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Twins: “Land O’ Lakes Field” much ado about nothing

Apr 7th, 2008 | By CarterHayes | Category: CarterHayes, Guest Writers

[SBG] I would like to point out that at no time did we ever say that the Twins had an agreement with LOL or that the stadium would be named LOL Park or LOL Field. In fact, we explicitly stated that all of this was pure speculation on our part. I found it quite curious [...]

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Laugh all you want, come 2010 we might all be watching games at The LOL

Apr 1st, 2008 | By CarterHayes | Category: CarterHayes, Guest Writers

Welcome new readers. I hope you take a minute and look around at what we have to offer here. -- SBG
Lately the baseball world has been abuzz with excitement. Opening Day is always like that (even the third time around), but it's not every year that a new baseball-only ballpark opens in [...]

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Comment Club - CarterHayes #1000

Jan 18th, 2008 | By Andrew | Category: Andrew, CarterHayes, SBG Hall of Fame

The 2007 Postseason ("It's A Crapshoot!") has given us another comment to go up in the SBG HOF and Museum (and Gift Shop and Café and Planetarium). Everyone's favorite Russian Literature-studying Marine CarterHayes posted his 1000th comment after Game 4 of the World Series

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Kent Hrbek’s Tales from the Minnesota Twins Dugout

Jun 6th, 2007 | By CarterHayes | Category: CarterHayes, SBG Library

[contributed by: CarterHayes]

Kent Hrbek's Tales from the Minnesota Twins Dugout

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A completely different look at platooning

May 23rd, 2007 | By CarterHayes | Category: CarterHayes

As I was cruising YouTube last week in an effort to distract myself from final exams, I came across the FSN story below.

I hadn't heard of this story at all last summer when the reunion was held at the Dome for Armed Forces Appreciation Day, and I'm wondering if any WGOM readers will be able [...]

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