Comments on: The Great Tree Debate of 2011 http://knuckleballsblog.com/2011/02/01/the-great-tree-debate-of-2011/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-great-tree-debate-of-2011 "Like butterflies with hiccups" Sat, 18 May 2013 04:17:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kirsten http://knuckleballsblog.com/2011/02/01/the-great-tree-debate-of-2011/#comment-4195 Kirsten Sat, 05 Feb 2011 02:57:27 +0000 http://knuckleballsblog.com/?p=5354#comment-4195 Apparently my sarcasm didn’t translate in return. You live in Iowa, not totally under a rock. So I figured you’d heard. :)
Henry was my other favorite. The colonel just wasn’t as amusing.

]]> By: Jim Crikket http://knuckleballsblog.com/2011/02/01/the-great-tree-debate-of-2011/#comment-4194 Jim Crikket Sat, 05 Feb 2011 02:41:45 +0000 http://knuckleballsblog.com/?p=5354#comment-4194 Yes… I vaguely recall seeing the show a few hundred times. Sorry, kirsten, you know us old folks and our humor… it doesn’t always translate well to the written word, especially on these new-fangled social media thingies!

]]> By: Kirsten http://knuckleballsblog.com/2011/02/01/the-great-tree-debate-of-2011/#comment-4193 Kirsten Sat, 05 Feb 2011 02:34:01 +0000 http://knuckleballsblog.com/?p=5354#comment-4193 Yeah, it’s definitely a show, too. And was on for like 10 years when my parents were in college and beyond, so surely you were around then ;)

]]> By: Jim Crikket http://knuckleballsblog.com/2011/02/01/the-great-tree-debate-of-2011/#comment-4192 Jim Crikket Sat, 05 Feb 2011 02:09:15 +0000 http://knuckleballsblog.com/?p=5354#comment-4192 What “show”? I was talking about M*A*S*H the movie. They made a TV show out of it, too? I must have missed that.

]]> By: Kirsten http://knuckleballsblog.com/2011/02/01/the-great-tree-debate-of-2011/#comment-4191 Kirsten Sat, 05 Feb 2011 02:06:47 +0000 http://knuckleballsblog.com/?p=5354#comment-4191 Awesome! Trapper John is easily the best character in that show.
Maybe we can take some of the gum from the trees and use it to plug holes in the lineup if leaks should spring.

]]> By: Jim Crikket http://knuckleballsblog.com/2011/02/01/the-great-tree-debate-of-2011/#comment-4190 Jim Crikket Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:34:59 +0000 http://knuckleballsblog.com/?p=5354#comment-4190 Yes, I know this is just going to once again emphasize how old I am, but the mention of a still in CF immediately brought to my mind the image of a green army tent out there with Hawkeye and Trapper John, along with their still.

]]> By: Kirsten http://knuckleballsblog.com/2011/02/01/the-great-tree-debate-of-2011/#comment-4188 Kirsten Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:23:11 +0000 http://knuckleballsblog.com/?p=5354#comment-4188 Bryz-exactly! There were too many of them for the space allotted. They would have crowded each other out.

I think there are already quite enough Joe Mauers, so we probably can skip trying to breed more of them somehow. There’s more than enough beer too, but maybe we could put a still out in CF?

]]> By: Jim Crikket http://knuckleballsblog.com/2011/02/01/the-great-tree-debate-of-2011/#comment-4184 Jim Crikket Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:45:57 +0000 http://knuckleballsblog.com/?p=5354#comment-4184 If we can grow more Joe Mauers (and more beer), I’m all for it.

I’m also not sure there’s room for much to go in to that space that would fit AND wouldn’t risk causing the same sort of shadows/movement that the trees did. Maybe they could paint pictures of trees on the green batters’ eye… kind of a darker green on top of dark green kind of thing. It’s just good to know that the Twins’ brass has something to think about besides mundane stuff like roster building.

]]> By: Bryz http://knuckleballsblog.com/2011/02/01/the-great-tree-debate-of-2011/#comment-4179 Bryz Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:04:36 +0000 http://knuckleballsblog.com/?p=5354#comment-4179 I’m going to miss the trees in center field, but the Twins would have had to remove some of them eventually anyway. One of the first things my girlfriend said (she’s a bio major) when she saw those trees was, “Those are planted too close, they’re going to need to pull a few out when they get bigger.”

I think some of us may be forgetting how small this area is in center field. You can’t really add much in there.

]]> By: lisatwink http://knuckleballsblog.com/2011/02/01/the-great-tree-debate-of-2011/#comment-4165 lisatwink Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:17:00 +0000 http://knuckleballsblog.com/?p=5354#comment-4165 Wait…was Kristen’s suggestion that we plant Joe Mauer and beer? ‘Cause if we could grow some more of that at the ballpark, that would be damn cool.

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