It was actually warm and light enough outside when we got home yesterday to go for a run around Lake Harriet (two times, not that we're bragging or anything). That means it's certainly getting into the territory where we can start fixating about Twins tickets.
Helping the cause are two recent developments:
1) We finally set a date for our season ticket "draft" with the five other season ticket holders with whom we share two full season tickets. March 16 is the big day, giving us less than two weeks to plot out a strategy. This might be a little stupid considering many of the fellow ticket holders are regular RandBall readers, but we are asking for strategic suggestions on how to pick tickets. Prior commitments already known such as weddings, etc., will have to be taken into account. But aside from that, what are the biggest priorities: potential big games; potential weather incidents; seeing big stars from other teams; etc. We have already determined that the opening series vs. Boston will be our "buddy" series in which everyone in the group gets one ticket (three games, two tickets to each game, six people ... the math is beautiful). Aside from that, we split up 78 games six ways, which means everyone gets 13 games. Whaddya like?
2) We got off the phone with our dad this morning and we're plotting the first-ever game for our 10-year-old brother, Ben, to see. He's developed into a huge baseball fan but Dad wanted to hold off on bringing him to a game until it could be outdoors. Dad wants the tickets to be great seats, naturally. Our question: what do you consider the absolute best place to watch a baseball game? Right behind home plate? Down one of the baselines a little bit? We've actually never given this much thought and would be interested to hear what you have to say.
