As I made the walk from the dugout to center field, I thought of the many times I dreamed of making that walk, when I was a boy.

The Twins held a pre-game home-run hitting contest, and our station was doing a promotion that day.

They placed us behind 2nd base, and lobbed some soft-balls our direction. I connected with all of them, but none of them made it over the fence.

I didn’t feel bad since, of the 3 guys that hit, only 1 ball actually went over the fence.

Then the team mascot got up and put 6 of 7 balls over the fence. Pretty impressive in that costume! I’m not making any insinuations… but it may not be a bad idea to put TC through some drug testing.

Here are a couple shots my wife took from the upper deck.