Twins Home Opening Weekend

So... after the wedding reception was over we all wanted to hang out longer, because we are awesome people.  Turns out the kegs that were purchased were still flowing!  WAH-HOO!  Unless, of course, you're already bombed and don't really need to drink anymore.  The bar tenders filled up probably 12-14 pitchers of beer and let us take them up to a room with us.  Did we need them?  Nope.  Were we quiet while drinking them?  Nope.  Did we drink them all?  I have no idea.  I'm not even sure what time Steve and I went to bed; it was late/early though.

We had tickets to the Twins game - home opening weekend tickets are always fun games because the crowd is electrifying!  We set the alarm for like 8am, because Duluth is a good 2.5 hours from our house (we left the tickets at home, durr), then the ballpark is another 30ish minutes from the crib.  We snoozed a bit and decided we didn't have to be at the field right at 1:10.  I was a mess; still drunk most likely.  Steve went and sat in the shower for probably 30 minutes.. then I told him he had to drive home because I couldn't even think about it.

We finally got on the road - after picking up some coffee (which I barely touched) and a tasty McDonald's breakfast sammy.  After making several stops along the way we finally made it home, grabbed the tickets, and headed back out to Target Field!  I think we walked in the gates round about 1:30-2:00.  I really didn't want to be around people... being wicked hungover, loud crowds of people are not appealing to me.  First things first... Walk-a-Taco.  This is a new food item at the ballpark; it's a taco you can eat while walking... cone shaped shell with all the taco fixings mixed together inside of it.  Scroll down a bit on this page to see a picture.  Looks good, right?  Steve and I were really excited to try these; we ordered one chicken and one beef:

For me, it left a lot to be desired.  I liked the chicken better than the beef, because you could taste cilantro in it (and I LOVE me some cilantro)... but they mix in some sort of sauce with it and I don't really do taco sauces on my tacos, and I felt like that either ruined it for me or took away the rest of the flavor or something. Maybe I was just hungover and unable to taste.. who knows.  Great picture though, right?!

Twins lost, which, for how I was feeling, was fitting.  A few other pictures from the day:

 cute, huh?

Baseball - Minnesota Twins - WOO-HOO!

With the huge excitement of opening in a brand new ballpark - The Minnesota Twins could only dream of where the season would take them.


I'm proud to say that I've been to probably a dozen games this season.  The ballpark (Target Field) is absolutely beautiful, stunning, breathtaking... simply amazing.  The first few games I went to were spent looking around - I'm still not even sure if we won or lost those games.  It doesn't matter right now because my hometown team has accomplished so much this week.  On Tuesday night, beating the Cleveland Indians and watching as Oakland destroyed the Southside Chicago White Sox - it was official; we clinched our spot as the Champions of the American League Central division!  How fucking cool is this for Minnesota and the loyal sports fans we have here?!


Currently, as I type this, the Twins are tied (TIED) with the New York Yankees for first place in the entire American League!  This is NOT small apples ladies and gentleman; we lost to the Yankees in the first round of the playoffs last year.  It was a sad day.  We are now playing our butts of to try and secure home field advantage (which doesn't have the same ring as Dome field advantage, but it'll do).


The season has had it's ups and downs for sure - the signing of Joe Mauer for the next 8 years was a huge high for me!  The knee Morneau took to the head, essentially causing a concussion and ending his season was a huge blow to our team - but everyone stepped up and did their part to get us where we need to be.


Our players are real, they are down to Earth, and they are good at what they do.  The don't walk around cocky like the gay-rods and jeters of the world.. they're hometown boys who want to win and have fun doing it.  It's electrifying to enter Target Field and feel the energy.  


I have tickets to the last regular season home game AND apparently Steve has playoff tickets.  I have my 2010 homer hanky (thanks to my wonderful boyfriend and his downtown Minneapolis office) and I'm ready to use it:

If this season takes us no where, we can all say it's been a beautiful, fun, and simply amazing run this year - but something tells me this 2010 baseball season has a lot more in store for the Minnesota Twins.


Can you imagine the celebrations yet to come?


So come on everybody - if you haven't already jumped on the bandwagon, now is the time!



We're gonna win, Twins
We're gonna score
We're gonna win, Twins
Watch that baseball soar.
Crack out a home run
Shout a hip-hooray
Cheer for the Minnesota Twins today!


These are the moments that 'The Pursuit of Happiness' in my blog title is so apparent.
God, it's an exciting time to be a Twins fan!

Exciting Events!

Today, at 9:30am, I will leave work and make my way to Target Field to see the Minnesota Twins play the Boston Red Sox.

This will be my first time in Target Field and the second time the Twins have played a regular season game there.

I am also going to the game tomorrow and another on Sunday.
3 games in under a week... my goal is to try ALL the new food (though I know I won't come close).

I'm so excited.  So excited, in fact, that I can't even use an exclamation point to show it... because I feel it doesn't even come close to my true feelings.

I'm so glad I waited until the season began to attend a game or make my way inside Target Field (which will likely be known as Tar Fe to me from here on out as I was near the stadium many times during construction and the first letters they hung were TAR F E).  It's going to ROCK MY SOCKS .. and the Twins will probably ROCK THE SOX ;)

yay for me... be jealous bitches!

Picture to come... I'm sure ;)