If you ever have attended Opening Day at Target Field, you know the only area jammed with more Twins fans than Target Field Plaza before the first pitch is a stretch of restaurants along First Avenue.
The downtown patios and bars at Kieran’s Irish Pub, Cowboy Jack’s, the 508 Bar and Restaurant, O’Donovan’s Irish Pub, the Depot Tavern, the Loon Cafe and Gluek’s Restaurant & Bar fill with dark-blue Twins jackets, baby-blue Twins jerseys, red Twins hats and the rolling, chattering hum of expectation.
Next Thursday was supposed to be the Twins’ 11th Opening Day at Target Field and the first of 81 home games in one of the franchise’s most anticipated seasons.