The Twins Seem To Be Trolling The Rest Of Baseball Before The Trade Deadline By Constantly Giving Out Hugs During #HugWatch Season
So these two videos have been getting a bunch of play over the last 24 hours from all of us baseball sickos who are so starved for a big trade that we are back to watching to see if grown men start hugging in the dugout around July 31st. The Twins reportedly being one of the teams interested in selling off some of their current stars to get future stars (who they will likely have to trade instead of pay down the road anyway) only makes these hugs carry more weight, which is admittedly an absurd sentence to write.
The only problem? Both hugs were apparently just that. Only hugs. At least according to the person who everyone looks to on Twitter to confirm if a rumored big move actually happened.
Now as the resident Hug Guy here at Barstool, I can tell you that there is nothing better than getting your paws into a pal and letting him know how much you care about him Why should you hug your pals only after they get traded? That's like saving up all your kind words about someone for their funeral. Fuck that. If you wanna hug your boys, do it while you guys are still teammates and have time to hang out with each other. This is doubly the case in a midwestern city like Minneapolis, which I imagine is in the Top 20 for hugs per capita in the country.
Or the Twins are just trolling the shit out of us idiots, which honestly we probably deserve since we are treating these major life changes like a video game move because they can make our teams better. I know Minnesota Nice is a tongue-in-cheek phrase about how nice Minnesotans truly are. So maybe these fugazi hugs are just a different version of that with Rocco Baldelli telling all his guys to give hugs to each other if they think a camera might be on them. If so, I'd like to tip my cap to the entire Twins organization for messing with us during what has to be a tough time for a team that is already having a tough season.
P.S. Speaking of cheek, if you are going to hug your pal on his way out of town, you might as well grab a little something to remember him by. My word.
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P.P.S. I fully expect at least one of these guys to be traded after my blog goes up just because the Baseball Gods have a sick sense of humor, especially this time of year considering three of the players rumored to be on the move at the deadline had this happen in one day.