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Here's your link! Best of luck on getting your tickets before they sell out!

Oh, PLUS we’re running the mascot race at the game. That’s right, you’ll be able to cheer on your favorite member of the Twins Daily crew as they race in the mascot race at Target Field. We do not know which mascots each of us will be, which brings us to the contest portion of the event…

Friday is the day! At 8:00 AM, limited tickets will be released for the Twins Daily Touch Em All Pub Crawl, and today we get to announce the final stop and giveaway, plus the great prizes you can win and the crazy price.

Our final stop will be Darby’s Pub, just one block from the stadium, who will be providing each attendee with a free craft 612 Brew (a $6 value). We’re also very happy to announce that AME Sports is providing great raffle prizes at each stop, including plaques gorgeous plaques of some of your favorite Twins players AND a replica 1987 World Series Champion ring!

Sometimes, things get so bad that you either have to laugh or cry. We’re choosing the former for our logo and T-shirts for our 2016 Twins Daily Touch Em All Pub Crawl. The complimentary T-shirts will be high-quality triblend Bella + Canvas, in both men’s and women’s styles, perfect for wearing ironically during the Twins 2017 postseason run.

You can only get them at the Pub Crawl, which we announced yesterday will by 9/24. Remember, tickets go on sale this Friday, 9/9 at 8:00 AM. Order immediately, since they’ll no longer be on sale after Monday the 12th, and may sell out before that.

What will be the first stop on our Crawl To … 100 Losses? The Twins Daily Fourth Annual Touch-Em-All Pub Crawl will be September 24^th, with tickets available Friday, 9/9. I don’t need to tell you that this has traditionally sold out, or the legendary stories of having a round bought by Twins closer Glen Perkins and … well, you’ll need to check-in on Friday to see this year’s momentous announcement. But for now, let’s reveal the first stop…

It's been a hard fall for me to write in these spaces. Every evening I try to sit down to write, I find a dozen other things to do. There are papers to grade and recommendations to submit and people to actually be married to. So while I love to write, and even though I want to write, it slips through my fingers more often than I like.

This past week, I had the time, I had the energy, but every time I opened up this page, I stopped and stared. And as the feeds from North Minneapolis streamed into my phone, as people I love and trust engaged in louder and louder protests for more pressing matters than quality sports analysis, I couldn't find it in myself to write.

As Thanksgiving arrives and we reflect on all of the many things that we are thankful for, our team at Twins Daily has no shortage of gratitude.

This morning, I got 20 more tickets for the pub crawl and am releasing them right now. Grab them before they're gone!

• Crawl + Twins Tickets
  
• Crawl Only
  

We’ve waited four long years to watch meaningful September games, so we're going overboard for 2015’s Twins Daily Touch ‘Em All Pub Crawl.

This will be the biggest and best ever. PLEASE set aside the 19^th of September, starting at noon on your calendar, then take a minute and tell your friends to set it aside too. While you’re at it, you may want to set a reminder for yourself the morning of Thursday, September 3^rd, because that’s when tickets will go on sale, and we only have so much room in some of these bars.

You will not be able to buy tickets at the door tomorrow (Saturday) so today is your last chance to gain admission to the Twins Daily Winter Meltdown. Jacque Jones and Twins President Dave St. Peter will be attending, there will be free beer, commemorative pint glasses, lots of Twins talk and it's a two-block walk from Twinsfest.

If you do buy or have bought tickets, they'll be waiting for you at the door.

Here, one last time, are the details:

• January 24th, from 5-8, at Mason’s. Just walk the block from Target Field and TwinsFest and join us.
  
• Question & answers with Minnesota Twins President Dave St. Peter, and Jacque Jones! We're sorry to announce that Tim Laudner will not be able to attend the Meltdown due to family obligations. Our community's thoughts are with Tim and his family.
  
• Two free beers from local craft brewery 612 Brew.
  
• Drink specials from Dobel Tequila and Three Olives Vodka.
  
• Raffle that include two Twins Opening Day tickets from Ticket King.
  
• The limited edition Twins Daily Winter Meltdown Pint Glass
  
• Tickets go on sale Tuesday RIGHT HERE. $25 on Tuesday only, $30 after.
  

We'll see you next Saturday!

The guest list for the Twins Daily Winter Meltdown continues to grow!

We're very excited to announce that Tim Laudner will be joining us to talk about the 1987 World Series, catcher framing, moving from player to media, and maybe show off what a World Series ring looks like.

Laudner is best known to Twins fans as being the starting catcher of the 1987 World Champion Twins. In that seven-game Championship series versus the Cardinals, he started every game, hitting .318 (with a .444 OBP).

Now that another tough season has come to a close, it's time to focus on finding ways to reinforce and expedite a rebuilding process that has moved along more slowly than anyone would like.

These next few months will present numerous opportunities to supplement and perhaps restructure a talent-laden young core. You'll be able to familiarize yourself with all those possibilities in the Twins Daily 2015 Offseason Handbook, which is now available for pre-order at a new low price.

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• After he admitted smoking “a little weed,” is there a timeline for Adrian Peterson playing this year with the Vikings? Should there be?
  
• Just how much more can coach Mike Zimmer take?
  
• And yet, somehow, it appears the Vikings got lucky this weekend.
  
• Want a breakdown of individual Vikings performance this year?
  
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