The Dome is finished! That makes me so sad!

It was a rough game, but I am hopeful for next year!!!

Here are some memories i have from the dome:

I became a Twins fan because of Joe Mauer, but that was just to watch Joe, and not really baseball, but then I remember channel flipping one afternoon in the Fall of 2006, and saw the Twins win and whoever was the announcer was going crazy and then all of the players were jumping around and celebrating that they just won the division, and from that moment I was hooked. Of course I knew about the twins, and had been to some games when I was a kid, but the excitement was just so contagious, and then Joe was honored for his first batting title, and the Twins players just seem so nice, and that they just enjoy playing baseball!So after that I watched them get swept in the 2006 post season against Oakland, and I just remember my dad seeming to really like that I liked a sport he did. (I drag him to a lot of figure skating events, and know we share baseball together!)I couldn’t wait for the 2007 season, and ever since that day I have been a diehard twins fan. Although I am like everyone in agreeing the dome seating was terrible, I enjoyed the advantage we had there, and I am going to miss the guarantee of all games being played every day and on time. I am excited about Target Field, don’t get me wrong, but it will be cold during next year’s post season!! Here are some memories I have of the Twins in the dome, of some games I went to, and some just watching at home!Obviously that 2006 game, when we clinched the AL central!Joe Mauer winning 3 batting titlesJustin Morneau’s MVP award in 2006.Torii Hunter’s amazing catches in centerfieldThe MN announcer Dick Bremer, when something exciting happens, he goes crazy! (I love it!) The old milk carton that used to be in right field in the dome!TC (he’s so cool!)The last couple games at the metrodome, and the excitement and the homer hankies waving!Being “circled by Bert” in a segment called Good Question on WCCO channel 4 news! Even though I still to this day have not been circled by Bert at a game.Jason Kubel hitting a grand slam against the Angels in April 2009, and therefore hitting for the cycle and coming from behind to win the game!Carlos Gomez stealing a grand slam homerun away from AROD, with his amazing spider manlike catch!Joe Mauer hitting a home run in his first game back in 2009! I was watching at home with Sara, and I literally feel over and freaked out! (That was fun!) Watching game 163 with mom and dad, and crying when Orlando Cabrera hit a two run homerun to get ahead of the Tigers, but then realizing that the game was going to go into 12 innings, but then falling over when they eventually won!Nick Punto’s crazy moves in the infield. My closest seats ever behind home plate, 20 rows back with my dad. We sat by an anti Joe Mauer fan, and every time he yelled at Joe, I yelled praises to Joe! This was also my first and only time watching Johan Santana pitching live, and he had a bunch of strikeouts!Defending Joe to my PCI male co-workers!Ozzie Guillen praising the Twins, it sometimes seems he loves us better than his own team! (And for winning 2 out of 3 games against Detroit for there last series of the season) The last three years at Twinsfest, and meeting Joe Mauer. Even though when my dad told Joe I was going to marry him, I turned BRIGHT red! DOME DOGS!!!! Going to the Quest Twins Live show that was at Bdubs in Monticello and meeting my FSN guys Anthony Lapanta and Roy Smalley.The final game Farewell to the Metrodome Ceremony was so good and Kirby Puckett’s son removing the 1 from the Countdown to the Dome tally.My mom told me recently that I've been a twins fan for a long time, because it was either in '87 or '91 when the Twins won the world series and I was sick, and kept throwing up and my mom just wanted to watch the game, so she eventually let me lay down on the couch with her and watch the game! So I've been a twins fan since I was a kid! She isn't sure if it was in 1987 or 1991!Of course, these aren’t all of them, but what are some of your memories at the Dome?? Do you have any with me??

Well I still have to post details about the last regular season game at the dome, and I will do that soon, I promise!!! :)