Bob Collins
It was Gary Eichten night at Target Field Friday night as the Twins honored the MPR legend by inviting him to throw out the official first pitch. And, not surprisingly, Eichten delivered like a pro.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By Bob Collins
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
The Saint Paul Saints are as close as they’ve ever been to getting their wish a taxpayer-subsidized stadium in downtown Saint Paul. This week, Saint Paul Mayor Chris Coleman sent a $27 million dollar request to state officials for bonding money for the stadium, and the early line seemed to be it had a good chance of making the cut.
So an announcement today about the Saints latest irreverent marketing gimmick probably had some of the politicians who’ve stuck their neck out for the team cringing.
We’re all pretty excited here at MPR. We’ve organized an outing (we almost never have newsroom and staff outings) to the Minnesota Twins game tonight because legend Gary Eichten is throwing out the first pitch.
Backlash from the ballpark, was your Yahoo password stolen, group hug in Fergus Falls, the way we really are and that Goyte song, and sunset in Laporte.
To paraphrase Denny Green, Joe Paterno was who we thought he was… assuming we thought he covered up for pedophiles.
Open mic: More science?
Fall of a media star, where is Bob Dylan’s guitar, taking bullying seriously, dispatches from ‘planet parenthood,’ and books that self destruct.
What’s in a lipstick?
The pressure was on Mitt Romney’s speechwriter today when the Republican presidential candidate appeared before the NAACP.
The Boundary Waters way, shrugging at corruption, two ‘shades of grey’ in library conundrum, the most famous knee in Minnesota, and return of a Fargo TV personality.