Secrets of the City

Not Hamjaya???? Noooooooo!!!!

Freaking hilarious. The world needs more professional sports teams that are self-aware and don’t take themselves seriously. Saints games are approximately 50 times more fun than Twins games.

Once, a player from an opposing team was offended by the pig and turned to the umpire and said, That is so bush league, and the ump said, This is the bush leagues.

according to the press release, Keillor agreed to “play along”…I just hope that they have it in writing and that it has been communicated to Keillor’s attorney.

The Saints appear to trying too hard to be Not the Twins.

It’s a chance to drink beer outside, and try and figure out who Number 15 is.

Without going to the roster, can you name one player on Saints, jeff?

Nope, don’t care. I can actually break down the factor of 50 for you though:
5: outside (now that I’ve gotten bored of being pissed about the new twins stadium, I’m just glad it’s outside)
5: relatively cheap beer
2: wacky antics.

So the Twins could catch up, in my book, so long as the new stadium comes with $4 beers and hilariously monikered pigs.

I imagine GK has a harder time copyrighting his name than that of his radio show. Or is it a trademark?

feh.

Rat, that’s kind of the antithesis of minor league ball. You go to watch unknowns play surprisingly good ball and then get to say, “D00d! I saw him when he was playing 2nd-string right field for the double-A Medford Timberjacks!” (or Kansas City T-Bones or St Paul Saints, etc. etc.)

$3 tickets and cheep beers and fun promos are just bonus points if you love the game.

But for even more fun, albeit with less pigs, and rules you’ll never understand, go check out the Minnesota Cricket Association matches.

as a die-hard baseball lover, I agree with jeff. The Saints games are entertaining win or lose…can’t say the same for the Metrotdome “experience”. And I actually can name one Saint…Adam Olow…he’s a part-time hitting instructor at our neighborhood batting cage, and he signed my kid’s bat. This tidbit from his bio might explain why nobody can name anyone on the Saints roster…”In 2006, Adam became just the second player in team history to play four seasons here.”

by the way, I’m looking forward to the Tiger sweep @ the dome this weekend. I’ll be in that sorry excuse of a stadium Friday night and Sunday.

For all my boosterism of the Twins stadium. I don’t really mind the dome.

Doesn’t rain, doesn’t get cold.

I think I moved here about the time Saints started up. Read a few of those Outdoor Baseball Rhapsodies that the aging Baby Boomers would write. The hot dogs and the beer. Always with The Breeze wafting through the ballpark, bringing the smells of summer yada, yada, yada.

Made me want to stay away from the Saints out of fear of Spontaneous Literature.

“I wonder if Keillor will be amused?”

If you read the article you linked you would already have the answer to your question.

I’m honored to have a pig named for me, said Keillor.

Annoyed: Matt added the link to the article later.

“I’m honored to have a pig named for me,” said Keillor.

“I, on the other hand,” said the pig, “am disgusted to be named after such a creepy-looking douche of a fellow.”

Saints ball is good ball. I’m mad at myself for not going more often.