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Laurel Krahn

@wintwins.bsky.social

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Not Joe Mauer, but I enjoy his work. She/her. Baseball fan. Minnesotan AF. Twins STH 1984-2019, more or less. Widow as of 11/12/24 💔 Missing Kevin G. Austin. Non-sports talk: windowseat.bsky.social Elsewhere/email/wishlist: linktr.ee/LaurelKrahn

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Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · Mar 9

New pinned post/thread. 🧵

My husband of 19 years @kevingaustin.bsky.social passed away suddenly on 11/11/24; if I seem grumpy or sad or am slow to respond-- that's why! The obituary I wrote for him is below.

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Next posts are less sad.

Kevin Glen Austin - View Obituary & Service Information

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Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 55m

Darn right! (LOL)

Old Tweets from WinTwins @wintweets.bsky.social · May 27

Hammermade finger guns

Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 56m

I know some of you have the pictures from when the Twins went to Puerto Rico to play a game and dressed up and Joe . . . well. Was iconic. 😂

Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 57m

That time Joe Mauer was featured in a "special advertising section" for Puerto Rico in the March 2006 issue of Travel + Leisure magazine. (Link is to BatGirl's coverage and discussion of this.) (Talk of modeling shirts led me to this trip down memory lane.)

Old Tweets from WinTwins @wintweets.bsky.social · Apr 16

Joe Mauer is in Puerto Rico right now.

(Pix snagged from this classic: https://web.archive.org/web/20071004064239/http://www.bat-girl.com/archives/001375.php )

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Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 1h

I swear there was a time period where most of the players were modeling shirts but not Joe but then he got with the program.

Old Tweets from WinTwins @wintweets.bsky.social · Apr 26

OMG Joe is also now Hammermade

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Nathan Bishop @nathanhb.bsky.social · 1h

Current mood

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Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, okay, i guess that Brewers - Cubs game is already going (was just gonna turn over and checked the score).

Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 1h

"Former catcher, that means he's smart." - A.J.

Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 1h

Guess they started that in 2015 and it lasted at least a couple of years. (Hell, for all I know they're still doing it.)

Old Tweets from WinTwins @wintweets.bsky.social · Apr 13

Nice weather, free hoodies, strange catalog-esque photos of Twins starters on scoreboard, a ballpark not staffed well enough for a sellout.

Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 1h

I may have talked about these being J.C. Penney catalog poses.

Old Tweets from WinTwins @wintweets.bsky.social · Apr 16

Catalog of Twins!

#TargetField http://t.co/WvKE7jlRdQ

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Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 1h

This one was confusing.

Old Tweets from WinTwins @wintweets.bsky.social · May 23

LOL Niko is a Hammermade trooper.

Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 1h

Remember when the Twins did shirt ads on the scoreboard for Hammermade? Figured I'd share Mitch Garver since he's still playing ball.

Old Tweets from WinTwins @wintweets.bsky.social · Apr 11

Hammermade

Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 1h

These shirts they keep advertising talk like a stiff collar is a huge selling point but then mention being "free from uncomfortable long sleeves" and I would think a stiff collar would be more uncomfortable.

Also why must baseball fans be subjected to this same ad for shirts over & over?

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tryingthisthingout.bsky.social @tryingthisthingout.bsky.social · 19h

It's very funny that the 3 foot 6 ken Rosenthal has the normal adult man voice and the Paul bunyanesque Aaron Judge next to him sounds muppety

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 19h

They can't get both Rosenthal and Judge in the shot

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Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 19h

But not comically taller.

Old Tweets from WinTwins @wintweets.bsky.social · Oct 8

Justin Morneau is taller than Ken Rosenthal.

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Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 19h

/lunges for the remote so I don't have to listen to ARod & Mr. Ortiz & Jeter at the Big Desk.

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Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 19h

I was rooting for the Blue Jays but more baseball will be good too. (Alas, Louie got the loss. Poor Louie.)

Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 19h

Here we go:

I'mNotAHRHitter @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social · 19h

LMAOOOOOO

Ken Singleton looking up at Aaron Judge while holding a mic

Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 19h

Judge is comically taller than Rosenthal. Love that for us (and this interview).

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 13d

More baseball tomorrow (threatening)

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Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 19h

No weird baseball?

Our trombone section is sad.

YouTube video by Minnesota Orchestra

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Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 19h

Talk of Land of the Lost elsewhere caused me to find this old tweet. #KevinQuotes (We might've been talking about Cody Stashak and how I'd mishear his name.)

Old Tweets from WinTwins @wintweets.bsky.social · Jul 28

Me: “Sleestak, is that who’s pitching for us?”

Kevin: “Yes, there’s a sleestak pitching for us now.” [hisses like a sleestak.]

[minutes later]

Me: “A sleestak might pitch better.”

Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 19h

I sometimes think about that time period when they replaced Harold Reynolds with John Smoltz and most of baseball Twitter seemed to think it was an upgrade (I did!) but then things took a turn.

Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 19h

Yes i'm gonna just keep doing periodic searches on here on Smoltz though I haven't covered common misspellings on his name.

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Jeremy Tice @tice.me · 20h

I would listen to any random fan in the stands over John Smoltz, just give one of them a mic

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