Between this, still paying people during the pandemic, and winning baseball, I'm happy to be a Twins fan!
::waits for inevitable bad thing to be identified and/or loss to the Yankees::
(Kepler blunder non-withstanding)
Best comment of the bunch (and you know how those comment sections go):
Calm down people, you never even knew there was a statue there until this morning anyway
You are brave for wading into the comments...but that one rings true for me, had no idea.
Ownership statues are kind of funny to me in general. Outside of maybe a few stand-out owners that really made a difference, who cares?
The $$$.
I knew it was there because it was really short. I bet the statue was barely over five feet high.
Was always perplexed by Calvin getting a statue. I get that he brought the franchise here and basically assembled the building blocks of a team that would win two WS titles. But, he also called Carew a "damned fool" for signing the contract that he signed, basically driving the franchise's best player out of town. The Twins did this, though, without any apparent pressure from outside groups. Someone in the organization must have looked at that statue more than a few times and wondered why is it that we have that here?
Unfortunately, taking it down is rewriting history. Wonder who the new original owner will be?
Not sure if you're serious.
oh, come on - seriously? that's totally dripping with sarcasm
You can remember people without lionizing them.
geez Louise -- I don't want to lionize anyone. do I have to hashtag all my sarcasm?
Haha, sorry. I've been in a fun text group this morning.
Ron Davis statue coming right up!
No doubt erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy.
I thought her name was Eloise?
cheese Eloise!
If it helps, I could tell it was extremely sarcastic.
Thanks.
I've actually met (and conversed with) Calvin Griffith, and I own and have read "Calvin: Baseball's Last Dinosaur". I give him kudos for putting a ball team in MN, and appreciate his ability to run a ballclub on a shoestring budget with no outside money-making interests to fall back on, but he was definitely that uncle who angers and embarrasses his family at almost every turn. And Uncle Carl had his skeletons too.
2nd-rder Alerick Soularie signs with @Twins for $900k (slot 59 value = $1,185,500). Tennessee OF, track record of hitting everywhere he goes, solid raw power too, probably fits best in LF but Volunteers did try him at 2B during the fall. @MLBDraft
I didn't work on this book, but I recorded the reading and did some other behind-the-scenes stuff for the video!
I just got sent this by a coworker. It's a small world!
Oh, wow! Very cool!
Baseball-Reference finally stuck Arraez in a ballgame...in leftfield. Berrios K'd 12, and Luis got half of the Twins' hits, but they lost 1-0 to the Yanks. *sigh*
Sports are back, baby!
Since we are on the topic of Russian sports, here is a nice cautionary tale on the not-really-post-COVID world. So, the Russian Premier League has restarted today. And, holy crap, did it restart with an enormous, and an enormously stupid scandal. An entire team got infected...
Phillies with five players testing positive. Great start to the "season"
Massive, massive, huuuuuuuge second line happening for Juneteenth outside my house right now. If you’ve never seen one live there is almost nothing to compare it to. The sound of this city is so, so something I can’t put my finger on other than unique. As Ellis Marsalis said, “other places culture comes down from on high. In New Orleans it bubbles up from the streets.”
The sound of this band is heart rending, and spirit lifting at the same time. They’re ripping through a bounce’d up version of I’ll Fly Away, given way to We Got That Fire and then off to a NO standard of no name. Jesus it’s so good to hear the city, but I’m worried for my neighbors. There is a desire to celebrate living, and the dead, and graduation, and freedom from slavery, but the fucking disease is here and isn’t relenting.
Saw on the twitters the other day someone asking to retire the phrase, "avoid it like the plague," because as it turns out we don't do that
My boss likes to claim that "good enough for government work" originally was a compliment.
We're gonna have to retire the expression "avoid it like the plague" because it turns out humans do not do that
Let's start one at 830 (whoops wrong place)
perfect Friday LTE
Came here to post the same. Wow.
Good deal
Between this, still paying people during the pandemic, and winning baseball, I'm happy to be a Twins fan!
::waits for inevitable bad thing to be identified and/or loss to the Yankees::
(Kepler blunder non-withstanding)
Best comment of the bunch (and you know how those comment sections go):
You are brave for wading into the comments...but that one rings true for me, had no idea.
Ownership statues are kind of funny to me in general. Outside of maybe a few stand-out owners that really made a difference, who cares?
The $$$.
I knew it was there because it was really short. I bet the statue was barely over five feet high.
Was always perplexed by Calvin getting a statue. I get that he brought the franchise here and basically assembled the building blocks of a team that would win two WS titles. But, he also called Carew a "damned fool" for signing the contract that he signed, basically driving the franchise's best player out of town. The Twins did this, though, without any apparent pressure from outside groups. Someone in the organization must have looked at that statue more than a few times and wondered why is it that we have that here?
Unfortunately, taking it down is rewriting history. Wonder who the new original owner will be?
Not sure if you're serious.
oh, come on - seriously? that's totally dripping with sarcasm
You can remember people without lionizing them.
geez Louise -- I don't want to lionize anyone. do I have to hashtag all my sarcasm?
Haha, sorry. I've been in a fun text group this morning.
Ron Davis statue coming right up!
No doubt erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy.
I thought her name was Eloise?
cheese Eloise!
If it helps, I could tell it was extremely sarcastic.
Thanks.
I've actually met (and conversed with) Calvin Griffith, and I own and have read "Calvin: Baseball's Last Dinosaur". I give him kudos for putting a ball team in MN, and appreciate his ability to run a ballclub on a shoestring budget with no outside money-making interests to fall back on, but he was definitely that uncle who angers and embarrasses his family at almost every turn. And Uncle Carl had his skeletons too.
One of Carl's skeletons impacted my family
SI story on the statue removal
If you want to share the history of Juneteenth with any kids in your life, this is a pretty great video of an author reading a Juneteenth book for kids.
I just got sent this by a coworker. It's a small world!
Oh, wow! Very cool!
Baseball-Reference finally stuck Arraez in a ballgame...in leftfield. Berrios K'd 12, and Luis got half of the Twins' hits, but they lost 1-0 to the Yanks. *sigh*
Sports are back, baby!
That was an amazing read.
Phillies with five players testing positive. Great start to the "season"
Massive, massive, huuuuuuuge second line happening for Juneteenth outside my house right now. If you’ve never seen one live there is almost nothing to compare it to. The sound of this city is so, so something I can’t put my finger on other than unique. As Ellis Marsalis said, “other places culture comes down from on high. In New Orleans it bubbles up from the streets.”
The sound of this band is heart rending, and spirit lifting at the same time. They’re ripping through a bounce’d up version of I’ll Fly Away, given way to We Got That Fire and then off to a NO standard of no name. Jesus it’s so good to hear the city, but I’m worried for my neighbors. There is a desire to celebrate living, and the dead, and graduation, and freedom from slavery, but the fucking disease is here and isn’t relenting.
Saw on the twitters the other day someone asking to retire the phrase, "avoid it like the plague," because as it turns out we don't do that
My boss likes to claim that "good enough for government work" originally was a compliment.
Heads up to Bootsy and meat and all art lovers out there. UCSF poised to destroy Zakheim murals in push to demolish and replace UC Hall.
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