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April 4, 2008 11:42 AM

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At the risk of beating this one to death, here's the complete list of domains that the Twins have registered, which I culled from the Fox9 news story (the most pertinent ones are bolded). The video of the story is available above.

allianzfield.com
allianzpark.com
blyleven.com
greatnorthernballpark.com
greatnorthernfield.com
greatnorthernpark.com
greatriverballpark.com
greatriverenergyfield.com
greatriverenergypark.com
greatriverfield.com
kirbypuckett.com
landolakesfield.com
landolakespark.com
minnesota-baseball-ticket...
minnesota-twins-here.info
minnesota-twins-ringtone...
minnesota-twins-tickets.com
minnesota-twins.com
minnesota-twins.net
minnesota-twins.org
minnesotabaseballticketso...
minnesotatwins.biz
minnesotatwins.com
minnesotatwins.info
minnesotatwins.mobi
minnesotatwins.us
mntwins.biz
mntwins.com
mntwinslive.com
northernlightsfield.com
northernlightspark.com
northernlightsyard.com
theminnesotatwins.com
twins.info
twins.us
twinsl.com
twinsbaseball.com
twinsbaseball.mobi
twinscommunityfund.com
twinsemail.com
twinsmvp.com
twinsproshop.com
twinsradio.net
twinsradionet.com
twinsradionetwork.com
twinswin.com
victorysportscentral.com
victorysportsonline.com

Here's more info on each of the companies:

Allianz
Great River Energy
Land O' Lakes

What's most interesting is the utter lack of any of the companies we've been speculating the most about.

Frankly, when I heard Land O' Lakes Field I said to myself, "That's the one. It's perfect." Whether the dollars will line up behind it is a completely different question.

We can hope.

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Northern Lights Field would be nice, but what company is that? The casino?

Allianz or anything with Energy in the title would be awful.

Posted on April 4, 2008 at 12:00 PM by Lafferty 1

Hmmm. Seems to be a few generic names.

Too bad the Great Northern Railway isn't still around, that would be a good name. (see link)

I always liked the way the old LA lakers arena sounded - the Great Western Forum - a lot of people didn't realize that it was a corporate name, named after Great Western Savings and Loan.

Posted on April 4, 2008 at 12:02 PM by Alex B. 2

I think Allianz Field or Allianz Park would work well.

Posted on April 4, 2008 at 4:26 PM by ABSG 3

The more I think about it, the better I like "Northern Lights Yard"

Posted on April 6, 2008 at 04:14 AM by ace 4

I like Northern Lights Park/ Yard too, cuz then the colored led lights in the canopy could make the HERC Plant steam look like the Northern Lights during a night game!

Posted on April 7, 2008 at 1:50 PM by Tom 5

One exception that I wouldn't mind as far as music, old 1920's jazz swing. Baseball and swing kind of go hand in hand IMO.

Posted on April 10, 2008 at 8:27 PM by JohnF 6

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This is the left field pavilion in the original concept model. The restaurant pictured to its right has been moved, and the seating area has been extended at least one full section toward center.

Steps, skyway, and plaza intersect.

Target HQ main entrance. Ballpark resemblance? (Inset.)

Brick work just inside the opening matches the color of the limestone - per Jerry Bell's requirements.

This is amazingly close to completed. It's a short tunnel entrance ramp to 394 underneath the outfield stands.

These are the footings for the staircase which will connect the plaza to the skyway.

The official ballpark development area

The proposed wooden screen covering the circulation ramp on Fifth Street (at left is the equivalent screen on Seventh Street).

For those not wishing to suffer through my media rant, please enjoy this picture of my lilacs in full bloom.

This is the Suite Level. There are multiple suites between each pillar, and there will be seating on the area in front of the suites which currently looks like it could be a walkway.

Looking up toward Seventh Street.

Philly

Scoreboard

Clyde Doeppner proudly displays colored bricks he scavenged from the Met during its demolition. These are the colors in question!

Clyde Doepner's Met Stadium Memorabilia (Source: LP)

This appears to be the floor to the home dugout!

Beams connecting the plaza to the Target Center walkway

An arch under construction.

Here's one big problem with a retractable roof: completely terrible seating in left. These scant few seats would have been tucked under the track. No sunshine, no open concourse, it was a terribly kludgy idea. With some hindsight, it's very clear that adding a retractable roof on this small site would have required compromises which would have just been too extensive to tolerate. Without it, the design was free to grow into something much more memorable.

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