January 28, 2016

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THURSDAY JANUARY 28, 2016

Twins Caravan hits a home run at MSU

INSIDE

Escobar, Dozier, Gladden answer questions, share experiences.

NEWS:

WES HUNTINGTON Staff Writer On Monday, Jan. 25, Minnesota State University, Mankato’s International Student Association sponsored a visit to the campus by the 2016 Minnesota Twins Caravan, itself presented by the Mayo Clinic. The event was held at 2 p.m. in the Ostrander Auditorium in the Centennial Student Union. The Twins Winter Caravan is one of the longest running and most extensive offseason team caravans in professional sports. It features teams of current and former players. Twins Winter Caravan tours are led by members of the Treasure Island Baseball Network and Fox Sports North broadcast teams. This event originally had scheduled to have Dan Gladden, 1991 World Series MVP Jack Morris (both whom are a part of the Twins Radio Network), current Twins shortstop Eduardo Escobar, and second baseman Brian Dozier. Morris was unavailable for some unknown reason, so the people in attendance were Dozier, Escobar and Gladden. The

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SPORTS: Photo by Mike Pnewski Minnesota Twins’ T.C. Bear, Eduardo Escobar (middle), Brian Dozier (second from the right), and Dan Gladden (right) spoke speak to fans as part of the Twins Caravan which stopped Monday at the Ostrander Auditorium on the MSU campus. person who did most of the talking was Miguel Ramos, the Twins’ director of diversity marketing. Even Twins mascot T.C. Bear made his appearance known to a half-capacity crowd in the Auditorium. The players and Gladden were asked questions about diversity amongst the team and across Major League Baseball. Dozier said that some of the players work within the organization to take special language classes – especially Spanish – since some of his teammates don’t speak English as their first lan-

guage. Dozier also made note of the fact that there are definite language barriers to overcome with these players. He did joke that he has to start learning Korean in order to communicate with the Twins recently-signed South Korean hitter Byung-ho Park. Gladden echoed Dozier statements saying there are definite language barriers, and he knows from experience. In addition to playing in the United States, Gladden also played in Japan and South Korea during his time

playing professional baseball. Gladden did also not hold back his optimism for the upcoming 2016 season, which starts April 4 in Baltimore against the Orioles. Escobar answered his questions from Ramos in his native tongue of Spanish. Dozier was asked also about last season, which saw the Twins climb out of the cellar of the previous four seasons to have their first winning

ELLYN GIBBS Staff Writer Bruce Davis sat behind the KMSU soundboard, clad in an insulated green plaid flannel. He had set out various vinyl records, CDs, and even cas-

and then moves on to other classics from the genre. Around 8 p.m., he does a segment called “Beatles & Bob,” where he plays several Beatles songs and a Bob Dylan song. He does this, because the Beatles were known to have copied a lot of material from other artists, such as Bob Dylan. Another favored part of Davis’ show is the “Haha Time,” where he plays a comedic piece from an artist known from that similar time period. Davis has always tried to

A&E:

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Host Bruce Davis finds his beat with his show “Folk Scene, Etc.” sette tapes in neat columns on the desk space beside him. When I introduced myself and pulled up a chair, he began speaking almost immediately, and his voice rose and fell similarly to the rolling hills that characterize Minnesota bluff country. FOLK SCENE, ETC. Since early September 2007, Bruce Davis has hosted “Folk Scene, Etc.,” a folk and bluegrass program on 89.7 FM KMSU radio, on Tuesday evenings from 7-9 p.m. Davis usually begins his program with some older bluegrass,

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host his show live, because he finds that most comfortable. He also hosts live guests on a semi-regular basis. “It’s always the most fun when I have people in the studio, and we can banter back and forth on air,” he says. Dick Kimmel, one of Minnesota’s most famous bluegrass artists, has been a popular guest on Folk Scene. “I just met him through years of playing,” said Davis.

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