Our new stadium deal stinks? Nick, we knew that already and as much as I loathe linking to your tripe, you may have a point (albeit a bit late) here.

Our ill-gotten stadium will be a flop without a roof once the novelty wears off, and now it appears the weather may be the least of the Twin’s environmental bogies.

With ‘facility’ next door – so much for new ballpark smell

Don’t say “garbage burner.”

“It’s not a garbage burner,” says Glenn Schmidt, chief engineer at the plant, which burns 1,000 tons of, um, “waste” daily. “It’s Energy From Waste.”

“Facility,” adds maintenance supervisor Jeff Johnson: “Energy From Waste Facility.'”

I met them after I hiked around the stadium Wednesday to check out a tip that “the facility” was giving off the kind of smell you encounter when someone “dies” while using your facilities.

In other words, it wasn’t good. And it really wouldn’t be good if a national TV audience saw us holding our noses.

It was 85 degrees and windy — a typical summer day — as I perambulated the area. It didn’t smell good to me, but I have a big smeller, so maybe I was pulling in a scent cloud from a turkey plant near Willmar. I asked people I met along the way how it smelled to them. Some were catching a big whiff. Others, just a sniff.

“It stinks like mildewing filth,” said Jennifer Dixon, 36, who was waiting on 7th Street with her husband, Mike, and their children to catch a No. 22 bus. “I don’t think people at a ballgame are gonna like it.”

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