#joe mauer

[artform-virtue]

minnesota twins + tumblr posts pt. 2 (pt. 1)

[chirpingfromthebox]

Minnesota Frost captain Kendall Coyne Schofield hanging out with the most beloved Minnesota Twins alumni Joe Mauer at the first Minnesota Vikings game of the season.

That's some concentrated Minnesota sports energy right there!

[bigbuxbolds]

i dont think joe ryan got the message for the dress code

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

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Fantastic Mauertracker moment this Sunday.

Justin Morneau confesses to having requested to be inducted into the Twins Hall of Fame at the same time as his baseball bff and Twins legend Joe Mauer, dumbfounding his broadcasting partner Dick Bremer who assumed that anybody in that situation would have an issue with Joe getting the spotlight during their own enshrinement. The booth atmosphere briefly skirts awkwardness as Justin audibly gets self-conscious at the realisation that his point of view is not the mainstream one. A truly insane couple of minutes, especially at the end when he reveals that he perceives himself as having spent his career hiding behind Joe?

Transcript under cut for your reading pleasure.

Bremer: Now, isn't it nice, though, that Joe is the only inductee [into the Twins Hall of Fame] this year? How’d you like to be going into the Twins Hall of Fame WITH JOE MAUER. You’d get the same feeling every Vice President of the United States has. Morneau: [chuckling] Bremer: You— you'd just... you know. Morneau: Actually, I... requested... for that to happen. Bremer: That he be the only one? Morneau [quieter]: No. I actually— I thought it would be kinda cool if we went in at the same time. Bremer [genuinely surprised]: Oh, if you both went in— I see. Well I mean you went in all by yourself, but. Morneau: Thankfully, otherwise we wouldn’t have played that game that day. [his speech was, notoriously, half an hour long] Bremer: Well… Chances are the second speech wouldn’t have been nearly as long as the first one, but… What was it, an hour and twelve minutes? Morneau: Something like that. Bremer: But d’you know what I mean, I mean... who would ever remember that you went in... Morneau [amused]: Same time as Joe? Bremer: With Joe Mauer! [long silence. Thirty subsequent seconds of explanations as to why Joe's number retirement and Hall of Fame induction happened separately are cut out] Bremer [haltingly]: And— And, uh, we... kid a lot up here but... Were you serious? You actually requested... that, that you and Joe be inducted together? Morneau: Yeah, I don’t think he was technically eligible when I was eligible cause he played longer than I did, but... Yeah, I thought it would be— and we were... linked... so much... else... throughout our career... Bremer [encouragingly]: Right... That would have been cool! Morneau: But also. [long pause] Hard— hard to believe, but I don't really like... Attention, standing in front of a [nervous chuckle] stadium full of people and... [quieter] thought it'd be kinda nice. Just hide behind Joe again. Let him… Bremer: [laughs] Morneau [audibly smiling]: Like I did forever.

[gusbuses]

twins: This is what a Hall of Fame career looks like

[roycelewis]

FIRST YEAR ON THE BALLOT AND HE'S IN COOPERSTOWN, BABY ❤️💙🤍✨⚾✨🤍💙❤️

[joeryan41]

I’m kind of obsessed with these pictures from the place where Mauer and Morneau were living together in the early-mid 2000s.

I feel like I’ve been in this house before. Like this is where 20-something Midwestern bachelors all live. Behind every MLB all-star is an absolute dork of a man.