The end of the football season, the snow, and this Super Bowl ad probably have many people thinking green lawns and baseball.
So I shot an e-mail over to the Twins today to determine the next benchmark date for a return of the summer game: the date on which the Twins equipment truck leaves Minnesota for spring training.
The truck will be packed up on Friday. It leaves on Saturday.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins