Wanderings of a Post-Modern Pilgrim: Don't Stop Believing

They have been called the piranhas for the way they keep coming back.

They were seven games out on September 7.

They were the first team ever to be three games behind with four games to go- and win.

Many of even their most devoted fans called their season over a month ago. But they came back and became the first team ever to be in a tiebreaker game two years in a row.

And it was home, under the white Teflon sky of the HHH Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis.

And they won.

On Sunday, when these pictures were taken, at what was supposed to be the last regular season baseball game at the dome, they hammered the KC Royals.

Then yesterday, in the tiebreaker, they kept digging a hole just to climb out. They didn't stop believing. In the end the Twins are AL Central Champs. They play the Yankees tonight. I am still believing- especially that the Twins can break the curse of playing in Yankee Stadium (new or old) that has hounded them for a number of years now.

I do know- no belief needed- that there will be at least one more game at the Metrodome. Game 3 of the series will be in Minneapolis sometime on Sunday. I will be there thanks to the patience of my daughter who sat online to get them!

And, as to the posting of pictures from the last day at the dome last Sunday-

Below, first, is a collage of pictures I superimposed on the big screen area. The picture of former VP Hubert Humphrey for whom the dome is named was on the screen.

Clockwise from upper right-

his son Skip throwing out the first ball; the same picture as above of the field; Goodbye sign on scoreboard; the back of a Tee-shirt celebrating 28 seasons with no rainouts; the outside of the dome with the name.