Monday, January 26, 2009

Drive Time, '91

As part of my future plans for this blog, you will be seeing a lot more video of past events.  These videos may range from my favorites growing up to obscure family videos that I am working on converting to digital format.  For instance, I may feature baseball bloopers one week, and footage of my brother Mark with a semi-mullet the next (don't worry, it's coming).  You might see me as a portly 8 year old in a stunning purple shirt (again, don't worry, it's coming), and the next entry might feature the 1991 Minnesota Twins tribute video.  

If you were voting for the Twins, you're in luck.  

My aunt and uncle and their two kids lived in Minnesota and knew that I was a big baseball fan growing up.  When the Twins won the World Series, they sent a VHS tape to us featuring a Tribute to the 1991 Twins.  This video was my favorite thing to watch for 2 years straight.  I wasn't even a Twins fan, but it was really well put together and kept me entertained.  This video is part of the reason I idolized Chuck Knoblauch for a number of years.  I watched it so much, I even memorized the Twins Pennant race song:

"We got Puck, Chuck, Jack, Mack...Chilly, Willy, Bush, and Tap, Harper, Gladden, Alan, Gags, Hrbek, Willis, Bush and Pags.  Aguilera, Erickson, Terry and Bedrosian. Guthrie, West, and the rest. Don't you know we've got the best!?"  

Now, it wouldn't be fair to talk about these fine videos without actually showing you them.  The whole video is an hour long and has tons of highlights and clips throughout the season, but I chose the most obscure and corny moments of the video to showcase here.  It's kind of like the Super Bowl Shuffle meets M.C. Hammer meets the "Not" t-shirts of the 90's.  I hope you enjoy.


The Twins are on the runnin', in 1991!


Total chicanery


The best part is when Hrby is pointing at Wille Banks dancing.  And what is Tony Oliva doing?

Eli is really starting to talk a lot more recently.  Just last week he starting putting multiple words together.  Previously, if he wanted picked up he would say, "up."  Now he says, "lift up."  If he wanted to lay down, he would just say, "lay."  Now he says the whole thing.  You get the picture.  Tonight I noticed it starting to become 3 words.  It's really amazing to watch him grow up so fast.  

Amber was on the treadmill while I was giving Eli a bath and I decided to try to see if Eli wanted to try singing.  You know, just to cover my bases so if he isn't a MLB All-Star second baseman someday, he'll have a good start to a smashing singing career.  We started with "How Much is That Doggie in the Window."  This was a good song as it features sound effects (arf, arf) that Eli thoroughly enjoys.  So after I sang it about 3 times, we were ready for our duet.



Me: "How much is that...
Eli: "Doggy" 
Me: "in the window?"
Both: "Arf, arf"
Me: "The one with the waggily..."
Eli: "Tail"
Both: "Arf, arf"
Me: "How much is that...
Eli: "Doggy" 
Me: "in the window?"
Both: "Arf, arf"
Me: "I do hope that doggy's for..."
Eli: "Garage"

Apparently Eli associates sale with garage. 

Next post:  The Westphalia Youth Choir sings the hits

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great job Matt. And I love the song you and Eli were singing. The final results sounded like it could have been from a Simpsons episode. Also, I never seen whiter guys trying to dance in those twins videos since the super bowl shuffle. At least they were all wearing cool shades. 80's style.

Bones of an Idol said...

the '91 world series was the best ever, and probably the last time i gave a crap about baseball.

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