The Twins’ three-game series against the Royals this weekend will be the last ever played in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. Twinkie Town reminisces on some of the stadium’s greatest moments.
Baseball’s ‘Hefty Bags as Outfield Walls’ Era Comes to an End
↵To me, the defining characteristic of the Metrodome will always be the outfield wall. It looks like a series of enormous, stretched-out garbage bags. The walls have to be movable, since the Vikings also play there and there is no room in football for walls, but it was never clear to me why the walls had to look like Hefty bags.
↵And then it dawned on me. The Twins are going to have to move all their players and personnel to a new stadium, and lining the stadium with garbage bags will make cleanup quick and easy. That joke would be funnier if the Twins were actually a bad team.
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