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Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–October 8

Ping Bodie (1887)
Donie Bush (1887)
Doc Crandall (1887)
Wally Moses (1910)
Danny Murtaugh (1917)
Catfish Metkovich (1920)
Ed Kirkpatrick (1924)
Don Pepper (1943)
Paul Splittorff (1946)
Rick Stelmaszek (1948)
Enos Cabell (1949)
Jerry Reed (1955)
Mike Morgan (1959)
J. T. Bruett (1967)
Olmedo Saenz (1970)
Antoan Richardson (1983)
Cody Eppley (1985)

Right-hander Jerry Reed was drafted by the Twins in the eleventh round in 1973, but did not sign.

We would also like to wish E-6 a very happy birthday, and a very happy anniversary to Rhu_Ru's parents.

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Keeping Track

2002 Rewind: Game Three

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TORONTO 7, MINNESOTA 2 IN TORONTO

Date:  Thursday, April 4.

Batting stars:  Doug Mientkiewicz was 2-for-4 with a double.  Jacque Jones was 2-for-4.

Pitching stars:  None.

Opposition stars:  Roy Halladay struck out eight in eight innings, giving up two runs (one earned) on five hits and no walks.  Raul Mondesi was 4-for-5 with a home run and a double, scoring three times and driving in three.  Eric Hinske was 3-for-5 with three doubles.

The game:  The Twins scored in the top of the first, as Jones singled and Mientkiewicz doubled to put on second and third with one out.  A David Ortiz ground out plated the run.  The Blue Jays tied it in the third inning when a Darren Fletcher sacrifice fly scored Mondesi, who had led off the inning with a double.  Corey Koskie's RBI single in the fourth brought home Torii Hunter to give Minnesota a 2-1 lead.  From there, though, it was all Toronto.  A single, two doubles, and two more singles brought home three runs in the bottom of the fourth and chased starter Joe Mays.  In the sixth, back-to-back doubles by Shannon Stewart and Hinske made it 5-2 Blue Jays.  They added two more in the eighth on Mondesi's two-run homer.  The Twins got two on with none out in the ninth, but a fly out and two strikeouts ended the threat.

WP:  Halladay.  LP:  Mays.  S:  None.

Notes:  Jay Canizaro replaced Luis Rivas at second base and went 0-for-4...Denny Hocking replaced Cristian Guzman at shortstop and went 0-for-3...Mays pitched 3.2 innings, giving up four runs on nine hits and two walks with two strikeouts...The Twins made three errors, one each by Canizaro, Koskie, and Mays,

Record:  The Twins were 2-1, tied for first place with Cleveland.

WGOM Videos

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Here Comes My Girl

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Okay, sorry, please allow me one more...

I've talked about this several times, but I was subjected to so many shitty songs over and over again at my first job thanks to their strict policy of only Cities 97ing. It made me hate so many bands that I might have actually enjoyed (as mentioned, it took me years and years to finally realize that The Replacements ≠ Paul Westerberg solo crap). I heard Tom Petty five million times on that station, however, it somehow never phased me. Sure, some songs I wasn't as crazy about as others, but they didn't make me cringe as whichever Jackson Browne song I'd heard 3 times in the last 2 days. Whatever, I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but I just wanted to play one more.

This was one of the songs that, when it would pop on that abominable radio station they played at that job, I would kick back and enjoy. Maybe she would come in again, like that one time they played this song and I hoped she would come in and she somehow actually did. It never happened again after that, but I always hoped it would.

Thanks, man. I'll miss you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETHdszZQZDE
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Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–October 7

Fleet Walker (1856)
Brickyard Kennedy (1867)
Bill Walker (1903)
Chuck Klein (1904)
Frank Baumholtz (1918)
Grady Hatton (1922)
Bud Daley (1932)
Phil Ortega (1939)
Jose Cardenal (1943)
Rich DeLucia (1964)
Evan Longoria (1985)

Moses Fleetwood "Fleet" Walker is credited as the first African-American to play major league baseball.  A catcher, he appeared in forty-two games for the Toledo Blue Stockings of the American Association in 1884, until rival owners and players demanded that he be removed from the roster.  In those forty-two games, he batted .263/.325/.316.

There do not appear to be any players with connections to the Twins born on this day.  I keep thinking that Bud Daley was a Twin, but apparently I get him confused in my mind with Bill Dailey.

Friday Music Day

FMD 10-6-17: Let’s Get It On

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Today's topic: sexy songs. I know we tend to keep polite company 'round these parts, so let's not get all tawdry or anything, but it's a legitimate topic, and I think especially so when it comes to music.

I think one of the more interesting elements of this question is how sexiness can transcend genres. There are country songs I think of as sexy (Chris Young's "Gettin' You Home), indie songs I think of as sexy ("Grey or Blue" by Jaymay), rock ("You Shook Me All Night Long"), etc. They can be small and intimate (Norah Jones' "Turn Me On") or loud and hot. I'll leave you with one of the later, while you mull the question: what songs are sexy to you?

https://youtu.be/j1-xRk6llh4

Keeping Track

2002 Rewind: Game Two

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MINNESOTA 1, KANSAS CITY 0 IN KANSAS CITY

Date:  Wednesday, April 3.

Batting stars:  Torii Hunter was 2-for-4.  A. J. Pierzynski was 2-for-4.  Jacque Jones was 1-for-4 with a walk.

Pitching stars:  Eric Milton pitched seven shutout innings, giving up two hits and no walks with two strikeouts.  Eddie Guardado pitched a perfect inning.

Opposition stars:  Dan Reichert struck out eight in seven innings, giving up one run on six hits and two walks.  Ex-Twin Dave McCarty was 1-for-3 with a double.

The game:  The lone run came in the third inning.  Jones led off with a single, went to second on a bunt, took third on a ground out, and scored on a David Ortiz single.  The Royals got both of their hits off Milton in the first inning, two-out singles by Carlos Beltran and Mike Sweeney.  Milton retired the last nineteen batters he faced.  McCarty led off the eighth with a double off J. C. Romero, who came back to strike out the next two batters before walking Carlos Febles.  Bob Wells then came in to retire Chuck Knoblauch on a popup.   Guardado then retired the side in order in the ninth. The Twins missed some chances to add to their lead, going 1-for-7 with men in scoring position, but as it turned out extra runs were not needed.

WP:  Milton.  LP:  Reichert.  S:  Guardado.

Notes:  Brian Buchanan was once again in right field.  In both of the first two games Denny Hocking was his defensive replacement.  In this game, however, he may have been injured, as he did not play again until April 19.  The last out of the seventh inning (after which he was replaced) was a fly to deep right by Joe Randa, so one suspects he may have been injured making the catch...Ex-Twin Knoblauch went 0-for-4...McCarty's double leading off the eighth was the only extra base hit by either team...Corey Koskie and Cristian Guzman were the only two Twins regulars who did not get a hit in the first two games.  Koskie was 0-for-7 and Guzman was 0-for-8...By game scores, this would be Milton's best game of the season.  After this game, of course, his ERA was zero.  He would not finish a game with an ERA of less than 4.60 the rest of the season.

Record:  The Twins were 2-0, in first place by a half game over Cleveland.