Eric Nordquist

People go down there and watch the game.

Now, do they go downtown, watch the game, and then go see a show or hang out and bar hop for the remainder of the evening?

The answer these days, specifically Minneapolis, is no.

It's a destination.

People are going in.

They're still loving the stadium.

And they're still loving all the new foods and appreciating the experience of live baseball.

But I will tell you at this point, it has not been a revival of a downtown scene that has spent the last five or six years, maybe even more, to be honest with you, in decay.

So it's something where they're loving the game.

It's not necessarily creating a vibrance around it.

And that's a combination probably of many factors, maybe sports and otherwise involved.

and in combination with the team that just hasn't been very good.

Yeah, earlier today we were talking about this.

The way I see it is I see a guy in Tyler Murray who believes that this whole idea, if he's even been made privy to it, the idea of a competition is blatantly preposterous.

That's how I see Tyler Murray portraying and comporting himself in Egan right now at the team facility.

On the other end of it, I see a guy in J.J.

McCarthy who is simultaneously proud of maybe some work that he did in the offseason.

If we're judging teams on how they look in May, holy cats, J.J.

McCarthy.

But, of course, they're in shorts and they're throwing to nobody.