Sunday is the last day at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. Even though its quite ugly it has held many famous/infamous events through the years. Let's use this post to look back on one of the last truly public sports venues. Here are mine:
1. Game 6 and 7 of 1991 Word Series (naturally)
2. At a Gophers-Northwestern football game with a bunch a bigwigs in a suite while watching the 1988 World Series when Kurt Gibson hit his famous HR.
3. Bosox-Twins game in 2006. I think Juan Castro was traded that day. I got to be on the field during BP and Manny be Manny completely iced me when I said Hi. I got to see Tony O hanging in the bowels of the Metrodome and Papi hit a ball that a certain monster HR but hit a speaker for a long single. Ball would have easily hit the Hrbek banner in Center Field. I think it was this game.
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What are your memories, good or bad?
1. Watched the Twins rally from two runs down in the ninth against Eckersley and win in in the 12th on an RBI single by Hrbek on Aug. 16, 1991.
2. Was at the longest game in Metrodome history on Aug. 31, 1993. Well, at least for most of it. My parents made it through the equivalent of a doubleheader before heading home. Pedro Munoz won it with a homer in the 22nd inning.
3. Watched the Timberwolves play in their inaugural season. Have no clue which game, who they played or what the result was. I just remember squinting to see a basketball game played on a floor with one corner on what would have been homeplate for baseball while I was sitting in what would have been the upper deck in left field near the scoreboard.
I never hated the Metrodome, but as I've said before, when you drive 4-5 hours to see the game, you want to know it will be played. Still, I think any back problems I have are due to twisting in my seat to see the game.
I never saw too many games at the dome; by the time I was out of school and could have gone more often, I ended up moving to LA. Still, I remember enjoying a game with Mrs. Runner where the Twins hit a 1st inning HR and made it hold up 1-0 -- I think this was the game where I got to go to the booth and get Herb Carneal's autograph. I also remember seeing a game with the family, sitting in CF seats with a ~6 mon. old Runner daughter (and surviving).
Forgot to mention a game in '84 between college graduation and my first job when we saw a rookie future HOF centerfielder go up over the fence for a HR ball and come back without the ball...and his glove! Don't remember how it was eventually retrieved for him.
In no particular order.
1) Game one of the 1991 World Series. The only time I've ever seen a World Series game in person.
2) I saw 21 games of the 1991 season. 17 wins.
3) I saw the Rolling Stones there three times. I'll never forget the first time I saw Mick Jagger. I screamed like a teenaged girl throughout the whole first song. Dazzle and Al Newman were sitting about five rows behind me. He seemed old then, but he was younger than I am now.
4) The first time I ever saw the Vikings in person, I went with my sister. She was living down here and I came from ND. They lost to a terrible Tampa Bay team. My sister felt so bad, she decided to pay for half my ticket.
5) My first Twins game at the Metrodome in 1985. It was a day game, my boss and I drove down from Fargo to catch it. They were playing the World Champion Detroit Tigers. I remember before the game that the Tigers were bouncing baseballs off the turf like basketballs. Starting pitcher? Juan Berenguer.
6) New Years Day Vikings playoff game against the Bears. Got the ticket from my uncle and went with my cousin. Vikings totally destroyed. Uncle apologized for getting me the ticket.
7) Bison football.
8) Moss and I went to a game against the Braves during a torrential rainstorm and I think it was 14 innings. The wind was blowing so hard that the foul "poles" were bouncing.
9) Twins get one hit against the White Sox and win.
I was also at that Braves game. Tom Prince scores from 2nd on a single in the 15th.
I was at that game, too. I had to drive back to Mankato that night to be back at work at 6am the next day, but I still stayed for the whole thing. I mainly remember that as the only time I've seen Greg Maddux pitch live, and he wound up doing a perfect Radke impersonation.
1. Kirby's number retirement ceremony May 25th, 1997. I still have the ticket stub and the card showing his game 6 leaping catch everyone got that day framed and on my wall.
2. Two of the best games I attended were unfortunately Carlos Silva games instead of like, Santana or Radke or someone: Silva's first complete game (I forget who they were playing), when he fired the ball into the upper deck at the end.
3. And his 74 pitch masterpiece against the Brewers.
4. The post game wind tunnels.
4. The post game wind tunnels.
Those were fun.
#2 was against the Angels.
Scioscia sucked it that day.
Over time, memories of games have faded away. Except for two: the scheduled double header against Oakland in 2001 which both games went extra innings and a Mothers Day Sunday night game in 2006 against Chicago which the Twins score a bunch of runs early only to have Carlos Silva stink up the joint and the Twins ended up losing.
But what will never disappear is time spent with friends at the games. Chatting about life and baseball and trying to convince ourselves the DomeDog is pretty good.
Other things like peering through the concourse onto the field and how unnaturally green the 'grass' was (this was being the current FieldTurf), the time we spent razzing Marty Cordova because he looked so disinterested in catching a line drive the went for a triple (back in those days, plenty of good seats were available) and the time Butch Huskey gave us some dap.
It was a crappy place for baseball, but it wont be forgotten.
We were at that doubleheader too, I think. That had the dog show in between games, right?
Yep!
Someone else was at that game. Spooky, maybe? It's been mentioned before.
I was there. Twins didn't lead until the twentieth inning of play.
Me!
I didn't get to many Twins game because of the distance from my parents' house. Like Rhu_Ru mentioned, it was nice to know if I was going to drive the 3+ hours, the game was going to be played.
My first Twins game was because we went to see Cal Ripken before he retired. We'd just moved to Iowa. Must have been '99. I can't tell you anything besides we sat a few rows behind the 3rd base dugout and Cal played 3B.
The summer after I graduated HS, the girl I was dating and I drove up for a mid-week game against the A's. I got a batting practice ball from Miguel Tejada. Again, can't tell you anything else besides we got home at like 1AM because of the drive home. Looking at BR, it was probably July 17th.
Father's Day 2007 - Prince Fielder's inside-the-parker to tie it in the top of the 9th, Morneau walk-off in the bottom.
The first two Caucii - Sept. 22, 2007 and June 21, 2008 (complete with cake for Sheenie's and my birthday)
I was also at a game against the Yankees where Shannon Stewart threw the ball into the stands thinking the inning was over, but it was only the 2nd out.
I only saw one Twins game there (mid-80s, forgettable, sat in the CF bleachers). But my real memory is watching Turner Gill, Mike Rozier, Irving Fryer, et al. destroy the Gophers. It was 81-21 or 81-24 or something, and the Gophers had more time of possession. Men against boys.
It was actually 84-13. Until winning 34-23 this year, the Gophers hadn't scored more than 14 points against Nebraska since 1964. That was 14 straight games of 14 or less points (in a 16-game losing streak). That included shutout losses of 56-0, 48-0, 54-0 and 49-0. Minnesota still leads the all-time series 30-22-2.
30th anniversary this past October.
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I went to a number of games, but one of the more memorable ones was when I was maybe 11 years old and my church somehow volunteered to pick up all the paper airplanes after a postgame airplane toss. (I think the church got a monetary donation for doing cleanup.) I was so excited to go onto the field and for some reason, I really wanted to run the bases and do a cartwheel. I did both of those things, but boy did that turf hurt my hands when I did the cartwheel! I still remember the sting.
1) Eight World Series games. 8-0!
2) All Star game 1985. It actually sucked but I do remember it.
3) NCAA Tournament 1991. LSU/Shaq and Duke.
4) A few weeks after I moved to the Twin Cities, a friend came to visit and we went to a game. We bought cheap seats and then snuck down right behind home plate. It was one of the worst games I had ever seen. The Twins scored one run on 13 hits. http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIN/MIN199707260.shtml
5) The game against the Royals that clinched a tie for the division in 1987. The Royals started out with runners at first and third with no outs. The Twins turned a 5-4-2 double play as Willie Wilson tried to score from third when it looked like the Twins would turn two. Puckett stole a home run from Tartabull for the third out and then hit a home run in the bottom of the first. That was the loudest I had heard the Metrodome before the playoffs. http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIN/MIN198709270.shtml
6) Roy Smalley was my favorite player but he was playing for the Yankees in this one. He struck out to start one of the oddest triple plays ever. I have to admit that I had to ask my dad what happened (I was 11). This is from Wikipedia - While playing with the New York Yankees in 1982, Bobby Murcer, Graig Nettles, and Roy Smalley got caught in a bizarre 2-5-3-1 triple play. Smalley had struck out (Out #1), and meanwhile the runners from 1st and 2nd had taken off in an attempt to steal second and third. The ball was thrown to 3rd (played by Gary Gaetti). Gaetti chased Murcer back to 2nd base and tagged him but he was called safe. Gaetti then threw the ball to 1st baseman Kent Hrbek to tag Nettles who was caught between 1st and 2nd (Out #2). During this, Murcer had attempted to take off from 2nd again. The ball was thrown from Hrbek to 3rd base to pitcher Terry Felton, who was now covering 3rd base and tagged Murcer (Out #3).[1][4]
7) 1-0 loss. Erickson vs Clemens. One of the best pitchers' duels I have ever seen. http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIN/MIN199207180.shtml
8) Johan Santana was worth the price of admission every time he started. I was at a game where he struck out 13 Royals. Most of the strikeouts were just embarrassing for the batters. They would swing and miss at pitches in the dirt and take pitches right over the plate. It didn't look like he was facing Major League hitters.
9) One of my friends was a big Nolan Ryan fan so I ended up seeing the Ranges quite a bit. I swear, Juan Gonzalez killed the Twins every time. We finally went to a game where Gonzalez wasn't in the game due to injury. One of my friends said that he would probably hit a pinch-hit home run in the ninth to win it for Texas. Yep. http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIN/MIN199208120.shtml
10) I was a Cowboys fan growing up. Tony Dorsett was my favorite player. My dad got tickets to our first football game. Then the NFL players went on strike and my game was the first week cancelled. When the strike was resolved, the only games that got rescheduled was my week. The only problem was that they moved our game to Monday night so I wasn't sure if my parents would still let us go. They did end up taking us to the game and Tony Dorsett ran for the longest touchdown run from scrimmage - 99 yards.
11) I was also at the Braves/Twins thunder storm game. I left in the twelfth inning. I remember when I got home that I was surprised my wife hadn't left a light on for me. It turned out that we didn't have any power so I couldn't even listen to the end of the game once I got home.
12) Randy Moss. There wasn't a much more exciting sports play than seeing Randy Moss waiving his arm to signal he is open and a quarterback cocking his arm to throw it deep. It was really one of those plays where it was much better in person since you could see both the quarterback and wide receiver. Everyone would rise to their feet at once and there would be a rising din as everyone anticipated what was going to happen next.
Game 163.
I had a running joke where all through high school and college, I didn't see a single Twins homer in person. It just kept happening, over what? Thirty, forty games? Very bizarre. In 2002, at one of the first games I attended after college, this streak was broken by Twins legend Brian Buchanan.
I saw a Father's Day game with a very young Skim where Santana got outpitched and we got lost looking for the van for two or three hours afterward, in rain.
I saw Matthew LeCroy get hit in the head with a pitch.
I went to two games back-to-back against the Orioles in about 1989-91, one planned by my mom and the other a surprise from our church. The Twins lost 6-2 and 6-0.
An insane extra-inning game that Kirby won in the 18th or so. I was the only one who begged to stay, but my mom, stepdad and the other family insisted we walk out before one of the defining moments in Kirby's career.
I saw both of those hideous A's games in the 2006 series where everyone swung at everything and abandoned the patience that had gotten them so far. Good game plan, Gardenhire. I of course also saw Torii's misplay on a base hit that created an inside-the-park home run.
I saw towering grand slams by Lance Berkman and Dave Justice. Mo Vaughn too, maybe? Or maybe that was just a long homer.
I did see one Vikings game there, just a few years ago. It was an easy victory at the hands of the Lions. The guy sitting next to me, piss drunk from the game's opening, kept accidentally ordering beers while he had them, and just handed them to me. Free beer! Sure, it was Miller, but...
Oh, jeez, and how could I miss the Jays game? The Blue Jays hit back-to-back-to-back homers, and a Raul Mondesi homer bounced and knocked my beer out of my hand. I caught it on the way back down but I have no idea where the ball went.
Here's the game. Looks like it was Stewart, Delgado and Mondesi all teeing off against Cressend. I am reminded that this game wasn't a blowout, and the trio turned the win into a loss. The game also gave the Twins their eleventh loss in the last twelve games.
I'll never forget seeing Frankie's debut, and I'll never forget how far that homerun went. Later that night I got to see the back of my head on the sports recap.
I was at a playoff game in 1987. I was only four, so all I've got for memories are very vague memories of it being really loud.
The first game I remember attending was against the Red Sox, around 1991 or 1992. We were in right field, above the baggy. We got there in time to watch the Red Sox' batting practice, and there were a couple of outfielders milling about around the base of the wall. We asked them if they could toss a ball to us - one of them grabbed a ball and tossed it up. The only problem is that he really misjudged how hard he hard to throw it, and he ended up putting way too much onto his throw, which hit my mom square in the chest and bounced away into the hands of some other folks (it *really* bounced, we were on the left side of the row, and it bounced all the way to the far right side). I don't remember anything about the actual game, other than we lost.
We went autograph hunting one time. Jim Deshaies almost ran over my brother in the parking lot, Brian Harper stole my brother's acetate (my bro handed it to him with no card or marker, and Brian simply said "hey, thanks man!" and put it in his pocket - my brother was very confused). The only autograph I distinctly remember getting was Mike Trombley. As a result, I've always had a soft spot for Trombley.
I went to a game (this one, maybe?). Cecil Fielder hit the longest home run I've ever seen. Just massive.
Linds and I went to a few games. We have a context-less picture of Mike Ryan out in left field that I should upload and do some CSI on sometime.
We went to a Vikings game, too. We went out the wrong gate on the way out and somehow got turned around so that we lost our car. We wandered around in -25 wind chill for about an hour and a half before finally finding it.
Lots of great memories at the Metrodome. I don't miss it as a baseball stadium, but it felt like the Twins had some bizarre, gimmicky home field advantage there (Linds and I have been to 7 games at Target Field without seeing a win). I'll sort of miss it.
I have too many memories to cover. I was blessed to grow up with parents who had a partial season ticket package to Twins games, so I went to about 15 to 20 a season up through high school. That means Ie probably attended 300+ games at the Dome. Of course, the last one I attended was Game 163. OMG! I also was at Game 2 of the 91 World Series and Game 2 of the 87 ALCS.
When the Dome collapsed, we bought a piece of the roof and gave it to my mom for Christmas a couple of years ago. She was crying when we left Game 163 because the Dome was her "babysitter."
(I was also at the 84-13 Husker drubbing as an infant.)
Anyway, Top Ten memories off the top of my head from times I was actually at the Dome:
1. Game 163
2. The Eric Fox Game
3. A game in 1991 against the Mariners when my brothers and I got to be honorary batkids during BP. Randy Bush hit a 3-run homer in the ninth to tie the game and Scott Leius homered in the 10th to win it.
4. Bo Jackson hitting a homer into the upper deck in RF(!) as a right-handed batter.
5. Ron Karkovice hitting an inside-the-park grand slam for the White Sox.
6. Rollerdome while in junior high.
7. Winning the Northwest Airlines round-tripper contest in 2002 after a Cristian Guzman homer off Kevin Appier. (My sister also won on July 24, 1997. She was sitting in Section 123, Row 22, Seat 7 on her seventh birthday. She went to Disneyworld.)
8. Coming home from DC and going to a Twins-A's game in 2003. Zito was shutting down the Twins when Bobby Kielty pinch-hit in the 8th(?) inning as the go-ahead run. I was sitting in the Homer Run porch by myself. I turned to the stranger sitting next to me and said, "Kielty's homering here." He hooked the first pitch just foul next to the foul pole. A few pitches later, he homered and the Twins won. Those were the only three words I said to that guy the entire game. He just looked at me like I was a lunatic.
9. The game at the end of 2008 when Span tripled into the corner to tie it in the eighth against the White Sox and Casilla won it in extras. SO MUCH FUN!
10. A game when Bob Tewksbury was pitching against the Cardinals and kept throwing eephus curveballs to Mark McGwire. Hilarious.
I had to check on #3; my brother caught a Scott Leius HR in 1991 on his birthday, but they lost that game, it appears.
I was at a low-hit, low-scoring Twins game at the Dome out in the cheap seats - fans were getting restless - out comes the beach balls.
One got volleyed around in our section for a while, then this dude a section down in front of us gets pissed about it and grabs the beach ball and pops it.
People behind him started tossing food at him. He turns around and starts yelling that they have a baby with them. Then they started tossing beer/pop at him.
Heh, I thought you were talking about me (see first bullet point) until you got to the baby part.
In 1987 I was living in La Crosse, WI and a couple of the guys I worked with at the time were Twins fans and so we made it to a dozen games at the Metrodome that year. One game in particular that I remember was a mid-week afternoon game game against the Red Sox. It went into extra innings and the Twins won on a line drive homer by Kirby.
In 2002 I got to Johann Santana strike out 13 against Toronto in one of his early starts for the Twins. I also remember that game because a woman a few rows behind us was hit by a line drive foul ball and had to be carried out by emts.
My only Vikings game at the dome I remember because the loser sitting next to us was telling his buddy that he would give up sex for a year if the Vikings could win the Super Bowl. My wife figured it wouldn't be too big of a sacrifice for him.
Saw one Gopher game at the dome against the Badgers. Remember thinking what a crappy atmosphere for college football compared to Camp Randall.
1. Game 2 of the 1987 ALCS: the Gaetti-from-his-knees-to-Hrbek-on-his-belly play, the original (I think) Senor Smoke El Gasolino finger in the air thing. My dad actually won the tickets at work but had to give a talk and couldn't go so it was me and my older brother. We were 10 and 14. Awesome.
2. Weird stuff: saw Greg Gagne hit 2 inside-the-park HRs, an odd Gladden-initiated triple play, a brawl with the Rangers (actually sort of disturbing), Ron Karkovice (MAYBE the slowest human) hit an inside-the-park GS, Albert Belle telling the guy 2 seats down that he going to Berting kick his Berting ass. There was a game when we first moved here (1984) and I feel like it was super hazy inside? Did they allow smoking at some point?
3. Johan striking out a billion Red Sox (all swinging), Kubel hitting a walk-off GS to win it in extras, hearing Bautista was released in the car on the way home.
4. I saw the Stones there. I was, um, out of my mind. But I think it was a good show.
I took my daughter there as a baby just so we could say she's been. We moved here after I started forming sports memories, so I always kind of knew the place was a dump and never had any great love for it.
OH! Knothole games. My mom would drop my brother and I and usually a few other kids off and then pick us up after the game and I think it only cost her $3. We would stand outside, waiting for the door to open, run like hell to the RF seats and try to catch the tail end of the visitors' BP. Never caught a ball despite many opportunities.
I was at that Karkovice grand slam (#5 up above) and remember a Gagne inside-the-park homerun, as well.
Another great memory was Mark Quinn losing every single ball hit to him in a multiseason span. Very, very funny stuff.
Looks like we've been to a lot of the same games. CRAZY. That Karkovice game I think the CF slipped on the track and was half under the fence. Holy crap what a shithole that place was for baseball.
My brother's girlfriend (and future ex-wife) went to a game with a friend who was a friend of Gagne's. Turned out to be the game in which he had two inside-the-park home runs and could have had a third but stopped at third for a triple. All were to CF and I think all 3 landed in front of Darryl Boston and went over his head. The triple was after the 2 HRs, so I don't know why he was stopped at third with the team leading 6-2 on the final day of a lost season. It may not have been even close to being a HR. TK had just taken over as manager, so I don't know who had taken over 3rd base coaching duties for the remainder of the year.
Anyways, my brother's girlfriend and her friend and a number of other people went out to dinner with Gagne after the game. She instantly became a big Gagne fan, of course.
This was the game I was referring to.
Speaking of brawls, I saw the one against the the Indians on the Fourth of July in 2003. Massive (at least in terms of number of participants) brawl after Josh Davis plunked Torii Hunter. I had just gotten my first real camera (Minolta x370) a few days prior, so I was super pumped to get to take pictures of it.
That's about where I was sitting for the one I saw. Twins-Rangers and I think the beef was that Brian Harper thought the runner on 2nd was relaying signs? Or Brian Harper WAS the runner on 2nd relaying signs. Anyway, he came around to score and the catcher got in his business. Took us awhile to figure out what was going on.
My top memories, in no particular order.
1. Game 161. Nick Blackburn outdueled Cy Young winner Zack Greinke to keep the Twins alive. I totally spookied Cuddyer's go-ahead homer versus Dusty Hughes.
2. Cuddyer's cycle. I can't believe he hustled out a triple off a hit to the left-field corner.
3. Puckett's first grand slam. They destroyed the Tigers that day. After going eight years without hitting one, he hit two over the span of three days.
4. The aforementioned doubleheader against the A's. A guy I knew left after the first game, saying "that's too much baseball for one day." Wha??? I remember being excited that this Mientkiewicz guy was flirting with .400
5. Joe Mays' last day as a meaningful baseball player. I went to every home playoff game from 2002-2004, but this one got me the most excited. I was convinced we'd topple the Angels. Whoops.
6. My only Vikings game was a win over the Saints to go 7-2. Qadry Ismail caught the game-winning TD pass from Warren Moon with under 2 minutes left.
I've also been to two Twins games that had two seventh-inning stretches, but I don't remember when or who won
I think I was at that Kirby Puckett Grand Slam game too. If not that one, then a game where he hit one of those three Grand Slams.
In the fall of 1990 my sister Anna was born. Early on it became obvious that not everything was alright with her. After a few months we got a diagnosis of CF. I remember we spent a lot of that January/February at the U of M hospitals, with everyone getting poked and prodded and tested and such, since it was all genetic; we had to learn how to do treatments and meds and all of the stuff that comes with it. It was a loooooong winter. Then came spring, and baseball. I did not come anywhere close to making the good teams that year, which meant I'd be on some crappy little AAA team. They had a ton of those in the CR AL, and needed coaches. When they couldn't find any, my dad got roped into it.
Somewhere in the package of coaching materials was a flyer for a fundraiser for CF. Play a game, get people to donate a dollar amount for every run your team scores. Everyone on the team gets tickets to a Twins game if they earn $20 or something. We signed up our team.
This is the first time I ever really had any idea what generosity was. I went around the neighborhood, just like I did for every school fundraiser. People signed up, pitched in a few bucks, etc. I didn't really pay attention to the totals. I just grumbled about going door-to-door. I brought it to all the family events, aunts and uncles signed up, etc. My dad took it out on his route (he's a UPS driver) a few times, etc. By the end, we had raised some unbelievable total, and I ended up with the 2nd place prize (first place was a trip to Spring Training): throwing out the first pitch at a Twins game.
I'm reasonably confident that I threw out a pitch in what was an earlyish game of their long '91 winning streak, since that makes sense by the calendar. I remember walking down the long stairway to the field, where Kirby Puckett was doing the splits up and down the stairs. As we walked by, I just stood with my mouth gaping, and he looked up and said "hey, kid!" Wow. On the field I met Brian Harper, who helped me through the thing, where I'd stand, etc. I got Jack Morris and Chilli Davis' autographs. It was... well, pretty much the greatest experience a boy heading into 5th grade can have.
That's a really great story - thanks for sharing. I would have lost my mind if Kirby Puckett had ever said anything to me. Or looked sort of in my direction.
I pretty much did. I completely froze up, and I was totally kicking myself after the fact for not asking for an autograph or something. It was just so unexpected... we weren't even on the field yet and... there he was.
I did the same thing when I got Herb Carneal's auto; I'm sure Dazzle was over on the left side of the booth, but I was pretty much fixated on Herb and didn't even look to say "hi" or anything.
I did the same thing - went to the CCO booth, knocked on the door, and asked if Herb would sign my program. No problem. Class act, there.
That is a great story. In my story above about being the honorary batkids, Kirby came over to talk to my brothers and me. Kirby introduced himself, and my brother Greg said, "No, you're not. You don't have three-four on your back."
(Chili Davis also rubbed Greg's head for good luck. Greg was a disgustingly cute little child.)
Oh, and I was at Kirby's memorial service. That's a silly thing to forget.
Oh, right, on a related note I was at the game where Calvin Griffith signed away the Twins.
And I was at the game (and spent a couple innings sitting with Gleeman and his mom) when Pawlenty signed Target Field into law (Liriano outduled King Felix and Mauer homered).
Hrbek pushing Ron Gant off of the bag. Har.
Knoblaugh faking out Lonnie Smith. Hodar.
Meeting TonyO in the IBM booth.
Being at a game with 4 3K hitters (Cal Ripken Jr., Paul Winfield, Eddie Murray, Paul Molitor).
Gary Anderson missing a 38-yarder.
Gary Gaetti pointing at the back fence then smacking it over.
Everyday Eddie video.
I don't think Paul acted in that game, but I'm not sure.
Hehehe. OK, Dave. We did see Paul as Othello at the Guthrie not too many years ago.