Today’s Twinsfest started with promise but it quickly turns South.\u00a0 I got to the Dome around 2:20pm with the gates opening at 5:30.\u00a0 I waited outside over 3 hours in the below zero windchill.\u00a0 Russ, Shane and I were around 50th in line outside.\u00a0 When the gates opened, Russ, Shane and I went directly to the line where Mauer and Morneau were signing.\u00a0 When we got there, we were suddenly W A Y behind a lot of people.\u00a0 Looking around, the people in line in the first couple “lanes” (of the zig zag) did not have coats or were recognizable from our long wait outside.\u00a0 Come to find out, they were family members of the vendors on the floor who were inside the Dome before we were able to get in line.\u00a0 I heard from another person in line at a later point saying there was a vendor bragging about sending his family up there.\u00a0 I took the first “shift” and ducked down to the Ron Coomer line to get Coomer on a card for a fellow SCN’er.\u00a0 I was able to get two Coomer cards and a Denard Span debut ticket with “MLB Debut ’08” on it.\u00a0 I then went back in the M & M line and waited.\u00a0 Needless to say, after waiting 3 hours outside and another 1.5 hours inside waiting for M & M to start to sign and then through .5 of their 1.25 hours of signing, Shane & I left the line leaving Russ.\u00a0 Russ ended up missing out by about 30 people.\u00a0 If that was not frustrating enough, after leaving that line, Shane and I checked out the Hrbek\/Oliva line.\u00a0 It was the only time Hrbek was signing and that line was too long and a lot of people missed out of them too.
\nWe then got in line for Jason Kubel, Joe Nathan and Delmon Young to get my Young batting glove signed.\u00a0 Turned out that DY was sick and was not there so we decided to move on to another line.
\nWe decided to head to check out the Molitor line and that was too long and decided, in an effort for Shane to not get completely shut out, headed to the free guys.\u00a0 We went through the free guy line and I got Trevor Plouffe, Anthony Swarzak and Danny Valencia on OMLBs as well as, with Shane’s help, got two Swarzak cards and three Eli Tintor cards signed.
\nShane, Russ and I all headed home greatly disappointed but with hope Twinsfest 2009 – Day 2 would be better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today’s Twinsfest started with promise but it quickly turns South.\u00a0 I got to the Dome around 2:20pm with the gates opening at 5:30.\u00a0 I waited outside over 3 hours in the below zero windchill.\u00a0 Russ, Shane and I were around 50th in line outside.\u00a0 When the gates opened, Russ, Shane and I went directly to … Continue reading “Twinsfest 2009 – Day 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2975,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}