Puck It

I heard about the death of Kirby Puckett last night on the radio. They started to interview former teammates and wistfully remember the '87 championship team I started to think about the 1991 World Series Championship Twins and how much I know about them. Now at this point I was 10 and well into my baseball obsession, I could only name 2 players on the Twins right now and assume Tom Kelly still manages them (certainly not true). I do know that the '91 Twins were led by the dead guy mentioned above, Kent "3 consonants in a row" Hrbek, Greg Gagne (not Gahn-yay), rookie sensation Chuck Knoblauch, future Oriole failure Scott Erickson, and the fantastic moustaches of Dan Gladden and Jack Morris. Not to wax poetic about "my day" but that dude pitched an 11 inning shutout in the World Series. That's re-goddamn-diculous. Bob Costas was probably very happy. I didn't really like this team but they did dash the championship hopes of Jeff Blauser and Mark Lemke (who could have been the same guy) and they weren't the f'in Blue Jays.

I also remember that the Metrodome was stupid. They had hockey boards in the outfield. Right field had this huge retarded wall that was covered in blue plastic and they called it the hefty bag.

I hope Bob Mould reacts to this important Twin Cities news.

This is not my first or even my second favorite Kirby Puckett card but I couldn't find the 1993 "Dream Team" one where he had no shirt on (gross) or the all-star, caricature, "hey, kid don'tcha like baseball" card.