Unfortunately, my batgirl shirt won't make it to the dome for a while, but coincidence--you make the call:
bat-shirt arrives=Twins beat Yankees
bat-shirt worn=Twins beat Yankees

Bat shirt will be worn again today.

I am the same as Sandee: arrival = win, wearing = win. I wore mine in the left field GA section last night.

I received my buttons a few days ago and proudly wore mine to last night's game. I got some positive comments ("I'd vote for that ticket," said one Dome employee), but I spotted no other campaign merchandise. I suppose it will be much more obvious when the shirts start appearing.

Alas, my buttons appear to have been loaded onto the slowest UPS truck EVER, since I ordered the day after the merchandise site came out, but UPS (yoUr Package Slowly?) says the package won't get here until next Wednesday. :P

It will, however, be making many appearances in the Dome once it arrives!

You know how great the Twins are?

I'm an expatriate Minnesotan whose next visit to the North Star State (or "l'etat du nord," as the state motto ought to read) will come no sooner than 2005. I know just how truly miserable a place the Metrodome is to watch a baseball game. Not only is it the worst baseball stadium there is, it's the worst baseball stadium that could be. Until civil engineers figure out how to obstruct views in five dimensions, the Metrodome is as bad as it gets. It's like watching the game in your own living room, except less comfortable, and the view isn't as good.

And yet the accounts here of fans attending games at the Metrodome fill me with searingly intense envy. Gosh but I wish I could head on over to the Dome to sit my butt down on some hard plastic pointing in the general direction of nowhere in particular and strain my neck to watch indoor baseball, with all its requisite horrors of office-cubicle lighting, shag carpeting, and sack-lined walls. The Twins have me longing, pining even, to go to the Metrodome. And THAT, my friends, is just how great the Twins are.

Batgirl--

Would it be possible to get a Santana/Nathan bumper sticker with "Sit down, bitch" on it?

My merch was supposed to come yesterday, and now my tracking order says it won't come until Monday. When the UPS truck stops by Batgirl's house, can she please tell them to hurry Stacy her stuff?

I don't know if everyone should blame UPS and/or CafePress for the delays....how could they expect the overwhelming increase in business that resulted the introduction of BatMerchandise? It is an unprecedented product rollout, the impact of which no one could have forseen. I think we all must just make due until the powerful machinery of the American economy can react to unanticipated increase in demand. I am sure CafePress is ordering freighters full of extra materials and UPS is buying new planes and trucks as we speak. BatGirl is not only a Twins fan, she's good for the economy. In the mean time, we must all be patient.

Andre mentions that a dome employee responded favorably to his Santana/Nathan button, which awakens me to the smell of another promotional opportunity. If Batgirl, Inc. cares to expand on the idea of sending complimentary merch to the Twins' on-air guys, let me suggest that a box of buttons might be distributed amongst the ushers as well.

If you go to the games a lot, you've probably noticed that most of the section entrances are usually guarded by the same elderly person, game after game. If many of them were wearing a Santana/Nathan button, that seems like a steady line of potential advertising for the Batgirl site and merch the rest of the season.

Just a thought. I mean, I have no idea how vast this operation may be, or how much free stuff the company can afford to give away or how much $$$ it might expect to get back in increased sales.

I have a button and sticker on the way. So starting next week, if anyone sees a Santana/Nathan '04 blue sticker on the bumper of a green Ford Focus hatchback driving around the Twin Cities: honk! It may be me.

Awesome. I'll be at the game tonight and my eyes will be Bat-peeled...

Baseball approved plans for a World Cup today.
I am psyched!

USA, CAN (whose Olympians are an awesome 4-0 in the prelims), Venezuela, Dominican R, Cuba, Japan, Australia.
Can you root for everybody? I'll be getting the TV package for sure.

If anyone sees an off-white 80's-something refridgeration unit sassily sporting a campaign magnet: honk! It might be mine!

I'd like to see girls compete with the boys in international baseball in the future since at this point, every game the US softball team has played has ended with the "mercy" rule.

I think that if we start 'em young, we can get co-ed baseball teams in the future, which is what I really want to see.

Batgirl's stuff was delayed as well. Tragic. And I love the idea of giving things to Metrodome employees; sadly Batgirl has to pay for these things like everyone else.

I'm not voting if Nathan is on the ticket. Just kidding of course.

I was in the right field bleachers today proudly wearing my shirt! I got some positive comments and the occasional quizzical look.

I kept hoping to see another, but alas!

Anyone going Sunday?

FLT

My daughter spotted a Santana/Nathan bumper sticker yesterday, saying, " Dad there's someone voting for the Twins for President too. They have the same bumper sticker".(I'm so proud of her)

But Alas, we could not get in front of them to show our sticker support.

Wow, amazing!

Batgirl, do you know how many stickers, buttons, shirts, etc. you have sold so far?

Dearest Mr. Wig,

Complicated to total, but we have sold a good number. Somebody wrote to suggest we make it Santana/Nathan night at the dome one night. I like it!

Sincerely,
Batgirl

Santana/Nathan night sounds good to me. Course it has to be on TV and when Johan is starting. :P

Batgirl,

Did you have to get Players Association approval for the BatMerchandise? If so, was that a difficult or costly process? If not, will BatGirls team of lawyers soon be working overtime?

Curiously,
Florida
-Devoted Batling

Wouldn't the Players Association lawyers have to PROVE that the campaign merch is actually referring to JOE Nathan and JOHAN Santana? "Santana/Nathan"... that could ANYBODY, right? I see no Twins logos or trademarks, either; and that the red, white & blue colors match the uniforms of our favorite team while also representing AMERICA is just a happy coincidence!