Twins, Wild, Puppies

From the Athletic. I posted this for information not to debate the merits or whether it’s right or wrong.

The Minnesota Twins, Wild and Timberwolves all postponed home games on Monday after Daunte Wright, a Black man, was fatally shot by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, a Minneapolis suburb, on Sunday.

“This decision was made in the best interests of our fans, employees, players and community after discussions with local and state officials, and the National Hockey League,” the Wild said in a statement. ” … The Minnesota Wild extends its deepest condolences to the family and friends of Daunte Wright.”

The mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Jacob Frey and Melvin Carter, each set a 7 p.m. curfew for the cities on Monday.

The Twins were scheduled to play the Red Sox at 1:10 p.m. CT. The Twins said they consulted with MLB as well as local and state officials to reach the decision.

“Our community has been through a lot,” Twins team president Dave St. Peter said. “We have a trial taking place just blocks away from Target Field. Emotions across our community, emotions across our organization are raw. Based on the events of the last 24 hours and as information has started to come to light, playing a baseball game today felt a little less important. When you add a level of public safety to that, particularly the safety for fans, our players, our staff, again we though the decision we made today was the right call. History will maybe tell us otherwise. But today, this moment, we’re pretty confident we’re doing the right thing.”

The Wild’s game against the Blues was rescheduled for May 12. The Timberwolves were scheduled to play the Nets.

Honestly isn’t it time to cancel sports altogether?

Cancel culture tell us what we should do?

As usual, the actions of a few ruining it for everyone else… I won’t speak on it being the “right” decision or not.

Stock up on marshmallows!

Another black man that couldn’t follow the law ends up dead. Quit breaking the laws and you won’t get shot!

Fowldreams55398 wrote:

Another black man that couldn’t follow the law ends up dead. Quit breaking the laws and you won’t get shot!

LOL…just another racist white man spewing hatred…the officer thought she was using her Taser which would have been the appropriate use of force. What about all the people who broke the law and stormed the Capitol and killed a Cop and inured other Officers…should they have been shot on site; probably not since they were 99.9% non-black people? We don’t just shoot people for breaking the law in this country Crappieguy. My guess is you probably think Derek Chauvin should get a medal for his overuse of force on George Floyd. Be smarter next time Crappieguy.

Slabhunter wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Crappieguy133 wrote:</div>
Another black man that couldn’t follow the law ends up dead. Quit breaking the laws and you won’t get shot!

LOL…just another racist white man spewing hatred…the officer thought she was using her Taser which would have been the appropriate use of force. What about all the people who broke the law and stormed the Capitol and killed a Cop and inured other Officers…should they have been shot on site; probably not since they were 99.9% non-black people? We don’t just shoot people for breaking the law in this country Crappieguy. My guess is you probably think Derek Chauvin should get a medal for his overuse of force on George Floyd. Be smarter next time Crappieguy.

You are hilarious. The storming of the capital as you recall was nothing like this. The security at the capital actually held the doors open for people to walk in. You’re right though if the white folks would just start looting and rioting that’s alright as long as it fits one agenda. Hell yeah I don’t think Chauvin is wrong. You man up and be a cop. That’s right your mom has your balls in her purse. The cops are doing their jobs! If more got shot the culture that you support would figure it out. No other country lets this garbage happen. There’s consequences except here where feelings matter. The divide is growing stronger by the day by the media and well there’s groups on both sides ready to fight. Which side are you on? We don’t have to agree on anything. This isn’t over at all.

Guys, come one now. Let’s keep it civil. This thread is going to get shut down and its not even about what you’re arguing over. Its about the three pro sports teams postponing their games.

Crappie, put your stance on a sign and go walk with the protesters. I’ll keep my eyes open looking for you on the news.

If they wanna cancel the games thats fine but how the Twins did it was BS. Got sent home from work for a covid test, listening to radio on way home announcers had no clue what was going on. Turned on fox sports when i got home, broadcast was on, fans in the stands and they didnt know why they werent playing. They could have made a decision and told fans and broadcasters not to show up. Let the paying fans that drove there sit in the damn rain and and wait 20 minutes after the game was supposed to start to be sent home. Seems like a great PR move. On a side note this killing crap needs to stop but it would obviously help if you get caught for something take your punishment spend the night in jail and go home. All this garbage happens when fighting and resisting.

Jeremy I also was listening to the radio broadcast. The delay was a couple lawyers and Twins brass sitting in a office trying to word a release that was PC correct. Then they needed to get everybody who had to comment onboard. Had to spout the same consistent message.

Things like this aren’t like a rainout. Lots of things to consider I guess. I saw that Hicks (former Twin) refused to play for the Yankees over this shooting also.

We can’t put ourselves in peoples shoes as none of us has ever been black.

I just hope they offer the people that were there more than just there money back. Most had to take off work and pay for parking. Its a chance you take with mother nature but this to me dont seem fair for the people that were there.

Judgement call on the Twins part. I’m sure something was done for the fans. I think they would treat it like a rainout where you get tickets to another game.