Baseball and Birthdays

Today is my 16th birthday and what a great present MLB brings me every year around this time: Opening Day and the Regular Season.

We have all waited months for baseball to start back up again and I am super excited. We've got new players, a renewed attitude to win the division without an extra game, and, SI rated the Twins to be #1 in the Central Divison (Yeaaaahhhh!)

I was looking at all the new players in each of the teams and I didn't even realize how many NY Yankees were traded/not signed this offseason. Heideki Matsui, Johnny Damon, Melky Cabrera, etc. I couldn't believe it! And, we won't have to deal with pestery Polonco anymore in Detroit :).

~Spring Training stuff and Pre-Season thoughts~

1. I am pissed that Tolbert won't be up in the Majors to start the year.

2. Slowey is going to ROCK

3. Peterson, Revere, and Portes are going to be awesome in the future.

4. Nathan...well, that sucks. Stupid Elbows...

5. Twins beating the Yanks in Spring Training CAN and WILL carry over to the regular season

6. Yay Orlando Hudson and J.J. Hardy!...and Thome I guess :)
7. Punto/Harris at 3rd: So hard! If Punto could just get some spark in his bat he would have that spot so fast! Kudos to Harris however, he has been swinging the bat really well this Spring

8. Mijares still scares me a little.

9. Rauch...he's tall!
10. Outside Spring ball to Outside Summer ball for the first time in a LONG time! Hoorah!

Lets start of the season well...expecially in the new stadium. I sure hope the Gophers didn't curse it!

This is for Harris :)

Hello Spring Training!

It is FINALLY here! The first step towards baseball season (& the new stadium!!).

Seeing the pitchers and catchers warm up in a video on the news today makes me so excited but also really sad. I absolutly LOVED going to spring training last year and I want to be down there so bad it kills me! Seeing all the fans at the fence reminds me: "Hey! That was ME a year ago!". I am begging to go again next year. It was the best time of my life.

And again, it never fails that we seem to always have somebody with a Visa problem (coughMijarescough). I am glad that people like Mauer and Slowey don't have to worry about things like that :0).

More blogs to come during this pre-season! :)

Almost there!

I am back from my blogging hibernation. Baseball is approaching, so I better "dust off the shelves" and get some typing in!

I sure hope that February flies by. I cannot wait until Baseball season, and I am sure the whole blogging community could agree on that!

This weekend=Twins Fest. Me=Home. I DID get invited to go with a friend, but unfortunatly this weekend is jam packed with busy-ness. Sigh. Last years was great. I got to meet K-Slow for the first time and got my picture taken with him. It was honestly the best day of the year right there and I would kill to go again! (Next year...definite possibility!)

Thoughts on Twins Trades, Twins things, Twins players...etc. :
1. We have Jim Thome. Well, this IS good, if he can stay healthy and do as much damage to the other team like he as always done to us (Kinda reminds me of Joe Crede..).
2. No Mauer contract talk. This really bums me out, but I know that they will have it all under control. He is Joe Mauer after all!
3. Goodbye, Redmond. Ok, half of me is ok with this, and half of me is not. He WAS like a veteran leader on our team and always hustled and had a good personality. But then again, he is aging & he hardly plays with a star like Mauer here, so he probably made the best decision.

Will blog again around Spring Training. It's only a month away! :0)

Twins vs. Tigers (September 19th) Pictures

Sorry they are late! Enjoy!


Farewell dome!

My last Twins game at the dome

It says: Countdown to Outdoor Baseball (5)

I had to get a Tolbert picure...or five!

...Tolbert :) :)

Morales, the little slugger.

A gathering at the moud after a ball deflected and hit Pavano.

Cuddy.

Yep, He's awesome!

Busch.

Going, Going, Gone.

And today marks the worst day of Alexi Casilla's life. Gomez has been traded away to our border rivals, the Milwaukee Brewers. On one hand, I am sad. On the other hand, he didn't really get to play much during the season.

Some of my memories of Gomez in a Twins uniform...
-Hitting for the cycle (1st time since Puckett I might add)
-Stealing all those bases on the first day he was in Twins uniform (Opening Day 2008)
-All the nicknames...Go Go, Gosilla, etc.
-His craziness in the duggout
-Well duh, his speed and quickness
-Scored the winning run to take us to the Postseason this year
-His accent! :)

We'll miss ya Gomez!!


...And Hello J.J. Hardy!

Start Spreading the news...

We're leaving today. All thanks to a bunch of chee-eeters...NEW YORK, NEW YORK!!.

A season has to come to an end. I just wish ours could have lasted a few more weeks! I really really wanted to not have the last game in the dome be a loss. Turns out thats how the dome will end, on a stinkin loss to some stupid errogant team. (Do you like all the different words I have been calling "them"? There would be plenty more, but I am trying to keep this blog clean. ;) )

The Twins need to break the curse of running into a brick wall once they get to the playoffs. Remember Oakland? That was ugly. This time, it wasn't too bad. We lost on crap calls and pitchers not being agressive enough...and maybe some offense too. We should be playing tomorrow in our cozy dome because in my book, WE won on Saturday.

I'd just like to say that the Twins gave us an awesome 2009 season. Lets do even BETTER next year!

Note: The blogs from now on will be scarce. I WILL be uploading the pictures of the 9/19 game soon. I WILL be on Twitter blabbing my thoughts on sports/twins/life/etc. So feel free to follow me: MNsliding_into1 :)

See ya next spring everyone!! :) :)

P.S. If Mauer doesn't sign with us, there is something VERY wrong with this organization!!

I hate Mark Texiera.

..And whoever was playing left field (Melky Cabrera?) during the DOUBLE that Mauer hit. He is a cheater. The whole Yankee organization are cheaters. I hope whoever that was has enormous guilt....and the umpire too, who should seriously be fined/kicked out/fired/etc. What does he umpire normally? Kinderball?? Gah, this issue bugs me so much!

Here is my song that is for tonight:

"We're gunna win twins, we're gunna score. We're going to kick those Yanks right out the back door. Lets hit a homerun, and show Texeira whose right! Cheer for the Minnesota Twins to-night!"


Gah, I hate those fricken Yanks.