With the World Baseball Classic approaching, the Minnesota’s M & M boys will soon find themselves on different diamonds.
Minnesota’s Joseph Patrick Mauer will play for Team USA. British Columbia’s Justin Ernest George Morneau will play for Team Canada.
With the first peek at what this will look like, comes this Tweet from Twins p.r. guy Dustin Morse:
USA vs. Canada – Mauer vs. Morneau #WBC #MNTwins pic.twitter.com/P1qIdxVF
— Dustin Morse (@morsecode) February 19, 2013
So far the reaction has ranged from the expected (“Cute!”) to the somewhat-bizarre:
https://twitter.com/MnTwinkie/status/303875968064442369
Not to mention:
https://twitter.com/cchaffee84/status/303880923173224449
Which, for the record, is this:
The teammates clash on March 10 in Phoenix in the first USA vs. Canada game.