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April 13, 2022: Rain Delay

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It was quite nice of the Twins to take a very long break from an obvious loss in the first week of the season so that everyone could watch that amazing Wolves win. Good on them!

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      1. So I checked out ESPN for the highlights this morning. Instead, I heard fifteen minutes about Tom Brady.

        I know many of you are too young to remember, but Sports Center used to be a must watch. It's sad what it is now.

        1. Every morning before I went to middle school. Though Minnesota teams were always at the end

  2. I don't have any way to watch basketball, generally, but I did lay there in bed staring at the game cast watching win probabilities swing wildly for the last 10 minutes of the game. Good for the Wolvies.

    1. I wrote this over in the VoD, but I wouldn't have cared if the Wolves straight up flipped the scorers table, that was awesome.

      ヽ(ຈل͜ຈ)ﾉヽ(ຈل͜ຈ)ﾉ︵ ┻━┻

    2. Barkley thinks it is dumb that the winner of the three point contest shoots three pointers.

      I'm glad those two are getting good use of their LSU and Auburn educations. They never did their own homework then and don't now. I'm generally a Barkley fan but the schtick had gotten old.

      1. Yeah, for some reason I can't really hate the guy? Maybe it's having followed him during a round of golf at a golf benefit in Sioux Falls 25 years ago that does it?

        But those were tired takes.

    3. did Kevin Harlan have anything to say about the celebration? He seems like a guy who would love it

  5. As someone who has been with this T-Wolves club since day one, let me chime in on the celebration.

    1. As soon as PatBev jumped on the scorer's table, I knew what that was about. That was an homage to KG, who did it after the Sacto series in 2004. I loved it. I loved it when KG did it and I loved it last night. Hell yes.
    2. I wish PatBev had thrown his jersey to me (I wasn't there). I would have hung it on the wall in my office.
    3. One of the biggest criticisms about the NBA is that the players (supposedly) don't care. They don't have the exuberance of college kids at the tournament. Well...
    4. The league is better when their fan bases are happy. KAT (not last night, but), DLo (I'm not a hater), and ANT have made the fans happy. So has PatBev.
    5. Life has sucked hard for the last 2+ years. It is okay, no, it's good, to fell unbridled joy. Act like you've been there before? Eff that. Go crazy, Minneapolis! That was on the very short list of biggest wins in franchise history. Sounds sad, I guess, but for some crazy reason, some of us are still fans and we deserve some joy when the team entertains us. The players seemed plugged into that, too. They get what this means to those of us who crave big time NBA moments in this town.
    6. The TNT crew should be ashamed for mocking the happiness that the fans and players felt. It was fun and they were in full get of my lawn mode. Fuck them. Every one of them. Ernie Johnson, Shaq, and Chuck, especially.
    7. Chuck has no rings. Suck it, Chuck.

    4. I guess I am in that small set of people who both enjoyed the exuberance and kinda laughed along with the TNT guys.

      It's a game. Y U So SRS?

      1. no, there were old and corny. i'm not commenting on if the celebration part was right or wrong, just that it was obvious they knew nothing about the wolves and were just GOMLing for the sake of it.

        1. my "Y U" comment wasn't directed at anyone here, but rather to the Twitterverse of Very Outraged People.

      2. I have a harder time listening to Chuck say the Wolves are stupid because KAT shoots 3 pointers. That's basically the equivalent of the people that think a power hitter should bunt to beat the shift.

        2. their argument boiled down to "he's big like us, so why doesn't he play the game exactly like we did in a completely different era of the NBA."

      3. It was their only nationally televised game of the year. They massively overachieved this year. They came back from 10 down in the fourth without their best player. It was a helluva effort and all those clowns did was make fun of them.

        It was hurtful and mean, consistent with the type of behavior you would expect from a playground bully.

  6. Today was the second time I've attended a near perfect game. Scott Baker for eight innings was the other.

    1. I can still hear my brother telling me that scooter had a perfect game in him after that start.

      I can still hear my outrageous laughter.

  7. Perhaps the greatest HR call of all time.

    3. John Sterling is 83, so I'm guessing his eyes aren't what they used to be. Having said that, though, I've never cared for his broadcasting, and have no idea why he's so popular. Or maybe he's only popular with the media, I don't know.

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