Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Excitement in the Cities
Minneapolis is a great sports town if you love participating in sports-- there are lots of great places to run, ski, skate, etc, and it seems to be a part of the culture here.
For spectating, it's more of a mixed bag. The good news is that pretty much any pro sport is represented-- and we have the AAA team for the Twins, the Saints, right over in St. Paul. The fields and arenas are all pretty good, too (especially the new soccer stadium), and they are all in either Minneapolis or St. Paul. We have college sports, too, with the Gophers and the newly-D1 St. Thomas.
But some of those teams are perpetually middle of the pack. That means that when one of them excels, people really go nuts. Right now that is the Timberwolves, who are in the NBA's Western Conference Championship against Dallas. I'm not a huge NBA fan, but it is fun to watch people get revved up, and there have been some great storylines-- especially the huge Game 7 comeback against Denver, the defending champs.
Will it last? Maybe. And I'm hoping for a MN-Boston final, so I can make a bet with CraigA....
