40 thoughts on “June 19, 2020: Jubilee”

      1. 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::

    1. 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

      1. 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?

      2. I knew it was there because it was really short. I bet the statue was barely over five feet high.

    2. 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?

              1. 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.

  1. Sports are back, baby!

  2. 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.

    1. 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

      1. My boss likes to claim that "good enough for government work" originally was a compliment.

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