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Twinkie Town’s “Best of Ron Gardenhire”

Celebrating Gardy

By TJ Gorsegner@badcoffeetwins Sep 21, 2020, 2:56pm EDT

As we did when Little Nicky Punto and “Boring” Joe Mauer retired, its time to round up some of our favorite things about Ron Gardenhire that have appeared on this site over the years. He’s been a favorite target of our humor, so this really just skims the surface.

Scenes from an off season: Jon Marthaler (yeah, the soccer guy, he used to write here) spins tales of what life is like when you’re Ron Gardenhire and his Twins teams, and there is no baseball to be played. Several other writers contributed entries as well.

Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3, Vol 4, Vol 5, Vol 6, Vol 7, Vol 8 Vol 9, Vol 9.5, Vol 10, Vol 11,

Scenes from a not season: Myjah’s classic take on what life is like for a suddenly-fired MLB manager. When it’s on-season, you’re playing baseball. When it’s off-season, you’re thinking about playing baseball. When you’re a fired manager with no new job? It’s a NOT-season.

Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3, Vol 4, Vol 5, Vol 6, Vol 7

Ron Gardenhire builds pyramid of beer cans: More things he did after the Twins fired him

Ron Gardenhire reviews the Gilmore Girls: As only Randball Stu could write

Ron Gardenhire texts Nick Punto: Our favorite Twins bromance

Ron Gardenhire calls for help: From the very early days of this site

Ron Gardenhire Ejections: Fun with numbers from OG Blogboss Jesse

Ron Gardenhire and the return of Kevin Slowey: Poor guy. Ron or Kevin though?

Glengardy: Gardy motivates the bullpen

The best teams of the Ron Gardenhire era: This one isn’t even a satire post

Ron Gardenhire is his own man, and runs his own team: gets fired up

The time Ron Gardenhire quit: or didn’t.

Ron Gardenhire’s 1000th career win