Metrodome sucks for baseball but it's a great home field advantage

If you’ve ever been to the Metrodome in Minneapolis and watched a baseball game, you’ll understand what I’m about to say.  It is possibly the worst stadium ever conceived with baseball in mind.  I say possibly because Tropicana Field where the Tampa Bay Rays play sucks too.  

The Metrodome is nothing more than an indoor football stadium that has put up with baseball for 28 seasons.  It’s still hard to believe they actually designed it with baseball in mind as well.  The seats are set up at angles that point you away from the infield.  It has a baggy for an outfield wall.  Even fans at ground level aren’t close to the ground.

But here’s what the Metrodome has.  A team that just won’t quit.  White hanky waving fans that can turn the volume up to an ear splitting level indoors that will shake through your body and exit from your toes.     

Just when you thought the Metrodome was seeing its’ final days of baseball, the Twins put on a furious stretch run and caught the Tigers for a one game playoff.  Then they put on a show to remember in game 163 of the season, rallying time and time again before claiming the AL Central title.

In winning, the Twins became the first team in history to come from three games back with four to play.  So the Metrodome will see at least one more baseball game.  One more crowd  of 55,000 screaming, hanky waving Norwegians.  That damn stadium just won’t die.  It’s like the chainsaw wielding nut job in the horror movie that keeps coming back after the girl just when you thought he’d been killed.

Personally, I can’t wait until next season when the Twins open their new outdoor stadium and you can come to Minnesota and watch baseball under the clear northern skies.  Even if it’s freezing in the spring.  

In the meantime, just like the rest of the nation, I’ll watch with envy as the Twins make that stinking Metrodome stadium come alive again.