The Twins’ owners recently announced that they were kicking in an additional $13 million to Target Field, and it appears that it’s mostly being used for fun things. Things like this:
A roof deck, complete with a fire pit and a bar, will be the latest addition to the Minnesota Twins’ new outdoor stadium, giving a Minnesota twist to the famed rooftop decks that surround Chicago’s Wrigley Field. “Anyone who has gone on a road trip to watch baseball, i.e., Chicago . . . just realizes the experience we’re missing in Minneapolis and St. Paul,” said Brock Guettler, 39, an avid fan who has followed the Twins since he was 12. “And anybody who has grown up in Minnesota and gone to the lake has sat out in the back by the lake and the fire pit. Now we have another opportunity, except now we get to watch our favorite baseball game” . . .
. . . “Every ballpark has its own nuance,” said St. Peter, the Twins president. “Arizona has the swimming pool. San Francisco has the Bay and the Coke bottle slide. ....The fire pit will be uniquely Minnesota.”
Except, unlike the Coke bottle and the pool, the fire pit actually sounds pretty cool and, at least in April and September, probably pretty necessary. Oh, and the Coke bottle appears to be maiming people too, so let’s take a few more points off for that.
Anyway, it’s always hard to tell how these projects are going to turn out -- new Yankee Stadium seemed like a good idea on paper -- but I have to say, everything I’ve read about Target Field makes it sound like it’s going to be awesome.
