This year’s All-Star Game will be held at the home of the Minnesota Twins, and the Minneapolis city council is already hard at work ensuring that local residents will be able to profit from the event:
A resolution making its way through the Minneapolis City Council would give the league veto power over any temporary businesses licenses in three designated “clean zones” from July 5-20. The All-Star Game is July 15.
The city has also agreed to assign police and licensing inspectors to ensure that the clean zones are free from any unauthorized commercial activity, including:
(i) transient vending or other sales by any individual or entity;
(ii) sampling of consumable items…
If you’re wondering why Minneapolis is agreeing to do all this after it’s already been assigned the event, apparently it was part of the deal that the previous city manager agreed to back in 2011 to get MLB to grant them the 2014 All-Star Game, and this would just make it “official.” Though it does raise the question of what MLB would do if the council changed its mind now. Move the game to Vancouver?
Would be interested in seeing if Minny will go as far as to install perimeter fences around Target Field, in the same way that Orlando put up 8-ft high fences around the Scamway Center for the ASG two years ago.
For the love of god don’t call it that.
They’re going to block my “underground” artisanal mayonnaise expo outside the All Star game ? Well, there goes my plan to attract Brooklyn NBA fans to baseball.