This play has even been immortalized with its own bobblehead.

Today, the Twins wrap up their first series in Atlanta since 1991, when Kirby and the crew took down the Braves in one of the most exciting World Series of all time. (Apparently, at one point in time, Minnesota sports fans could really have nice things.)

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Of course, Twins radio announcer Dan Gladden was one of the key players on that Twins team, and he isn't about to let Braves fans forget the most controversial play of the '91 series -- Kent Hrbek's infamous tag on Ron Gant during Game 2.

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Who needs Ticket King when you've got Glen Perkins and a Twitter account?

Hours before the Twins' Sunday afternoon game, closer Glen Perkins went out of his way to hook up tickets for a fan who said on Twitter he was "screwed over" when he tried to buy some online.

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And these weren't nosebleeds. Perkins left four lower-level, behind-home-plate tickets for the fan and his girlfriend, cousin, and grandma.

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Aaron Hicks (pictured) is the only African-American currently on the Twins' roster.

Last fall, the Minnesota Timberwolves took heat from local black leaders for putting together the whitest roster the NBA had seen since the Bird- and McHale-led Celtics teams of the late 1980s. Now it's the Twins' turn.

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Charles Hallman, a black columnist who writes regularly for the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder and blogs at the Twin Cities Daily Planet, is calling out the Twins for talking a big game but not walking the walk when it comes to having diversity on the field, among the coaching staff, and in the front office.

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We're not exactly breaking news by telling you beer is expensive at Target Field, but at most other parks buying some Buds would cost you less.

The Twins keep slicing their payroll. On Tuesday, the organization drew tons of heat after unveiling a plan that would've charged fans $15 to watch batting practice. (They scrapped the idea later that day!) And after an ugly three-game sweep in Kansas City, the team's record is back in familiar territory -- under .500.

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Put it all together and the Twinks could really use some positive publicity. Unfortunately, you won't find it in this blog post.

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For $15, you can hang out above right field for 45 extra minutes.

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The Twins are finding new and creative ways to squeeze a few more bucks out of fans.

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Today, team officials announced that starting Friday, they'll sell $15 batting practice tickets. Tickets will allow you to get into Target Field about 45 minutes before gates open and hang out above right field while the players warm up and hopefully hit taters in your general direction.

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Jim Pohlad (left) has high expectations for this year's team. He's just about the only one.

The 2013 campaign is the Twins' fourth in Target Field. Unfortunately, new digs didn't usher in a golden age from the team -- on the contrary, after winning the division championship in 2010, the on-field product has deteriorated to the point where you'd have a hard time finding a baseball pundit who isn't picking the Twins to finish last this year.

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Coinciding with the Twins' on-field decline has been a decline in the team's payroll. In 2011, it stood at about $115 million. That number was slashed to $100 last season, and then again slashed significantly this year all the way down to about $81 million.

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Worley spent his first two seasons with the Phillies. He was acquired in the Ben Revere trade in December and might be the Twins' opening day starter.

Who says finding true, lasting love is more difficult in the online dating and social media age?

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A Philadelphia Inquirer profile of new Twins pitcher Vance Worley contains the cute story of how Worley met his fiancée, Maricel Vivas. And it involves Twitpics.

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If it looks like poop and it's almost old enough to drink, chances are it tastes like poop too.

What do you think a 19-year-old Kirby Puckett candy bar tastes like? Like shit, you say? Bingo!

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But just to make sure, Deadspin's Tom Ley and Barry Petchesky recently went to the trouble of documenting the buying and chowing of ancient sports superstar-themed candy bars, including bars inspired by Ken Griffey Jr., Isiah Thomas, Reggie Jackson, Mark Price, Chipper Jones, and, of course, Kurrrrrrrbeeeeeee Puckett!

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Swarzak and his teammates apparently like to play rough. Like, two broken ribs rough.

Who hasn't been there in their mid-to-late 20s? You start horseplaying with your buddies, and next thing you know, somebody ends up with broken ribs.

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Okay, so you probably haven't been there. Most of us haven't, and if you're reading this, chances are you aren't a professional athlete. Which is why the story behind 27-year-old Twins reliever Anthony Swarzak's broken ribs is all the more remarkable.

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Michael "Sammy" Samuelson

When Michael "Sammy" Samuelson went into hospice care in mid-December, the move also meant involuntary retirement from heckling the Twins. At the time, I asked him to guess the number of games where he had been in the stands, lobbing his signature long, creative, elaborate taunts at the players. He started counting.

"I've had season tickets since 1988, and that was about 40 games per year, but there were also games at other stadiums," he tallied. In 1997, when the Twins were threatening to contract, he upped his attendance. "I must have gone to 70 games a year for the past 15 years," he continued. "Gosh, I would say a couple thousand."

Sammy racked up those numbers in spite of three kidney transplants throughout his life, skin cancer, leukemia, and an arm amputation. On Monday morning, his long-deteriorating health finally won out over the Twins institution and the team's biggest -- or at least most vocal -- fan. He was 57.

"Now that I'm dying, I wonder if I should have done something else, seen the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Europe," Sammy reflected in December. "But what I love about baseball is the friendships you make."

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