| The Joys of Outdoor Baseball |
| By Sally Haase April 12, 2013 Target Field is a beautiful stadium, there is no arguing that. But it is a stadium in a northern climate, where worries about snow outs are on the minds of the powers that be in the Minnesota Twins organization. This past week, the second week of April; the Twins were lucky enough to be on the road. The weather was not ideal in Baltimore and Kansas City but it was still better than the weather in Minnesota this week. Tuesday night the weather was a thunderstorm and by Thursday morning there was anywhere from two to 12 inches of snow on the ground throughout the state. Whose idea was it to have an open air stadium? The Twins have been lucky with the weather in the past three seasons of Target field, two years ago was one of the snowiest winters on record but the snow was nice enough to be gone by the time the baseball season started. Last year was one of the warmest winters on record and the grass at Target Field was green and ready by March 1st. The staff at Target Field was out Thursday afternoon with pressure washers to clear all the snow out of the stands, they want to get the games in this weekend and a final decision on the fate of the series with the New York Mets will be made sometime Friday afternoon. The field is heated, so there is no matter of keeping that clear, but to keep the stands clear especially if it keeps snowing during the day on Friday making it difficult to keep up with the clearing process. Playing in the cold weather is no picnic either; it’s difficult to stay warm and can make the players vulnerable to injuries. And remember when you played ball in the cold and you did not hit the ball square; remember how much that stung? Just imagine that but with a 90 mph fastball. My hands hurt just thinking about it. Its weather like this that makes me nostalgic for the Teflon covered dome, where it is always calm and 72 degrees and at least you knew the games would be played no matter what the weather report says. |
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