For the sake of my own mental health I forgave Lonnie Smith for his baserunning gaffe years ago. Ultimately he is a player who was destined to screw up like he did. He was, is and will always be Lonnie Smith, and if Lonnie Smith doesn’t get deked and screw the hell up in Game 7, he could have just as easily fallen down in the outfield and allowed Chili Davis to hit an inside the park home run or something.

In other words, you budget for a Lonnie Smith screwup. The Hrbek thing still hurts.

Does anyone know where a brother could get a DVD or download of the complete 1991 World Series?

I looked this up once, so let’s use it.

The Twins played in the home open air from 1961-81.

Earliest opening day: April 6 (once, 1971). Opened on 4/9 three times, 4/11 once, 4/12 twice, 4/13 twice, and 4/14 three times, which is our median value. (The latest home opener was 4/23 in 1972, no doubt due to the strike.)

Latest season ender: October 4 (twice, 1964 & ‘72). Closed on 10/3 once, 10/2 twice, 10/1 twice, 9/30 four times, and we again reach our median.

Postseason closers: 10/4 (1970), 10/6 (1969), and 10/14 in the 1965 World Series.

With seasons sometimes starting in late March and the postseason threatening to drag into November, that’s roughly a potential extra two weeks of weather on both ends that the Twins and their opponents and fans may have to endure in the open. Certainly they can, and it’ll be good, but it would be parts of the calendar that have never been tried in the Twin Cities climate before, not by major league baseball.

Yay you on catching my spelling error.
Boo you on hatin’ on crime victims like Gant.