Twins Continue Clawing Their Way Down To Bottom Of Standings

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MINNEAPOLIS—The scrappy Minnesota Twins continued to claw and fight their way down to the bottom of the standings last Wednesday, stringing together the league’s longest losing streak with their 11th-straight defeat. “This team has a lot of resolve, and we will battle tooth and nail for last place until the season is over,” said right fielder Jason Kubel, who has helped to lead the team with crucial defensive lapses and ineffectiveness at the plate. “We’ve got a lot of spunk. I don’t care who we are playing. We’ll do whatever it takes and find some way to lose.” Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said the team was slumping at the right time and might end up with the worst record in the majors

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Have they sucked ever since Kirby retired? There is no more beloved sports figure in MN history than oompa loompa Kirby Puckett. I still have an original 1987 Homer Hankie somewhere.

Yeah, Herbeck and Pucket= Gods of MN lol
I got em from 87 and what was it 96 I think

87 and 91, I also met Steve Lombardozzi at Target right after they won the series in 87. My uncle recognized him, out of nowhere he goes up to this random guy and he's like "LOMBOOOO!!! Congrats man!!!". Ya Hrbek hit the grand slam in 87, I think thats what cemented him as a local folk hero, Kirby was just a little fat dude who could catch home runs over the wall lol.