{"id":140562,"date":"2025-06-29T23:12:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T23:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/140562\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T23:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T23:12:14","slug":"game-84-twins-at-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/140562\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 84: Twins at Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Pitch: 6:10 PM CT
\nTV: Twins.TV<\/a><\/p>\n

Radio: TIBN<\/a><\/p>\n

Know Thine Enemy: Bless You Boys<\/a><\/p>\n

For the first time since 2020, we gather on a Sunday night to watch the Minnesota Twins<\/a> battle the Detroit Tigers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Motor City denizens were also on the receiving end of one of the greatest managerial meltdowns of all time\u2014a figure who I recently finished a biography of…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

If you are looking for a solid baseball bio, check out Earl Weaver: Baseball\u2019s Last Manager<\/a> penned by John W. Miller.<\/p>\n

I had always heard stories about the antics of the longtime Baltimore Orioles<\/a> skipper, but they were all before my time as a fan (or mostly even on this Earth). As such, it was interesting to read about Weaver\u2019s wondrous & wacky antics.<\/p>\n

\"Baltimore<\/p>\n

A common sight<\/p>\n

Photo by B Bennett\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

What probably struck me the most in Miller\u2019s text is how Weaver had to work his way up every rung of the Orioles managerial ladder\u2014after flaming out as a once-touted playing prospect\u2014to get to the dugout\u2019s top perch (perhaps why he was so recalcitrant about giving an inch to umpires or the like).<\/p>\n

Miller also reveals a dichotomy of how Weaver\u2019s on-field tirades seemingly labeled him a malcontent, yet numerous players cite examples of how his off-the-diamond persona was quite different and far more supportive. I wouldn\u2019t call him \u201crelaxed\u201d, but the between-the-lines stuff was as much a performance to fire up the troops as it was a glimpse into his soul.<\/p>\n

Of course, Twins fans saw their share of managerial maelstroms in the Ron Gardenhire Era…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

But even that was small potatoes compared to the Earl of Baltimore.<\/p>\n

\"Baltimore<\/p>\n

Weaver histrionics<\/p>\n

Photo by Focus on Sport\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Will Rocco Baldelli or A.J. Hinch engage in any fisticuffs with the Men in Blue tonight? I\u2019m seeing the new F-1 movie<\/a> and then walking my sister\u2019s golden retrievers<\/a> this afternoon, so in case I don\u2019t get to post the lineups before game time you can find them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First Pitch: 6:10 PM CT TV: Twins.TV Radio: TIBN Know Thine Enemy: Bless You Boys For the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[422,5,28109,181,14,822,60,4692,3190,4,594,3251,3250,148],"class_list":{"0":"post-140562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-at","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-book-club","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-game","13":"tag-minnesota","14":"tag-minnesota-twins","15":"tag-minnesota-twins-game-threads","16":"tag-minnesotatwins","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-tigers","19":"tag-town","20":"tag-twinkie","21":"tag-twins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114769189099827341","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}