MINNEAPOLIS — Snowflakes are falling but for true fans, it’s never too early to think about baseball season. 

The Minnesota Twins announced that tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday for all 2025 home events – regular season games at Target Field, spring training games in Fort Myers and TwinsFest. 

The 2025 season will include 81 games at Target Field from April through late September. The home opener will be on April 3 against the Houston Astros. 

Single-game tickets will go on sale Monday at 10 a.m. If you plan on going to three or more Twins games, consider purchasing a holiday pack of tickets to get a complimentary Twins tree ornament. 

The Twins will host 17 home games at Lee Health Sports Complex in Fort Myers, Fla. between Feb. 22 and March 25 as the club preps for the regular season. For more information on these games, click here. 

This annual fan event will take place Jan. 24-25 and feature more than 40 current and former Twins including Carlos Correa, Pablo López, Griffin Jax, Bailey Ober, Bert Blyleven and more. 

Fans will experience live music, autograph stations and a youth clinic for aspiring Twins players. Check it out at this link. 

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Did you enjoy a nice, juicy bird this Thanksgiving?

You can thank folks like Loren Brey.

“This is my 35th year working in the turkey business,” Brey said. “We sell just under 3 million fertile eggs a year, employ between 8 and 9 full time people.”

Last November –  almost a year ago to the day – the re-emergence of the bird flu threatened to bring down the whole thing.

“We lost probably about 15,000 breeder hens,” Brey said. “The first flock that broke here, we just started them, we had a handful of eggs. And I remember that morning when the USDA crew came to euthanize the rest of them he told me ‘You don’t have to be here, you don’t have to watch this.’ It was tough.”

With the outbreak growing, farmers were looking for anything to mitigate the spread. The Bird Control Group has come up with an idea straight out of a spy film: lasers.

Representative Craig Duhr said it all started with a simple idea in the Netherlands in 2012.

“Literally a guy messing around with a green laser light and moved it over some birds and the birds moved,” Duhr said. 

Since then, the company’s global reach has expanded, and the technology has evolved.

Duhr explained how it works.

“Green is the brightest spectrum of light the birds see in. So we as humans will see a green dot out there during the daytime hours. The birds see a whole beam – like a laser beam. And they perceive that as they move through the field or a rooftop or the vineyards as a threat. Something coming at them as a predator. So they want to take flight and get out of that area.”

The group has been working with Minnesota farmers to install the technology. The state meanwhile is offering grants – up to $10,000 per farming operation – to help with the cost.

“Right now, I have five lasers running at roughly $15,000 a laser,” he said. 

Brey said it’s working. In fact, he’s having more success with it than any other mitigation strategy he’s tried.

“I would say it’s keeping 70 plus percent of the local birds and migratory birds away from the farm,” Brey said. “In the past, what I’ve noticed is under my eaves or in the trees I would see bird nests. I don’t see any of that anymore. So in my mind it’s been a success.”

For now, there’s hope that these high-tech, laser-beam scarecrows continue to do their job.

“We’ve been seeing some good results with it. Is it 100% the answer? No, of course not. But it’s another tool in our toolbox that is helping us.”