New ballpark stuff

It sounds like the Twins are going about designing a ballpark the right way. Steve Bert:

I had joined Bell and other Twins officials, along with architects and contractors working on Minnesota's new ballpark, at the tail end of a six-city tour. Their aim was to study every inch of a half-dozen new open-air ballparks, analyzing successes and failures and imagining the feel and function they want in the structure soon to rise in Minneapolis' Warehouse District.

One thing that they should do is look for a unique hook to the ballpark. One of the joys of watching baseball is looking at the different parks. If I were the Twins I'd try hard to incorporate the 10,000 lakes. Free advice to them, drop Barney rip-off T.C. Bear and go with half a dozen fish as your indiviual mascots.