Twinkie Town Talk: The Squirrel Edition

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Oh, and let’s talk about fair food.

Here’s what you may have missed on Twinkie Town:

a preview of this week’s series on the docket for the Twins, which I may have jinxed
Boomstick returned from the IL
Zach compared a current Bomba Squad member to a famous Twins player
Spring Training schedule is out and Joel is taking us to a bunch of games (thanks again, Joel!)
a turtle is hitting bombas in rehab, among other injury updates
it’s squirrel week here in Twins Territory and TJ has some background info on the famous guy as well as a fresh t-shirt if you want to represent
the squirrel made an appearance not once, but twice, but not thrice, resulting in a series loss to the Pale Hose

Here’s what you may have missed outside of Twinkie Town:

a writer thinks the squirrel is an idiot and “nutmegged” is trending across the globe as a word that’s not a word
and we might not see the rally squirrel ever again
in non-squirrel-related news, the team is not promising that a prospect that everyone is clamoring for will see the bigs this year

Here’s what you may have missed in the baseball world:

one rival’s starting pitcher suffered a setback in rehab and is being shut down for a couple weeks
while the same rival has another starting pitcher who was diagnosed with leukemia earlier this year starting rehab, which is awesome to see
an American Association team is getting the boot from their stadium, but both the team and the league say they’ll stay in town
the Little League team from Minnesota fielded the only girl in this year’s World Series; she notched a ꓘ and made a great play off the mound

Discussion:

You probably won’t hear from me this weekend (please hold your applause until the end) since I’m taking my annual trip to the Great Minnesota Get-Together, a.k.a. the Minnesota State Fair. It begs the question: What’s your favorite fair food? If you’ve been to multiple state fairs, which one is your favorite?