(Minneapolis, MN) — When the Minnesota Twins open the regular season, the radio and television broadcasters will not be traveling to road games. Instead, the announcing crews will be calling the road games from their Target Field broadcast booths while watching a live feed of the game on a monitor. The reasoning for the change this year is to limit the number of people in the team’s travelling party for social distancing on the plane and at the hotel. Most M-L-B teams will have the same policy. The regular season schedule should be released sometime early this week. All 60 Twins games will be broadcast on TV and radio. Twins television broadcaster Dick Bremer has been doing games for the organization since 1983 and says given the situation, he is simply happy there will be a season, albeit a shortened one. Bremer says there will be challenges of calling road games off of the monitor, but they will work hard and use as much technology as they can to paint an accurate picture of what is happening in the game. Bremer says one of the under-reported negative aspects of the season being put on hold was the hard-working, behind-the-scene broadcast crew members who are freelance workers and only get paid if there are games. They took a financial hit and Bremer hopes most get a chance to work the 60-games of the regular season, although he says the production crew will likely be reduced to keep the total number of people at the ballpark down. Bremer says he has missed being at the ballpark, but has had a chance to spend time with his family during a time of year he normally doesn’t get to. He has also fished a little more than usual. In addition, Bremer is high on the 2020 Twins, saying the club should have one of the top hitting lineups in the game and a spot in the playoffs is a good possibility. Bremer has a new book out called “Game Used: My Life In Stitches With The Minnesota Twins.” The book is available at most major bookstores and most on-line book retailers.
Twins TV broadcaster Dick Bremer spoke with MNN Sports Director Mike Grimm:
