I’m back home in Chicago gearing up for the Renegade Craft Fair this weekend and going through pictures of the last two legs of my trip. You want to see the happiest boy in the whole entire world?
That would be PT, a boy who grew up watching indoor baseball at the hellhole of a Metrodome we saw last year but is seeing Target Field, the new ballpark where the Minnesota Twins now play, for the first time.
This trip included two baseball games, one at Yankee Stadium and one here at Target Field, and I can’t express enough how much more I enjoyed my time at Target Field than at Yankee Stadium.
Target Field is fun. It’s beautiful and you can feel how excited everyone is to be outside watching baseball, which is something the rest of us take for granted. Twins fans are just happy people watching baseball. They are tickled pink that their team is in the race but I’m pretty sure they would be just as excited if they had the worst team in baseball. They love everyone. Everyone gets cheered on, every ball could go out, every out is huge, every moment is awesome, and that is just a fun way to watch baseball.
And, when you are with someone having the best time of their life, you just gotta get on board. PT looked like this the entire time. Seriously. But so did everyone!
It’s beautiful and fun and comfortable and their food is reasonably priced and they’ve got these fancy bars all over the stadium that are accessible to everyone.
The Tigers lost in extra innings. It was a rough game, but I still had a great time. THAT is how amazing Target Field is!
So, Yankees, I have no idea what you did with that $1.4 billion, but you should have built Target Field in the Bronx and saved yourself $855,000,000. That is right, Yankee Stadium cost EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS more than Target Field. I can’t comprehend how much money that actually is, but that is a lot of zeros for something to have cost more than something else.
If you find yourself in Minneapolis you should get yourself to Target Field. If you find yourself in the Bronx you should get on a plane, fly to Minnesota, and get yourself to Target Field. It will cost you less than going to see the Yankees.





















Nice photos! I’m not hugely into baseball but went to a Twins game this summer to see the new park – I was blown away by how pretty it is.
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Comment by Elizabeth — September 7, 2010 @ 9:11 am
so so beautiful…and PT DOES look giddy!
I’ve only been to a couple baseball games in my life (sad but true) and both times I was just like that
crazy excited.
I hope we start taking JJ soon.
it would be fun. Petco park is in SD by the ocean and beautiful.
I love your pics!
thanks for sharing!
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Comment by Cindy — September 7, 2010 @ 11:10 am
Wow. What a contrast from Fenway, where everyone is just angry and/or drunk. It’s fun, but a very different kind of fun.
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Comment by Rainy Daisy — September 8, 2010 @ 12:05 pm
Yes! I haven’t been to Fenway yet but that is how I felt at Yankee Stadium! Everyone just super angry and drunk. Eh! Crazy baseball fans!
Comment by allyson — September 8, 2010 @ 12:12 pm