In a recent article in USA Today, Joe Mauer said he would be hosting a party for his friend Justin Morneau's 24th birthday this Sunday at his home—a.k.a. "Hotel Joe." Team Batgirl was able to secure an invitation and took these top secret pictures to share with you. We are very pleased to present:
The guests begin to arrive. "Be careful," Mike Redmond warns. "Joe gets pretty Martha about these parties. Did you bring your toga?"
The happy host! To-GA! To-GA!
Things get pretty crazy as Terry Mulholland pours some carbonated green tea on Matt Guerrier.
The guest of honor arrives and looks skeptically at the toga Mauer throws him.
"You'll wear that toga and LIKE IT!"
"Hey, what the HELL'S that?"
"GODDAMN IT CUDDY! I SAID NO CRAPPY LOVE SONGS!"
Matt LeCroy rolls in! But where's his toga?
"Shout! (Come on now!)"
There's that toga, Matty! A little bit softer now!
"Hey, Joe, this toga party's all right."
"Hey that's great, Justin! Now, let's have a PANTY RAID!"
"AWESOME!"
Holy wow. That was great. I still wanna go to Hotel Joe, though.
Posted by: Sam at May 16, 2005 11:01 PM"Wait 'til Otis sees us! He loved us!!!"
Posted by: heraldguy at May 16, 2005 11:44 PMBatgirl, will you marry me?
Oh, wait....um, sorry Jeb....um....
I need a "batgirl" of my own... :) Someone to make me laugh - and teach me the ways of loving the Twins, even when its hard and the fear-of-the-sucking-time is upon us...
Just thought i'd share that Joe did indeed sign my Joe Mauer is my boyfriend shirt. He was such a nice guy too. He asked me if I made it, I of course, gave all the credit to batgirl, and he goes its funny, i've never seen one like that before, and smiled his gorgeous little smile at me...needless to say, I was in heaven.
Posted by: Molly at May 17, 2005 12:05 AMLike Sam, I also want to go to Hotel Joe. Amazing, BG!!
Molly, that's awesome! I also met him Saturday and he is such a great guy.
Posted by: Stacy at May 17, 2005 12:12 AMoh oh...are any of the boys going to be on double secret probation after this party?
Posted by: SDave at May 17, 2005 05:58 AMTOGA TOGA TOGA...
Did Justin get a special red checkered one since it was his bday? Too funny!
This morning when I got to work (after unsuccessfully trying to win Twins-Yankees tickets on the radio), my first thought was "Oh God... What if it's more Hottest Chick pictures?" Thank you BG, for not having Hottest Chick pictures today. It looks like it was a pretty wild party! Hopefully there won't be any double-secret probation from Bud "Dean Wormer" Selig.
Posted by: ndtf at May 17, 2005 08:09 AMBut did Little Nicky Punto show up without that pledge pin??
Posted by: Ron at May 17, 2005 08:10 AM
So Jeb, are you going to be at the game tonight to see your former BF, or will it be too painful?
Speaking of Koskie, did you all see the story in the STrib? Click my name for the link. Hide your underwear, boys!
Posted by: ndtf at May 17, 2005 09:18 AMLNP was there...its just our little superhero drank so much he cuddled up in one of the folds of Lecroys toga and went to sleep
Posted by: Bojangles Crain at May 17, 2005 09:34 AMIn the words of Shannon Stewart: "Uh oh... That cat wears sunglasses!"
Posted by: Roscoe at May 17, 2005 09:35 AMLNP was there...its just our little superhero drank so much he cuddled up in one of the folds of Lecroys toga and went to sleep
Posted by: Bojangles Crain at May 17, 2005 09:35 AMI thought I remember seeing LNP pushing the mayor's daughter home in a shopping cart.
I always knew Niedermeyer was a Bitch Sox fan...
Posted by: ndtf at May 17, 2005 10:33 AMNY-Brian,
You aren't the only one hoping against hope to find him a BG of his own. Just keep the faith and it may happen someday.
Wow! All I can say, Bat-Girl, is WOW. Thanks for that inside view of Hotel Joe. I'll have to get a toga ready, just in case I get invited someday...
JustBeth
Posted by: Just Beth at May 17, 2005 12:14 PMIt will bring back a lot of memories, TGoddess, but I'll watch. I've got to support my new Boyfriend, though. I hope he goes 4-4 and Corey goes 3-4.
Posted by: Jeb at May 17, 2005 12:48 PMHotel Joe:
Last thing I remember
I was running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
Relax said the nightman
We are programed to recieve
You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave
El diablo!
Posted by: Batgirl at May 17, 2005 01:12 PMLOL el diablo! That was my first thought when I saw the entry. Of course, my second thought was "Toga! Toga! Toga!" so...
And in honor of the Good Doctor's birthday, Starz OnDemand is showing The Island of Dr. Moreau!
Posted by: theladyscribe at May 17, 2005 02:10 PMJustBeth...
you know you are going to kill all the poor single guys on this site with talk like that! Now they are all imagining single female baseball fans dressed in togas...
I think I can actually hear the hyperventillation.
Posted by: CapitalBabs at May 17, 2005 03:45 PMCapitalBabs-
I too have a toga, a reminder of my wild & crazy days at NDSU. Toga is a hallowed tradition to one particular group of farm kids and is something that I missed dearly in February. Crap. Now I can't stop humming the tune to the unofficial fight song. On the plains of North Dakota...
MK, that was simply the term I decided was appropriate for a distinct sound of heavy breathing.
Posted by: CapitalBabs at May 17, 2005 04:42 PMCapitalBabs,
That's what I figured. I just got too cute with the snarky comment, is all. Sometimes when I try to be funny I am, but sometimes...well, my rarely-updated blog *is* named "Open Mouth, Insert" for a reason.
MK
Posted by: mk at May 17, 2005 05:38 PM*wink*
ok... I just thought you were a little too dizzy to make sense of it all.
Posted by: CapitalBabs at May 17, 2005 05:52 PMDid I ever mention that I was a roommate of and fraternity brother of Chris Miller, who wrote "Animal House"? Well so it was. I had dinner with him in March. Al
Posted by: al at May 17, 2005 05:53 PMDammit, now I have the "unofficial fight song" of NDSU in my head. Oh well, it'll take my mind off the fact that my own Batgirl has insisted on watching the Country Music Awards so she can critique their "outfits".
Posted by: Jerjo at May 17, 2005 08:35 PMWow that was gr8 i want 2 go 2 hotel joe. I think it would be so kool!
Posted by: bob at May 18, 2005 04:00 PM