wiersbeck@fstvax.DEC (Mark Wiersbeck - The Spud / 8-249-4859) (02/24/86)
Here's one "true" Twins fan. I have been following them since the early 70's and suffered through all the .500 seasons with only a glimmer of a hope, once August rolled around. In 1984 they were finally in a pennant race. Last year everything seemed to fall apart. This year there is reason to be optomistic. Ray Miller will be starting the season fresh and Blyleven is back in Minnesota. I think the Twins top four starters (Viola, Blyleven, Smithson and Butcher) can match anyone in the AL. If Hrbek and Brunansky can put it together at the SAME time they would have a powerful front end of the lineup. All in all it should be an exciting year and I look for them to be in the race. It sure would be fun to see them come back and stick it to some of the teams that drove them into the ground, back in '82 & '83 when they were mostly all rookies. GO TWINS!!! Mark Wiersbeck Digital Equipment Corporation Bedford, MA