{"id":1952828,"date":"2025-08-10T17:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1952828"},"modified":"2025-08-10T17:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:07:15","slug":"game-117-royals-at-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/game-117-royals-at-twins\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 117: Royals at Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A few weeks ago while in Denver, I attended a 1990s exhibit at the History Colorado center. Besides remembering news events like Dolly the cloned sheep, Bill Clinton\u2019s impeachment (\u201cI\u2026did not\u2026okay, maybe I did\u201d), O.J.\u2019s black gloves, and Tonya Harding whacking Nancy Kerrigan, I got to stroll through a Blockbuster Video mockup and play some Mario Kart \u201964. It was a mini-jaunt back to my 90s childhood in the best possible way!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sadly, the Minnesota Twins seem destined\u2014at least for a time\u2014to also return to the tail end of the 20th century\u2019s final decade. Those were rough years, which saw the franchise become the laughingstock of MLB.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Wanna know why? Well, here\u2019s just a small reason: I present to you the last two months of play for the 1997-2000 Twins\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">1997: 20-36 (68-94 final record, 4th place in AL Central)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">1999: 19-39 (63-97-1, 5th)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A metronome (in the Metrodome) of losing baseball.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Will our current No-Name Twins stoop to such levels (maybe this would be a good time for a Little Big League reboot)? Only time\u2014and a long stretch of competitively-irrelevant games\u2014will tell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.twinkietown.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago while in Denver, I attended a 1990s exhibit at the History Colorado center. Besides remembering news events like Dolly the cloned sheep, Bill Clinton\u2019s impeachment (\u201cI\u2026did not\u2026okay, maybe I did\u201d), O.J.\u2019s black gloves, and Tonya Harding whacking Nancy Kerrigan, I got to stroll through a Blockbuster Video mockup and play some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1952829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[341711],"class_list":["post-1952828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-game-threads"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Game-117-Royals-at-Twins.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1952829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}