ALDS Game 3

I don't think I've wrung my hands so much in my life. And I was very happy to have my homer hanky as a security blanket to fiddle with. Goodness it was stressful last night. Thankfully for the first 6 1/2 innings it was good stressful, and even for the next 1 1/2 after that it was alright. That last inning was brutal, though. But it was good to be there nontheless.

Pavano was outstanding, Guerrier was brilliant, Denard was denardiest, and Joe saved that day. The seats were great, I got to experience the post season, and I got a ball from the ALDS(specifically tossed to me, even though I wasn't asking for one), which is very cool. I was at the last game at the Dome and saw home plate being dug up. I saw Joe Nathan take dirt from the pitcher's mound to put on the new pitcher's mound at Target Field.

"After the Yankees left the field and before workers arrived to dig up home plate late Sunday night, Twins closer Joe Nathan walked, head down, from the dugout and swiped two handfuls of dirt from the Metrodome mound.
He didn't expect to hear cheers, not after his failures helped the Yankees sweep the Twins in three games in their first-round playoff series. He had hoped to "slip in and slip out," but most of a crowd of 54,735 had stayed to look around on the last night of baseball in the big blue room, and they saw Nathan leaving the mound for the last time and cheered.
"I thought it was going to be me grabbing some dirt, just like a kid playing in the playground," Nathan said. "I didn't expect to stir the crowd or anything. I didn't expect the reaction.
"It was just something for me to bring a little piece of this place to the new place, sprinkle that on the mound. We've had some good times in this building." - Jim Souhan, StarTribune

People cheered. After we were swept in the ALDS, people cheered. The point isn't that we lost the division series, but that we had a good season, won our division when everyone counted us out, and that we love our boys no matter what.