Day: March 24, 2010

Spring Training Vacation Wrap Up

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I’m heading out bright and early Thursday morning, but before I call it a night, I wanted to post one final “Spring Training Report.” (OK, it might not be the final one published, depending on whether a final ‘Jim Crikket Report’ makes an appearance in Howard Sinker’s “A Fan’s View From Section 219″ blog Thursday).

I can’t recommend highly enough this kind of spring vacation, if you’re a Twins fan or a fan of Major League Baseball at all. I’m sure Target Field will be terrific, but you don’t get opportunities to watch talent of this level as “up close and personal” anywhere but during spring training. And the opportunity to check out the Twins’ “future stars” on the minor league complex is a huge bonus, in my opinion.

With that, I’ll leave you with a few images from my last day at Twins 2010 Spring Training.

Outside Hammond Stadium, Spring Training home of your Minnesota Twins!
2008 first round pick Carlos Gutierrez gets some help with his change-up grip
Michael Cuddyer doing his Nick Punto impression... and he's SAFE!
Jim Thome and Jerry White doing... something... I don't think I wanna know what.
Anthony Slama... closer of the future?
Ben Revere. His time is coming... soon.
Hammond Stadium Mens Room... with "Take Me Out to The Ball Game" murals
TC Bear with a SuperSoaker... coming soon to an outdoor stadium near you!

GameChat – (ST) Florida @ Minnesota, 12:05pm

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Florida @ Minnesota
Bonifacio, LF   Jones, J, RF
Maybin, CF   Casilla, A, SS
Ramirez, H, SS   Kubel, LF
Cantu, 3B   Morneau, 1B
Baker, Jo, DH   Cuddyer, CF
Uggla, 2B   Thome, DH
Paulino, R, C   Harris, B, 3B
Carroll, B, RF   Ramos, W, C
Morrison, 1B   Tolbert, 2B
  Sanchez, A, P     Slowey, P

 

  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Florida 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 7 1
Minnesota 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 x 4 10 0

click anywhere in the boxscore for more game details

Captions That Write Themselves… almost

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Tuesday’s spring training game with the Red Sox was a night game and I’m too tired to come up with much to say about it except that the Twins won… again. By the way, for those of you keeping score at home, the Twins are a perfect 5-0 in spring training games since I’ve arrived in Ft. Myers to attend their games. I’m waiting to hear from the team about my free season tickets to assure at least 81 wins this season.

To give you something to pass your time while I’m taking in my final spring training game of this season on Wednesday (vs. the Marlins), here are a few pictures taken before the Tuesday night game (and one from DURING the game that I just added to the end this morning, after reading Howard Sinker’s blog at the Strib). They just begged for clever captions and I was coming up blank. Help me out here, will ya?

And for the late morning edition of this post, inspired by Howard Sinker’s post today in his “A Fan’s View from Section 219” blog on 5′ 3″ Chris Cates…