Twinkie Town Talk: The Squirrel Edition

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Here’s what you may have missed on Twinkie Town:

• a preview of this week’s series on the docket for the Twins, which I may have jinxed
• Boomstick returned from the IL
• Zach compared a current Bomba Squad member to a famous Twins player
• Spring Training schedule is out and Joel is taking us to a bunch of games (thanks again, Joel!)
• a turtle is hitting bombas in rehab, among other injury updates
• it’s squirrel week here in Twins Territory and TJ has some background info on the famous guy as well as a fresh t-shirt if you want to represent
• the squirrel made an appearance not once, but twice, but not thrice, resulting in a series loss to the Pale Hose

Here’s what you may have missed outside of Twinkie Town:

• a writer thinks the squirrel is an idiot and “nutmegged” is trending across the globe as a word that’s not a word
• and we might not see the rally squirrel ever again
• in non-squirrel-related news, the team is not promising that a prospect that everyone is clamoring for will see the bigs this year

Here’s what you may have missed in the baseball world:

• one rival’s starting pitcher suffered a setback in rehab and is being shut down for a couple weeks
• while the same rival has another starting pitcher who was diagnosed with leukemia earlier this year starting rehab, which is awesome to see
• an American Association team is getting the boot from their stadium, but both the team and the league say they’ll stay in town
• the Little League team from Minnesota fielded the only girl in this year’s World Series; she notched a ꓘ and made a great play off the mound

Discussion:

You probably won’t hear from me this weekend (please hold your applause until the end) since I’m taking my annual trip to the Great Minnesota Get-Together, a.k.a. the Minnesota State Fair. It begs the question: What’s your favorite fair food? If you’ve been to multiple state fairs, which one is your favorite?