Minnesota Wild, NHL

Weekly Wild Whangdoodle: All Hartman

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Games this week:

This upcoming weekend will be packed with hockey.  A couple of back-to-backs for both the Whitecaps and Wild. The Whitecaps get another shot at the Pride, who swept the weekend series two weeks ago in Boston, but this time the games are on home ice. Meanwhile the Wild face the Panthers, who are very very good, and the defending Cup champion Lightning.  Not an easy weekend for anyone.

But first! The return of Ryan Suter! Thursday night the struggling Stars come to Minnesota and I'm sure there will be a whole bunch of pontificating about Suter and the buyouts and everything that went down this summer.

But even firster! The Sharks. Tonight.

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Keeping Track

1970 Rewind: Game Forty-two

NEW YORK 4, MINNESOTA 2 IN MINNESOTA

Date:  Friday, May 29.

Batting stars:  Rick Renick was 2-for-4 with two home runs, his third and fourth.  Tony Oliva was 2-for-4.

Pitching stars:  Jim Perry pitched six innings, giving up three runs (one earned) on seven hits and three walks and striking out one.  Dick Woodson pitched a perfect inning.

Opposition stars:  Thurman Munson was 2-for-4.  Bobby Murcer was 2-for-5.  Mike Kekich pitched 5.1 innings, giving up two runs on six hits and four walks and striking out four.  Lindy McDaniel pitched 3.2 scoreless innings of relief, giving up one hit and one walk and striking out two.

The game:  With two out in the first Murcer singled, Roy White walked, and Danny Cater delivered an RBI single to put the Yankees up 1-0.  The Twins drew a pair of walks in the second but could do nothing with them.  In the third Jerry Kenney tripled and scored on a fielder's choice to make it 2-0 New York.  The Twins loaded the bases in the third but again could not score.  In the fourth, Gene Michael and Mike Kekich singled, putting men on first and third, and Horace Clarke grounded out to put the Yankees ahead 3-0.

The Twins got on the board in the fourth when Renick led off with a home run.  Renick again homered in the sixth to make it 3-2.  The Twins had men on first and third in the seventh, but again failed to make it count.

White led off the eighth with a triple and scored on Ron Woods' single to give New York an insurance run at 4-2.  The last seven Twins batters were retired.

WP:  Kekich (1-1).

LP:  Perry (6-4).

S:  McDaniel (4).

Notes:  Renick was at third, with Harmon Killebrew moving to first and Rich Reese on the bench.  Reese pinch-hit for George Mitterwald in the sixth.  Paul Ratliff pinch-hit for Perry in the sixth and stayed in the game at catcher.  Charlie Manuel pinch-hit for Ron Perranoski in the eighth.

Carew was 1-for-4 and was batting .393.  Oliva was batting .331.  Renick was batting .323.  Killebrew was 0-for-2 and was batting .322.  Woodson had an ERA of zero.  Perranoski gave up one run in two innings and had an ERA of 1.80.  Perry had an ERA of 2.61.

Woodson was making his season debut.  It appears he was coming off an injury.

The Twins stranded nine and were 1-for-7 with men in scoring position.

Record:  The Twins were 29-13, in first place in the American League West, 2.5 games ahead of California.

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I first encountered Khun Narin in 2016, when I somehow happened upon their just-released second album. They haven’t released anything in the US market since, which is a shame. Maybe it’s because they’re a live act (both albums were recorded at outdoor performances), maybe they prefer to play for their national audience, or maybe it’s because they are pigeonholed by the music industry’s expectations & marketing.

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Keeping Track

Happy Birthday–November 16

Mike McGeary (1850)
Joe Quest (1852)
Paul Foytack (1930)
Frank Bolling (1931)
Harry Chiti (1932)
Minnie Mendoza (1933)
Don Hahn (1948)
Herb Washington (1951)
Glenn Burke (1952)
Curt Wardle (1960)
Dwight Gooden (1964)
Chris Haney (1968)
Pete Rose (1969)
Julio Lugo (1975)
Juan Centeno (1989)

Sprinter Herb Washington played for Oakland for two seasons as a pinch-runner.  He appeared in 105 games but did not play in the field and did not bat.  He stole 31 bases in 48 attempts and scored 33 runs.

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At The Movies

At The Movies: Netflix Flicks

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Let's put up a movie post!

I recently watched a whole bunch of things, which I'll note at some point in the future. But specifically I wanted to share this little fun clip advertisement I saw for the movie Red Notice. Red Notice was apparently a big Netflix movie, and, like a lot of theirs, felt like it was rushed a bit, maybe needed another rewrite to tighten stuff up, etc. Kind of made up for the lack of writing by just having fun people doing fun things. And in the end it was good enough, because of that.

Anyway, what have y'all thought of Netflix movies (and similar?).

Aaaaaaand... also apparently I can't get the clip in this post. Half baked. I'll try the comments.

What are you watching?

Minnesota Twins, MLB

2021–2022 Offseason Wishlist

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The World Series is over. Teams have extended qualifying offers to their upcoming free agents, who must determine whether to accept a one-year, $18.4 million contract and remain with their most recent club, or to decline and seek other opportunities on the open market. The deadline for those decisions is Wednesday, 17 November.

The Twins have a lot of work to do to turn around a disastrous year in which they plummeted down the elevator shaft from roof to basement, traded away key players, and Let (Some of) the Kids Play (Until Some of the Kids Got Hurt). Rather than celebrating the 30th anniversary of the 1991 World Series Champions with a deep run into the postseason, the Twins are in the position to ponder the success of the Twins’ front office over the 1990–1991 offseason. Will the current front office attempt a similar worst-to-first turnaround, or do they see a return to sustainable contention taking a season (or more) to develop? The futures of several key Twins regulars are up in the air until their approach becomes clear.

We’ll know their answer in due time. For now, we can posit our own.

A few handy, non-paywalled reference materials:

Remodeled basement. Same half-baked taste.