FTLOSBW celebrats "Congrats to Jim Thome Day"
Congrats on 600, Jim. Glad you did it as a Twin because there was a good chance you would have done it against us if you weren't on our squad. You're humble, you're a pro, you're a guy men have their sons look up to and have their daughters also look up to (funny how daughters change your perspective.)
Note: Not that it matters but as Roy Smalley pointed out to me, he did it on back to back swings as he hit 599 in the top of the 6th then in the top of the 7th hit 600 on a 2-1 pitch (apparently he had take a strike, not a swinging strike.) Kinda nerdy cool.
Note part deux: The "DYoung Fan Club - St. Louis Park Chapter 231" has officially closed. I now must curse his name.
6 Comments:
Kudos, Jimmer. The brightest spot on a dark season for les Twins. Cool that he hit the last 50 or so on our club. I think he'll make the Hall when it's all said and done. No. 8 all-time in homers, for now, and No. 5 all-time of guys with no steroid taint. That's saying something. Also No. 8 all-time in walks, and an OPS+ of like 156. That's a long time hitting really well, if not on the same plane as Griffey or Thomas or Belle and others that overshadowed him during his prime.
August 16, 2011 at 7:16 PM
Also, should we discuss the Delmon trade, or can we just leave it for next season, since this one's kinda cooked?
August 16, 2011 at 7:16 PM
I was gonna ask your thoughts on the trade, MCA, but alas, I shall wait until next March. I just want to know this: Does Bill Smith have a plan? I did hear that he offered extensions to both Cuddy and Kubel, but nothing has been signed.
RTS - good Big Ten football brain-teaser. I got 5 out of 11 in the right slot (1, 6-8 and 11), had MN and IL flipped at 9 and 10, and had the right teams 2 through 5, but in the wrong order. It's amazing how much recent performance clouds your judgment (I think this is called the recency effect - I learned it in Psych 101). I had Wisconsin #2 and Penn State #3, instead of Iowa and Michigan. I guess it helps to have a few 10 win seasons earlier in the decade...
August 16, 2011 at 7:24 PM
Good for Thome. You have to be a pretty good guy to be a former White Sock (is that right? Sox is plural or is it also singular, I feel so stupid now) and still be liked. That is a feat itself.
I had Iowa and Wisconsin reversed and Purdue and Northwestern reversed. From what I am reading, the general feeling among the coaching world is that Jerry Kill was an excellent hire for U.
August 18, 2011 at 9:03 AM
I got 7 of those right, too, mostly at the top and the bottom, with only a couple of the rest mixed in. Definitely fell victim to the recency effect on Michigan, as I felt like it had been 6-7 years of futility but apparently it hasn't. I got Iowa right because I figured rts had posted the article.
Glad to hear people think Kill is the right guy for the job. Slow and steady wins the race? We'll see. All I know is I bet (assuming we actually talked to him) Al Golden's wishing he'd taken the Gopher (or any other) job right about now. He'll catch on somewhere else 6-8 months from now when Miami gets shut down, but what a waste of a year of his life.
FWIW, that whole thing is sort of Exhibit A in the case of "Historical MCA v. Caring Less And Less about Sports These Days."
By the way, when is Thome's HBO special?
August 18, 2011 at 10:30 AM
Time to pile on:
1. I didn't do the Big Ten ranking but had OSU/Michigan as "Good" and the U and IU as "Shitty."
2. I found myself watching the Big Ten Network's in depth look at Kill's gophers and I've been following the team's progress casually, I know one thing is different is that he is all about coaching. Reminds me of Eric Taylor from Friday Night Lights but way less attractive and articulate. I'm going with 6 wins this year and one over USC as the shocker out of the gates.
3. As for "Historical MCA v. Caring Less And Less about Sports These Days."- right after BTN's coverage of Kill's Gopher's Fox Sports North ran "Minnesota Miracle" or something like that about the 1991 world series. Talk about a time when athletes were playing for the love and competition of the game. I had forgotten this but after the Twins won guys like Pendleton, Pena came out onto the field to shake the Twins hands. Classy.
5. Side note: Juan Berenuger was on the Braves roster in 1991. Wikipedia entry about his career: "Berenguer suffered one of Major League Baseball's oddest off-field injuries while pitching for Atlanta in 1991. On an off day, while he was home wrestling with his kids, he broke his pitching arm and ended up missing the remainder of the season, also missing out on the Braves' Cinderella run to the World Series that year."
August 18, 2011 at 1:38 PM
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