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April 17, 2023: Surveilled

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Pete had the twin boys from two doors down at the house. They wanted to use the WiFi, which we supplied. They were very relieved to find out my joke name of our network as "FBI Surveillance Van #[###]" was not actually an FBI surveillance van. Apparently they were very worried about that.

27 thoughts on “April 17, 2023: Surveilled”

  1. There appears to be 3 days where the Twins, Wild, Wolves play the same day. Unfortunately no Loons on any of those days so we could have the rare 4 team loss in one day possibility.

  2. Yesterday I saw a thing on the tweets machine about an upcoming Friday home game starting at 3pm (Fri Apr 28 against KC) and the answer Dave St. Peter gave was something along the lines of "we are trying a 'Happy Hour' approach to some games to see if that might be popular"

    With games being played at about a 2:30 hour pace I wonder if they will keep the bars and restaurants open for the entire game and some post game.

    1. I know they extended beer sales into the 8th inning, but I wonder if dram shop law would discourage them from remaining open post game.

      1. The restaurant areas of Target Field like Hrbek's stay open for an hour after the game and I believe they keep serving alcohol during that time. Event and security staff are all getting the pregame spiel about not letting alcohol leave the premises.

    1. This is as excited as I've been for 1-3 in the Twins rotation in a long time.

      Now we just need to get the kids to hit and give up on some veterans.

      And, as much as I understand Buxton trying to play through injuries, just put him on the IL when he's hurt. It doesn't help anyone to go out there at a fraction of himself.

        1. I don't think he has any major league value at this point. No one can fit a no hit/good defensive corner outfielder on a roster.

          1. That's why he's still with the Twins. He does have value but it isn't much and it isn't enough for another team to actually want him.

            2. He doesn't have enough value to be on a roster. The Twins are just holding on due to the contract.

              If they released him, I don't think he'd end up in a Major League roster.

      2. Gray is a free agent after this year so the Twins will need someone new to add to the López-Ryan part of the rotation. Mahle is also a free agent next year. I wouldn't mind bringing back Gray on another two-year deal.

        1. Co-sign on Sonny. But I would be surprised if he couldn't find a 3- or 4-year deal somewhere.

        2. In addition to Gray, Maeda, & Mahle, several former Twins pitchers will be free agents this winter: Gibson, Dick Mountain, Lance “You Guys Paid $4.5 Million to Trade Me for Tyler Austin” Lynn, ”Where” Frankie Montas, Odor-easy, & Martín “Tale of Two Texas Ballparks” Pérez.

          1. Coming back this year so we'll have a couple months to evaluate how excited we are about that.

  4. Ah taxes... I have a lot less money today than I did yesterday. 2022 was the first year I ever had to pay estimated taxes, because in 2021 I made too much money, and had a steep tax bill to pay. Not really a bad thing at all considering I'm running my own shop. It means I'm making money. Since I was paying some taxes in '22, I anticipated that my return this year wouldn't hit as hard as the previous year.

    That did not happen. Turns out I made a lot more in '22 than I did in '21. So today hit even harder than it did last year.

    I'm trying to focus on the "I made a lot more" part, and not the giant tax bill part. I'm not sure where all this extra I made went... probably to my children. Lousy bloodsuckers.

    1. I took a huuuuuuuuge hit and decided just to bite it off and pay it in February. Wasn’t going to get any better in April.

      1. Since we live in farm territory, and since farm taxes are due in March, we don't usually get an option to do them early. When paying in, I'm fine with waiting. I do miss the refunds though.

  5. Not sure if it was mentioned yet but a local Pope County deputy was shot and died over the weekend in Cyrus, MN. We live in Douglas County which is not far away. I have a handful of friends who graduated with the officer and it has heavily impacted the entire area. 3 officers shot. The other 2 made it through the ordeal. The suspect was shot and is dead. Don't want to tread too far in the forbidden zone, but daily stories like this throughout this country are getting old. We do nothing but.... thoughts and prayers.

    1. This also reminded me that AMR has family in Pope County. Has anyone heard from him lately?? It's been awhile.

    2. I got to know a few deputies when I was in Swift, and looked to see if I recognized names. Glad I didn't, but I recognize that someone else knew and loved them. Awful stuff.

    3. I try to stay hopeful that thoughts and prayers can be a beginning instead of an ending some day. In the meantime I'm having an ongoing personal gun ownership debate with the wife because I'm starting to think it's time one of us was ready to exercise A2 if events necessitated it, and I'm positive it would not be her. And not to be pedantic in any way, but those two officers who survived being shot will be going through their ordeals for quite a while yet, as will their families.

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