Sid: I’ve been waiting for either Twins or Gophers to change the time of 9/1 game

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If one of the teams was going to change times, it would most logically be the Twins. It's already a normal part of baseball to play weekday day games anyway. It wouldn't really be that big of a stretch. The only thing preventing them from doing it is annoying people that already bought those tickets and were planning on an evening game. I am a partial Twins season ticket holder (not going to the Twins game that night) and I know I do very carefully avoid day games since it's hard for me to get to them. My guess is no team budges on start time.
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The Twins won't move. Sure, there are lots of day games during the week in baseball, but those are most often done on the last day of a series, so the road team can get out of town and get back home or to their next stop on the road trip. The Twins and White Sox are both on the road for games in Cleveland and Detroit on Wed. night, coming to MN to start a 4-game series on Thursday night. Not that either team has anything to play for, but they aren't going to want to play at 1pm the next day after just getting into town late on Wed.
 

Funny thing is, aren't most Thursday home games played at noon or 1? Why is that different this day?
 

DLguy said:
Funny thing is, aren't most Thursday home games played at noon or 1? Why is that different this day?
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Since they don't have to avoid weather like the spring, closer school days they would rather play at night to get tv viewers and people to attend.
 

DLguy said:
Funny thing is, aren't most Thursday home games played at noon or 1? Why is that different this day?
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For the most part Thursday day games are at the end of a series "get away day'. This is the start of a 4 game series which usually is a night game.
 

highwayman said:
Anyone, ANYONE, who would choose an exhibition football game or a baseball game featuring one of the worst teams in league over the Gopher game is a flat out idiot. That is all of you.
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Believe it or not, there are some people in this world that are not college football fans or aren't even football fans in general. And if you're a Vikings season ticket holder or Twins season ticket holder, you had to pay for the tickets so why wouldn't you use them?
 


Who cares?


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Breakin' The Plane said:
The Twins won't move. Sure, there are lots of day games during the week in baseball, but those are most often done on the last day of a series, so the road team can get out of town and get back home or to their next stop on the road trip. The Twins and White Sox are both on the road for games in Cleveland and Detroit on Wed. night, coming to MN to start a 4-game series on Thursday night. Not that either team has anything to play for, but they aren't going to want to play at 1pm the next day after just getting into town late on Wed.
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Yeah. Zero chance of that. It would probably require the player's association approval to even change it under those circumstances. And for those saying the Vikings should move, in week 5 of the preseason, every single game is played on Thursday to give the max # of days before the start of the season. They couldn't move it if they wanted to.
 


NFL pre-season games are a huge scam and joke and I cannot believe they even exist in this era when there is even more concern about possible injuries. Nothing happens in these gams that cannot be done more effectively in joint practices like the ones the held in Cincinnati earlier week.

I try my best to never any attention to pre-season games unless there are some marginal players involved I am curious to see. The NFL puts a lot into these silly games, that really exist for TV, gouging the season ticket holders, and finding one more way to evaluate the marginal players that may make a roster, but will never have much of an impact.

Sid has his head up his butt about the Wild - Timberwolf whining. Unless the Wild are in the finals or very deep in the playoffs there is almost zero crossover with T Wolves fans. In fact I still think Hockey has a much smaller, very loyal fan base that show up no matter what, and the general public pays little attention to hockey other than the rare deep playoff runs. Hockey is still a niche sport, soon to be overtaken by the dreaded soccer. I hate hockey, but I'll watch it before soccer. I tried to watch that Chelsea game at US Bank Stadium and it was like watching paint dry.
 



oak_street1981 said:
Sid has his head up his butt about the Wild - Timberwolf whining. Unless the Wild are in the finals or very deep in the playoffs there is almost zero crossover with T Wolves fans. In fact I still think Hockey has a much smaller, very loyal fan base that show up no matter what, and the general public pays little attention to hockey other than the rare deep playoff runs. Hockey is still a niche sport, soon to be overtaken by the dreaded soccer. I hate hockey, but I'll watch it before soccer. I tried to watch that Chelsea game at US Bank Stadium and it was like watching paint dry.
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I recently was reminded of the following quote from a conversation I had at the local pub. "How dare you bloody Americans with your short attention spans lecturing us about boring when all your games have absolutely zero flow to them. I would rather watch paint dry than sports that stop and start because of your need to have commercial breaks. That my friend is boring." It's always interesting getting a different view point from a soccer-football supporter with more passion than anything we have here in our fine country.
 

4four4 said:
I recently was reminded of the following quote from a conversation I had at the local pub. "How dare you bloody Americans with your short attention spans lecturing us about boring when all your games have absolutely zero flow to them. I would rather watch paint dry than sports that stop and start because of your need to have commercial breaks. That my friend is boring." It's always interesting getting a different view point from a soccer-football supporter with more passion than anything we have here in our fine country.
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I think had that dude been born in America he'd feel the opposite. I'm not sure it is so much actual objective analysis as much as what you're just accustomed to / learn to appreciate.
 

A_Slab_of_Bacon said:
I think had that dude been born in America he'd feel the opposite. I'm not sure it is so much actual objective analysis as much as what you're just accustomed to / learn to appreciate.
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Ya think?

Sorry, I haven't taken a cheap shot at you for awhile.
 

GophersInIowa said:
Believe it or not, there are some people in this world that are not college football fans or aren't even football fans in general. And if you're a Vikings season ticket holder or Twins season ticket holder, you had to pay for the tickets so why wouldn't you use them?
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I was referring to those who are "torn". My reaction is always 'are you kidding?' That's all.
 



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