BONUS - KIRBY PUCKETT

I went to Kirby's retirement ceremony at the metrodome. It has taken awhile for me to listen to this. He was so beloved. The Twins were so great to watch.

Jimmie please take a look at Alejandro Kirk for a current chunky baseball player to make yourself feel better about yourself. He's my inspiration

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I have fond memories of trading baseball cards as a kid in the 80’s. Getting a Kirby Puckett card was a BIG deal.

I've hated Kirby Puckett since I was 9.

Ron Gant Story: Ron was on the A's in Oakland in 2001. He mostly played in LF where we had the famous flags and drummers. We'd always get to games early because the bleachers were general admission, so We'd have to be first in line and then run to get to our seats to guarantee our usual spots. Anyhow. We got to talk to Ron alot during the season. He was cool as fuck. We even talked about getting together during the last road trip of the year in Anaheim. Ron was down, and said all he needed was the name of the restraint and he'd be there. We all got time off from work for the series. Then we turned on our this. The series was to take place on September 12-14th. It never happened. The games were never played. Ron was a good dude

Overshare here: for Jimmie. Because I don’t get it either. The only time my mom ever slapped me, was because of this guy, when she was with a married dude. I was 13yo. Her bf was “cheating” on my mom with his HIS WIFE. I told her it doesn’t work that way lady. Then again when he was cheating on her and his wife with another woman. They got together and hated the third woman. Not sure why she included me in this. I was 14yo. And asked her if she thought her she thought she had a golden pussy??? Smack! Women like this don’t get it. You’re not special ma’am.

When my dad was in the local VA, Kirby made his rounds through the hospital and my dad got his autograph. This was way back in 1989/1990.

After meeting Kirby several times, including at charity events, in seeing the way he never changed my opinion is that the legal allegations may or may not have been true, but the rest was pure lies and character assassination out of spite.

Idk if this was just a MN thing but when we’d pick who was “it” for tag we’d do the Kirby rhyme. “ Kirby Puckett pooped in a bucket, what color was his poop?? “ then you’d spell out a color and the last persons head you picked while spelling was “it”.

I think Roberto Clemente was the youngest hall of famer to die.

I find baseball to be a boring sport to watch.

I graduated from Triton. Work pretty close to there. They have nice memorial display for him there

Omg I’m dead! You guys are so funny

24…lol😂😂😂

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This is a good warm up to the future Phil Mickelson episode

My husband is a third generation Twins fan; when they won the World Series in 87, he was 11. Kirby Puckett was his favorite player until the news came out about him and that’s when he learned about rape and domestic violence LOL. He still loves the Twins, eff Kirby Puckett

As a lifelong Braves fan yall are killing me with these 90’s baseball players. Literally my soul hurts remembering how close we were.

Absolute legend. Just beloved everywhere. I grew up a BoSox fan but everyone loved Kirby...

Maybe he had some TBI/CTE from that hit to his head as well

I never heard of Kirby being a criminal. Great ball player.

Ron Gant’s a super nice guy when it comes to signing fan mail. Inked up three cards for me.

Yayyyy

My mom went to Calumet with Kirby. She used to tell me stories about him. He grew up on the South Side

Dyslexic Jackie Robinson fucking killed me. 24 staring Kiefer Sutherland the Jackie Robinson story. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

The Kirby years were the baseball highlight of my life. Herbeck was my favorite growing up. He's a hilarious dude.

We will see you tomorrow night greatest call in twins history

She wanted it. Sex in close proximity to a urinal, mmmmm.

My dad's the oldest of 8 and his youngest brother was a whoops and born when my dad was 20. The 7th was about 8-9 at the time. That uncle is only 9 years older than I am. 🤭

Kirby Puckett is a legend. I never watched him play but he always had that Giant smile on his face in baseball cards and photos

This one gets me in the feels. I was a huge Kirby fan as a kid.

Never heard of this guy, was looking him up on facebook. Just as I was looking through his photos Jimmie says I have never seen a photo of him smiling. Every pic I saw he was smiling .

Yes!

Yeyyyyyyyyyyyyyy I've never been first!.