Thursday, June 29, 2006
Mauer is the man!
As the great now former college football announcer Keith Jackson would say..."WHOA, NELLIE!"....Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer has captured all of our hearts and minds with his amazing play, and quite humble style going about this incredible run, too! The Star-Tribune writer Paul Levy described Mauer's typical end of the weekend.....[ "How glamorous is Joe's life?" asked Tony Leseman, a former Cretin-Derham Hall teammate and former University of Minnesota player. "Sunday night, we watched the College World Series together (on TV)."
After going 4-for-5 against the Dodgers on Monday night, Mauer celebrated by going bowling with lifelong friend Larry Nava.]
Levy also reported the Twins are planning a Joe Mauer Sideburn Day, in which fans will receive synthetic sideburns in tribute of the side-burned Mauer.
For those of you that might not follow baseball....Joe Mauer is on an incredible run...leading the major leagues with an eye-popping .392 batting average...(hitting the ball into "fair play" 102 times out of 260 official attempts) No player has hit over point-four hundred for the season since Ted Williams "The splendid splinter" in 1941. Even the great Rod Carew only managed a point three eighty eight average with the 1977 Twins!
As Twins Center Fielder Torii Hunter put it recently..."What Joe Mauer’s doing is sick. He’s 23 years old. What’s he going to do when he gets man muscles?”
After going 4-for-5 against the Dodgers on Monday night, Mauer celebrated by going bowling with lifelong friend Larry Nava.]
Levy also reported the Twins are planning a Joe Mauer Sideburn Day, in which fans will receive synthetic sideburns in tribute of the side-burned Mauer.
For those of you that might not follow baseball....Joe Mauer is on an incredible run...leading the major leagues with an eye-popping .392 batting average...(hitting the ball into "fair play" 102 times out of 260 official attempts) No player has hit over point-four hundred for the season since Ted Williams "The splendid splinter" in 1941. Even the great Rod Carew only managed a point three eighty eight average with the 1977 Twins!
As Twins Center Fielder Torii Hunter put it recently..."What Joe Mauer’s doing is sick. He’s 23 years old. What’s he going to do when he gets man muscles?”
