Monday, May 24, 2010

Target Field Recap

Let me go ahead and get the game/Brewer/Target Field experience out of the way before I get to the stuff everyone really probably wants to read. The seats we had were insane. I've never had seats that good to a baseball game before, and probably never will again. It really does make a difference where you are when you watch the game. When you can see facial expressions and the movement of pitches it makes a huge difference. I felt like I was at a Wisconsin Timber Rattlers game. Our seats were slightly to the left of home plate, about 15 rows up. So close that we routinely ducked when a pitch would get fouled back. It was amazing.

Target Field itself is very nice once you are in your seat. The concourses were extremely narrow, which doesn't make much sense for a brand new stadium. It didn't help that it was about 1000 degrees and I was so hung over I wanted to die, but they were really crowded. The food options were probably a little better than Miller Park, and I wasn't at all interested in beer so I can't give you much there. The area surrounding the stadium was the nicest I've seen by far. Overall, not as fancy as Yankee Stadium, but more functional, and not as large. And the concourses are way too tight. I still prefer the Miller Park experience, especially when you consider that there is no place to tailgate. It was surprisingly easy to park, and though traffic always seems to be mildly horrendous in the Twin Cities, getting out wasn't that bad. I would go back, if only to find that prick that told me to "Get the fuck out of my way!" because I was "going the wrong way down the steps". I was personally unaware there were designated lanes. But it is a new stadium so I could've missed the sign.

During the game, I pitched an inning and 2/3 because Macha felt the need to use every pitcher on his roster the night before to attempt to save his job. John Axford's mustache got the save, and he is now my favorite pitcher. Finally, because we were in good ass seats, we were about ten feet from Zach Braddock's mother and sister as they screamed during his major league debut and illegally recorded it on a camcorder like it was a little league game.

Oh, and Corey Hart hit the first homer into the third deck which had to have been about 475ft, but because it was a visiting player that hit it, the Twins estimated at 440 ft. PPS. I heard Fielder's fat when he got hit by that pitch in his first at bat.

OTHER THINGS

We got DRUNK. Like, my wife and I were both blacked out, stumbled around downtown Minneapolis somehow avoiding being shot, my wife broke her shoe and was walking around barefoot, we finally hailed a cab to get directions to the hotel, but my wife jumped in the backseat and refused to get out, so the cabdriver drove us a block and a half to the hotel, where we had no cash and my wife refused to get out of the cab, but the cab driver didn't want money but I felt the need to go to the ATM to give him $20 anyway, then we both puked and my wife woke up with Ricky's Brewer jersey (that he'd worn that night) and shorts on even though they were way too small on her, so she's totally going to be giving birth to his child in 9 months, and then she proceeded to vomit until about the 5th inning of the game, drunk. So we had some fun. I accidentally drank a "Premium" Grain Belt because a waitress fucked up my order, and the thought of it makes me want to puke again today. The game would've been alot more fun if it wasn't 1000 degrees and I wasn't hung over. Overall, I'm pretty sure downtown Minneapolis was awesome and we both cheated death again. Same time next year????

Now if you will excuse me, I have to spend day one of my vacation doing manual labor in 1000 degree temps.

9 comments:

Emma said...

Oh c'mon! Target field is inadequate!? Welcome to real baseball out in the elements ... We lived in a toilet for 28 years, and now you're down on us for getting an outdoor stadium ... Make up your mind, not all of us can have a retractible roof :p ... Richie McRich Rich's!! :p

As a REAL Twins fan I apologize to the drunkard who had no class ... Real fans respect others for picking a team, not get all pissed off for someone choosing one ...

I must say, I've picked up ANOTHER favorite pitcher from another team ... On top of Soria (AKA: The Mexicutioner) with the KC Royals ... John Axford with the power of his mustache :p ...

Good game, and thanks for stealing my PJ shorts after I got locked out of the room :p :p ...

Juicelaw said...

It isn't inadequate. The seating area was awesome. The shoving 40,000 through a twelve foot wide concourse left a little to be desired.

Also, there should be a roof.

Bear said...

You know Juice just loves to bitch about stuff

Seymour said...

Don't worry about the whole "Richard's child" situation because Mr. Juice informed me via text message "(Juice) and I just had to represent WI and do jaeger bomb shots the size of your head. Hope u didn't ti be an uncle any time soon cuz that killed any lingering fetus." which brings up a lot of points, but is really just classic, drunken Mrs. Juice...

Seymour said...

oops, the text was from Mrs. Juice, obviously... Bear, Juice hasn't overly bitched that you haven't posted a blog in about 6 months...

Bear said...

I'm sure there's a post or two in the last 6 months

Seymour said...

you're probably right... I apologize for blowing up like that

Bear said...

It's ok, you've been under a lot of stress lately

Ricky said...

Juicelaw - Yes, same time next year. Maybe a little less drunk though so you can actually enjoy the game.