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July 17, 2015: Mom

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Today is my mom's birthday. I wouldn't have bothered to share that, except that we needed a COC, and it was all I could think of for the subject. So there we are.

But hey, baseball's back tonight! I probably should have gone with that for our header, huh? Oh well.

35 thoughts on “July 17, 2015: Mom”

    1. s/b "The End"
      of the midsummer break. Spooky's back to Ariz., and no days without baseball until the playoffs.

  2. Just six and a half hours of driving today, which doesn't sound like much anymore. Then we're "home." If Arizona wasn't the wrong place for me before this trip, it certainly is after spending two weeks where I actually want to be.

  3. für das Stick:

    Karl-Anthony Towns is going to be a monster in the NBA for the next 15 years. Reporters and fans may pay lip service to this idea, but we’ve been underselling it. Too many people talked about Towns like he was the “smart” pick for Minnesota, not the “holy shit, why would you ever take anyone else?” pick.

    Are we truly entering an era of We Can Have Nice Things in Minnesota???

  4. James Lileks on Minnesota emojis . I can't decide which is my favorite, but this one is up there:

    Bob Dylan, in case you pocket-texted something cryptic that looks brilliant but is really just words strung together.

    1. The Pillsbury Doughboy would be useful when you want to let everyone know you’re so cheerful that a giant could stab you in the stomach with a huge finger and you would giggle and hope you weren’t fed to the oven with your mute brethren.
      If only the Titans would limit themselves to that.
      But no, so the humiliation of being caged is what triggers us to fight back. We hunters slaughter prey beyond the castle walls, consumed with surging bloodlust as our crimson bows and arrows pierce scarlet holes into the twilight.

    2. A rotary phone, which your mom could use. Meaning: “I’m not saying it would be nice to hear from you, but you haven’t called in a month and your dad doesn’t say anything about it, but I know he’d love to hear from you, too, but if you’re busy with your life we understand. Love you.”

      oh, mama. I just had this conversation.

  5. My mom is the person responsible for my fandom of the Twins. So today's title is relevant enough for me.

    1. My mom is a big baseball fan too, but I can't give her sole credit, since my dad is too. I think I got two dominant baseball fan genes.

    2. Any parental influence on my enjoyment of baseball definitely comes from my mom. It used to annoy me when she'd drive around with the game on the radio . . . and now I find myself doing that very thing.

      1. I have to credit my mom's parents. Nothing like listening to the ballgame on a Saturday afternoon at their house in Grand Forks, while grandpa enjoyed a glass of Hamm's.

    4. Definitely not my mom. My dad would be the closest but he was far, far more of a Vikings fan when I was young. I think it's arguable Gleeman and more specifically the WGOM are the reasons for following the Twins.

    5. In the early 90's, my mom and her friends attended a Twins game ... and spent 7+ innings looking at photo albums and catching up with each other.

      Dad was the baseball influence in my house.

    6. I'm probably in this camp too. My dad likes baseball, but was really always a football guy. My Metrodome attendance was always with my mom, for the most part. My step dad being fishing buddies with Hrbek helps as well.

        1. I think I've name dropped him a few times around here. They go way back. Hrbie was the best man at their wedding, in fact.

  6. Today is my half birthday. I'm 50 1/2. Also, my oldest nephew turns 18 today. He's the only member of my extended family who is taller than me. He's still got another year of high school left, and he's the starting center for Brookings (SD) High.

  7. File under, Tell Us Something We Don't Know

    "But it'll spur development in Downtown East, and long-term, it makes sense economically!"
    sure...
    Minneapolis, meanwhile, will end up paying $678 million over its 30-year payment plan once interest, operations and construction costs are factored in.

    1. Except for Torii Hunter, no one trotted the “we’re proving people wrong” line of clichés that so many teams, even championship ones, spout so often.

      There’s a reason. Players take their leads from manager Paul Molitor and general manager Terry Ryan, two low-key Midwesterners who have been around long enough to know nobody wins anything in July, especially by crowing about it.

      Well, with those two lines we can see who isn't taking his lead from Moli & TR.

      I take personal umbrage to this, though:
      It hasn’t all been smoke machine and mirrors.

      1. I've been repeating it ad nauseam - those Guests & Bots under the "Users Online" are pilfering our best material.

  9. Twins fail to sign Kyle Cody, which means they don't get a supplemental pick or a 2nd round pick because they forfeited that for signing Ervin Santana. With their No. 1 pick having an ERA over 8.00 as a reliever, this is not looking like a good draft year.

  10. I made my first Janesville Surly purchase the Overrated IPA. I do enjoy that they named what is probably one of their top two beers (coffee bender being the other) "overrated".

  11. This is fantastic.

    httpv://youtu.be/hjpkVHSH_e4

    I hope Keith finds another outlet after the end of the month to keep telling these stories.

    1. I'm not a big Olbermann fan, but that one really hit home with me. Getting back to the "Mom" theme, my mom lost her father when she was three and has no memories of him at all. What she would give to find a recording like that...

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