Tweet: Re-realized for 10,000th time that my kitchen floor is exactly the same color as a spaghetti noodle.
But I can't tweet because I'm banned from Twitter. Funny story. Someone I follow was traveling in Iowa and tweeted about the aggressive friendliness he encountered in diners and motels. I replied that if he thought he was being suffocated in Iowa, do not cross into Minnesota cuz "we will kill you." He "liked" the tweet but Twitter's algorithms did not. Lifetime ban!
Daughter told me a joke. What's the difference between Trump and a bird? A bird can still tweet. Almost confessed to her my own sentence. Her dad and Trump: both too depraved for Twitter. But I don't think Trump's ban is for the term of his natural life.
Same daughter just said, "I'm going to Henry's house." I said, "Fine, go to Henry's." She said, "I wasn't asking you, I was telling you."
I'm enjoying Jim Kaat as a color commentator during Twins telecasts. Today, I think he's mentioned around 18 times that in yesterday's game there were 18 full counts. I'm thinking he gets paid by the game, not the hour. Justin Morneau, on the other hand, is paid by the number of words he speaks. He says some smart-sounding things but I attribute this to the Law of Large Numbers.
Kaat just said that when he was struggling with his control Twins catcher Earl Battey would set the target in the middle of the plate and then do the sign of the cross.
Earl Battey! An under-appreciated figure from the early history of the Twins. He grew up in the Watts neighborhood of LA. I don't think many kids are playing baseball there nowadays. My daughter—older one, not the smart ass—has observed that all the Black players speak Spanish. (She's enough of a fan to keep the TV on during "Twins Live Postgame," when they interview players.) Anyway, Battey: he was a 4-time all-star, won 3 gold-glove awards, and finished in the top-10 of the American League's MVP balloting 3 times as well. Except for Mauer, best player at his position the Twins have ever had.
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