As most of you have already heard, today's baseball action at Target Field has been postponed due to snow.  Yes, its April 14th and it seriously looks like I'll have at least 12" of new snow in my back yard. I apologize and ask for your forgiveness in advance for my melancholic, SNOW postponed Game Thread introduction.

 

For those of you wisely living outside of Minnesota in better climates, let me list for you the general emotions and behaviors people have been exhibiting the last couple of weeks around here:

 

• Anger - At the weatherman and Mother Nature.
• Despair - Any hope of Spring coming is dead.
• Anguish - Part of the sad family.  Really just means pain.
• Depression - There is still 24" of ice on Lake Minnetonka.  Won't be open until May or longer...
• Regret - I should have moved away years ago.
• Sorrow - Will I get to fish on open water again? 
• Hostility - Towards my snow removal equipment and shovels.
• Rage - the snow just keeps coming and coming.  It's like the mail.
• Hopelessness - will it ever go above 40 degrees?
• Anxiety - Summer will never come. We are entering a mini ice age.
• Alcoholism - Might as well stay in and have a few more cocktails with dinner.
• Binge eating - Might as well eat another eclair.  Not putting on a bathing suite this year anyway.
• Hysteria - Emotions are on edge.  Good Def Leppard album though.
• Arthritis - Cold is not good on the joints.  Slipping and falling on ice doesn't help either.
• Loathing - At the cold, snow and people smart enough to live in a better climate.
• Grief - Spring has died.

 

Just thought I would share what some people are experiencing around the area.  I know a few people out there love this weather but I like the change in seasons.  Its time to change this ^*#@&*% season!  I suppose we will go from snow directly into tornadoes and extreme heat.  No buffer season this year.  

 

I was really looking forward to watching the Twins play today for a little entertainment.  Now it looks like my entertainment will consist of firing up the snow blower and watching my 14 week old puppy going to the bathroom outside with snow up to his neck. 

 

Go Twins!!  Hopefully you can play some games at home this year before July!

 

 

Christmas present from my son...

 

 

Great intro! I feel all of that pain in this endless winter.

I’ll go with arthritis and alcohol there. And binge reading and watching.

As someone who grew up in northern Minnesota in some bad winters in the seventies and eighties, this might be the longest winter ever.

 

If we were going to have multiple games cancelled due to winter-like April, why couldn't it have been 2016?  Then the snow would have been seen as a bit of a blessing.

The things we have to put up with to live in the best state in the country.

 

I’ll go with arthritis and alcohol there. And binge reading and watching.

Great point!  I should have listed binge watching and reading.  Who'd a thunk you could get through 7 seasons of the Sopranos in a week. 

Depending on when this game is made up, we will try to reuse this thread. It will serve the dual purpose of game Thread and a good look back.

 

Chicago isn’t a lot better but just warm enough better that we aren’t getting snow, gratefully. As of this writing. Typically in spring the temps here are cooler than in Minneapolis. The spring breezes off the lake keep the chill in the air longer into the spring despite the warmth of the sun.

Really fed up with this weather. Horrible planning by the MLB. If we're forced to stay in we should at least be able to watch the Twins play somewhere warm. 

The things we have to put up with to live in the best state in the country.

Keeps the riffraff out. I heard that all the time when I lived there.

 

Really fed up with this weather. Horrible planning by the MLB. If we're forced to stay in we should at least be able to watch the Twins play somewhere warm. 

Did the MLB plan this mid-April blizzard? I don't think there was any way to anticipate this. Did you want to start the season with 20 straight road games?

 

Did the MLB plan this mid-April blizzard? I don't think there was any way to anticipate this. Did you want to start the season with 20 straight road games?

Moving the start of the season up in general was a horrible idea. We aren't the only teams having trouble getting games in. 

 

Depending on when this game is made up, we will try to reuse this thread. It will serve the dual purpose of game Thread and a good look back.

Chicago isn’t a lot better but just warm enough better that we aren’t getting snow, gratefully. As of this writing. Typically in spring the temps here are cooler than in Minneapolis. The spring breezes off the lake keep the chill in the air longer into the spring despite the warmth of the sun.

Great idea on reusing the thread!

 

BTW, I've got 11" of snow thats fallen so far on my deck.  It's supposed to continue to fall throughout the day tomorrow.  I'm guessing we end up with 14".

 

Pathetic.

I don't see any way that they'll be playing tomorrow either.

Like the 1991 Halloween Blizzard, this mid-April Snownamie is an aberration.  I am so happy that the Twins play in a real outdoor ballpark and not a fishbowl retractable roof stadium.

 

I don't see any way that they'll be playing tomorrow either.

No way thats happening.  

 

Moving the start of the season up in general was a horrible idea. We aren't the only teams having trouble getting games in. 

You might be right about that, but this would be happening whether the season moved up or not.

My wife says the Twins' facebook page has announced postponement of tomorrow's game. I'm not on facebook myself but I think someone else can confirm this.

My wife says the Twins' facebook page has announced postponement of tomorrow's game. I'm not on facebook myself but I think someone else can confirm this.

Confirmed via MLB. Looks like Lynn will be starting Tuesday.

Edited April 14, 20188 yr by Craig Arko

 

Confirmed via MLB. Looks like Lynn will be starting Tuesday.

Actually I think that is wrong. Believe I saw that it will be Odorizzi and Berrios in PR. Lynn will start Friday in Tampa

• Meanwhile, Phil Hughes is starting in Ft Myers, around 90 degrees, and I leave in the morning.

8 inches of rain forecast for tuesday.

 

I don't see any way that they'll be playing tomorrow either.

Just saw they postponed tomorrow's game, too. No surprise really, but in the other two series with the Sox, they'll have to play a total of nine games. The Twins host the Sox for the last series of the regular season.

Has anyone asked Chief if this is how the last few ice ages started?

So, how likely is it that the Twins can actually fly out of MSP sometime Sunday?

 

The Sox too for that matter. Where do they head next?

I hate no baseball

 

Really fed up with this weather. Horrible planning by the MLB. If we're forced to stay in we should at least be able to watch the Twins play somewhere warm. 

Makes playing in PR look a bit better, doesn't it?

Makes playing in PR look a bit better, doesn't it?

They have to get there first...

 

They have to get there first...

Details?

So depressed losing these three games.

 

I want to say something positive!

 

At least we have milb to follow and read about?