Seasons Greetings from the Twins
I, along with Twins fans everywhere, would all like one gift for Christmas, and that is the Twins signing Joe Mauer to a long-term contract. While that might not happen before Christmas Day, the Twins aren’t leaving their fans in the cold this year.
Call it a re-gifting of sorts, but the Twins and FSN are presenting an encore of the AL Central tiebreaker between the Twins and Tigers that will air on Christmas at 7:00 PM. It is a game that many fans and sports writers called one of the best games ever played. Twins manager, Ron Gardenhire, said that he had never seen anything like it with neither team giving up.
The 12 inning game went back and forth in front of a packed house at the Metrodome to see the Twins win their fifth Central Division title in eight years. The win capped off an improbable run at the title in which the Twins found themselves seven games out of first place a month earlier.
If the Twins and FSN wanted to make this encore presentation even more special, they would sign off on getting Dick Bremer and Bert Blyleven to provide their usual commentary instead of having the regular TBS crew that features the recently fired Chip Carey and his obvious blunders and overuse of the verb ‘fisted.’
I’d even settle for the radio broadcast of John Gordon and Dan Gladden. That may be wishing for too much, though.
I know what I’ll be doing for Christmas – watching the 4 1/2 hour tiebreaker playoff game between the Minnesota Twins and the Detroit Tigers once again. Plus, it allows me to see the unlikely heroes of Carlos Gomez and Orlando Cabrera in a Twins uniform one last time.
Thank you Twins and FSN.
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