Twins Daily Community Awards: 2021 First Half

[Brock Beauchamp]

Welcome to the inauguraualal Twins Daily Community Awards presentation! For some time now, we’ve wanted to start giving out prizes to the community for doing fun things like posting on our forums, writing blogs on the “not quite worst in the American League… yet” Minnesota Twins, yelling at clouds, and other things that no rational adult human being would spend their free time doing.

We expect to give these awards out a few times a year, provided we don’t become distracted by something else that seems more fun, or maybe we just get bored and wander off. We’ll cross that bridge when it comes.

To be semi-serious for a moment, we at Twins Daily appreciate the conversation and great content you all provide the Twins community every single day. It’s awesome to see this site bigger and better than ever as we approach our tenth (wait, what?) birthday next February. Without all of your great content, this site would be nothing more than John Bonnes and Nick Nelson sitting in a bar arguing how to spell “Chris Parmelee” and both of them getting it wrong. While we have a great stable of writers to give the community a platform and topics on which to speak, it’s the community that fills the second half of Twins Daily and, unlike most of the second half of the internet, reading the great output of this community isn’t an embarrassment to all mankind.

Okay, enough of that. Without further ado…

Top Post of the First Half of the 2021 Season goes to…
@Old Twins Cap

In the middle of June, when all of us were reaching a low point of our Twins fandom, Old Twins Cap stood up and pronounced that not only is this season rather pathetic, any chance of winning a World Series ever is basically gone. We’re doomed, our Twins fandestiny only to bring us more sorrow and heartbreak for all eternity.

Sadly, he’s probably not wrong.

https://twinsdaily.com/forums/topic/51892-game-recap-twins-7-mariners-2/?tab=comments#comment-1046436

For this post, Old Twins Cap received the most likes of the first half of the 2021 season, rendering his bite-sized entry the top post of the first half!

As a prize, he is awarded an autographed Rocco Baldelli rookie card. Look at cute wittle Wocco. He’s adorable. Keep this card close to your heart always, Old Twins Cap.

Blog Post of the First Half of the 2021 Season goes to…
@Greglw3

Taking a very straightforward, nuts-and-bolts approach to blogging, Greglw3 is light on the words, heavy on the imagery, and wholly capturing our hearts with this blog entry. Not settling to convince us who is the best Twins leftfielder of all time, Greg instead asked us to convince him of the best leftfielder of all time. Some might call this approach lazy, I call it efficient.

https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/23049-who-is-twins-best-lf-of-all-time-reopened-with-3-new-choices/

And convince we did, apparently. His blog entry gained the most views and comments of the first half, winning him the blog post of the first half award! To celebrate this achievement, he will receive a rookie card for the Best Twins Leftfielder of All Time (a commanding victory), Bob Allison! We’d also like to congratulate Bob for being very good at the baseball and the extraordinary baseballing he performed in his baseball career of baseballing.

Collectin’ Those Likes
@USAFChief

With a whopping 2,541 reputation points in the first half of the season, our dear ol’ moderator Chiefie received the most likes and attention of anyone on Twins Daily! That’s a good thing, I hear!

Sorry, Chief, you get no prize other than our hammering away at that like button whenever we see one of your posts. I hope that helps put food on your table. We’re on a shoestring budget here, we can only do so much. Better luck next time.

Collectin’ (About Half as Many of) Those Likes
@ashbury

At 1,375 reputation points, ashbury was next in line behind chief and also gets no prize!

And those are our awards for the first half of the 2021 season. No matter how painful this season seems, remember that there's a cottage industry of Minnesota Sports Therapists, just use the coupon code "wide left" to activate your personal pain point.

Thank you one and all for everything you do here at Twins Daily. It’s truly an honor (and a lot of fun) to build and maintain the website that so many of you visit every single day to talk Minnesota Twins and how painful it is to be a sports fan in this god-forsaken state of ours.

And remember, we have a fantastic community hidden behind the front page here at Twins Daily. I highly recommend you check out our forums and our community blog and interact with some of these great folks. Jump into the conversation with us anytime, everyone is welcome.

Until next time!

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[ashbury]

1 hour ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Collectin’ (About Half as Many of) Those Likes
@ashbury

At 1,375 reputation points, ashbury was next in line behind chief and also gets no prize!

You tolerate me! You sorta-halfway tolerate me!

[bean5302]

Gratz to the winners! An open and active community is key to keeping it active on sites like this one!

[USAFChief]

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the little people that helped me achieve this career altering, uh...achievement. 

 

 

 

[wsnydes]

1 hour ago, ashbury said:

You tolerate me! You sorta-halfway tolerate me!

Only about half as much as @USAFChief though!  ?

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 hour ago, ashbury said:

You tolerate me! You sorta-halfway tolerate me!

This is hilarious because the first draft of this article had this image in GIF form.

[ashbury]

2 hours ago, USAFChief said:

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the

Yo, Chief, I’m really happy for you, and Imma let you finish, but RandBalls Stu had some of the best posts of all time. Of. All. Time.” 

2 hours ago, USAFChief said:

little people that helped me achieve this career altering, uh...achievement.

 

[wsnydes]

1 hour ago, ashbury said:

Yo, Chief, I’m really happy for you, and Imma let you finish, but RandBalls Stu had some of the best posts of all time. Of. All. Time.” 

 

Oh my God...I've been working in the yard and sweating my butt off all day and then decided it was a good idea to come in and start drinking cocktails and I can't stop laughing!  

Bravo, Ash!  Bravo!

[Brock Beauchamp]

@ashbury By the way, you just reminded me that I had created a badge last month but never saw it in my feed. I looked in the admin panel and it wasn’t set to live so I activated it.