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Last Saturday, the Metrodome had a full schedule. In the morning, a bunch of dudes from HotRod Motorsports were there making sure the old dome would be strong enough to contain the car crushing power of 14 teeth-rattling monster trucks (it will! it will!). Then at 11, the Twins took the field for a game that apparently meant something but I don't really know what because I thought they already made the playoffs. Finally at 7, the bandwagon that is the Minnesota Gopher football team was scheduled to take the field and kick some Happy Valley butt.

Go figure, the Twins game went into extra innings and eventually had to be suspended so that the dome crew would have enough time to convert the field from baseball to football before kick off. It's the first time in the history of the Metrodome that a scheduling issue has forced a game to be delayed. Crazy, huh? Oh, well, no big deal, once every 11 years is nothing to cry about, right?

Guess again.

Listen to the sobs from the Twins:

"We're in the middle of a mess here now," said Twins manager Ron Gardenhire, visibly upset. "They're just going to stop the game! Stop, you can't play no more. We don't need a [new] stadium? Come on!"

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"This tells you how bad we need our new park," said reliever Juan Rincon...

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"I thought we were a professional team," Twins outfielder Torii Hunter said. "Unbelievable. That's why we need a new stadium."

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"Boo-hoo, I'm a whiney little bitch. Where's my mommy, I need some chocolate milk and a hug," said Corey Koskie.

And my favorite, a take from some numbnut at CBS Sportsline:

How and the city of Minnesota allowed this to happen is incomprehensible. ... The Metrodome is a joke for baseball and not much better for football.

"How and the city of Minnesota?" Uhh, methinks it's your writing that is incomprehensible, not the less-than-once-in-a-decade scheduling conflict you attempted to savage. Doof.

Hasn't rain ever caused a game to be postponed? (Hint: yes.) Do these same bunch of cryasses sit around complaining over the lack of a roof when that happens? (Hint: probably.) I just don't get it. It happed, it was unfortunate, now buck-up and act like a professional and get ready to kick some tail first thing tomorrow.

Oh, and they won the game the next day. Kudos to them. Now go beat down on some Yankees. And please, shut your cake hole about a new stadium.

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