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You are all invited to a winter game thread involving Harmon Killebrew

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Hi, Twins Fans!

My name is Mike, and I go by Shibo in the world of SB Nation. I'm mostly a member of the Over The Monster community over there. I'm a die-hard Red Sox fan. Please try not to hold that against me! :)


This offseason, I've tried to bring something new to our community. As you know, the offseason is way too long, and one thing that I really missed was the nightly gamethreads. They keep the community going, and it's a fun way to watch a ballgame. So, I decided to try some classic gamethreads, with some meaningful games that would allow our fans to learn a little something while spending some quality time together. We had some success with our first game, and decided to branch out a bit after that. We invited the fans at Red Reporter to join us, and we've been watching the 1975 World Series, one night a week, for the past 6 weeks. It makes the offseason a little shorter, and we've all made some great friendships between the fanbases.

Now, we're obviously running out of games! :)

We just watched Game 6, and we're going to wait until after the holidays to finish up game 7 (We'll watch that on 1/9). I wanted to do something fun in the 2 weeks in between. I thought we might try watching some Home Run Derby, that 1960's series, during the holidays. I also thought we might bring in a few new fanbases to watch with us. If this works out well, going forward I'll keep the invitations coming and we can watch a few more games before the spring training games start. We've talked about the 1970 All-Star Game (Rose takes out Fosse at the plate), and after that, we can decide what else people would like to see.

What makes these game threads special is the chance to not only watch some baseball history, but to interact with the best of the SB Nation fanbases. We talk history, we've been talking winter meetings, and just sharing our love of baseball with some fans that we wouldn't otherwise meet. These friendships carry over in other SB Nation articles, and just generally result in more respect between the fanbases.

I'd like to invite Twinkietown to participate in our viewing of the Home Run Derby episodes on 12/26 and 1/2. Harmon Killebrew shows up in the 4th episode, and there are some other great baseball names in there as well, including Mantle and Aaron, Mays and Kaline. Assuming we all get along, I'd just keep inviting you guys to the new games each week. And of course, you'd help us pick future games to watch.

These threads have been taking place on Friday nights, at 9 PM EST. I figure we'll probably watch the first 4 episodes on 12/26, and the next 4 on 1/2.

Thanks for listening! I look forward to meeting some of you this week. Please reply below if this is something you might like to do. I'm just trying to get an idea of the interest, to share with my friends at OTM and RR.

Take Care,
Shibo/Mike