A new Target in Minnesota
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on May 25, 2010 
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Tonight the Yankees will get their first look at Target Field, the new stadium in Minneapolis that has drawn rave reviews.
“I had a chance to see Target Field last year, when we went in there during the regular season and it really looked beautiful,” Joe Girardi said. “I went up to the parking deck in right field and looked out over the field and it looked great. I’m excited to go there.”
The Yankees have a 17-18 record in their debut games in stadiums built during the Expansion Era, but they are 2-0 in their first games in Minnesota stadiums. On May 2, 1961 they won 6-4 at Metropolitan Stadium and on May 28, 1982 they won 10-5 at the Metrodome. The Yankees also swept their first series — both three-game sets — at each stadium. The Yankees also swept their final series at the Metrodome and won the last ever game at the dome in Game 3 of the ALDS.
“It was a dome that was very comfortable to play in, and it was always a good brand of baseball, and they were always good games,” Girardi said. “But I do prefer outdoor baseball. Maybe we’re catching it at the right time. It’s supposed to be 80 degrees in Minnesota this week. They claim it’s only one degree colder than Chicago on average. And it seems the weather’s been really good up there this year.”
Photo from the Twins website.
Definitely a beautiful stadium. They took full advantage of the sky line.
Imagine a comparable stadium in Jersey City?
You’d have the lower west side of Manhattan, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty in one panorama.
I’ve always felt some of the best views of NYC are from Hoboken and JC.
Weehawken.
Weekawken’s view is surreal.
Too bad they’ve ruined it (for the most part) w/construction.
*Weehawken.
Target Field has a moat around all the expensive seats beyond home plate as well
But I thought only the big bad Yankees did that
Mid 80’s temps and low humidity in Minny. Perfect weather for outdoor baseball instead of inside in the baggy-dome. I will miss Alex’s HRs over the folded up bleachers though.
8:10 start tonight, 7:10 tomorrow and 8:10 again on Thursday?
Why 7:10 Wednesday and not Thursday which would have made more sense with it being the getaway day.
Pat,
Wednesday’s game on ESPN.
In the spirit of the music discussion yesterday, this is the song that to me appropriately defines the Yankees, or not. It’s just my new favorite song is all!!
California girls
We’re unforgettable
Daisy Dukes
Bikinis on top
Sun-kissed skin
So hot
will melt your popsicle
Oooooh Oh Oooooh
California girls
We’re undeniable
Fine, fresh, fierce
We got it on lock
West coast represent
(West coast, west coast)
Now put your hands up
Oooooh Oh Oooooh
(Californiaaa, Californiaaa)
California girls man
I wish they all could be
California girls
(Californiaaa)
I really wish
You all could be
California girls
(Californiaaa, yeah)
mlb.com has a nice story about John Fogarty, who will play “Centerfield” at the HOF induction this summer…
here is part of it
Fogerty’s true inspiration was more lyrical, more romantic.
“Because of all those childhood tales I heard about [San Francisco native Joe] DiMaggio, I grew to think that the most hallowed place in all of the universe was center field in Yankee Stadium,” he said. “I knew there were other center fielders, but to go to the absolute perfect place, you had to get to Yankee Stadium. That was the coolest place in the world.
GTLU
Jeter SS
Gardner CF
Tex 1B
Alex 3B
Cano 2B
Swish RF
Thames LF
Miranda DH
Cervelli C
I will be at the game tonight. Looking forward to the Yankees putting their mark on this new stadium. Hopefully Thames can catch the ball in Left. Go Yanks.
have a great time, and cheer our boys on to victory
Lineup
SS Jeter
RF Swish
1B Tex
3B A-Rod
2B Cano
C Cvervelli
DH Miranda
LF Russo
CF Gardner
I’ll run GTLU for Doreen today, if she cant make it.
GTLU is now open for business. The time listed on Doreen’s site is 1:30 -4:00
Lineup
SS Jeter
RF Swish
1B Tex
3B A-Rod
2B Cano
C Cvervelli
DH Miranda
LF Russo
CF Gardner
what is GTLU?
Those already posted lineups:
ac1
unknown
joe long island (in last thread)
Dallas Braden, were you posting a lineup in the previous thread?
“what is GTLU?”
Guess The Lineup
GTLU- Although won’t count cuz I think the contests off tonight
Jeet SS
Swish RF
TexMex 1B 3-3, 2B, 2HR, 4runs, 4rbis
ARod 3B- 2-3, 2 2B, 3walks, 3rus, 2rbis
Robbie 2B- 4hits, 1HR, 2 2B,3runs, 3rbis
Miranda DH 2-4, 1HR, 2rbis
Cervelli C
Gardner CF
Winn LF
AJ Burnin ‘Em- 6 2/3, 5hits, 3 walks, 8 k’s W 13-3 Yanks win!
GTLU for today.
Jeter SS
Gardner CF
Tex 1B
Alex 3B
Cano 2B
Swisher RF
Cervelli C
Miranda DH
Winn LF
champ809. It says on Doreen’s site it is on.
I’ll just take down the lineups; if Doreen does not want to use them, that’s her decision, she makes the rules!!
I’ll bet Yankees lose 2 nd place this week!! Toronto’s coming on strong!
Submitted lineups:
ac1
unknown
joe long island (in last thread)
champ809
yanksfaninpa
SS Derek Jeter
CF Brett Gardner
1B Mark Teixeira
3B Alex Rodriguez
2B Robinson Cano
RF Nick Swisher
DH Juan Miranda
C Francisco Cervelli
LF Randy Winn
CR9,
Just put me down for whatever Girardi puts.
Jeter 6
Gardner 8
Teixeira 3
Rodriguez 6
Cano 4
Swisher 9
Cervelli 2
Miranda DH
Russo 7
who cares if you guess the lineup correctly?
Ok 1st GTLU in 2010:
Jeter ss
Gardner CF
Tex 1B
A Rod 3B
Cano 2B
Swisher RF
Miranda DH
Thames RF
Cervelli C
Submitted lineups:
ac1
unknown
joe long island (in last thread)
champ809
yanksfaninpa
rayvt
Billy D (I changed your Alex to 3B)
Jeff in Nj (Do you want Thames in LF?)
Thames in LF.
m already has Girardi’s lineup, because she’s so beautiful!!
just in case
SS Jeet
RF Swish
1B Tex
3B Alex
2B Robbie
DH Miranda
C Cisco
LF Russo
CF GGBG
thanks CR9 (and Doreen if she does it)
Yeah, Rodriguez should have had the “5″ next to him. Thanks for fixing.
Submitted lineups:
ac1
unknown
joe long island (in last thread)
champ809
yanksfaninpa
rayvt
Billy D
Jeff in Nj
upstate kate
Hi Doreen,
SS Jeter
CF Gardner
1B Teixeira
3B Rodriguez
2B Cano
RF Swisher
DH Miranda
C Cervelli
LF Winn
Doreen or CR9 –
Thank you
SS Jeter
CF GGBG
1B Tex
3B ARod
2B Robbie
RF Swish
DH Miranda
C Cisco Kid
LF Winn
Submitted lineups:
ac1
unknown
joe long island (in last thread)
champ809
yanksfaninpa
rayvt
Billy D
Jeff in Nj
upstate kate
Patrick from ct
rl15
I hope the bees aren’t going to be a problem for the Yankees… like the midges were in that Cleveland game.
There was an accident on Monday involving a truck carrying bee hives. About 17 million bees escaped. This happened in Minnisota just yesterday and the bees are still out there.
Bootleg GTLU today? We need Yankee news!
FIRST TIME GTLU
SS JETER
RF SWISH
1B TEX
3B AROD
2B CANO
DH MIRANDA
C CERVELLI
LF THAMES
CF GARDNER
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37.....?Gt1=43001
It happened 35 miles south of the Twinkie Cities.
eboland11 Joe Girardi, with Kevin Long pitching, working on his bunting in the cage before Yankees start early BP at Target Field
Wait. If Joba gets stung by bees, will we be able to tell if he’s swelling up?
Joe Girardi is working on hit bunting?
Can you say…. player-manager?
I guess Joe is going to take matters into his own hands to get us out of our slump
pat May 25th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
eboland11 Joe Girardi, with Kevin Long pitching, working on his bunting in the cage before Yankees start early BP at Target Field
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so they are going to activate girardi and DFA moeller?
A bee invasion would be awesome. It’s a built in excuse for not performing well. Everyone knows that.
G. Love May 25th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
Wait. If Joba gets stung by bees, will we be able to tell if he?s swelling up?
Only if he’s standing next to Mo. Need to have perspective. lol.
But would Girardi think he looks like a wuss if he puts a stop to the game for silly old bees?
AndrewMarchand Target Field is pretty awesome. 95 degrees here. #Yankees
YankeesWFAN Target Field is beautiful. Looks like it plays big, I’m told it does. Last wk Jim Thome said you had to “kill it” to get ball out of here.
Doreen or CR,
Here is my line-up:
SS Jeter
CF Gardner
1B Teixeira
3B Rodriguez
2B Cano
RF Swisher
DH Miranda
C Cervelli
LF Winn
Thanks both for hosting
CR9 – I did, in the pitching match-up post
Submitted lineups:
ac1
unknown
joe long island (in last thread)
champ809
yanksfaninpa
rayvt
Billy D
Jeff in Nj
upstate kate
Patrick from ct
rl15
Fran the Original
VictorE (clever name!!!!)
Dallas Braden
___
Fran
I dont know if Doreen will accept this. I didnt her say she canceled GTLU, and looked on the GTLU site, and it said it was open today, so…
Whatever Doreen decides to do. She’s the boss!!!
Sweet, the yankees won when I was born (5/28/82), thats so good to know
BryanHoch Bombers Beat: Greetings from Target Field http://bit.ly/aYdD2Y
can anyone explain the fascination of GTLU to me?
i submitted a line-up. why is my name off the list
Tater-trot tracker- Keeping track of who has the slowest and fastest HR trots this year.
http://tatertrottracker.com/
Hi CR,
I know Doreen’s the GTLU boss, but thanks for trying. Besides, we know that Joe Girardi will probably win anyway
Apologies, Warning Track. My mistake.
JoeV May 25th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
can anyone explain the fascination of GTLU to me?
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It’s done to irritate people like you.
JoeV
GTLU is a way to pass time while waiting for the game.
Sometimes it stops line up complaints.
GTLU is now closed
pat-
thanks for the link and video to the HR trot my ortiz.
i tell you what, with a slow trot like that, the guy deserves a pitch to the ribcage area.
if the rays can pull that off, i might stand up and give a golf clap!
jeter ss
Swisher rf
Tex 1b
Arod 3b
Cano 2b
Miranda dh
Cervelli c
Russo lf
Gardner cf
Final Submitted lineups:
ac1
unknown
joe long island (in last thread)
champ809
yanksfaninpa
rayvt
Billy D
Jeff in Nj
upstate kate
Patrick from ct
rl15
Fran the Original
VictorE (clever name!!!!)
Dallas Braden
Warning Track Power
baseball jesus
interesting link Pat…I guessed Ortiz and Manny, so at least I was half right! Or does Manny even have any HR yet this year?
Irritate?
Thanks upstate kate.
the majority of the time i refresh this page, the darn ADS delay my task.
so irritating
eboland11 Curtis Granderson’s newest blog post…http://yhoo.it/bO3WMj
the yankees have fallen to only 8 games above .500. they need to keep the ten games above .500 record through june 20th or so to stay in good position to make a run.
so in that sense a win tonight is very big. they lose and then it’s only 7 games over .
it’s a lot easier to get out of a hole if it isn’t that deep.
i hope girardi has talked with burnett about holding runners on better.
that is if it wouldn’t be an intrusion on aj’s sensitive nature to do things his way.
i know it’s kind of a negative thing to tell guys to step it up since it means they weren’t previously, but is there any alternative?
a manager’s job is to get the most wins possible and not to have everyone happy with him.
bottom line, this is a reasonably big game tonight and hopefully they’ll win it.
The “Fat Toad” has been arrested for DUI ………………….
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_15153961
I’m interested to see how Target plays for the hitters. There was a line from Jim Thome that one really had to kill the ball for it to go out. If so, then I’d think gap hitters might do well. From the picture up top, it kind of looks that way.
Brett does have some power to the gaps – we’ll see what happens. Likewise some of the Minnesota hitters, like Span.
not sure just how BIG of a game it is tonight, but nothing would be better to get a win, get off the current losing skid and get some positive momentum going for a change.
it all starts tonight with A.J.
3 games vs twins
4 games vs indians
3 games vs o’s
if the Yankees can go 7-3, that would be a nice 10 game run
during the same 10 game period, the rays are facing the red sox, white sox and the jays
i think you fight for benchmarks and short term realistic goals during tough times.
10 games above .500 to me is one of those key benchmarks.
win tonight and the team is only a game off that pace.
Randy-
What on earth was going on the last thread ?
It seemed like we had an imposter for numerous people who enjoyed picking fights.
This place is getting tougher to deal with all the time.
It is driving away many of the better posters.
MikeSilvermanBB Ellsbury expects to be CF for duration of year. Cameron, Hermida in left.
mtu-
i was planting petunias so i didn’t notice that much
i’m kind of ticked off how the yankee season has turned since the red sox series in fenway myself so i can see why there may be more disputes because passions are high.
the kind of stuff though that you’re talking about is just going to happen from time to time because anyone can post anytime.
i think there’s an absence of good posters right now because they’re laying in the weeds waiting to see what happens tonight . a win tonight and i think you’ll see them back out.
a loss and the blog will not be teh best place for a good baseball discussion.
do you remember when i said a little while ago ( maybe a week to ten days) the team was making me nervous and that i just didn’t like the way they were playing even though they hadn’t falling into a slump yet?
i couldn’t explain why i felt that way in stats but this team just doesn’t have a synergy about it when posada isn’t playing regularly. it’s like the parts don’t go together. there’s an amplifying effect he has on the team.
i would really like to see gardner moved to the leadoff spot and put jeter back in the second spot. and simply drop teixeira down in the order until he starts hitting.
the yankees are playing three games worse than their expected won loss record. that could just be bad luck or maybe they aren’t maximizing opportunities in the sense of having stats in isolation instead of grouping them in ways that results in runs when they need them or in preventing a run when it means a win.
back to your original point, i think when the team is in free fall, it’s hard to get good discussions.
Randy-
Thanks for the response. I do remember you mentioning your concern to me a few weeks back.
I’m not crazy about GGBG leading off because that means that
Jeter will be hitting 2nd leading to more DP’s. I would like to see Granderson in the 2 hole against righties, and Swish in the 2 hole against lefties.
For me GGBG is better further down in the lineup even 9th, and Tex should drop down soon unless he opens it up.
Hi All –
I know I don’t post all that often, but i’m always reading and hanging around. Just wanted to let all my fellow yankees fans know I have a little website with a few Yankees wallpapers and Personas (for firefox) (I’ll be adding more when I have time) I also have some skins for other apps that I plan on using. One is for the application indexer/launcher called Launchy, and also a clock program i used called Clocx. Here’s hoping we have a good game tonight!
steve says