All I know about Cleveland is that Lakewood is really nice! Westlake is pretty nice too. But you probably knew that already. I used to live on the OH/PA state line (Reynolds Raiders Rule wRestling!!)

Best of luck, BG!! Couldn't be a better time to be a homebuyer!

I had hoped for the caption for today to be:

Bitch-Slapped!

That doesn't make me *that* evil of a person does it? ;-)

Do you mean THIS sacred song?

*The Win! Twins! Fight Song*
Lyrics by Dick Wilson
(music by Ray Charles, but not THAT Ray Charles.)

We're gonna win Twins, we're gonna score!
We're gonna win Twins, watch that baseball soar!
Knock out a homerun, shout a hip-hooray!
Cheer for the Minnesota Twins today!

We're gonna win Twins, give it our all!
We've got the guys who'll knock the cover off the ball!
Let's hear it now for the team that came to play!
Cheer for the Minnesota Twins today!

O say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

There is actually a lot more to that song but this is the part that gets played. Click me.

Kurtis, Where did you find that? Couldn't find it anywhere. Thought I would put the Anthem in for fun too. But I really was hope-ing to find one of the old twins' songs they play every once in a wile, anyone know where to look?
Oh, the things we do when we don't have a BOD. Please twins, win.

I'd say the first thing to do if you see Captain Cheeseburger while you're in Cleveland would be to hide Baby Dash so he doesn't get eaten. Then, for the love of all things good and decent, straighten out Cheeseburger's cap!

And if you see Travis Hafner, kick him for me.

Good luck!

Kurtis.

You.

Are.

Godlike.

Loved: The classic, baseball-organ-driven version that WCCO and WTCN (!) ran in the '60s and early '70s.

Hated: The disco version that made the song all but unlistenable in the late '70s.

::: bowing in your direction :::

(And, BG: By all means, if you do see Capt. Cheeseburger, protect Dash. But after doing so, see if you can slip him one made with, say, Alpo. On general principle.)

Dear Batgirl

XM or Sirius are both excellent for 7 hour drives. If you see CC just distract him by screaming "look ! An all you can eat buffet !" And the run the other way

p.e.m.

by me some peanuts and crackerjacks? =]

Of course I meant buy*.

I hate to reveal my secrets, but this is my research in a nutshell:

1. I consulted "Baseball in Minnesota," a fine coffee table book with a picture of Johan Cy K. Santana on the cover and a nice blurb on the back by a beloved (formerly) local author.

2. Though the book did not have the words to the song, it did have the proper name, which was just what I needed for googling.

Click my name for the source site, which is pretty interesting.

You can download the Hold Steady version of the song off of their website. http://www.theholdsteady.com/ - Then you can listen to it without the assistance of 20,000 people, and hear the second verse.

* waxes nostalgic *

sniff....

Kurtis may be good at research, but some of us know the second verse by heart, just sayin. Some of us even have it on our mp3 players. :)

Househunting hmmmm

I'm househunting too, my top tip so far is know what you are willing to compromise on and what you aren't. And try not to cry when you waste yet more time on a horrible place you could never live in, or a lovely place you can't quite afford.
Maybe you should just let Baby Dash do it all, he seems a sensible chap

and if you see CC? Run, hide, run again

D

I'm shocked Kurtis didn't know it by heart. ;) I've known it by listening to it on the radio, etc., since childhood. It is hard to hear in the Dome. We can sing along only 'cause we do know the words.

Have a good time at the game
With the Hormel row of fame
If you chose the lucky seat
You'll win a hot dog treat
Great for lunch, great for dinner
You could be a wiener winner
In the Hor-mel Row of Fame!

does anybody know where you can get a copy of the The Win! Twins! Fight Song? I'd love to have a copy of it.

Ah, that glorious song! Thanks for the second line of the second verse, it was the only part I was unclear about...good work.

Tips for surviving an encounter with Captain Cheeseburger...it works for tyrannosaurs, and C.C. Sabathia is certainly related to them somehow.

1) Remain calm and as motionless as possible. I hear he can't see you if you don't move.

2) Remove BatBaby from vicinity.

3) Reach into ESE bag (Emergency Sabathia Encounter bag--full of deep-fried snacks), pull out funnel cake.

4) Wave funnel cake slowly back and forth, when you are sure he has seen it, fling it as far from you as possible.

5) Run like hell in the opposite direction as he rampages after it.

Though it's probably not exactly what you were looking for, the final three verses of the Star-Spangled Banner (yes, Key wrote four!)

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream!
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh! long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footstep's pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n - rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, for our cause is just,
And this be our motto--"In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

I hear the way to stop a Sabbathia in its tracks is to straighten its cap. The Sabbathia is stunned and immobile for several seconds, giving you a chance to move several feet away, which is more than enough to be safe.

I went to Oberlin for five years, so I had a lot of experience with Lorain county. It's very nice farm country, and you can probably get a lot more house for your money there than in Cuyahoga (based on the preposterously low rents I paid my last two years living off-campus). It also tends to get less lake-effect snow than the Eastern part of Cleveland.

While you probably wouldn't want to live in Oberlin (it must be 45-60 minutes to Case Western), you should try to visit now and then - the students put on a lot of great concerts, and I think the people there would really appreciate you.

You and me both, JustBeth. I'm not normally a singing-in-public type of girl, but I just gotta sing the Twins song and the Hormel Row of Fame song.

Man, I still remember the old New Orleans jazz-style "Win, Twins" anthem from the late 60's with the clarinet solo; I'll second the motion that the disco-fied 80's version sucks.

Nelinde, I don't think your version of the Hormel song is correct. I contributed what I believe is the real version a few days ago, but here it is again:

Now that you are at the game
Are you in the Hormel Row of Fame?
If you're in a lucky seat
You'll win a Hormel hot dog treat
Great for lunch, great for dinner
You will be a wiener winner
In the Hormel Row of Fame!

They used to show it up on the Jumbotron when they played the song; can anyone verify which version is correct? Thsi is driving me nuts!!! (Not as much as the Twins not scoring or winning is driving me nuts, but close.)

The version I sing is:

If you're at the game
In Hormel's Row of Fame
You're in a lucky seat
You'll win a Hormel hot dog treat
Great for lunch, great for dinner
You will be a weiner winner
In the Hormel Row of Faaaaaame!

The correct version of the Hormel Row of Fame song is adidasman's. They did used to have the lyrics on the scoreboard.

Duly noted.

Lyrics and a bouncy-ball thing would be helpful. We simply -have- to get more people singing along!

I know I'm setting myself up here, but I actually remember that Batman/Batgirl commercial. So you'll excuse me while I run out to get another bottle of Grecian Formula.

I always bellow the Hormel song (and the Win Twins song, and Take Me Out to the Ballgame...). It's too wonderful not to.

you should be safe from CC. He is in Oakland at the moment. Of course, those of us on the left-hand coast are a tad worried about sliding into the ocean -- CC faces off against Joe Blanton tonight, and that combined tonnage might just send Oakland into the Pacific.

Awwwwwwwwwwesome commercial.

LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

http://www.startribune.com/509/story/1178114.html

Good Luck house hunting Bat Family =)

much love
Wonder Woman

If you see a Sabathia? The key is to remain very still - they can'r see you if you don't move.

Oh, yeah - LEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

Yeah, baby! The Fordwalker strikes back.

I have the sheet music (one page) with both verses to "We're Gonna' Win Twins!" which is the full name of the song. I can scan it into a pdf if there is a way to post it here for downloading.

With regards to C.C., have you spent the last few years building up your immunity to iocane powder?

Jesse Crain has worn out his welcome (get two outs, load the bases, give up two runs, sound familiar? It should by now)...

Time for a trade. Someone will trade something good for Crain, considering that he has "the stuff to be a closer"

Should any of you Batlings be interested - the official Twins web site has Win!Twins! fight song available to download as a ringer for your cell phone. It's on the main page under the heading Sights and Sounds and Baseball to Go - right next to a picture of a cell phone.

Thanks for the link to the Hold Steady article. The bit about Hrbek made me laugh out loud.

I've heard Finn used to say that he'd move back to Minnesota if the Twins ever got an open air stadium. Here's to lots more Hold Steady shows in our future.

Batgirl -- realize this may be too late, but I can second that Lakewood is indeed very nice, having lived there for a few years. It's technically the west side of Cleveland, but not that far out, so Jeb's drive to Case wouldn't be bad at all. We were close to the lake and the (old) stadium; great location. Good luck.

Batgirl - this may be late also, but the area at the top of Cedar hill in Cleveland Heights is quite nice (between Cedar and North Park). My in-laws live there, and they can walk to Case Western, grocery stores, coffee shops, etc. A little more expensive than Lakewood, but much closer. Even so, you can't beat the Cleveland area housing prices.