Category: sports
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Watching in agony and then cathartic relief as the Twins eked out a 12-inning win in Cleveland, while teen-aged pitter-patter drifted in from the next room, brought to mind W.H. Auden: About suffering they were never wrong,The Old Masters: how well they understoodIts human position; how it takes placeWhile someone else is eating or opening…
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When I was a little kid, my parents gave me for a gift The Story of Baseball, “a Random House book for young people” by a guy named Rosenburg. It looked like the above, which I just found in an ebay ad: apparently, if I still had the book, I might be able to sell…
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Got a little misty-eyed watching Dick Bremer get a little misty-eyed while being inducted into the Twins’ Hall of Fame this afternoon. They’re playing now, and the telecast just cut to Bert Blyleven, his ceremonial duties discharged, enjoying the game with a Coors Lite cracked open in front of him: everything’s coming back into focus.…
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Because I “interact” with baseball posts, and am a member of such FB groups as Baseball in Black & White Pics, the algorithm sends lots of baseball stuff to my feed, and I was recently asked to write in the comments the name of the everyday shortstop for the first team I ever loved. So…
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Before tonight’s Game 2 against the Spurs, I might as well put the hex on the Twolves’ 38-year-old point guard Mike Conley, who, having earned favorable notices for his performance in the decisive Game 6 win over Denver, backed it up in the opening road win against the favored Spurs: in 24 minutes, he scored…
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UPDATE: I see that Princeton historian Kevin Kruse has posted the same pic on his Bluesky account with the comment: Lawyers/Guns/Money Since so far as I know Kruse has no connection to Minnesota, and also because having zoomed in on “Mr Frogtown” I see that he’s wearing a Knicks cap, I think this picture was…
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Wasn’t expecting to become so invested in the Gopher women’s basketball team this March, but hey, they have advanced into the Sweet Sixteen and are easy to like for a lot of other reasons, too: –Local kids. Of the five starters, four are from Twin Cities suburbs–Hopkins, Minnetonka, Wayzata, and Farmington (I think Farmington now…
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I’m memorializing yesterday’s golf round since it may prove to have been the last one of the year. It’s definitely the last one at our home course, Hidden Haven, in common parlance Hillbilly Haven, which is closing for the season today. From the “up tees” on number 17, I hit a driver into a stiff…
