@@indianheadloganAs a Cubs fan the Twins have been my A.L. team since the mid-'00s. Glad you all could break both the streak this video is about, and also the postseason series losing streak -- you've even avoided the record in that category (held jointly by the 2001-2019 Braves and the 1920-1998 Cubs, with 10 each.)
Man, 2010 hurts even more when you remember how Morneau was stopped cold by his career-altering concussion in the middle of what might’ve been the best season ever by a Twin
As a big Dorktown and Twins fan, this was everything I could have hoped for, in every painful way imaginable. Fantastic storytelling. Liked and subbed.
As a Guardians fan, the Royals fan rooting for "AL Central bros" really stuck out to me. While there is some division rivalry, I definitely feel a sense of community with other AL Central fans. I guess that's what 2 combined World Series wins in 25+ years will do. We're a bunch of misfits and losers taking on the big guys.
I agree with this. Even though we are division rivals, I have always rooted for the Guardians. The AL Central doesn't have the big revenue and are usually facing off against the Yankees. Easy to root for. And Minnesota and Cleveland had the multi-sport drought streaks going for a long time.
Kirby Puckett is the reason I love baseball. Seeing the pure JOY in my father's eyes when I was 7 years old and they won the WS in 1991 is the reason I love the Twins. Superbly done, Chris. Take a bow, my dude -- this should become a NetFlix special (I'm not kidding).
I was born around a month after the twins won their last playoff game. I've lived all my life hearing about the Twins from my dad and grandfather (unfortunately, being from the New Jersey area, my dad was and is and will forever be a diehard Yankees fan) and it never really occurred to me about their record in the playoffs. The twins played, my dad went to a few games occasionally bringing me along, and life would move on. I look back now and realize how crazy it is how I've lived my entire life without the Twins ever winning a playoff game. I've been watching this type of documentary content for a few years now. I became infatuated with the Jon Bois style of video, and enjoyed it much more when BobbyBroccoli applied it to one of my favorite topics in the world, the sciences. Out of all these videos which have changed so much of my worldview and knowledge, this has got to be my favorite data-centric documentary ever. You do such a great job of both portraying the story and outcome of the games as a true fan of the team. Your animation and visuals were extremely impressive and I really hope you create more videos of this style. Amazing work!
Something about the segment on game 163 in 2009 really gets to me. It’s one of my most vivid baseball memories. 11 years old sitting on the recliner, staying up way past my bed time. Jumping in the air as Gomez glides across home plate. I still have the newspaper clipping from that moment. It’s the closest I’ve ever been to watching the Twins win a playoff game. That was my very first moment of complete euphoria over a sporting event. I’ve felt from the beginning of this season that this would be the year they beat the streak. Not because they’re statically due to break it, but because something about this team feels so different. And you better believe that I’ll be jumping with joy like I did when I was 11 when it’s finally over.
Well said. I was at game 163 in 2009 as a 12 year old and its still to this day my favorite sporting event that I've ever attended, I'll never forget it.
@@skinnie2838I didn’t say anything about a curse. I was not alive when the Twins won the WS. My experience as a Twins fanhas been one of disappointment. The Rangers not winning a WS changes literally nothing about my experiences.
This means a lot! And just so everyone who reading this knows, this is the guy whose Blender tutorials helped me figure out a lot of the harder stuff I animated in this video, you should check his channel out
THE STREAK IS OVER! I've waited my entire life just to see the twins win a playoff game, and 19 years later, they've done it. Thank you Chris, for an amazing video and for jinxing the curse we have finally freed ourselves from.
I'm a huge twins fan born-and-raised in Minneapolis Minnesota, and yeah it hurts and it's embarrassing BUT to have 1987 and 1991 world series in our hip pocket it doesn't hurt as much because we've won before. I know you can't live in the past, but we've celebrated and had a lot of joy, I'll guarantee you will win a game this playoffs.
The only pain I remember was self induced. The mid 00s were the best years to win a playoff game/series. Pohlad cried poverty and never added another top tier pitcher or slugger at the deadline. They deserve this streak. It’s because of their cheap ass owner as much as it is their players pissing their pants
Man, did this open up some wounds. I definitely have a bias as a lifelong Twins fan, but good lord this was well put together, incredibly researched and profoundly unique. I’m glad I watched this after the Twins broke the streak because I don’t if I would’ve been able to watch the game knowing how cursed our recent history has been. I broke down and cried after the win against the Jays today which I was not expecting. I’ll be at game 2 and hope the Twins can pull off the sweep! Go Twins!!
I lost my grandpa (who was a massive twins fan and the reason my father and I are fans too) last year, so that ending really got to me 😢 Such a really well done video, thank you for making it!
Twice in September, even though the Twins were doing great (2019 one of them). I always hoped, NOT THE YANKEES! Please??? Can the Twins play another team in the Playoffs? Most teams would have the SAME FATE if they faced the Yankees five straight times in the Playoffs! This year, That STREAK ENDS!
Idk how you can make so much heartbreak so entertaining to watch. I remember all those games, yet somehow, watching the highlights, still feel the excitement like they have a chance... Great history breakdown.
This is one of the greatest videos I have ever watched and perfectly encapsulates all my feelings as a life long Twins fan. Thank you for such an incredible piece of media.
I'm watching this on the day the streak of losing has ended, and it's absolutely crazy on how much has happened to this organization for this streak to happen. Considering my Cardinals aren't in this year, I'll root for the Twins this year.
after todays first divison series game win im 100% convinced this video jinxed the streak. i am so incredibly excited for whats to come. thank you for this beautiful video.
Unbelievable video. Thank you for the time and effort put into this. As a huge minnesota sports fan that was 3 years old in 1991, this encapsulates the heartbreak since perfectly.
Chris just an incredible video. Literally brought me to emotion. If this video doesn’t encapsulate what it is to be a Minnesota sports fan than show me a better example.
If I made this video I would take it with me to the grave. Unbelievable from start to finish, I can't believe I watched the entire thing. Incredible illustration of history that I myself lived through and remember parts of (90s kid). I don't know how many people will sit and watch this entire thing but it's a shame because this is not only one of the best sports documentaries I have ever seen, it is one of the greatest documentaries I have ever seen period.
Have you seen the Secret Base stuff with Jon Bois? Sounds like it would be right up your alley. This one is great, but clearly inspired by those documentaries who are a level above tbh.
as a young baseball fan, who followed a semi-local giants during their 2010-2014 dynasty and who realized that loving baseball was the ups and downs together when i left following baseball prior to 2020 and found myself feeling happy watching the young pirates have fun, thank you for giving a perspective of a fan of another team like no other, I never understood why someone is a fan of (insert team who hasn't had success in 25+ years) or why someone bandwagons (enter trendy team here) but I think this video has helped me find at least half of my answer, family, communities, just excitement for the future of the game/a team. the Braves miracle 2021 gave my dad a source of light and they have only shined since and I know it won't last forever but I will always root for the Braves and now, I think I can safely say, the Twins will be on that list... wait a second i forgot to mention, fuck the yanks
This video has me sobbing yet very hype for the 2023 playoffs. They will end the drought, it’s just a matter of when. When that does happen, tears will flow. Probably uncontrollably, I am 21 years old and I have not been able to witness the Twins win a playoff series. I was too young to remember the last playoff game win. So when they do end the drought and win a playoff game, win a playoff series and win the World Series. You best believe I will be crying my eyes out. Such a beautiful video, thank you. Last but not least, GO TWINS.
I didn't want to sit down to watch an almost two hour TH-cam video, but my brother texted me and said to try it on 1.5 speed. After 7 minutes I slowed it down to regular speed and my eyes didn't leave the TV until the end. I have never had someone so beautifully (still painfully) illustrate what being a Twins fan has been for me. All we live on is hope. And to be honest that hope has been gone since 2020. I still watch every game, but no matter what good has happened this year (Correa walk off, Royce grand slams, the entire rotation being unstoppable) I find myself not enjoying it because I know the pain that's coming. This story reminded me of all the pain of the past, but it has also sparked that hope in me again. Thank you Chris, and go Twins.
Just moved to the Twin Cities at the beginning of this year and fell in love with not only the people and places but this team as well and holy cow, I had no idea the pain ran this deep but the beauty and pain and achievement shown through the entire time, especially with how you presented it. I watched the whole thing and thank YOU for putting this together.
I’m a lifelong Twins fan and Mauer superfan and this video was probably the most well-done (and surprisingly concise for the runtime) explanation of what this streak meant to us and how much the Toronto series meant to our collective psyche. Watching the 2009 series recap was so much of a gut punch, it felt like I was back in that timeframe. I’ll make the trip to Cooperstown with you when Joe gets inducted. In the meantime, let’s meet over by gate 6 and I’ll buy you a Summit.
@Chris Hanel SKOR North gave your video a shoutout. Congrats on all the praise. You did a great job and it mustve been a ton of work. So happy for you that you are getting the recognition.
This is an insanely well done video. Shades of Jon Bois in execution, the laying out of information, the music, all of it. Every detail shows how much you care, no, love this franchise to bits. I'm here after they won, and broke the streak. Incredible work. Please do more.
Similar presentation as a Jon Bois video, but you completely made it your own. This was fantastic. Could really tell you lived through this streak. I’ve always heard of the Twins losing streak, but never knew how absolutely brutal it was. As an Angels fan I understand the pain of sports bit, but this is truly something else. Just straight up meteor smacking you on the head unluckiness spread out over 20 years. Twins have a solid team this year, especially pitching wise. I could easily see them beat the streak. After watching this, though, I am nervous for any further cruelty the baseball gods may bestow upon the Twins. I truly hope, just for the fans sakes, they get back in the W column.
No. It was a complete ripoff of Jon Bois entire theme and cadence. Google earth, narration structure, everything. That being said, Jon Bois doesn’t have a monopoly on emotional, stats heavy, google earth using sports videos. If someone else wants to make one just as good, they should be able to.
Man, this had me in tears multiple times. Incredible video! I immediately sent it to my friend who’s a White Sox fan and he was on board right away. This got me hyped for the playoffs and reminded me of so many great memories with loved ones. Thanks for doing this! Great work! MAKE MORE MINNESOTA SPORTS VIDEOS PLEASE!
This was very well done! While a lot of parts were painful, it perfectly painted the picture of the last 18 playoff games. Also, reliving game 163 vs the Tigers was amazing!
Stay tuned after the credits for a special message from me and my extremely adorable dog. Corrections/Clarifications/Notes: 10:18 - This isn't a clarification, I just want to note that you can hear Deeps bark in the background as I'm narrating. I "forgot" to take it out of the edit. >.> 25:36 - Johan Santana came to the Twins as a result of the Astros leaving him unprotected during the Rule 5 draft, and the article in the video does go into the details a bit more than my narration, but to clarify: The Twins had the first pick in the draft and made a deal with the Marlins to pick Jared Camp first, have the Marlins pick Santana second, and then the Twins would get $50k in compensation along with swapping players. 33:01- while talking about Game 163, I address how the Twins held the season series advantage over the Tigers. However, what you see on screen is a a BRef table of the Twins vs. the White Sox, which is a big mistake on my part and was due to having just done all the animation for the 2008 tiebreaker. (For those curious, the Twins beat the Tigers in the season series 11-7.) 51:02- I say in the narration that the 2009 ALDS took place in the 'old' Yankee Stadium, but this is incorrect, this was the first year that the Yankees played in the new (and current) stadium. I caught this during the editing and then forgot to add a correction to the video. 53:35 - The WGA announced a tentative deal to end the strike literally the day before this video was released. If the price of that is this joke being obsolete then I am happy to pay that price. 1:06:20 - I mention that this is Paul Molitor's "first coaching job". What i should have said was that this was his first post as Manager, as he had been a bench coach, hitting coach, and fielding instructor for both the Twins and Mariners prior to accepting the head job in 2015. 1:13:43- There was supposed to be text and arrows pointing to this while I was narrating, but the pitch immediately before Gregorius's home run should have been strike three, but the ump called it a ball. 1:39:40 - I say "for the first time in decades, the Twins split a series at Yankee Stadium" and then immediately show that the last time it happened was actually only 9 years ago. In the script I was originally bundling together all of the following factoids but then changed the phrasing without updating the opening line.
This took me back. I was raised in MN and watched all these games as they happened. I remember watching them win that game in 2004 when I was just a sophomore in high school, I am now 35 years old. This video really made me realise how much I miss the past players and teams from my youth. Thank you for making this.
THE STREAK IS OVER!!! I was at Game 1 vs. Toronto earlier this evening...Target Field was absolutely electric! I only finished the last 30-40 minutes of the video tonight...still a great watch even after knowing it all came to an end today.
This is one of the best baseball documentaries I’ve ever seen. Absolutely fantastic. Especially loved the bomba squad tribute. Need more of your content!
This was so beautiful. My memory of so many of these games is wiped clean by trauma but you got me to remember how good so many of these teams were and just how absurd these losses are. This streak will end and I’ll cry, hug my dad, and try to log all the feelings of that moment. Thank you for doing this!
Just came back to say congrats on your Twins on breaking the streak. This documentary is very well made, entertaining, informal and fascinating as hell. PS: I hope someone one day makes a video on how influential Jon Bois and Secret Base have been on Sports YT since 2020. His fingerprints are all over these docs lol.
As a Braves fan… after watching this video I’d love to somehow see a Braves Twins World Series. And if the Twins make it that far. I’d want them to have it. Not just to have it. But to work for it and it be a hell of a series for the Twins to win. As he said it. They will win another world series. Go Braves and as far as the AL is concerned. Go Twins
As a 26 year old Twins fan I love this video. I feel like my life hasn’t been an able to see a single Twins win that I can remember. I was alive in 2004 but I wasn’t able to watch the last win. I’m ready for this year to change that.
I have just a handful of moments I cherish from being a Twins fan. To young for the championships, witnessing in person Johan Santana striking out 17 Rangers batters and watching 2009 game 163 on tv.
This was such a great video, especially the ending. Whether you're a Twins fan or not, every sports fan is a fan for a reason and the people who brought us to love those teams/sports are what it's really all about. These teams bring us together, giving us common ground to relate and connect to each other, spending time and making memories together through all of the ups and downs, regardless of how statistically improbable they may be. As a life-long Braves fan who became a fan through my grandparents and suffered through countless first-round exits to cap off what seemed like one legitimately promising season after another, there was almost no greater feeling than watching them finally win in it all in 2021 for the first time in my life as a fan. I called my grandfather immediately after that last out and we were just basking in the joy of what we've never felt together... and it wasn't because the Braves won. It was because it felt like WE won. The team we've spent so much time together watching and talking about, feeling hopeful and down about, the team that brought us together. Them winning made me realize it was never about the team. That World Series clinching game would be the last game my grandmother ever saw and my grandfather never got to see a game played this year. Felt like we got to go out on top with a story book ending, getting that last jolt of joy before the bitter end. As much as I want the Braves to win every year, I hope all fans can feel that same feeling at some point. The hard years, the perplexing records (14 straight division titles and only one world series?!?! I also hate the yankees lol), and baffling plays along the way only make it that much sweeter.
I have been a Twins fan all my life. I attended three games of the 1987 World Series (Don Baylor's Game Six homer landed two rows in front of me) and have felt exactly the pain you expertly described these past 19 years. This is probably one of the finest baseball videos I've ever seen, exactly because it hits so close to home. It made the Tuesday win (which I witnessed in person) that much sweeter. I've watched this video 7 times in six days. An amazing job!😊
It’s so crazy that in 2 months we have a secret base documentary on the Vikings Post season woes and now a secret base style one on the twins. How brutal it is to be a Minnesota sports fan. What’s next? T-Wolves?
You know that thing going around about how often do you think of the Roman Empire? This is my Roman Empire. I think about these playoff losses almost daily and how brutal this streak has been. This video gave me chills. Cheers and kudos!
I was 7 when that double was taken off Mauer in the ALDS, that play still haunts me to this day. The ump was RIGHT THERE. Nowadays I celebrate Yankees losses more than Twins wins
I wasn’t much older and it shocks me how vividly I still remember that call. It was some consolation to find out there is a musical out about despising the Yankees. Also glad the streak is over 😊
Great video Chris. I painfully lived through all those 18 loses like you. This video was a lot easier to stomach now that the Twins are on a 2 game post season winning streak. Hope your dog is doing well.
Absolutely epic. Feels throughout. As a lifelong Twins fan I couldn’t be more impressed on how you encapsulated 0-18 in a two hour video. Many thanks and sincere appreciation for your hard work. Go Twins!
I saw this video in my feed last week and didn't have the intestinal fortitude to click play. It felt a lot easier this time around and what a fantastic video, and the math behind it is astounding. It deserves a lot more eyes on it. I'm glad that you won't need to add a part 2 that grows the odds. Thanks.
This might be the greatest content I have ever seen. Everything about it. Still, I actually did not know it was this bad for the Twins. I am not mortified that we won the AL Central this year. What is in store for us? I was 3 and 7 years old, respectively, in 87' and 91'. I still have my homer hanky lol. This is crazy.
I haven't followed baseball closely since the late 2000s-early 2010s but I grew up in a stout Minnesota sports household, so it was obvious coming back to baseball to follow the Twins. I remember the only game I've been to was when the Twins faced the Angels, and it was Torii Hunter's first game against the Twins (a 3-2 win iirc). I was 5 the last time the Twins won a playoff game but I'm hopeful and will be cheering for them without a doubt. Thank you for all the effort I'm sure you've put into this video
There are those who are going to discredit you for "stealing" Jon Bois style, but you took the framework established by Secret Base and modified it, added onto it, and made it your own. This was beautiful.
Agreed. This video was so good _because_ it drew from the Secret Base template. It's a successful formula for those who wish to present the story of their data in the documentary style.
I'll admit I'm not much of a baseball fan, though I love watching documentaries about the sport, and I'm still a tacit Braves fan by virtue of living in Atlanta for 17 years. As a lifelong Falcons fan, I know just how much it hurts to have the support of virtually the entire country, going up against the evil empire of our sport, and to have win expectancy blow up in our faces. It's a bit different, having at most 21 chances to go out there and win rather than 162+, but it stings no less. I'm a little late to the party, seeing as y'all finally broke the streak, but I hope to see y'all keep winning in the playoffs this season!
Jon Bois would be proud. This is great to see coming off the heels of their Vikings series, the Wild's playoff woes are equally impressive. And the '04 Wolves are a story of their own as well. I went into this going "oh jeez a Jon Bois ripoff" but you really took the formula and put your own spins on it.
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THEY DID IT! I am convinced this video helped them end the streak.
If this worked so quickly, maybe the Dorktown piece on the vikings will be enough jinx to get them to the super bowl again this year.
they did it again !!!!1
It exercised some demons for sure
@@Phriedahagain? I wish we could say win Super Bowl “again” );
@@Boof37 we'e been TO the super bowl before, we just haven't won it. IDK, awkward phrasing. I just want to be good.
They’ve done it. The streak is finally over. I’m happy for y’all. Good franchise, good fanbase, y’all deserved the suffering to end
I bandwagoned your team in 16. Join the twinkies bandwagon, friend
@@indianheadloganAs a Cubs fan the Twins have been my A.L. team since the mid-'00s. Glad you all could break both the streak this video is about, and also the postseason series losing streak -- you've even avoided the record in that category (held jointly by the 2001-2019 Braves and the 1920-1998 Cubs, with 10 each.)
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Man, 2010 hurts even more when you remember how Morneau was stopped cold by his career-altering concussion in the middle of what might’ve been the best season ever by a Twin
As a big Dorktown and Twins fan, this was everything I could have hoped for, in every painful way imaginable. Fantastic storytelling. Liked and subbed.
As a Guardians fan, the Royals fan rooting for "AL Central bros" really stuck out to me. While there is some division rivalry, I definitely feel a sense of community with other AL Central fans. I guess that's what 2 combined World Series wins in 25+ years will do. We're a bunch of misfits and losers taking on the big guys.
Amen brother
I fully agree...except maybe I root a little less for the White Sox for some reason 😂
I agree with this. Even though we are division rivals, I have always rooted for the Guardians. The AL Central doesn't have the big revenue and are usually facing off against the Yankees. Easy to root for. And Minnesota and Cleveland had the multi-sport drought streaks going for a long time.
@@awindeyand fuck the tigers too
As a hometown Guardians fan, and a Twins fan, I can confirm the AL Central teams are the nerd, friend group of the MLB
Kirby Puckett is the reason I love baseball. Seeing the pure JOY in my father's eyes when I was 7 years old and they won the WS in 1991 is the reason I love the Twins.
Superbly done, Chris. Take a bow, my dude -- this should become a NetFlix special (I'm not kidding).
This is better than any video I've ever made
Thanks so much!
I cannot believe I just watched this for free. As a depressed Nats fan, I’ll be pulling for the Twins this October.
I don’t ever like/comment on videos. This is the greatest piece of sports media I’ve ever consumed, and I’m not even a twins fan. Incredible job
Congratulations, Twins fans. You've waited long enough.
I love how they ended the streak literally one week after this near-2 hour video was posted
This is one of the greatest baseball documentaries I’ve ever seen. Bravo. Like seriously, this deserves awards.
I was born around a month after the twins won their last playoff game. I've lived all my life hearing about the Twins from my dad and grandfather (unfortunately, being from the New Jersey area, my dad was and is and will forever be a diehard Yankees fan) and it never really occurred to me about their record in the playoffs. The twins played, my dad went to a few games occasionally bringing me along, and life would move on. I look back now and realize how crazy it is how I've lived my entire life without the Twins ever winning a playoff game.
I've been watching this type of documentary content for a few years now. I became infatuated with the Jon Bois style of video, and enjoyed it much more when BobbyBroccoli applied it to one of my favorite topics in the world, the sciences. Out of all these videos which have changed so much of my worldview and knowledge, this has got to be my favorite data-centric documentary ever. You do such a great job of both portraying the story and outcome of the games as a true fan of the team. Your animation and visuals were extremely impressive and I really hope you create more videos of this style. Amazing work!
He jinxed it. Thank god, he jinxed it
This needs to go viral! It’s beautifully made. The highs, the lows, and the disappointment. All to the one feeling of hope.
Go Twins!
Something about the segment on game 163 in 2009 really gets to me. It’s one of my most vivid baseball memories. 11 years old sitting on the recliner, staying up way past my bed time. Jumping in the air as Gomez glides across home plate. I still have the newspaper clipping from that moment. It’s the closest I’ve ever been to watching the Twins win a playoff game. That was my very first moment of complete euphoria over a sporting event.
I’ve felt from the beginning of this season that this would be the year they beat the streak. Not because they’re statically due to break it, but because something about this team feels so different. And you better believe that I’ll be jumping with joy like I did when I was 11 when it’s finally over.
Well said. I was at game 163 in 2009 as a 12 year old and its still to this day my favorite sporting event that I've ever attended, I'll never forget it.
The Twins have won world seires. The Tx Rangers havent. I dont want to hear sht about your "curse".
@@skinnie2838I didn’t say anything about a curse. I was not alive when the Twins won the WS. My experience as a Twins fanhas been one of disappointment. The Rangers not winning a WS changes literally nothing about my experiences.
@@skinnie2838i guess you should’ve had david freese on your team bro🙏🏼
@@heathbarr_ Imagina boo hooing when your team has won championships.
This is fantastic storytelling! I’m not a baseball person but this was really compelling
This means a lot! And just so everyone who reading this knows, this is the guy whose Blender tutorials helped me figure out a lot of the harder stuff I animated in this video, you should check his channel out
The Twins have won world seires. The Tx Rangers havent. I dont want to hear sht about your "curse".
@@skinnie2838skill issue
@skinnie2838 Cowboys have won a SB vikings have lost 4. Minnesota sports as a whole is pain
@@adamborkowski982 I feel you on that.
The ending gave me the craziest goosebumps. Extremely well done.
THE STREAK IS OVER! I've waited my entire life just to see the twins win a playoff game, and 19 years later, they've done it. Thank you Chris, for an amazing video and for jinxing the curse we have finally freed ourselves from.
Hopefully some non Twins fans also watch this “video”. And understand the pain. 😅 And from the replies most of them didn’t watch the video.😑
I'm a huge twins fan born-and-raised in Minneapolis Minnesota, and yeah it hurts and it's embarrassing BUT to have 1987 and 1991 world series in our hip pocket it doesn't hurt as much because we've won before. I know you can't live in the past, but we've celebrated and had a lot of joy, I'll guarantee you will win a game this playoffs.
The only pain I remember was self induced.
The mid 00s were the best years to win a playoff game/series. Pohlad cried poverty and never added another top tier pitcher or slugger at the deadline.
They deserve this streak. It’s because of their cheap ass owner as much as it is their players pissing their pants
The Twins have won world seires. The Tx Rangers havent. I dont want to hear sht about your "curse".
@@skinnie2838we didn’t ask for you to be here.
@@skinnie2838I’d love to know the odds of your futility compared to the twins. I’m sure ours beats yours out still
Man, did this open up some wounds. I definitely have a bias as a lifelong Twins fan, but good lord this was well put together, incredibly researched and profoundly unique. I’m glad I watched this after the Twins broke the streak because I don’t if I would’ve been able to watch the game knowing how cursed our recent history has been. I broke down and cried after the win against the Jays today which I was not expecting. I’ll be at game 2 and hope the Twins can pull off the sweep! Go Twins!!
Chris - this is incredible, exceptional stuff for this lifelong Twins fan and sportswriter. Thank you for making this.
I lost my grandpa (who was a massive twins fan and the reason my father and I are fans too) last year, so that ending really got to me 😢 Such a really well done video, thank you for making it!
What a remarkably well done illustration of the horror. Seriously, this is exquisite work, congratulations.
As a lifelong twins fan, this is both a fantastic and horrifying video. Well done. This will be our year, I'm sure :')
Twice in September, even though the Twins were doing great (2019 one of them). I always hoped, NOT THE YANKEES! Please??? Can the Twins play another team in the Playoffs? Most teams would have the SAME FATE if they faced the Yankees five straight times in the Playoffs! This year, That STREAK ENDS!
We’re gonna break the streak this year. We might not win the series, but we will break the streak.
@@billytuff8286 ALCS is possible but no doubt Twins need Lewis and Correa back.
The Twins have won world seires. The Tx Rangers havent. I dont want to hear sht about your "curse".
Easy there! You're starting to sound like the cowboys fanbase!
Idk how you can make so much heartbreak so entertaining to watch. I remember all those games, yet somehow, watching the highlights, still feel the excitement like they have a chance...
Great history breakdown.
It was so weird watching all these clips with pretty clear memory and still thinking, they pull this one off, right?
This was the most beautiful love letter. Thank you SO much for making this.
Seattle Mariners fan here. This video was incredible. Footage of game 163 vs Detroit had me sobbing like a child.
This is one of the greatest videos I have ever watched and perfectly encapsulates all my feelings as a life long Twins fan. Thank you for such an incredible piece of media.
I agree completely
Unreal!!! They did it!! I give you a lot of credit for this Huge W! We’ll you and Royce Lewis
I'm watching this on the day the streak of losing has ended, and it's absolutely crazy on how much has happened to this organization for this streak to happen. Considering my Cardinals aren't in this year, I'll root for the Twins this year.
The baseball gods needed Chris to relive this struggle before they’d let the twins win, thanks Chris!
As a twins fan I can say that you accurately described my own emotional rollercoaster. I hope you continue to make more of these!
after todays first divison series game win im 100% convinced this video jinxed the streak. i am so incredibly excited for whats to come. thank you for this beautiful video.
Unbelievable video. Thank you for the time and effort put into this. As a huge minnesota sports fan that was 3 years old in 1991, this encapsulates the heartbreak since perfectly.
Chris just an incredible video. Literally brought me to emotion. If this video doesn’t encapsulate what it is to be a Minnesota sports fan than show me a better example.
This was beautiful, and knowing that the streak ended yesterday makes it even so much more powerful
If I made this video I would take it with me to the grave. Unbelievable from start to finish, I can't believe I watched the entire thing. Incredible illustration of history that I myself lived through and remember parts of (90s kid). I don't know how many people will sit and watch this entire thing but it's a shame because this is not only one of the best sports documentaries I have ever seen, it is one of the greatest documentaries I have ever seen period.
Have you seen the Secret Base stuff with Jon Bois? Sounds like it would be right up your alley. This one is great, but clearly inspired by those documentaries who are a level above tbh.
as a young baseball fan, who followed a semi-local giants during their 2010-2014 dynasty and who realized that loving baseball was the ups and downs together when i left following baseball prior to 2020 and found myself feeling happy watching the young pirates have fun, thank you for giving a perspective of a fan of another team like no other, I never understood why someone is a fan of (insert team who hasn't had success in 25+ years) or why someone bandwagons (enter trendy team here) but I think this video has helped me find at least half of my answer, family, communities, just excitement for the future of the game/a team. the Braves miracle 2021 gave my dad a source of light and they have only shined since and I know it won't last forever but I will always root for the Braves and now, I think I can safely say, the Twins will be on that list...
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This video has me sobbing yet very hype for the 2023 playoffs. They will end the drought, it’s just a matter of when. When that does happen, tears will flow. Probably uncontrollably, I am 21 years old and I have not been able to witness the Twins win a playoff series. I was too young to remember the last playoff game win. So when they do end the drought and win a playoff game, win a playoff series and win the World Series. You best believe I will be crying my eyes out. Such a beautiful video, thank you. Last but not least, GO TWINS.
I didn't want to sit down to watch an almost two hour TH-cam video, but my brother texted me and said to try it on 1.5 speed. After 7 minutes I slowed it down to regular speed and my eyes didn't leave the TV until the end. I have never had someone so beautifully (still painfully) illustrate what being a Twins fan has been for me. All we live on is hope. And to be honest that hope has been gone since 2020. I still watch every game, but no matter what good has happened this year (Correa walk off, Royce grand slams, the entire rotation being unstoppable) I find myself not enjoying it because I know the pain that's coming. This story reminded me of all the pain of the past, but it has also sparked that hope in me again. Thank you Chris, and go Twins.
Fantastic work. And I'm so sorry.
I’m not really a baseball fan but as an all around sports fan this is one of the best passion projects I have ever watched. Thank you.
Just moved to the Twin Cities at the beginning of this year and fell in love with not only the people and places but this team as well and holy cow, I had no idea the pain ran this deep but the beauty and pain and achievement shown through the entire time, especially with how you presented it. I watched the whole thing and thank YOU for putting this together.
I’m a lifelong Twins fan and Mauer superfan and this video was probably the most well-done (and surprisingly concise for the runtime) explanation of what this streak meant to us and how much the Toronto series meant to our collective psyche. Watching the 2009 series recap was so much of a gut punch, it felt like I was back in that timeframe.
I’ll make the trip to Cooperstown with you when Joe gets inducted. In the meantime, let’s meet over by gate 6 and I’ll buy you a Summit.
19 years and waiting. I was in 6th grade last time they won a playoff game, now im almost 30 with a kid of my own.😢 the pain is real.
@Chris Hanel SKOR North gave your video a shoutout. Congrats on all the praise. You did a great job and it mustve been a ton of work. So happy for you that you are getting the recognition.
This is an insanely well done video. Shades of Jon Bois in execution, the laying out of information, the music, all of it. Every detail shows how much you care, no, love this franchise to bits. I'm here after they won, and broke the streak. Incredible work. Please do more.
Similar presentation as a Jon Bois video, but you completely made it your own. This was fantastic. Could really tell you lived through this streak.
I’ve always heard of the Twins losing streak, but never knew how absolutely brutal it was. As an Angels fan I understand the pain of sports bit, but this is truly something else. Just straight up meteor smacking you on the head unluckiness spread out over 20 years.
Twins have a solid team this year, especially pitching wise. I could easily see them beat the streak. After watching this, though, I am nervous for any further cruelty the baseball gods may bestow upon the Twins. I truly hope, just for the fans sakes, they get back in the W column.
No. It was a complete ripoff of Jon Bois entire theme and cadence. Google earth, narration structure, everything.
That being said, Jon Bois doesn’t have a monopoly on emotional, stats heavy, google earth using sports videos. If someone else wants to make one just as good, they should be able to.
Man, this had me in tears multiple times. Incredible video! I immediately sent it to my friend who’s a White Sox fan and he was on board right away. This got me hyped for the playoffs and reminded me of so many great memories with loved ones. Thanks for doing this! Great work! MAKE MORE MINNESOTA SPORTS VIDEOS PLEASE!
Tremendous film!!! Hope you are still smiling tonight, and tomorrow and the next day and the next day. Congratulations!!!
This was very well done! While a lot of parts were painful, it perfectly painted the picture of the last 18 playoff games. Also, reliving game 163 vs the Tigers was amazing!
Stay tuned after the credits for a special message from me and my extremely adorable dog.
Corrections/Clarifications/Notes:
10:18 - This isn't a clarification, I just want to note that you can hear Deeps bark in the background as I'm narrating. I "forgot" to take it out of the edit. >.>
25:36 - Johan Santana came to the Twins as a result of the Astros leaving him unprotected during the Rule 5 draft, and the article in the video does go into the details a bit more than my narration, but to clarify: The Twins had the first pick in the draft and made a deal with the Marlins to pick Jared Camp first, have the Marlins pick Santana second, and then the Twins would get $50k in compensation along with swapping players.
33:01- while talking about Game 163, I address how the Twins held the season series advantage over the Tigers. However, what you see on screen is a a BRef table of the Twins vs. the White Sox, which is a big mistake on my part and was due to having just done all the animation for the 2008 tiebreaker. (For those curious, the Twins beat the Tigers in the season series 11-7.)
51:02- I say in the narration that the 2009 ALDS took place in the 'old' Yankee Stadium, but this is incorrect, this was the first year that the Yankees played in the new (and current) stadium. I caught this during the editing and then forgot to add a correction to the video.
53:35 - The WGA announced a tentative deal to end the strike literally the day before this video was released. If the price of that is this joke being obsolete then I am happy to pay that price.
1:06:20 - I mention that this is Paul Molitor's "first coaching job". What i should have said was that this was his first post as Manager, as he had been a bench coach, hitting coach, and fielding instructor for both the Twins and Mariners prior to accepting the head job in 2015.
1:13:43- There was supposed to be text and arrows pointing to this while I was narrating, but the pitch immediately before Gregorius's home run should have been strike three, but the ump called it a ball.
1:39:40 - I say "for the first time in decades, the Twins split a series at Yankee Stadium" and then immediately show that the last time it happened was actually only 9 years ago. In the script I was originally bundling together all of the following factoids but then changed the phrasing without updating the opening line.
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This is one of the greatest videos I have seen on this website and I've been on here since the early 2010s. This needs to be shared.
Had to come back to this today
This took me back. I was raised in MN and watched all these games as they happened. I remember watching them win that game in 2004 when I was just a sophomore in high school, I am now 35 years old. This video really made me realise how much I miss the past players and teams from my youth. Thank you for making this.
THE STREAK IS OVER!!! I was at Game 1 vs. Toronto earlier this evening...Target Field was absolutely electric! I only finished the last 30-40 minutes of the video tonight...still a great watch even after knowing it all came to an end today.
This is one of the best baseball documentaries I’ve ever seen. Absolutely fantastic. Especially loved the bomba squad tribute. Need more of your content!
This was so beautiful. My memory of so many of these games is wiped clean by trauma but you got me to remember how good so many of these teams were and just how absurd these losses are. This streak will end and I’ll cry, hug my dad, and try to log all the feelings of that moment. Thank you for doing this!
Just came back to say congrats on your Twins on breaking the streak. This documentary is very well made, entertaining, informal and fascinating as hell.
PS: I hope someone one day makes a video on how influential Jon Bois and Secret Base have been on Sports YT since 2020. His fingerprints are all over these docs lol.
As a Braves fan… after watching this video I’d love to somehow see a Braves Twins World Series. And if the Twins make it that far. I’d want them to have it. Not just to have it. But to work for it and it be a hell of a series for the Twins to win. As he said it. They will win another world series.
Go Braves and as far as the AL is concerned. Go Twins
honestly, a return to the blood match would be INSANE
A rematch of ‘91 is my close second for a World Series. Second only to a Twins-Cubs World Series. But at least a rematch is a real possibility…
As a 26 year old Twins fan I love this video. I feel like my life hasn’t been an able to see a single Twins win that I can remember. I was alive in 2004 but I wasn’t able to watch the last win. I’m ready for this year to change that.
I have just a handful of moments I cherish from being a Twins fan. To young for the championships, witnessing in person Johan Santana striking out 17 Rangers batters and watching 2009 game 163 on tv.
You won’t believe what just happened.
Game 163 in 2009 made me tear up, absolutely fantastic storytelling.
This was such a great video, especially the ending. Whether you're a Twins fan or not, every sports fan is a fan for a reason and the people who brought us to love those teams/sports are what it's really all about. These teams bring us together, giving us common ground to relate and connect to each other, spending time and making memories together through all of the ups and downs, regardless of how statistically improbable they may be.
As a life-long Braves fan who became a fan through my grandparents and suffered through countless first-round exits to cap off what seemed like one legitimately promising season after another, there was almost no greater feeling than watching them finally win in it all in 2021 for the first time in my life as a fan. I called my grandfather immediately after that last out and we were just basking in the joy of what we've never felt together... and it wasn't because the Braves won. It was because it felt like WE won. The team we've spent so much time together watching and talking about, feeling hopeful and down about, the team that brought us together. Them winning made me realize it was never about the team.
That World Series clinching game would be the last game my grandmother ever saw and my grandfather never got to see a game played this year. Felt like we got to go out on top with a story book ending, getting that last jolt of joy before the bitter end. As much as I want the Braves to win every year, I hope all fans can feel that same feeling at some point. The hard years, the perplexing records (14 straight division titles and only one world series?!?! I also hate the yankees lol), and baffling plays along the way only make it that much sweeter.
...And it's over.
I have been a Twins fan all my life. I attended three games of the 1987 World Series (Don Baylor's Game Six homer landed two rows in front of me) and have felt exactly the pain you expertly described these past 19 years. This is probably one of the finest baseball videos I've ever seen, exactly because it hits so close to home.
It made the Tuesday win (which I witnessed in person) that much sweeter.
I've watched this video 7 times in six days.
An amazing job!😊
Tremendous stuff. Data viz was incredible. Story telling was incredible. You should be so proud of this project.
I am glad you do not need to make an update to this video.
Love this production! Thank you for taking your time in putting this together
I completely forgot about Rosie getting tossed. Anyway this is incredible work. I’m so impressed.
Update: I’ve cried three times this is beautiful.
Amazing feature. Heartfelt. Earnest. And all-too familiar. Thank you.
We're all here before 1,000 subscribers ^^
It’s so crazy that in 2 months we have a secret base documentary on the Vikings Post season woes and now a secret base style one on the twins. How brutal it is to be a Minnesota sports fan. What’s next? T-Wolves?
Watching the stars win a stanley cup in dallas and the minnesota wild
@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab I’d watch that too
They've got enough content for all men's professional teams unfortunately.
You know that thing going around about how often do you think of the Roman Empire? This is my Roman Empire. I think about these playoff losses almost daily and how brutal this streak has been. This video gave me chills. Cheers and kudos!
I was 7 when that double was taken off Mauer in the ALDS, that play still haunts me to this day. The ump was RIGHT THERE. Nowadays I celebrate Yankees losses more than Twins wins
I wasn’t much older and it shocks me how vividly I still remember that call. It was some consolation to find out there is a musical out about despising the Yankees. Also glad the streak is over 😊
Great video Chris. I painfully lived through all those 18 loses like you. This video was a lot easier to stomach now that the Twins are on a 2 game post season winning streak. Hope your dog is doing well.
Thank you, Chris. Truly a masterpiece of a video.
This is so good, really impressed.
Absolutely epic. Feels throughout. As a lifelong Twins fan I couldn’t be more impressed on how you encapsulated 0-18 in a two hour video. Many thanks and sincere appreciation for your hard work. Go Twins!
You've nailed the Dorktown style. Hope you make more of these.
The streak is over 🪦 no one, and I mean NO ONE beats the Twins 19 straight playoff games in a row!!
This gave me heart palpitations, reliving all of this. Well done sir!
I saw this video in my feed last week and didn't have the intestinal fortitude to click play. It felt a lot easier this time around and what a fantastic video, and the math behind it is astounding. It deserves a lot more eyes on it. I'm glad that you won't need to add a part 2 that grows the odds. Thanks.
11:24 that is when this Video begins talking about: THE STREAK!! Loved the Ferris Bueller reference.
I will forever remember the top of 1 in 2017. ugh bring me back
Also, amazing work on the video!
This was absolutely phenomenal.
This might be the greatest content I have ever seen. Everything about it. Still, I actually did not know it was this bad for the Twins. I am not mortified that we won the AL Central this year. What is in store for us? I was 3 and 7 years old, respectively, in 87' and 91'. I still have my homer hanky lol. This is crazy.
Curse over!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
We're the same age and man, what a time to be alive!
Thank you for this effort. Despite the pain of all the post season loses, hope like baseball itself springs eternal. I will be a Twins fan forever.
Bro... this deserves some kind of award. Well done mate!
I haven't followed baseball closely since the late 2000s-early 2010s but I grew up in a stout Minnesota sports household, so it was obvious coming back to baseball to follow the Twins. I remember the only game I've been to was when the Twins faced the Angels, and it was Torii Hunter's first game against the Twins (a 3-2 win iirc). I was 5 the last time the Twins won a playoff game but I'm hopeful and will be cheering for them without a doubt. Thank you for all the effort I'm sure you've put into this video
There are those who are going to discredit you for "stealing" Jon Bois style, but you took the framework established by Secret Base and modified it, added onto it, and made it your own. This was beautiful.
Agreed. This video was so good _because_ it drew from the Secret Base template. It's a successful formula for those who wish to present the story of their data in the documentary style.
Fantastic video!
I'll admit I'm not much of a baseball fan, though I love watching documentaries about the sport, and I'm still a tacit Braves fan by virtue of living in Atlanta for 17 years. As a lifelong Falcons fan, I know just how much it hurts to have the support of virtually the entire country, going up against the evil empire of our sport, and to have win expectancy blow up in our faces. It's a bit different, having at most 21 chances to go out there and win rather than 162+, but it stings no less. I'm a little late to the party, seeing as y'all finally broke the streak, but I hope to see y'all keep winning in the playoffs this season!
Jon Bois would be proud. This is great to see coming off the heels of their Vikings series, the Wild's playoff woes are equally impressive. And the '04 Wolves are a story of their own as well. I went into this going "oh jeez a Jon Bois ripoff" but you really took the formula and put your own spins on it.
One week until the streak is broken. Lets go Twins
70 BILLION to 1. I shudder to think of what this number could become with just two more disastrous late inning games this year.
49:51 every September I think I've almost purged this from my memory, but like clockwork, it refreshes itself every October.
Great timing!! :D