Monthly Archives: June 2015

Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–June 27

1 Comment

Rube Benton (1890)
Fred Saigh (1905)
Dick Terwilliger (1906)
Wendell Smith (1914)
Lou Kretlow (1921)
Gus Zernial (1923)
Wayne Terwilliger (1925)
Charles Bronfman (1931)
Chuck Coles (1931)
Eddie Kasko (1932)
Rico Petrocelli (1943)
Takashi Nishimoto (1956)
Jeff Conine (1966)
Jim Edmonds (1970)
Daryle Ward (1975)
Chris Woodward (1976)
Luis Rodriguez (1980)
Jim Johnson (1983)

Fred Saigh was the owner of the St. Louis Cardinals from 1947-1953, selling Anheuser-Busch.

Wendell Smith was an African-American sportswriter who was influential in the choice of Jackie Robinson as the first African-American major league player.

Charles Bronfman was the owner of the Montreal Expos from 1969-1991.

Takashi Nishimoto was a star pitcher in Japan from 1977-1993.

Daryle Ward is the son of ex-Twin Gary Ward.

Continue reading Happy Birthday–June 27 →

Keeping Track

Minor Details: Games of June 25

Reynaldo Rodriguez delivers for the Red Wings.  Adam Brett Walker II hits his twentieth homer for the Lookouts.  Aaron Slegers has a tremendous game for the Miracle.  A walkoff win for the Kernels.  Errors doom the E-Twins.  Jermaine Palacios comes through in the eleventh for the GCL Twins.  Errors and walks carry the DSL Twins.

Continue reading Minor Details: Games of June 25 →

WGOM Videos

Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody/Radio Ga Ga/Hammer To Fall/Crazy Little Thing Called Love/We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions/Is This the World We Created?

Video

[FZ]

I've been around here awhile, and have also been connected with citizens over other social platforms. I think I can safely say that I'm not very well known for many, if any, forms of activism.

This has been a pretty crazy week. Obviously locally, but the wider world has seen plenty of turmoil; much, much worse, actually.

On all these topics, I have fairly strong opinions, but as a good Minnesotan, I mostly keep them to myself. This time (and I apologize if this is counter to your own tenets), I will allow myself a little grandstanding.

This small rock blindly pitching headlong through the cosmos is fragile enough. With all the war and blood and hate on top of that which we subject ourselves to, I just don't see any reason to try to counteract anything that allows more love into this world. Institutions may tremble, but, in any form it comes in, #LoveWins.

[/FZ]


1985

(Sorry, this is a far too obvious choice, but, seriously, Queen is frickin awesome (and the Painter already played one of the best vids out there))

4 votes, average: 10.00 out of 104 votes, average: 10.00 out of 104 votes, average: 10.00 out of 104 votes, average: 10.00 out of 104 votes, average: 10.00 out of 104 votes, average: 10.00 out of 104 votes, average: 10.00 out of 104 votes, average: 10.00 out of 104 votes, average: 10.00 out of 104 votes, average: 10.00 out of 10 (4 votes, average: 10.00 out of 10)
You must be a WGOM Citizen to rate WGOM Videos.Loading...
2015 Twins Game Recaps

Game 73 ‘recap’. Brewers 10 Twins 4.

3 Comments

The game started off awesome. Brian Dozier hit a lead off home run.

It was all downhill from there.

The Brewers blitzed Trevor May and chased him from the game after only recording 1 out and giving up 6 runs. Alex Meyer made his major league debut and finally got out of the inning.  Meyer gave up 3 hits in 1 2/3 innings. Too bad 2 of those hits were home runs and the game because a 10-1 laugher after 2 innings.

Trevor Plouffe hit a home run in the 6th to make the score a little closer.

The Brewers are a bad team. Why do they keep beating our favorite squad?

Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–June 26

Topsy Hartsel (1874)
Babe Herman (1903)
Debs Garms (1907)
Willard Brown (1915)
Howie Pollet (1921)
Bill Robinson (1943)
Dave Rosello (1950)
Mike Myers (1963)
Rodney Myers (1969)
Derek Jeter (1974)
Jason Kendall (1974)

Outfielder Willard Brown was a star for the Kansas City Monarchs from 1935-1948.  He played briefly for the St. Louis Browns in 1947.

There do not appear to be any players with connections to the Minnesota Twins born on this day.

Friday Music Day

FMD: Japanese Guitars

15 Comments

So I finally grabbed most of the intro/outro music from the Anime programs I'm obsessing over. There's a quality to the guitars in the rock songs that I don't really hear in any domestic or Brit music but that I remember hearing from even in the 90s from Boom Boom Satellites (also Japanese). Like even if I heard one of these songs entirely in perfect, native-sounding English, I could still ID it as coming from Japan (or possibly Korea).