Dear Batgirl,
How can TC bear be in Florida and simultaneously be teaching young children how to read at Marshall Field's Southdale?
Sincerely,
Donnalove
Dear Ms. Love,
This is an excellent question. I am sure there are some people who might try to convince you that TC is just a guy in a bear suit, like mall Santas without the whiskey-breath, but those people are clearly very, very stupid. The real answer is that, like Saddam Hussein, TC has employed a series of body doubles. It makes sense. A bear of his stature is going to face all sorts of threats, from kidnapping to assassination to wild bee attack. Just think of what might happen if someone (I'm looking at you, Buerhle) put TC under some kind of bear hypnosis and convinced him that Johan Santana was a big jar of honey! In other words, you can never know which TC Bear is the real one. If you study the pictures below you'll notice subtle differences in TC's appearance:
Scary, isn't it?
Sincerely,
Batgirl
Excuse me if I'm incoherent for a while. I shall return when I quit laughing.
Posted by: Just Beth at March 27, 2006 10:22 PMBG hon.. you owe me a pair of dry undies...
*laughs again*
Posted by: CapitalBabs at March 27, 2006 11:00 PMThe real TC... on the bottom right?
Posted by: Ryan at March 27, 2006 11:13 PMaww matty !! im gonna miss him. :( what a sweetheart
Posted by: Casey Mientkiewicz-Castro-Rincon at March 27, 2006 11:23 PMthose top two imposters just aren't convincing at all
Posted by: dan in london at March 28, 2006 01:53 AM"You never can tell with bees."
Posted by: BAT bandwagoner at March 28, 2006 08:15 AMThe odd thing is that the Nationals now have a mascot who looks just like that bottom picture; maybe TC has a Twin (get it? "Twin"???) brother?
Sorry. I couldn't help myself.
Posted by: adidasman at March 28, 2006 08:35 AMI have ALWAYS said that Matty looks like poohbear, so i wasn't far off. who knew he was actually TC? learn something every day.
Posted by: aurora at March 28, 2006 09:27 AMWow, all three of those people must be sweating like crazy inside those big furry heads!
Posted by: SDave at March 28, 2006 09:44 AMDon't give Buerhle any ideas, now!
Posted by: mk at March 28, 2006 10:45 AMI'm really going to miss TC chuggin'around the bases this year.
Posted by: caluofmn at March 28, 2006 12:11 PMDoes anyone else remember this Winnie-the-Pooh exercise ditty?:
"When I up, down, and touch the ground, it puts me in the mood.
Up, down, touch the ground -- in the mood for food!
I am stout, fat, and proud of that. Speaking poundage-wise,
Oh, I improve my appetite when I exercise."
I wonder what put that in my head?
Posted by: hrunting at March 28, 2006 12:17 PMHA!! Hilarious!!
Posted by: Stacy at March 28, 2006 01:33 PMClearly, Matt is a man dressed in a Le Croy suit, which hampered his baserunning exploits. Tim Laudner once collapsed rounding third on a bid for an inside the park h.r. He just fell down and lay there gasping, while they tagged him out. I'm just saying, you know, catchers and all.
Posted by: al at March 28, 2006 01:42 PMAnd I was convinced that TC Bear was really kafumbly.
Posted by: frightwig at March 28, 2006 02:33 PMIsn't TC the bear a left-handed hitter? Maybe Mr. LeCroy has been holding out on us all this time.
Posted by: ubelmann at March 28, 2006 05:17 PMfrightwig... shwa? :confused:
Posted by: kafumbly at March 28, 2006 07:01 PMI just hope TC Bear didn't catch that horrible disease that the purple mascot guy has.
Posted by: Donnalove at March 28, 2006 07:10 PMCracked me up!
Posted by: insider at March 28, 2006 07:13 PMkaf, you disappeared from the internet for awhile, just as TC Bear started to show up in stories about the Twins Caravan. At the time, I joked in the Cave that maybe this wasn't just coincidence. That's all.
I don't believe you look like a bear, or Matty LeCroy.
Posted by: frightwig at March 28, 2006 10:13 PMTC is the best - but like Goldy, Ronald McDonald, and the former Twinkie the Bird (God rest his soul) - he must be given the trust and faith that he can and must be able to be in several places all at the same time. For not to have this faith in ones heart will next lead to you questioning other facts of our life. Is it not ok to eat a full sleave of Girl Scout cookies in one sitting? The Dome is really not a nice place to spend a Sunday afternoon? With out this unwaivering faith I may stop believin' in these and other basics elements of my life. I for one do not want to live in this new world!
Posted by: twinsfansam at March 28, 2006 11:45 PMhahaha... thank you, fright, I don't think I look like LeCroy or a bear, either. ;-)
(and shhhh... you're blowing my cover.)
Posted by: kafumbly at March 29, 2006 06:57 AMThank you Bat girl a double dose of my Matthew today. I just love that guy. He got that huggable quility about him. Sigh
Posted by: M at April 1, 2006 08:20 AMMy nickname for his is Chubs, not ment to be mean just my nickname for him.
Posted by: Jen at April 7, 2006 07:57 PMhim**
Posted by: Jen at April 7, 2006 07:57 PM