MPR’s William Wilcoxen reports that while residents in Stearns County are big baseball Twins fans, the distant Twin Cities parade celebration emitting form TV and radio do not bring the same enthusiam.
MPR’s William Wilcoxen reports that while residents in Stearns County are big baseball Twins fans, the distant Twin Cities parade celebration emitting form TV and radio do not bring the same enthusiam.
WILLIAM WILCOXEN: At Sam's Restaurant and Lounge in Albany, the big screen TV was dutifully tuned to the parade coverage available on an assortment of channels. But for a time, the show played to a completely empty lounge. When the lunchtime crowd did start trickling in, the Twins mania on the screen was just the backdrop to another working day's lunch. One patron summed up the half-hearted interest in the televised image of screaming Twins fans.
SPEAKER 1: [LAUGHS] Let's put it this way. I didn't go out of my way to come here, so I don't watch it. I think this is the soap opera channel anyway. [LAUGHS]
WILLIAM WILCOXEN: It's not that enthusiasm for the Twins is weak in Stearns County. On the contrary, one fan says the region's amateur baseball tradition means the area is filled with baseball players whose firsthand experience helps them appreciate the masterful efforts put forth during the World Series. Rather, the lukewarm response to this day of celebration seems to reflect the workmanlike attitude of communities like Cold Spring and Albany. No one actually called the Metrodome activities "frivolous," but the celebration clearly did not interfere with day-to-day priorities.
SPEAKER 2 (ON TV): --at an annual rate of 2.4%.
WILLIAM WILCOXEN: At Paul's Paradise, the radio commodity report competed with the parade coverage on TV, but no one paid much attention to either. Of more interest was one patron's tales of his recent elk hunting expedition to Montana.
Some of the local fans had traveled to Minneapolis for World Series or playoff games, but attending the victory rally was generally dismissed by those with a business to run or a crop to harvest. One fan did acknowledge, though, that the traditional excitement of the high school football playoffs just wouldn't feel the same coming in the wake of this year's extraordinary baseball season. I'm William Wilcoxen.
SPEAKER 3: I was at the elk hunt, too, so I missed a couple of them then. Up there, you don't-- have you been up in the mountains, where you can't get no radio or TV?
WILLIAM WILCOXEN: Nothing, huh?
SPEAKER 3: You can't even get a radio station.
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