Who: See Below

Dark Star boot licked his buddy Twins manager Ron Gardinhire by suggesting he should win the A.L. manager of the year award.

During a pre-season game Dean Dalton polished up former Viking Ciatrick Faison by stating he really “shines” (Faison proceeded to get cut by the team).

Dick Bremer sounded foolish while making a big deal out of Twins Joe Mauer reaching the 50 RBI “plateau”.

Mark Rosen stated Justin Morneau was merely “in a bit of a slump” during his 100+ at bats without a home run. He also reflexively defended the Twins recent early playoff exits by asking “what about the Yankees”?

Sid Hartman got caught up in the emotion when he shouted out to a state fair crowd that Coach Brewster would take the Gophers to the Rose Bowl.

Jeff Dubay sold some Vikings hope by this B.O.D. (benefit of the doubt) take, “I can’t say they (Vikings) can’t beat the Bears”.

More Vikings hope selling was offered up by beat writer Sean Jensen, “I think Kenechi (Udeze) is going to be solid”.

Runner Up:

Despite being implored by a couple of the so called “negatives” in the press to shut down the voting and immediately name him “Homer of the Year”, we can only give Jeff “Bunny” Dubay the silver medal. Certainly most months the proceeding take would be the run away winner.  Never one to downplay the potential of his beloved Twins, the former bat boy made a “high end” comparison regarding the future prowess of the Twins pitching staff.  He compared them to the Atlanta Braves staff of Maddux, Glavine, and Smoltz and claimed it could be “the very very start of an era of dominate starting pitching” and suggested this take was ”not beyond the realm” and ”not unrealistic”.

Winner: 

First we want to acknowledge the tragedy of the recent Minneapolis bridge collapse and our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and friends affected by this sad event.

That being said, we hand the Homer of the Month award to the WCCO radio team for some “A section” related behavior.  Dave Lee, Dark Star, Mike Max, Dave Mona, and Don Shelby (amongst others) were at their self-congratulating worst with a flurry of back slapping and mutual admiration society takes.  A steady drum beat describing how hard their colleagues were working (post collapse) made us think they were trying a bit too hard to promote each other.  The topper was when Shelby boot licked his demographic during his “In the Know” television segment when he suggested Minnesota “nice” should be replaced with Minnesota “guts”.

Bottom Line: Let’s hope we’ve seen the last shoulder dislocations from these parochial homers for a quite a while.