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Good on A.J. Pierzynski calling out Rocco Baldelli for pulling Sonny Gray after five strong innings when Rocco is also saying that his bullpen is exhausted.
#MNTwins
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It was right now (10:33 p.m.) 29 years ago today when Dan Gladden crossed home plate with the winning run in Game 7 of the 1991cWorld Series.
#MNTwins
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After great conversations with
@StribSports
editors (and my financial planner), I am honored to announce I am entering the Retirement Portal and will leave
@StarTribune
at the end of the month. I will continue teaching at
@Macalester
and look forward to many adventures ahead.
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People are showing up for this
#MNTwins
postseason chase by the dozens tonight This is what it looked like at first pitch. It's a non-arriving crowd.
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Fall of Minneapolis 2, narrated by Michele Tafoya.
Canada is gonna be dancing in the streets in downtown Minneapolis tonight
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Good night,
#MNTwins
Twitter. I know that some of you got a bit worked up during the first part of tonight's game, The road ahead will be bumpy at times, but remind yourself this is better than the $#!+ you've watched for the last 10 years, right?
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For Byron Buxton's 2021 must-do list.
#MNTwins
So - this center fielder robbed a home-run but pretended he didn’t - allowing the batter to run the bases before letting-on.
Fantastic...
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My community service for today was performed at Target Field. Yelled "Get vaxxed, Andrelton!"
#MNTwins
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Was at the
#MNTwins
game tonight/this morning. We laughed, we cussed, we were amazed. I have tickets for tonight too. Part of me wants to watch sprawled on the sofa. But most of me wants to be there out of respect for the players who entertained beyond any reasonable expectation
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Bravest person at Target Field tonight: Maggie Nichols (
@MagsGotSwag12
) You can look it up.
#MNTwins
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If Max Kepler is in the
#AllStarGame
’s home run derby next year, would it be good form to ask Trevor Bauer to be his pitcher?
#MNTwins
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Best reason to root for
@LoyolaRamblers
to get to Final Four in Minneapolis next year: So 98-year-old team chaplain Sister Jean can be interviewed by 98-year-old
@StribSports
columnist
@SidHartman
.
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Miguel Sano hurt
#MNTwins
tonight with a fielding error, a base running mistake, and a weak grounder with runners on 2nd and 3rd and 1 out in the 2nd inning. Combined with a .201 batting average and 1 home run in his last 54 at-bats, that makes him a rare minus-five-tool player.
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"There are a million good social justice causes over which a ... team could be boycotting. This isn't one."
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Watching and hearing
#Gophers
star Daniel
@oturu65
reminds me too often of the sad and silly decision by
#mshsl
officials to deny him an all-tournament spot two years ago because of a “sportsmanship issue.”
Daniel Oturu: I'm a home state kid, and to have everybody standing up, showing that they care, it just means a lot. I want to be able to win for our fans, because it means a lot to me because I'm from here.
#Gophers
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The most interesting man in heaven? I wrote about him this morning.
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Best things about
#MNTwins
opener:
>Jose Berrios goes all right-hand Johan on Cleveland.
>No country walk-up music & no more ‘What You Know.’
>Run-scoring rally features hits from new guys.
>Anthem by
@HarMarSuperstar
.
>The weather.
>A four-out save.
>2:18 time of game.
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The last line of
@SJUJohnnies
football coach John Gagliardi;'s obituary is epic: "In lieu of flowers make an effort to do what was effortless for John: compliment your spouse often, listen intently to others and see the best in all."
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Pro fan tip for adults at tonight's
#MNTwins
game. There are gonna be a lot more fans than giveaway Royce Lewis bats. If you're not bringing a bat home to a kid, find one at the ballpark who got here later than you did and hand it over.
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Boss usher move of the
#MNTwins
season: Someone swiped my friend's Prince Night hat while it was on the seat next to him. Our usher saw the larceny unfold, tracked down the culprit and reunited friend and hat, which will not leave his head for the rest of the game
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Today:
#Gophers
58, Chicago State 55
Last month:
@UofStThomasMN
83, Chicago State 61.
You decide if a win is a win.
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Perfect
#d3hoops
moment ft. 2 guys really good at what they do.
@MacalesterMBB
coach
@AbeWoldeslassie
visits with political journalist (and hoops junkie)
@atrupar
after the Scots beat
@HamlineU
last night. Abe played against Aaron's brother, who went to Hamline.
#HeyMac
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Your Saturday night highlight may be the
#MNTwins
hitting five home runs. My Saturday night highlight was the email that my COVID test was negative.
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Feeling like Cleveland's three runs in the eighth inning was pretty much set up by Rocco Baldelli's decision to take out Jose Berrios with one out in the seventh.
#MNTwins
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Jack Morris would like a word.
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Don't read this story unless you're ready to ask everyone around you to stop and read it too. In other words, please read this.
In a rural town that went for Trump, a Muslim doctor tries to understand his Minnesota neighbors
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Update: Minnesota losing streak is 26 with
#mnwild
losing 4th in row.
#Twolves
14,
@GopherMBB
4,
@GopherHockey
1,
@Gopherfootball
2, Swarm 1
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Learned today that
@StribSports
has been named Top 10 among sports websites by
@APSE_sportmedia
. We're 7-time winners in the 9 years of the contest. I work among elite pros & it's nice to be honored with
@espn
,
@nytimes
,
@SInow
,
@washingtonpost
& others.
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Glad Katie Ledecky won so we can no longer say that the only USA gold medal is for shooting.
#TheRightToKeepAndBearGold
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@lisadubbels
“Hello! Thank you all for being here…” Speaks to everyone gathered and you can complete the sentence with a specific. “….on this joyous day,” for example. I’ve used that for the (two) weddings I’ve officiated. That’s what was in my notes, anyway. 😎
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I’m not one of those people who frets about 3 1/2-hour baseball games, but Berrios vs. Big Sexy (with a Fernando Rodney three-strikeout ninth inning) in 2:21 was a treat this afternoon.
#MNTwins
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I would never recommend taking financial planning advice from anyone in the media. But after the Byron Buxton grand slam tonight, I started putting money in my
#MNTwins
postseason ticket fund.
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I think I just figured it out: I like Tony Romo's analysis because he knows his stuff, explains it well and gets really excited (like a fan) when something interesting happens.
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Listening to Jim Kaat working with
@dbremer_pxp
is like a tour through the baseball card collection of my youth. Still in the second inning and he's dropped Tony Taylor and Joe Adcock into the talk. (I will spare you the story of what happened to the baseball cards.)
#MNTwins
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Man sitting 2 seats down from us made play of the year on a foul ball. Calmly put down his phone, extended and made a one-handed grab. No glove needed. 23-year
#MNTwins
season-ticket holder; first foul ball.
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Anniversary night visit to Target Field. Julie and I got married on the plaza 14 years ago today. I think there were more people in the park that night than for tonight's
#MNTwins
game. 😎
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REMINDER: This shouldn't be necessary.
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Great line on
@FOX9
when
@maurygloverFOX9
asked (my mother-in-law) if
#LosLynx
winning made up for local sports woes. "That's what women do"
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Tonight's most memorable
#MNTwins
statistic will be that Derek Law yielded the cycle -- a single, double, triple and homer -- facing only 9 batters. Don't think I've ever seen that magnitude of suck before, and I've likely been watching baseball since before you were born.
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If Norman Rockwell had walked into a sports bar with a camera, he might have left with something that looked like the
@Patrick_Reusse
and
@chipscoggins
book signing at
@NanneLou
's Tavern 23 yesterday.
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Not a big three-person booth fan for baseball. But Provus/Plouffe/Hawkins has a New York Mets TV vibe to it -- and that's a good thing. Good combination of smart and fun.
#MNTwins
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Starting a week of baseball when I won't be using the 'nicknames' of the teams that the
#MNTwins
are playing. Anyone else in?
#ChangeTheName
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The New Orleans media can reuse this headline from after the
#MinneapolisMiracle
, right?
#Vikings
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Bo Ryan blaming refs for loss is like blaming Tyus Jones for choosing Duke over the
#Gophers
. Sometimes people say really stupid things.
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Another
#d3hoops
playoff game, another
@MIACathletics
court stormed by
@Macalester
fans.
@MacalesterMBB
76, Augsburg 74.
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Injured
#MNTwins
.
#Timberwolves
sale fiasco.
@MarchMadnessMBB
pool busted.
#Gophers
women in third-tier tournament.
#Gophers
men's team falling apart.
#Vikings
QB weirdness.
#mnwild
plummeting.
Tuned all that out tonight and watched
@MinnStWBB
instead. Much, much easier.
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Anyone else think that
#MNTwins
10, Yankees 1 in the fifth inning feels a bit like Bears 17, Packers 0 at halftime?
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@DanBarreiroKFAN
Fitz and Floyd. All Cardinals touchdowns scored by two of us. It's almost like *we're* going to the Super Bowl.
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#MNTwins
postseason lasted 3 hours, 52 minutes longer than we would have expected in April ... or July.
#HouseMoney
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You know it's time to turn off the Twitter when you see
#MNTwins
bloggers arguing over Tyler Clippard, Matt Magill, Tyler Duffey and Zack Granite. If that's the best folks can do, let's just call in a 72-90 season and move on to football.
#TiredGuyTweet
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Three Minnesota teams in the
#FrozenFour
and UMass wins the title.
#TheMostMinnesotaSportsThing
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Happy “41-Donut Day” to
@Patrick_Reusse
and all who celebrate, a reminder there are worse things than not making the playoffs.
Also
#OTD
In Minnesota Sports History (2001) The
#Vikings
lose the NFC championship to the New York Giants 41-0.
#SKOL
#NFL
#NFLPlayoffs
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If I hadn't retired from
@StarTribune
, I'd be working right now with
@BlountStrib
, updating the coverage of the women's gymnastics qualifying round ft.
@sunisalee_
in real time. It would have been a caffeine-fueled blast. To honor her work, I'm up and watching.
@BorzMN
For the record: I am heartbroken
@StarTribune
decided not to send anyone to cover the Paris Olympics. As
@BorzMN
said, we proudly covered our Minnesota athletes at the Games for more than 50 years. Senior management pulled the plug; I never got an explanation.
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I’ve seen a lot of bad baseball, and that 12-batter stint by
#MNTwins
reliever Edwin Garcia may have been the most embarrassing pitching performance ever.
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I’ve been voting for Brian Harper and Shane Mack for years. Without them, there’s no 1991 title. Both were excellent for longer stretches — Mack (1990-92), Harper (1988-93). If there’s room in
#MNTwins
HOF for an outfielder of that era with a 90 OPS+, there’s room for those two.
Brian Harper turns 63 today. Is one the very best to play catcher for the
#MNTwins
and deserves strong consideration for being in the team HOF.
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I watch this video a couple of times every year just to remind myself that it's never over until it's over.
December 8, 2015. A moment that will live on eternally in Austin Packer Basketball history. Oman Oman. The Shot.
(Look away
@NorthfieldHoops
)
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What people should remember about Johan Santana is that every game he started for the
#MNTwins
was an event. That doesn’t happen now, but it’s fitting Jose Berrios is starting tonight. He could become that guy.
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Yes, the president of
@Macalester
College is wielding a t-shirt gun at halftime of the home football opener.
#d3fb
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Tonight's class guests are talking about women in sports media:
@LindseyMNSports
,
@SloaneMartin
and
@BlountStrib
are talking about everything from analytics to mental health . . . to curling. It's a(nother) good night for
@Macalester
journalism.
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Combination of listening to Bill Walton and seeing the Oregon basketball court on a Saturday night is a borderline hallucinogenic experience.
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The only way that
@SJUJohnnies
34-33 win over Wheaton in the
#d3fb
quarterfinals would have been better is if ... if ... if ... I can't think of anything. This is an ending you couldn't make up.
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Any
#MNTwins
fans out there getting tired of seeing 1987 and 1991
#WorldSeries
memories because it means there hasn't been much of anything worth 'memorizing' since?
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I don't like to boast about the accomplishments of my writing students at
@Macalester
, but one of 'em just pitched a complete game five-hitter against
@UofStThomasMN
. Well done,
@AlexDenzler
and
@MacalesterBase
.
#d3baseball
#d3b
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Am I a bad guy because my reaction to the
#MNTwins
taking the lead on Sano’s home run was, “OK, now don’t eff it up”?
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Respect to Elly De La Cruz for working on his English to better connect with fans. I wish every baseball writer whose first language is English worked as hard on learning Spanish out of respect for players & fans. It was a failing of mine as a baseball writer in the last century.
For the first time,
#Reds
SS Elly De La Cruz did his entire press conference in English today.
"It's important for the fans to understand me, and me understand the fans. I've put a lot of work on my English to talk with you guys.”
Elly joked that he doesn't need a translator
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It’s harmless by comparison, but Jack Morris talking about contemporary baseball metrics sounds more than a bit like climate change deniers talking about the environment.
#MNTwins
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First,
@paigebueckers1
had 27 points, 9 assists, 6 steals & 2 blocks
Next, "Bueckers stayed for 30 minutes until every kid got a photo, selfie, autograph or TikTok video. ... She signed copies of her Slam magazine cover"
Then,
@chipscoggins
crushes it:
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In my state reporting days, I'd sometimes stop at St. John's. John would answer the 2nd or 3rd knock on his door, turn off the projector & treat me to an hour or so of wisdom about football & life. He asked lots of questions for someone who knew so much.
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I’m glad we opted against playing the “take a drink every time the
#MNTwins
broadcast crew makes a baseball reference from more than 30 years ago” game today. Otherwise we’d be in detox.
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Some news: I'm joining
@bloisolson
's team at Fluence Media to launch Sports Take: WeekEnder, a weekly tip sheet that will collect the most important and interesting sports news in & around Minnesota. I'd be thrilled if you'd sign up and tell your friends.
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Where I was: Blair Walsh wide left: Basement with friends; Saints/Brett Favre INT game: Working in office, Sid cussed; Gary Anderson miss/Take a knee: Friend's house watching people flip out; 41-doughnut: 5th grade basketball game. Scary what I remember about
#Vikings
failures.
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I was there for all 4 hours, 51 minutes and 400 pitches last night, so I figured I should write something about the
#MNTwins
weird win.
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Keep in mind that if
#MNTwins
win tomorrow, they'll have the same record after 11 games as the '91 Twins.
#SavingForWorldSeriesTickets
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My favorite sports thing of the day: Cheapest pair of
@GopherVBall
tickets on
@StubHub
is $86, including fees, for tonight against No. 1 Penn State.
#Gophers
#SpikeTheBoat
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2 years ago students in our reporting class at
@Macalester
asked to leave class early to attend a Get Out The Vote rally to prepare for an Election Night assignment. I told them I'd want to see how much contact they had with the candidates. My phone started buzzing at midnight
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This is another video by
@NorthstarAlex
from
@Macalester
’s Senior Day halftime warmups on Saturday. This is senior Andrew Smith, a Neuroscience major who was a starting cornerback on the football team & and is an all-conference high jumper in the
#MIAC
. Enjoy.
#d3hoops
#heymac
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