MPR’s Gary Eichten provides commentary on the 1984 Minnesota Twins baseball season. While no pennant…the team has a new owner, Kirby Puckett on the roster, and gave fans a season of plucky play.
MPR’s Gary Eichten provides commentary on the 1984 Minnesota Twins baseball season. While no pennant…the team has a new owner, Kirby Puckett on the roster, and gave fans a season of plucky play.
SPEAKER: Earlier this week, you may have heard Scott Simon's paean to the playoff bound Chicago Cubs baseball team. It was well deserved. The Cubs haven't won anything since the 1940s. But closer to home, there's been a story this year that is at least as interesting and maybe more amazing, the Minnesota Twins.
There was lots of pooh poohing around the office today. The Twins blew a 3 run lead last night to Cleveland and in the process probably threw away their last real chance at the playoffs. A miracle is still possible. The Twins might still make the playoffs, but it's not likely. But so what? At $1 million pitcher here, $1 million shortstop there, and the Twins might have won their division going away.
But could winning the pennant that way been nearly as much fun? Here, after all, was a minimum wage team that last spring looked like a bunch of losers. They were playing in a sanitized dome and packing their bags for Tampa. But summer arrived, the Twins hung in, they got a new owner, and they found Kirby Puckett.
And now here we are well into the fall and what should be the football season and the lowly Minnesota Twins are still playing important games, still with a shot at the World Series. Now that is a story. No matter what happens in Cleveland this weekend, win or lose, it's been a great summer and thanks are in order. Now, if the Twins can just sweep their last three and Kansas City loses at least twice--
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