TwinsFest in Photos
Written by Bill   
Tuesday, 02 February 2010 09:00
Mike / The Common Man put an excellent, if unconventional, recap of TwinsFest up at his own site. This will pretty much just be photos.

I forgot my camera on Saturday and can't figure out how to get pictures off my phone, so this is Sunday only. Not pictured, then: Jim Thome, Michael Cuddyer, Scott Baker, Aaron Hicks, crazy over-made-up girl with unbelievably huge hair, thousands of poor souls who thought Joe Mauer might be able to sign thousands of autographs in half an hour, Bob Feller, Denny McLain. Alas.



It was more crowded on Saturday.
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So we got there when it opened on Sunday morning to wait in line for Morneau, who didn't start until 11. They had three very long roped-off rows for people to wait in. 45 minutes or so into the 90-minute session, I got to the end of the middle roped-off row and took this picture of some small portion of the throng of people waiting behind the three long roped-off rows and thinking they might get all the way up to the front in the next 45 minutes or so. Line goes all the way around the corner and then who knows how long after that.


And here's the man himself, signing from the football press box:



Interestingly, Morneau's signature seems heavily first-name-focused:


While new shortstop J.J. Hardy's is all last name:


Among these three guys, you've got two left fielders, two DHes and the aforementioned shortstop:



Great slugger Frank Howard, having signed a ball for Mike, uses that ball to pose with some random kid.  Howard is an incredibly friendly and entertaining guy.


Official Relief Pitcher of the Blogosphere and all-around awesome guy Pat Neshek (couldn't believe he didn't make Prime 9's all-time freakiest deliveries last night -- if you're unfamiliar, check it out here, it's unbelievable):


Funny what missing a whole year will do. Neshek is a local kid and a fan favorite, yet halfway through his (and the awesomely-named Jeff Manship's) signing period, things looked like this:



There was a card and memorabilia show with a lot of really, really fascinating stuff. (I bought a 1961 issue of Baseball Digest for $6 that I'll be talking about here sometime soon). Here's a figurine of -- we think -- Casey Stengel in a very, very strange pose:


2009 first-round draft pick Kyle Gibson, in the free "On the Farm" line, wrote a citation to a Bible passage on (as far as I could tell) every autograph. The cited passage, Titus 3:4-5, reads: "But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit." Gotta be hard to keep that up for 90 straight minutes, especially when (unlike all the other, pay lines) he's often signing anything from 2-6 autographs for enterprising dealers:


Vikings aside! Wouldn't it have been nice if this had had a chance to be true, Sunday before last?


Michael Cuddyer will probably never hit like Harmon Killebrew, but he's clearly been practicing and getting very close to picking up at least one art form from the Killer (who missed this year's show due to a surgery):



Leaving the Metrodome (and giant mountains of snow) behind...


Gave ourselves a little in-car preview of the new place:


So freaking excited. Want to be in there now...


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written by The Common Man, February 02, 2010
"I bought a 1961 issue of Baseball Digest that I'll be talking about here sometime soon for $6"

Bill, you've been my best friend since sixth grade, and even I wouldn't pay $6 to hear you talk about a 1961 issue of Baseball Digest. smilies/tongue.gif
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written by Bill@TDS, February 02, 2010
Fixed. And I was an English major, folks!

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