Well aware of how the late season game works, just was musing that the public land opportunities in SD must be pretty decent with the number of people that seem to go.
As for licensing, I’d be curious how many NR upland/waterfowl hunters MN gets.
I believe SD is over 80,000 just for pheasants. Seems everyone goes to the Dakotas but I suppose enough people visit family in MN and buy a license too. As for fishing, ND’s NR license is $53 so basically the same as MN.

I’ve never hunted SD but the 10 AM thing does seem a little odd. I could see it for the first month or so, lots of people out and ‘protect’ the birds as they move around early in the day, get people into cafes (and out later in the bars ).
SD public land must be pretty decent for the number of people that seem to go there. I’m in ND and I know if I hunted exclusively public this time of year it’d be a very tough go to get birds. Also, I saw a meeting in which the game and fish said our license costs will be going up as well, so we’ll be similar to SD.

AnotherFisherman wrote:

I’ve got two Marcum Brute batteries that came with a charger. They were on sale when I got them and were very reasonable. Love the run time

I’ve had a couple of these for 3-4 years and they seem solid. I think they might have been discontinued but Reed’s has them for $79 w/charger.

Definitely not good for business when’s there’s 3 or 4 teams that buy all the best players and other 26 are left hoping for a flash in the pan before their stars hit free agency. It’s becoming like the Gophers trying to compete for national championships in football, it just really isn’t possible.

Side note, I saw an article today that said the Twins would listen to trade offers for Correa.

Amazon has them.

Netguy wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Dan wrote:</div>
I started using a Scheels card and slowed down using that after they would not honor price match policy 3 times. Scheels price match policy is a joke.

What were Scheel’s reasons for not price matching? I’ve never had a problem.

I’ve mostly had no issues at Scheels but I did have it happen a couple weeks ago where I tried to price match an item from Amazon and they wouldn’t do it as it was sold by a third party, not directly through Amazon. So I just bought it off Amazon for the cheaper price.

CaptainMusky wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>slough wrote:</div>
Started hunting as a teen in the late 90s there were areas in ND you couldn’t shoot Canadas and I think the limit in parts of MN was 1 at that time. Hard to believe any more.

Yep, 1 per day was the limit where I hunted in MN. It changed a few years later. Hrbek was at a farm outside of Hutchinson the day of game 7 (I think) of the world season goose hunting. $1200 a gun they were charged is what I am told. Can you imagine in today’s dollars?

That’s pretty wild if true, that’s probably what $5000 in today’s dollars? Note even the luxury lodges are close to that for bird hunting per day.

ND game and fish published a short book 30 years ago or so on this topic. Remember I had a copy as a kid. https://www.amazon.com/Rearing-Restoring-Giant-Canada-Dakotas/dp/B004C8GHP8

Started hunting as a teen in the late 90s there were areas in ND you couldn’t shoot Canadas and I think the limit in parts of MN was 1 at that time. Hard to believe any more.

I don’t think it was expected that Dillingham would be a big contributor right away, if even this season, especially now that they got Divincenzo.

Certainly no guarantee that the new owners will spend more. Nor does it guarantee success – the Rockies, Mariners, Dbacks, White Sox and Angels are routinely ahead of us on spending. Can’t imagine no matter who buys the team that we’ll ever (unless baseball adopts some sort of salary cap, which is unlikely) approach being a top 10 payroll that just spends its way out of slumps.

All that aside, certainly not sad to see the Pohlads go.

Hank Simmons wrote:

Hopefully the new owners do not try to move the team. I respect the Pohlads for trying to keep them in Minnesota. Besides that, they didn’t spend enough money to field a championship team in the 21st century. Our best chance was 2023 and we never built off of it.

Didn’t Carl sort of go along with the idea of contracting the team about 20 years ago?

Highbeeze24 wrote:

The Ray’s fans should be cheering Milton with that free stadium upgrade, no tax required.

Tampa already had a new stadium in the works that was supposed to begin construction this winter. From a press release this summer: Last September, the Rays reached an agreement with the city of St. Petersburg and Pinellas County to build a new $1.3 billion ballpark on the Tropicana Field site as part of the long-term redevelopment of the Historic Gas Plant District.

No firsthand knowledge but how much weight would that remove? 50-75? Doesn’t seem like it would make a big difference.

I’m sure the pundits have done the number crunching but I haven’t gone digging too deep. Definitely toward the bottom in almost all stats, .217 team average over the last month which is dead last in the majors. Also second to last in HR. Pitching not much better. Just bad bad bad.

weedis wrote:

I think I joined that bandwagon. On the half ass this morning Shaver and Nick were arguing about the reason no one showed up last night for a meaningful game. Randy’s take was that people are sick of the Pohlads way while nick was arguing the product on the field the last month or so. Both are correct IMO and I’m just going to enjoy watching some good playoff baseball that won’t involve the Twins. I think it’s pretty wide open and will be nice to see Shohei in the playoffs finally, unreal what he has been doing.

Don’t disagree with either but I’m sure if the team would have played even .500 ball the last 6 weeks the crowds would be just fine.

My lab had a dead tooth (incisor medial to the canine) last spring my vet recommended removing. They quoted 1300-1500 which I thought was nuts. Went to a more rural vet a half hour away and got it done for about 750 (with a cleaning, antibiotics, etc.)

Hard to imagine a change of training staffs is going to have a big change. They already did that a couple years ago and not much change. Buxton is obviously just damaged goods, Royce has struggled with injuries his whole pro career, as have Kepler and Correa to a lesser degree. But look around the league, injuries are pretty common. Only about 120 guys amongst 30 teams that have played 130 games, of which the Twins have 2 (Castro and Santana).

Whatever you want to say about Rocco’s use of the bullpen, we have Jax and Duran who are dependable and very little else. Some pretty terrible stats out there back up how bad the bullpen has been. The offense hasn’t done its part the last 5 weeks either.

Really looking like it’s going to be hard for the Twins to hold onto the last wild card spot. Lead is down to 1.5 games with another blown lead after a great start by Pablo last night. 3-7 in the last 10 and 9-18 in the last 27. Pretty tough schedule with 2 more in Cleveland, 3 in Boston and 3 vs. Baltimore sandwiched around 3 with the godawful Marlins.

Cup holders. And a pee bucket

And then Royce drops a 3-run bomb to win the game yesterday. Twins are doing just enough to keep us half interested.

Quite the disaster today. 9 runs in 2 innings for Zebby.

Nice start for Pablo last night, seems he has rounded into form after the all-star break. We’ll see how it goes through the rest of the rotation, almost have to get at least 6 out of the starters now with only a couple dependable guys in the bullpen.

Was kind of dumbfounded just watching Watkins send Margot home and get thrown out by 15 feet with no one out…my goodness what was he thinking. Finally touched Sale up a little though to tie the game at 1 and should get him out after 6 innings at least…

Definitely seems like the Twins could be on the brink of the season getting away from them. Still have a 4 game advantage for the last wild card and only 2.5 out of the division lead but the last 10 days have been ugly. Seems the pitching is getting pretty shaky and who knows if Correa will even make it back this year.

It’s not terribly expensive to run a natural gas line from your house, assuming your house has service. I ran about 90′ out to a garage last fall for under 3 grand – all I did was rent a trencher (took me maybe 2 hours to dig the trench) and a pro did the rest. That price included the cost of the heater.

Netguy wrote:

In picture 1 the ump was going to crouch down here but Vasquez moved to set up on the inside corner so the ump moved further inside in pic 2. WTF!!! 1) He’s looking around the hitter’s elbow and 2) How the hell can he accurately call an outside pitch?
Just set up over the middle of the plate and call it a day.

We umpires call that ‘the slot.’ Keeps you from being blocked by the catcher on low pitches and also protects you from being in the kill zone on foul tips. In the old days, if you set up on the inside corner and nip the outside corner with a pitch you missed your target by a foot and a half, everyone was good with that being a ball.

Seems I’ve seen some things that the Li batteries can be hard on older trolling motors, much truth to that?

Rough outing for Alcala, my goodness. Pablo goes 6 (albeit somewhat shaky) shutout innings, up 4-0. Alcala gives up 4 runs on his first 9 pitches and then another home run on his 19th pitch in the 7th. Not sure I’ve ever seen that quick of a turnaround.

FryDog62 wrote:

From the Twins web site:

“Buxton, Correa and Royce Lewis, three of Minnesota’s most important hitters, have only been in the starting lineup together 17 times this season.”

That puts it in a little perspective –

Saw that the Twins have played 122 games…Buxton has played 90, Correa 75, Lewis 45. Kind of amazing they’re in playoff contention.

Really like our chances if Correa can get healthy soon.