Baseball hates change. Things get changed, players perform differently. The change gets blamed, for better or worse. That’s where we’re headed in this year’s Minnesota Twins baseball season. Read more →
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Tag: Target Field

Construction is already underway. The Twins open the season on March 28, against the Cleveland Indians, who have become an entirely beatable team in the off-season. Read more →

For a little less than a week, Jason Gabbert was the most hated person in Minnesota sports, based on the Star Tribune’s report of how the Minnesota Twins have banned him for a year for his aggressiveness in chasing foul balls in the nice seats behind the dugout.
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During the downpour on Saturday, probably three hours into what turned out to be a four-hour rain delay, nobody was in the entire upper deck of the outfield seating at Target Field in Minneapolis except a father and his little boy (7 or 8 years old, I’d guess), who were under the scoreboard overhang. The boy was patiently waiting, his baseball glove still on his hand. Read more →

Nobody gets upset when a country music star plays at Target Field, but country music hasn’t stolen baseball’s popularity.
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Tomorrow night, people will sacrifice their children to give him polite applause and then, like Ortiz, they’ll move on.
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How do you sneak in a big ‘She Said Yes’ sign with your girlfriend without her seeing it because you haven’t proposed to her yet? Read more →

The Twins and the company that runs the concessions at Target Field have bused in workers from Chicago and Milwaukee to fill the jobs at the concession stands. Read more →

Baseball long ago figured out if you feed reporters, they’ll write just about anything you want them to, and miss the story you don’t want them to write. Read more →

Somewhere around the third inning last night we noticed a quadcopter over Target Field during the Twins-Brewers game last night and anticipated the view from whomever was flying it.
It’s now been posted. Read more →

The Twins aren’t a good team. Who to blame for this? Where to start? Read more →

Today’s temperatures are a stark reminder that spring is coming and there’s nothing you can do to hold onto winter, try as you might.
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Fans don’t have any responsibility to support a bad team any more than a car buyer has an obligation to buy a lousy car, but criticism of Minnesota fans is unwarranted. Read more →