May 30, 201610 yr I keep waiting for the drop off from Centeno but the luck continues for him. If my math is correct, since Grossman joined the Twins, the team is 5-4. Add in Centeno's recent increased presence.... therefore... Terry Ryan = Scrap Bin Recycle King*** *** Genius Level
May 30, 201610 yr Author Grandpa was in wwii as well, in the European side of things.I was on the young side to hear stories, and i don't think he was quick to tell many. So i got little to share. My guess is that this is usually the case. The details are left out and that's the hair curling stuff. You don't get a lot of details so I was curious and read about it myself. 2500 Men from North Dakota made up the 164th and after 6 months on the island... think about this... they were no longer battle ready because over one-third of them had died and the survivors had lost at least over 20 pounds each. Malaria was almost as big an issue as the Japanese were. I like to think that my 9 months in Michigan was an experience and I got some stories but it just wouldn't compare to 6 months with the 164th in 1942.
May 30, 201610 yr My guess is that this is usually the case. The details are left out and that's the hair curling stuff. You don't get a lot of details so I was curious and read about it myself. 2500 Men from North Dakota made up the 164th and after 6 months on the island... think about this... they were no longer battle ready because over one-third of them had died and the survivors had lost at least over 20 pounds each. Malaria was almost as big an issue as the Japanese were. I like to think that my 9 months in Michigan was an experience and I got some stories but it just wouldn't compare to 6 months with the 164th in 1942. The late Charles Durning supposedly saw some stuff when he was in and wouldn't talk about it.
May 30, 201610 yr Is Billy Butler just an Andy Kaufman-esque Will Sasso character? Edited May 30, 201610 yr by Pardon My Dinger
May 30, 201610 yr Memorial Day isn’t just a day off from work… The Memorial Part is quite important.Those who served and sacrificed have earned that respect and they deserve the honor.It’s also a day to remember the loved ones that you’ve lost.Today can also be a day to remember the Twins players that are no longer with us:Bob Allison, George Banks, Earl Battey, Reno Bertoia, Bub Bloomfield, Walt Bond, Lyman Bostock, Dave Boswell, Ken Brett, Fred Bruckbauer, Terry Bulling, Bobby Castillo, Carmelo Castillo, Dean Chance, Jackie Collum, Billy Consolo, Jerry Crider, Bert Cueto, Joe Decker, Mike Fornieles, Paul Giel, Ruben Gomez, Herman Hill, Steve Howe, Riccardo Ingram, Lamar Jacobs, Pat Kelly, Harmon Killebrew, Ron Kline, John Klippstein, Jack Kralick, Craig Kusick, Charlie Lea, Jim Lemon, Joe Lis, Dwight Lowry, Danny McDevitt, Georges Maranda, Billy Martin, Marty Martinez, Danny McDevitt, Bob Miller, Don Mincher, Dan Monzon, Ray Moore, Joe Niekro, Ed Palmquist, Frank Pastrore, Wally Post, Vic Power, Kirby Puckett, Jim Roland, John Roseboro, Ted Sadowski, Al Schroll, Chuck Stobbs, Frank Sullivan, Danny Thompson, Cesar Tovar, Bill Tuttle, Ted Uhlaender, Elmer Valo, Zoilo Versalles, Bob Veselic, Jay Ward, Vic Wertz, Pete Wisenhant, Bill Whitby, Don Williams, Jerry Zimmerman.This list was compiled by Jim Thielman and posted on his website cooloftheevening.com. It would have been much easier to just provide a link to his website but I felt it was more respectful to type out each name myself and so I opted to copy the names by hand and not link. I just want to make sure that Jim Thielman gets full credit for the listing the names.Here are some things to think about: 1. Memory – I have a theory that eventually you just run out of RAM. You reach a certain age where your brain just can’t hold any more and when you learn new things… something has to fall out to make room for the new information. For example… I was surfing the web this morning and learning some new things and right now… at this very moment… I can’t remember where I put my car keys.2. – Post-It Notes -- These little things were invented right here in Minnesota by Romy and Michele. My wife likes to post them honey-do style on the fridge. If a few days go by and they are still on the fridge and still unacted upon. She will take them off the fridge and stick them on my forehead. I tell her that this makes them really hard to read but she still does it anyway.3. Bedtime – If you have to memorize something… experts say that the best thing to do is to study right before bed and right after waking. In a nutshell… too much crap happens during the main waking hours of the day to keep you from retaining new information. I can personally say that this method does indeed work because every night I read Twins Daily and every morning I read Twins Daily and can easily remember that the Twins have won 4 games in a row.4. Good Times Bad Times – We do seem to have a tendency to remember the bad times more easily than the good times. I… on the other hand… only remember good times because I try to turn the bad times into good times and therefore only remember good times even if they were originally bad times.5. Russ – I met Russ back in the 90’s when he was a young 70 something. I worked alongside him for maybe 10 years at the scorer’s table of many Basketball and Football games. I gave him crap and he gave it right back and I enjoyed every minute. It must have been 5 years into our working relationship that I found out that he was a Veteran of WWII. It took maybe 5 years because he never talked about it. It wasn’t that he couldn’t or wouldn’t talk about it… it just never came up in our conversation and that’s probably because I was more apt to talk about the flavor of a Banana then something important like this. Russ was a Lieutenant with the 164th Infantry. The 164th was the first Army unit to engage in offensive action at Guadalcanal in the Pacific providing reinforcements for the Marines already onshore and at the time in a deadlock with Japan in a battle for control of a strategic location in the South Pacific and the airfields on the island. The Island was nicknamed “Green Hell” and the 164th were green themselves and barely unpacked when the Japanese attempted to reclaim an airfield and ran out of the jungles in the middle of the night backed by air and naval support. The unit bent but did not break and they held the airfield despite overwhelming Japanese numbers. Taking a look at the scoreboard from that night… there were over 1,700 Japanese casualties while only 26 killed from the 164th. It was quite an introduction to the War for the unit and it impressed the Marines so much that the unit received the nickname the 164th Marines from the Marines. Russ made it all seem routine as he talked about it. The complete darkness of night, heavy tropical rain while holding off a full scale assault on their position, battling for control of an airfield and pushing back opposing forces to provide a safe distance from artillery for the airfield, followed by jungle patrols and offensive sweeps of the island to find remaining Japanese resistance hiding on the island… fighting in jungles and up mountainsides at the same time while also battling… malaria, heat exhaustion, exotic tropical diseases… it was all pretty routine stuff I’m sure… like a Saturday night in Mayville, I suppose.6 months after arriving on the island the 164th was no longer considered combat ready. The unit had buried too many of its men on the island and the majority of those who survived had lost 20 plus pounds but what they managed to accomplish... was a turning point in the Pacific Theater. As I tried to imagine what the conditions were really like… all I could say to Russ was “Thank You” and I truly meant it. I heard of Russ passing last year and I heard of it too late to attend the funeral. I missed my chance to say goodbye. Today… just might be a good day to find his final resting place and say “Thank You” one more time.Twins: SP Ervin Santana1. Eduardo Nunez 3B2. Brian Dozier 2B3. Joe Mauer 1B4. Miguel Sano DH5. Robbie Grossman LF6. Oswaldo Arcia RF7. Eduardo Escobar SS8. Juan Centeno C9. Danny Santana CFA's: SP Graveman1. Coco Crisp CF2. Jed Lowrie 2B3. Stephen Vogt C4. Danny Valencia 3B5. Khris Davis LF6. Billy Butler DH7. Yonder Alonso 1B8. Marcus Semien SS9. Chris Coghlan RFClick here to view the articleBrian, just signed on. What a great introduction. Brought tears to my eyes. Thank you and well said.
May 30, 201610 yr Anyone else think kurkjian sounds wasted?Aren't we all a little drunk on Memorial Day?
May 30, 201610 yr Aren't we all a little drunk on Memorial Day?For future reference, wasted >> a little drunk.
May 30, 201610 yr Then spell Olli Maata, because my Pens are taking game one tonight! Edited May 30, 201610 yr by Pardon My Dinger
May 30, 201610 yr This is going to be a tough game to post and watch at the same time. Getting the Big Green Egg ready while preparing brats, hot dogs and burgers.
May 30, 201610 yr Love the way Arcia makes a three foot wide pitch look like a close call. Showmanship.
May 30, 201610 yr Arcia looks like he hasn't had many ABs lately. Probably because he hasn't had many ABs lately.
May 30, 201610 yr There has to be something wrong with this k-zone. The bottom of the zone seems too low.
May 30, 201610 yr There has to be something wrong with this k-zone. The bottom of the zone seems too low.Those are notoriously crap. Baker's calls have been pretty odd so far. I suggest he take a couple steps to his right.
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