Comments on: Minnesotans. Jeesh…. (An OpenLetter) https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/01/minnesotans-jeesh-an-openlette/ Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Jason Thibeault https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/01/minnesotans-jeesh-an-openlette/#comment-547324 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:45:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/01/minnesotans-jeesh-an-openlette/#comment-547324 DuWayne! I figured you, of all people, would understand the universal appeal of playing with balls.

(Sorry. I had to.)

]]> By: DuWayne https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/01/minnesotans-jeesh-an-openlette/#comment-547323 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:13:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/01/minnesotans-jeesh-an-openlette/#comment-547323 Base-ball…That’s the one where people throw a small, hard ball at each other and try to whack it with sticks – right?

Chalk me up as one who doesn’t understand why people go out of their way to watch a bunch of grown men and/or women, running around playing with balls at all. I mean it is one thing to run around with children and play with balls – that can be loads of fun. But the insanity involved in there being a multi-billions of dollars industry, built around watching adults throwing balls and chasing them around…

Fuckwitted humans…

]]> By: Andrew https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/01/minnesotans-jeesh-an-openlette/#comment-547322 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:52:41 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/01/minnesotans-jeesh-an-openlette/#comment-547322 Drake, you just don’t get it, do you. Oh, wait, you’re a duck. You DO get it!

]]> By: Drake33 https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/01/minnesotans-jeesh-an-openlette/#comment-547321 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:48:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/01/minnesotans-jeesh-an-openlette/#comment-547321 uh… the game was played in Detroit.

Besides, they had a game rained out on Monday and they split the Tuesday double-header.

]]> By: stogoe https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/01/minnesotans-jeesh-an-openlette/#comment-547320 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:47:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/01/minnesotans-jeesh-an-openlette/#comment-547320 Pro sports went all downhill once the owners they could hold the host cities hostage for new playing fields.

]]> By: Albatross https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/01/minnesotans-jeesh-an-openlette/#comment-547319 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:56:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/01/minnesotans-jeesh-an-openlette/#comment-547319 This would all be a lot more amusing to me if it hadn’t been funded by a conspiracy of wealthy bastards who decided to pick my pocket for it. And in five years they’ll do the same thing again when they decide to fund the retractable roof that would have cost 1/3rd as much if it had been designed in from the start. Meanwhile the same thieves are the ones whining most loudly that we can’t afford a public health care option.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/01/minnesotans-jeesh-an-openlette/#comment-547318 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:54:38 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/01/minnesotans-jeesh-an-openlette/#comment-547318 Yeah. Nobody ever actually sits in the rain to watch baseball…

So, you can see the stadium from your office? You can probably sell tickets to the playoff games!

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/01/minnesotans-jeesh-an-openlette/#comment-547317 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:47:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/01/minnesotans-jeesh-an-openlette/#comment-547317 Well, it’s really more a question of imagining yourself rearranging your schedule with very little notice because of the game, but yeah. I’m waiting for the first baseball game with snow. I might work late just to look out the window and laugh at the people in the stands.

Hmm. We might need office binoculars.

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