The Wild scraped out a win in what feels like the most Minnesota (sports) way possible.
59 thoughts on “May 25, 2021: Wild Win”
In case meat drops by, this letter from 60 years ago today is very interesting:
While he received letters in support of his moonshot, he also received letters questioning it.
People critiqued the cost and wondered if that money would be better spent on more immediate needs back on Earth - like supporting the Freedom Riders in their fight for desegregation. pic.twitter.com/xVIZ6r0A4H
Anyway, given what happened a year ago today; it's also remarkable to reflect how relatively recent the Civil Rights Movement was. My f-i-l was an 11 year-old living in the NOLA described in that letter.
One of the Little Rock Nine attended an astronomy event at my college a few years ago. It was surprising to realize they are about the same age as my father-in-law.
Keeping with the theme, I had a law school professor who was friends with the Lovings.
She recently released a book that's coming up on my list (once I get a few others done).
Yup, somehow her name came up during a Zoom call with some of Sheenie's family a few months ago. When I pointed out that she was five years behind my f-i-l in schools, they were gobsmacked because in their minds that whole time is ancient history.
We're further away now from the moon landing than the moon landind was from the first airplane flight by the Wright Brothers.
Also a 66 year gap between those two.
Actually, that is wrong. We're only 52 years from the moon landing. It is true of the first manned space flight, though. The 60-year anniversary of Russia's first manned spaceflight was in April. The Kitty Hawk flight was in 1903, so that was 58 years prior to space flight.
I supervise someone who marched with King
My mother-in-law went to school with George Wallace's son, at the time when Wallace was fighting for segregation in Alabama. That seemed amazing to me, both that it was so recent, and that she actually knew him.
Ruby Bridges wasn't the only one who integrated schools in New Orleans. Leona Tate, Gail Etienne and Tessie Prevost integrated Mcdonagh 19 in 1960, and had a hell of a time. The TEP Center has since bought and renovated the McDonagh 19 building which now houses classrooms for Undoing Racism workshops, workshops for restorative justice, and housing for seniors 55 and older.
And they were all born in 1954, the year of Brown v. Board, but still were the first to integrate their schools. I always try to keep in mind how old they are today and how old the people blocking the way are. They are all still alive.
Oh, indeed. There are some hell no we ain’t forgetting types around these parts. Hell, there are some folks who want to start the shooting war all over again around these parts.
There is talk in historian circles about the appropriateness of using the famous picture of Bridges on the school steps when talking about her, or integration more widely, because it's in black and white and people naturally associate that with being a long time ago. Certain schools of thought suggest using a picture of her today to illustrate that, nope, she's just a standard grandma-aged person.
woah. I'm sharing that letter with my exhibitions team.....
Has anyone noticed that Box Scores don't have attendance or game time listed anymore? At least the ones I found on ESPN.
Baseball-reference box scores still do
I still cant get over how far Trevor Larnach hit that ball yesterday. Mercy.
I've been in those seats probably one or two over. That's a long way.
Also, if you ever think you'd like to get those seats, they are great, food and drink is included but you are looking directly into the sun. We were in them an early August and fought the sun for at least an hour if not more.
I clicked on this fully prepared to argue that there have been worse hats...
They're not wrong. It looks like what would happen if one of my little ones got their hands on an unauthorized Minnesota sticker book and plopped a handful on my Twins hat. Just needs a loon and a blue trail to represent the Mississippi.
Anybody know what happened in 1907 besides the Iron Range Strike?
I Googled it for ten minutes and came up empty.
Well that makes me feel better, both about my Minnesotan-ness, and in reinforcing the awfulness of this hat.
The only Minnesota or Twins-related thing I could find was that it was the first year Walter Johnson played for the Senators. But, I can't imagine that's actually the reasoning behind it.
I think it's actually 1901, not 1907, which would be the 1st year of the Senators.
That would make more sense. Though the fact that more than one of us couldn't tell what number that was does add to the level of awfulness.
I'm still not entirely convinced it's a 1... I feel like the location of the number on the state is creating an optical illusion. Which absolutely adds to the awfulness.
It reminds me of the car Homer designed on The Simpsons.
What in the world? Also, consider me crazy, but if you're going to use the lakes from the Chain of Lakes, then you include Harriet and not Cedar.
(Edit, this should have been nested below hj's comment)
they lost me at "if you're going to use the lakes from the Chain of Lakes"
also, who cares about area codes anymore?
dunno, i ain't never getting rid of my 612 diggies.
Same, but 651. I always know when it's spam because no one from 651 will ever call me.
exactly. 505 fo evah! Also, it's just close enough to New Orleans area code that people always double take.
I have an Austin Texas 512 and Minneapolis is 612. Confuses some people "512---No, yeah 5 not 6---nope Texas---yep, it's weird. Anyway 512..."
Imagine if you’d also lived in Austin, MN, at some point.
Imagine...I wonder if you can...
also, states with communities named "Austin"
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nevada
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Washington
Okay, who cares about area codes anymore other than their own
I tried to get a 312 for my work phone despite not living there.
I pay for my parents' cellphone; they live in 218 but have a Phoenix area code
Several years ago I was slathering on some sunscreen before teeing off at an alumni golf tournament when a buddy walked up and looked at the bottle. "SPF 40?" he said. "Some people call that clothing."
Ha, nailed it. My wife brought 50 and 60 and that hasn't been of much use either.
Okay, this a real thing that's happening. For the last few months, I've been getting Facebook friend requests from people I've never heard of. All of them are (or seem to be) women I don't know, all of them are attractive, and all of them have profiles with several pictures but nothing else, no posts, no comments, only a few if any friends and none that are mutual. These requests always seem to come right after I post something negative about a certain Florida man or his political party. It's probably just a coincidence that all of these attractive women want to be my friend out of the blue, right?
After I switched my FB status to Widowed I got a pretty steady stream of friend request of similar. Usually they had few friends and always photos with cleavage bearing tops but not NSFW. Probably lasted for a year or so.
I've heard that sometimes accounts like this are women being trafficked.
This doesn't differ much from any other conspiracy conjecture. Needless to say, people get these requests regardless of activity or FB status -- it's just another form of phishing.
So, correlation rather than causation. I also wondered if it had anything to do with my former Instagram account being hacked.
I've never had an Instagram. Yet, my FB account goes through jags where I get clusters of these rando friend requests.
Could it have to do with your settings? I got a couple requests after I let a post be seen by more than just friends.
In case meat drops by, this letter from 60 years ago today is very interesting:
Anyway, given what happened a year ago today; it's also remarkable to reflect how relatively recent the Civil Rights Movement was. My f-i-l was an 11 year-old living in the NOLA described in that letter.
Ruby Bridges is 66.
One of the Little Rock Nine attended an astronomy event at my college a few years ago. It was surprising to realize they are about the same age as my father-in-law.
Keeping with the theme, I had a law school professor who was friends with the Lovings.
She recently released a book that's coming up on my list (once I get a few others done).
Yup, somehow her name came up during a Zoom call with some of Sheenie's family a few months ago. When I pointed out that she was five years behind my f-i-l in schools, they were gobsmacked because in their minds that whole time is ancient history.
We're further away now from the moon landing than the moon landind was from the first airplane flight by the Wright Brothers.
Also a 66 year gap between those two.
Actually, that is wrong. We're only 52 years from the moon landing. It is true of the first manned space flight, though. The 60-year anniversary of Russia's first manned spaceflight was in April. The Kitty Hawk flight was in 1903, so that was 58 years prior to space flight.
I supervise someone who marched with King
My mother-in-law went to school with George Wallace's son, at the time when Wallace was fighting for segregation in Alabama. That seemed amazing to me, both that it was so recent, and that she actually knew him.
Ruby Bridges wasn't the only one who integrated schools in New Orleans. Leona Tate, Gail Etienne and Tessie Prevost integrated Mcdonagh 19 in 1960, and had a hell of a time. The TEP Center has since bought and renovated the McDonagh 19 building which now houses classrooms for Undoing Racism workshops, workshops for restorative justice, and housing for seniors 55 and older.
And they were all born in 1954, the year of Brown v. Board, but still were the first to integrate their schools. I always try to keep in mind how old they are today and how old the people blocking the way are. They are all still alive.
Oh, indeed. There are some hell no we ain’t forgetting types around these parts. Hell, there are some folks who want to start the shooting war all over again around these parts.
There is talk in historian circles about the appropriateness of using the famous picture of Bridges on the school steps when talking about her, or integration more widely, because it's in black and white and people naturally associate that with being a long time ago. Certain schools of thought suggest using a picture of her today to illustrate that, nope, she's just a standard grandma-aged person.
woah. I'm sharing that letter with my exhibitions team.....
Has anyone noticed that Box Scores don't have attendance or game time listed anymore? At least the ones I found on ESPN.
Baseball-reference box scores still do
I still cant get over how far Trevor Larnach hit that ball yesterday. Mercy.
I've been in those seats probably one or two over. That's a long way.
Also, if you ever think you'd like to get those seats, they are great, food and drink is included but you are looking directly into the sun. We were in them an early August and fought the sun for at least an hour if not more.
This might be the worst Twins hat of all time
Seriously awful.
I clicked on this fully prepared to argue that there have been worse hats...
They're not wrong. It looks like what would happen if one of my little ones got their hands on an unauthorized Minnesota sticker book and plopped a handful on my Twins hat. Just needs a loon and a blue trail to represent the Mississippi.
Anybody know what happened in 1907 besides the Iron Range Strike?
I Googled it for ten minutes and came up empty.
Well that makes me feel better, both about my Minnesotan-ness, and in reinforcing the awfulness of this hat.
The only Minnesota or Twins-related thing I could find was that it was the first year Walter Johnson played for the Senators. But, I can't imagine that's actually the reasoning behind it.
I think it's actually 1901, not 1907, which would be the 1st year of the Senators.
That would make more sense. Though the fact that more than one of us couldn't tell what number that was does add to the level of awfulness.
I'm still not entirely convinced it's a 1... I feel like the location of the number on the state is creating an optical illusion. Which absolutely adds to the awfulness.
It reminds me of the car Homer designed on The Simpsons.
I would buy this Reds cap
Does anyone ever really buy this stuff?
I might just for the awfulness of it.
It's hilariously horrendous.
What in the world? Also, consider me crazy, but if you're going to use the lakes from the Chain of Lakes, then you include Harriet and not Cedar.
(Edit, this should have been nested below hj's comment)
they lost me at "if you're going to use the lakes from the Chain of Lakes"
also, who cares about area codes anymore?
dunno, i ain't never getting rid of my 612 diggies.
Same, but 651. I always know when it's spam because no one from 651 will ever call me.
exactly. 505 fo evah! Also, it's just close enough to New Orleans area code that people always double take.
I have an Austin Texas 512 and Minneapolis is 612. Confuses some people "512---No, yeah 5 not 6---nope Texas---yep, it's weird. Anyway 512..."
Imagine if you’d also lived in Austin, MN, at some point.
Imagine...I wonder if you can...
also, states with communities named "Austin"
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nevada
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Washington
Okay, who cares about area codes anymore other than their own
I tried to get a 312 for my work phone despite not living there.
I pay for my parents' cellphone; they live in 218 but have a Phoenix area code
Zach Plesac fractured his thumb while "aggressively" taking off his shirt.
There should be an SPF Mexico
Several years ago I was slathering on some sunscreen before teeing off at an alumni golf tournament when a buddy walked up and looked at the bottle. "SPF 40?" he said. "Some people call that clothing."
Ha, nailed it. My wife brought 50 and 60 and that hasn't been of much use either.
Okay, this a real thing that's happening. For the last few months, I've been getting Facebook friend requests from people I've never heard of. All of them are (or seem to be) women I don't know, all of them are attractive, and all of them have profiles with several pictures but nothing else, no posts, no comments, only a few if any friends and none that are mutual. These requests always seem to come right after I post something negative about a certain Florida man or his political party. It's probably just a coincidence that all of these attractive women want to be my friend out of the blue, right?
After I switched my FB status to Widowed I got a pretty steady stream of friend request of similar. Usually they had few friends and always photos with cleavage bearing tops but not NSFW. Probably lasted for a year or so.
I've heard that sometimes accounts like this are women being trafficked.
This doesn't differ much from any other conspiracy conjecture. Needless to say, people get these requests regardless of activity or FB status -- it's just another form of phishing.
So, correlation rather than causation. I also wondered if it had anything to do with my former Instagram account being hacked.
I've never had an Instagram. Yet, my FB account goes through jags where I get clusters of these rando friend requests.
Could it have to do with your settings? I got a couple requests after I let a post be seen by more than just friends.