Calvin
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 6:43 pm
A while back, someone started a thread on the Mild section of this board about how Mike Modano embarrassed M/SP with some comments he made in his early 20's and needed to be shunned. To that person I respond "Oh, you need to stay as far away from the Twins as you possibly can".
Year-for-year and pound-for-pound, there has no richer Minnesota vein of fully-formed-adult off-the-field embarrassment than the Twins. One owner making obviously bigoted statements and then saying the only person offended was a reporter (My parents told me that story long ago). Another owner making fake commercials about how he can no longer help sick kids because MN won't build him a stadium, then telling CHAR that he'll move there if they build him one, and they collectively saying "No thanks." A pitcher/announcer who curses and or uses crude hand gestures at a junior-high rate. A pitcher/announcer who flashed female reporters and literally has fought with half his teammates (to which he always says he can't remember, and judging by the gin blossom in the middle of his face, I believe him). And last but not least, the player/announcer/manager/SerialPhilanderer/BuggerSugarAddict who cursed out his former agent for including in his book the time the DEA knocked down the agent's door, with his young son home (if you don't know who the agent is, google it, and if you can't figure out who the son was, you either aren't from MN or not very bright) looking for said player and his microwave-sized brick of buggersugar.
Kind of makes the time a 23 year old got upset about having to move to Dallas seem kind of minor.
Year-for-year and pound-for-pound, there has no richer Minnesota vein of fully-formed-adult off-the-field embarrassment than the Twins. One owner making obviously bigoted statements and then saying the only person offended was a reporter (My parents told me that story long ago). Another owner making fake commercials about how he can no longer help sick kids because MN won't build him a stadium, then telling CHAR that he'll move there if they build him one, and they collectively saying "No thanks." A pitcher/announcer who curses and or uses crude hand gestures at a junior-high rate. A pitcher/announcer who flashed female reporters and literally has fought with half his teammates (to which he always says he can't remember, and judging by the gin blossom in the middle of his face, I believe him). And last but not least, the player/announcer/manager/SerialPhilanderer/BuggerSugarAddict who cursed out his former agent for including in his book the time the DEA knocked down the agent's door, with his young son home (if you don't know who the agent is, google it, and if you can't figure out who the son was, you either aren't from MN or not very bright) looking for said player and his microwave-sized brick of buggersugar.
Kind of makes the time a 23 year old got upset about having to move to Dallas seem kind of minor.