Before the season, I was complaining about the lack of a new Twins anthem.
The old standby -- We're Gonna Win Twins -- is fine in a let's-pretend-we-crashed-Grandma's-polka-party kind of way. I mean, get the Chmielewski Fun Time Band to play it and you have the right band for the genre. Plus, growing up in Chicago, the music was co-opted into a beer jingle, so I had no idea what I was really listening to back in the day.
I've been neutral on the G.B. Leighton video because at least he tried, even if it suffered from being hyped by the TV guys on FSN who seemed more than a bit confounded about what they were trying to hype. Besides, Leighton's Pickle Park played host to my favorite show of the year -- Marcy Playground's tour date in the Twin Cities.
But now we have something new and something really good.
The Baseball Project, which includes ex-Twin Citian Linda Pitmon, has released "Don't Call Them Twinkies." Craig Finn of The Hold Steady, who grew up in Edina and graduated from Breck, wrote the lyrics and was asked by The Baseball Project to sing lead vocals.
If you go back and look at my preseason post, the first commenter suggested: "Someone give Craig Finn from The Hold Steady a call."
Sometimes, dreams do come true. Finn has written a tribute to then-and-now Twins that rocks.
The Baseball Project, which has been on David Letterman and has a cache of baseball-themed rockers, has created something that should be required listening at Target Field come October 6.
