I like the pennant idea. Gives a good taste of the history of the Twins.

That's why I think we've seen some pro teams try to withhold tickets for a secondary market where they'll get a cut of the mark-up as a broker or other 3rd party manages the re-sale.

It protects their brand so long as it isn't obvious that the team is doing this.

i like those ideas as well. still thinking about the secondary ticket sales though...

I don't like the location of those pennants. They need to be inside the ballpark, not on a wall, outside of it.

I sure the pennants will be in te stadium too. these are an upclose and detailed veiw

Rick, I know what you mean with the "Virtual Waiting Room"...did it for the Cubs last month (I live in Chicago) and also did it for Twins tickets today...signed in right at noon to buy my tix to the final Twins game in the Metrodome!!!

"Best available" put me all the way out in the homerun porch, but I don't care...I'll be there!! Can't wait.

Anyone else buy tix for the final game today?

Excited,

Sure did. Took me about 40 minutes before I got through. I don't have much familiarity with buying Twins tickets online so I was frustrated as all get out when every click told me there wasn't anything available. Then add on top of that I was being timed too. I swear my blood pressure went up 20 points. I was able to find/settle on sect 102. I also got tickets for Saturday's game too in sect 134. Equivalently, those will be far better seats in TF than they are in the Dome.

I can't remember the date of the first time I saw the Twins in the Dome but I'll certainly remember the last.

About the pennants, do you think they'll still include Ron Davis?

I just got my season tickets today!!! i love it the season is around the corner, i smelled all the tickets i think this year is a winner!

I waited 30 mins in the STL cards virtual waiting room yesterday @ 9am to get twins tickets for this summer... and i lucked out and got redbird club seats i cant belive how much they charge for a ticket in stl and us cellular...the cheapest seat is a nose bleed bleecher seat for like 19.50

I heard a radio commercial saying new ballpark tix go on sale in May. Rick, do you know any more details about this?

Hey, great site. I found you through Facebook. I wonder if the Twins will do standing room only seats like the Cubs do? Any information on that?

a few pics i took a couple days ago

Nice pics Erik. Thank you.

It's pretty cool that we'll be able to see limestone on webcam 2 very soon.

Love the darker, multi-colored brick behind the left field seats.

Jeff,

You must have been mistaken. Phase 1 seat selection for existing season ticket holder's begin in May, and should run through approximately July. Then in September and October Phase 2 goes which would include people who buy balance of season 2009 tickets and cheap seat accounts from 2007-2009 who aren't supposed to have any priority. And then last would be new season tickets for 2010. Final payment is due by December, and then I would imagine they would have single game tickets go on sale at Twins fest as everyone should have their seats selected by then, assuming they have season ticket holder's single game presale in Early January.

they didnt have single game ticket sales at Twins Fest this year. they bolstered their date up to March 7, apparently to be in line with the other MLB clubs. cant imagine they'd do it next year.

Anyone know how fast Liriano is throwing?

Maybe it's just me, but I have no sentimental feeling for the ol' Metrodome at all and have no real desire to go to the last game there (unless it's a playoff game!).

I also had to wait in the "waiting room" Cardinals vs. Twins tickets. My originally $17 tix went up to 21 because it must be a premium game, then they charged another $4 per ticket for a convenience fee, I don't see any convenience in that, and then they charged me another $4 for a processing fee. To top it all off, we're in the last row in the upper deck. Oh well, at least it will get me excited to actually see a Twins home game outside.

I actually had good luck in the St. Louis waiting room, more luck than in the Cubs waiting room. The waiting room at the Dr.'s office sucks the most though.

The new Season Ticket commercial is just too true and too funny!

Clicky, Clicky

I know the dome stinks, and I can't wait for the new stadium. But I'm from the Metrodome generation--I was born the year the dome was built. I won't miss it, but I may have a single tear for the old HHH. I will look on it with fond memories.

I have no desire to be at the last dome game. My fondest memory was its early collapse. I will, however, be at the first football game at TCF.

Understood. But I grew up at Met Stadium (I am 49) and left the state for several years while they built the dome and razed the Met. I watched both World Series from Cincinnati but have never connected with the Dome. I would probably feel differently if I was here during either world championship run. I know Cincy was a blast when they won it in 1990.

I can't wait till they raze the dome - It will be a fine day in MN...hopefully they do the Star Trib at the same time. The last game in the dome will be interesting in that you'll have a lot of codgers who don't like the idea of being outside who will want to say they were there.

I just fear what sort of impact a razed Dome has on the Gopher baseball team, and other colleges in the area? We are lucky to see some ball in March thanks to the Dome.

Target Field will be a gem, no question. Every time I see baseball outdoors I see what we are missing. But you can't deny that there have been some great memories in the dome. Kirby against the plexiglass. Ortiz's towering home run (with the Red Sox) turned single because of the speaker. Hunter's awesome catches against the stretched plastic in center. I went to a lot of rockies games at Coor's field between 2001 and 2005. The stadium was beautiful but the team was terrible. I would rather see a great team in a lousy stadium (the Twins) than a lousy team in a great stadium. TF will be beautiful. The only way it will be great is if the twins are great (or at least good, and fun to watch)

I really like the idea of the pennants, but I hope and pray that they go with a different color scheme. The white and shiny silver looks like a cheap wedding decoration to me. It would be somewhat difficult to keep them looking crisp and clean being outside in the elements, wouldn't it?

So I've just returned home from the Indians/White Sox spring training game. As I sat next to an empty seat for the first 2 innings, a young man sporting a Joe Mauer jersey and Twins cap sat down next to me. Being the chatty old fart that I am I asked what a Twins fan is doing at an Indians/Sox game. "Checking out our competition" he said. We had a nice chat about our favorite team, he and his wife were on spring break in AZ visiting her folks. Our conversation turned to Target Field and this bright-eyed young man said he's never seen a Twins game outdoors and was very excited to do so. You can just imagine the warm fuzzy feeling I had in my heart to hear a young Twins fan say such a thing. And then it happened. Like all good things - it came to an end. He blurted out, "I can't believe they're not going to build a retractable roof on the ballpark." I was very thankful that I had taken my lisinopril this morning because my blood pressure jumped about 20 points.

Conveniently there was an Indians fan sitting below us, hearing our entire conversation. He couldn't have been much older than the Twins fan next to me. He turned around and asked the kid, "Do you remember how the Tribe had to relocate their home games to Milwaukee for the first week of the season due to snow?" We both nodded. "Well, NOBODY in Cleveland said the Jake needs a roof and the Twins don't either."

This young generation of Minnesotans just doesn't know any better. They've been raised with indoor baseball/football. We're going to hear this garbage from now until about year 5 of Target Field when these kids realize that outdoor baseball won't kill you. It's time for young Minnesotans to GROW A PAIR! You're the same people who wait for the bus/train in subzero weather. You're the same people who refuse to turn on the A/C when it's 90 degrees and humid. Surely you can deal with outdoor baseball.

By the end of the game, the young man was convinced the Twins made the right decision by leaving the roof off.

Nice story Kevin. Completely agree that it's frustrating to hear fans talk about adding a roof.

Just curious, did you happen to see the White Sox prospects' Gordon Beckham or Dayan Viciedo while you were at the game? If so, do you have a scouting report?

Kevin in az, please do not generalize all young Minnesotans. As a young Minnesotan myself, I actually would like to see the dome go and wouldn't mind seeing an outdoor game without a roof. I find it irritating that people still bring up the issue, but it's also extremely irritating to be stereotyped as well.

Beckham didn't play, Viciedo got one hit and struck out twice as the DH. Johnny Danks was awful, he gave up 8 hits, 6 runs (5 earned) in 2 innings...Hope that continues!!

Jervill...it is what it is and your generation is full of whiners!

that was a good story Kev.
just for the record, both Chicagos, both New Yorks, Boston, Detroit, KC, Saint Louis, Cleveland...they have just as crazy weather as we do, and they do just fine without a roof.
bring on the doubleheaders!

I'm from the young generation and I absolutely despise the Metrodome. Other then 2 World Series Championships, it has ruined Minnesota sports. I'm so pissed off I will never see the Vikings play home games in the cold. I think the cold works to our advantage, I always hear stories that the LA Rams hated playing up here in the cold, its a shame I will never see that. Thank God for Target Field, at least half my dream came true, 2010 can't come soon enough.

I'm 25 years old and have been seeing games in the dome since '86. I cannot wait to go to a game in 40 degree drizzle or to get majorly sunburnt in the cheap seats. BRING IT ON!!

(I will admit it might be a little nostalgic this year in the dome with all the great and not so great memories; but it's nothing more than that).

Hearing you younger Minnesotans gives me some hope. Please start educating your compadres who fear that playing sports in the elements will somehow harm them. I'm sure there's a chance a ball player could be struk my lightning, but I think those odds are less than a player blowing out his knee on the artificial turf.

And Matt, you're correct about the Rams hating games at the Met in December. The Rams had some awesome teams and they always said, oh just wait til we play the Vikings in LA, we'll smoke em'. The Rams had their chance in '77 and the Vikings brought MN weather with them. It was the mud bowl and the Vikings won...AGAIN! The Vikings died in 1981 when they departed the Met and Mike Lynn took over. What we've witnessed since then is a group of pathetic purple pansies from the top down. As a long-time Vikings fan, I've concluded that this franchise is diseased and the Metrodome has been further poison. The Vikes had a natural home-field advantage thanks to mother nature and they went away from it. Just ask Roman Gabriel or Pat Hayden if the Vikings nov-dec advantage at the met was bigger than the so-called noise advantage at the dome. Chris Chandler had no problem with the noise in '98.

as for the comment on the effect the eventual end of the dome would have on college baseball... i went to school in fargo... and NDSU baseball just has a long spring road trip... and then plays a TON of home games in late April-May. Works out great on those first few weeks of summer sitting outside at Newman Outdoor watching some *ting*

Kevin in AZ, you are a butt. Someone says that they want a roof and knowing full well that that will never happen you still get upset. People have preferences. In your words, "it is what it is." Your little story just sounds like an angry rant. I didn't want the roof either, but I'm not gonna freak if someone simply says that they wish there was one.

If Kevin is the butt, then Robot must be the bleeding hemorrhoid that won't go away.

Robot, you're an idiot.

Steeks, I am not at all educated on the Gopher Baseball team. I must admit that while I lived there for many years, I never paid much attention to them. What did the Gophers do before the Metrodome? I know Dick Siebert coached the team to 3 national titles in the 50s-60s. I don't think they played anywhere indoors at the time. I know Bierman Field (now Siebert Field) opened in 1971, 11 years before the dome did. What did the Gophers do back then and how did they survive? Perhaps whatever they did back then, they could do now but I have no idea what that was. Anyone have knowledge on this subject?

Kevin in AZ
I'm from the younger generation. Did we ask for a domed stadium?? No. But we made good memories with what we had. If we are going to start a generational war (kids vs adults or something stupid like that) remember who petitioned to have the dome built. YOUR generation. The dome was a useful structure for many years. TF will be better. Don't be a hater!

and don't give me this "I weep for the future" rhetoric either. We're going to be supporting you in your old age, so let us have our opinions!

They have played at Siebert Field, but now they only play one or two double-headers there per year. The field is fine, the location is great, but apparently the locker rooms are dank and disgusting, and the whole grandstand will soon topple over. They need a new stadium. They are currently in a 'quiet fund raising campaign,' asking boosters and alumni to donate before they go for a public push.

College baseball at the dome is great. There are games going on 24/7 right now. Just check out the MSFC website. It'll be a shame to lose that. But for the record, a (mythical) new indoor Vikings stadium would be convertible to baseball.

I was talking with Sid Hartman the other day. I can't believe all old people want a roof! I just don't understand that generation.

I go to Astros games frequently because at least it resembles major league baseball and it's all we have got. I have to say that I absolutely HATE minute maid park. It's like watching baseball in an airport hanger and even when it's open 5 times a year it still feels closed. I don't care if it's 100 degrees I still wanna watch outside. I believe that the trend of retractable roofs is going to get old and these parks will die off. I give it 10 years and Houstonians will want a new park as will Seattle and Arizona. If there's going to be one of these I think Tampa had it right with their proposal(click name).

Maybe the Gophers should rebuild Siebert Field with a retractable roof? You know, for the younger generation? Build a casino next door to pay for it.

Yes Eric I agree for the most part....Phoenix and Houston built ballparks inside of shoe boxes. I'm not sure I'd put Seattle in the same category. Having been to Safeco a few times, it really feels like an outdoor park when the lid is off. You don't get that outdoor feeling in AZ, Milwaukee, Houston or Toronto.

i agree with kevin on seattle and houston/az/milwaukee too.

houston to me is the biggest example of a modern park that is going to age poorly. it is a testament to the fatal flaw in "quirky by design" thinking.

the insanely short porch in left - the damn train above that - the gas pump porch in the left/center gap - tal's hill and the flagpole in center... too much novelty for one park.

The difference with Seattle is that the roof covers the park, but does not enclose it. The park is protected from rain, but not climate controlled. This makes for a much better design, as you don't have to close it in as much.

Miller Park has the same feel, I went to a game a couple years ago and the roof was open but I did not feel like I was outside. It still had that sterile indoors feel to it. I am 24 years old and couldn't be happier that Target Field is being built without a roof. Now if we could do something about a tailgating lot nearby...