So the home team is 1-6. That doesn't have to make the home opener anything less than a celebration, of baseball, of the passing of winter, of a popular and still-feels-new stadium in a lively downtown. Add sun and an overstuffed Target Field and for one day it doesn't have to matter that the home team could yet go 1-161. And since that's true, why not celebrate the successes of the past? Minnesotans always embrace one of their own, and the fans did that Monday for Torii Hunter, who did some winning here back in the day.
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