Al Simmons (1902)
Terris McDuffie (1910)
Jose Valdivielso (1934)
Ron Piche (1935)
Rich Garcia (1942)
Walt Hriniak (1943)
Tommy John (1943)
Jim Colborn (1946)
Jose Mesa (1966)
Al Levine (1968)
Julian Tavarez (1973)
Tommy John was one of the Twins’ television broadcasters from 1994-1996.
Movie of the Month: The Horde (2009, Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher)
So, this wasn't the best movie I saw this month, but I was on a zombie kick this month, and it was the best zombie movie I saw. So there's that. Continue reading Third Tuesday Movie Day
The good news for today is that, a quarter of the way into the season, the Yankees and Red Sox are both playing .500 ball and are at the bottom of their division.
Here is my Wilco story: I was working in the NW suburbs of Chicago in 1997. Being There was my favorite album at the time. I listened to a little indie radio station called WCBR - The Bear. They announced that Wilco would be playing Harper College in Palatine, Illinois. I think this is the only place that advertised the show. My wife and I got tickets. We get to the college and the venue is basically a big lecture hall. I was sitting in the 4th row right next to Tweedy's wife who was holding their then 2-year old son wearing big ear protection. Tweedy walks out and the first thing he does is says, "We're playing a f'n classroom?!"
The show was great. It felt like we were sitting in the band's living room. They took requests from the crowd and, at one point in the show, Tweedy came and grabbed his fussy son and sat him on his lap.
This is the song that I thought would make them stars.
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Loading... After a very nice start to the roadtrip, I kind of expected the Twins to lay an egg here. I just didn't expect it to be an ostrich egg. Marquis hasn't exactly been a model of success and his mound opponent, Zack Greinke, hadn't lost a home start in Milwaukee (14-0). He wouldn't lose today either. The Twins managed to plate a run in the top of the 1st after a Revere double and Willingham RBI single, but it was all Brewers after that. Hart and Lucroy smashed solo shots in the home half of the 1st and Milwaukee added 6 more in the 2nd. To be honest, I mentally checked out after that, only tuning back in when I heard that Butters would be pitching in the 8th. I enjoyed this years installment of "The High Point of..." even more than last years. He also picked up an RBI today, taking a bases loaded walk in the 9th to push across the Twins' 4th run. Oh, yeah - the singles hitting pussy only managed to go 4-5 today, pushing his average back up to .293.
If nothing unexpected happens between now and then, I, Jeff A, will be ordained as an elder in full connection to the Dakotas Conference of the United Methodist Church on Friday, June 8, 2012. The ordination ceremony will take place at 7:00 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 401 S. Spring Ave., Sioux Falls, SD. I know Sioux Falls is a long way from, well, pretty much everybody here, but if anyone should be so motivated as to attend, you would be welcome.
Minimum 80 at-bats, minimum 20 innings.
A terrible, horrible, no good, awful day in the minors. Only the Red Wings kept it close. Two teams made four errors.
Fred Dunlap (1859)
Eddie Grant (1883)
Earl Averill (1902)
Hank Johnson (1906)
Mace Brown (1909)
Monty Stratton (1912)
Larry Napp (1919)
Ed Fitz Gerald (1924)
El Tappe (1927)
Moe Thacker (1934)
Barry Latman (1936)
Kent Hrbek (1960)
Bryce Florie (1970)
Tom Martin (1970)
Chris Widger (1971)
Mark Quinn (1974)
Josh Hamilton (1981)
Matt Wieters (1986)
El Tappe had a twin brother, Mel Tappe, who played in the minors.
Third Monday Movie Day will be on Tuesday this week, because I'll be around on Tuesday. In the meantime, talk about the NBA playoffs or Drew Butera striking out Carlos Gomez.
