, a Santana. A Blackburn?

Flipside: I got to have more Tolbert. Third or short every day here on out.

]]> By: Anne http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/sinker/2008/09/16/a-good-night-to-teach-a-challenge-for-you/#comment-20716 Anne Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:26:04 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/sinker/2008/09/16/a-good-night-to-teach-a-challenge-for-you/#comment-20716 Howard- am slow of mind these days, so only this last home stand (yes, after 75 games) did I realize that I sit totally opposite you, and I'd even thought about getting a ticket in the rarefied section 220 to see how the game looks from 180 degrees away. I sit in 200, with my feet on the gate to go down onto the TV bucket -- and you sit 3 seats to the left of the ladder on your side (I think it was 3, but hard to count with binocs). Hope you'll come to see how the other side looks sometime before we have targets tattooed on our skulls, before this becomes Targe-sota. after tonight's game, you're going to need that thesaurus again. Howard-
am slow of mind these days, so only this last home stand (yes, after 75 games) did I realize that I sit totally opposite you, and I’d even thought about getting a ticket in the rarefied section 220 to see how the game looks from 180 degrees away. I sit in 200, with my feet on the gate to go down onto the TV bucket — and you sit 3 seats to the left of the ladder on your side (I think it was 3, but hard to count with binocs). Hope you’ll come to see how the other side looks sometime before we have targets tattooed on our skulls, before this becomes Targe-sota.

after tonight’s game, you’re going to need that thesaurus again.

]]> By: kirby91 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/sinker/2008/09/16/a-good-night-to-teach-a-challenge-for-you/#comment-20715 kirby91 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:28:04 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/sinker/2008/09/16/a-good-night-to-teach-a-challenge-for-you/#comment-20715 I wanted to work on a witty poem or story as many have done is response to Howard's charge. After tonight's game I feel like Jim McKay in '72 delivering that bone chilling line, "They're all gone". The words to describe the past two nights and the season boils down to this: The final numbers will prove they are who we thought they were. Still, nobody could have imagined the way in which it would be revealed to us. Love may mean never having to say your sorry but wouldn't hurt to tell us how and why you left us feeling that it all could have been so much more. Much was gained and much was lost. We just wish this fight could have ended with the 2008 Twins competing like the team we'd thought they had become. I wanted to work on a witty poem or story as many have done is response to Howard’s charge. After tonight’s game I feel like Jim McKay in ‘72 delivering that bone chilling line, “They’re all gone”.

The words to describe the past two nights and the season boils down to this:

The final numbers will prove they are who we thought they were. Still, nobody could have imagined the way in which it would be revealed to us. Love may mean never having to say your sorry but wouldn’t hurt to tell us how and why you left us feeling that it all could have been so much more. Much was gained and much was lost. We just wish this fight could have ended with the 2008 Twins competing like the team we’d thought they had become.

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