MLB Schedule, Weather Ruin Twins/Brewers Border Battle

Being a Wisconsin native, I've been a big Brewers fan since I was a kid. Of course, living here in Minnesota, I'm also a Twins fan. So when the annual Border Battle between those two teams takes place each year, I usually try to take in a game at Target Field. But it ain't happening this year.

Thanks a lot, Major League Baseball. Yes, thanks to the infinite wisdom of their schedule-maker, the only two games the Brewers will play at Target Field this year happened Monday night and is set again for Tuesday afternoon. That's it. And they're scheduled in the middle of the week, when it's more difficult to see a game in person, too. Thanks, MLB. Even if it had to be this early in the season, couldn't you at least have scheduled the Minnesota/Wisconsin baseball border battle on a weekend? Guess not.

The only other dates the Brewers and Twins play each other this year is this Wednesday night and Thursday, afternoon-- in Milwaukee, which is a wee bit longer drive than heading up Highway-52 to Target Field in Minneapolis.

And, thanks to Mother Nature, last night's game only lasted  6 innings and was finally called after a two-hour rain delay that soaked downtown Minneapolis. Which is a little ironic, considering that up until 2010, the Twins played in the Metrodome, where weather didn't matter.

In fact, when I was a kid, things were just the opposite. The Brewers played their homes game at County Stadium in Milwaukee, which was an open-air stadium, just like Target Field is now. My biggest worry then was that the game we were going to see would be rained out. But when the Brewers played the Twins in the 'Dome all those years, a rain-out was impossible. Now, though, Miller Park, the Brewers' current home, is the venue where rain-outs are impossible, thanks to the stadium's big retractable roof, which the team closes when it rains.

I guess I'll just have to console myself to watching the Twins and Brewers battle it out on Fox Sports North this year. Thanks MLB... for nothing!