When I was in college, black kids used to wear t-shirts that read, “It’s a Black Thing. You Wouldn’t Understand.” My twin sister Sam and I wanted to get our own shirts made, “It’s a Twin Thing. You Wouldn’t Understand.”
It’s hard to figure a Twin unless you are one. Just ask Ron Gardenhire, manager of the Minnesota Twins, who, according to this piece by Landon Evanson in the Winona Daily News, thinks his team is not far behind the big, bad New York Yankees:
Some would suggest that the Yankees “own” the Twins, but the manager doesn’t buy into that.
“They don’t own me,” Gardenhire said. “Every game that we’ve played against them has just been nip-and-tuck.”
…”We’ve had our chances,” Gardenhire said. “We could have beat them as is, but next year we’re not taking any more off them. And if it takes fighting them, we’re fighting them.”
I sure would like to see the Twins sign Joe Mauer to a long-term deal. That’d be a good start, no?
I picked up a like new Joe Mauer Twins t-shirt at my local thrift store for $1 thinking it would be good as an undershirt or for doing dirty jobs. Plus the guy looks like a HOFer so why not grab a shirt for a buck? Every now and then I get behind doing laundry and wear the shirt out (I live in Chicago) and I've never had so many people come up to me on the street and talk baseball (and not smack either). I'd guess 99% of baseball fans are either neutral towards the Twins or like them. In a world with so much negativity I think that's neat. The Twins play baseball like Larry Brown says you should play basketball. The right way.