This is Part 3 of a 7-part look-back at what happened in Minnesota sports over the past 12 months. Some of these stories are obviously figments of my imagination. A couple actually happened. These are the tales, imageries, conversations, and visualizations that best described, at least for me, what it meant to be a Minnesota sports fan over the past 12 months.
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Three friends and I went in on a Minnesota Twins 20-game
season ticket plan for the 2012 season. We held two seats just to the right of
the bullpens in the right field bleachers. 2011 had been a disappointing,
injury-riddled year for a Twins team that had been expected to challenge in the
American League, the year when only three position players made it through 100
games, Tsuyoshi Nishioka broke out and Drew Butera played in 93 games and
posted a .449 OPS—a figure that I think could have been matched by either of
Joe Mauer’s at-that-point-unborn twin girls.
