Some Minnesota sod growers lately have been sounding like Al Franken’s old “Saturday Night Live” character, the hyper-sensitive and emotionally needy Stuart Smalley:

“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!”

It seems that those who grow grass for a living in this state are put out because the Minnesota Twins infringed upon their turf.

Which is to say, the ballclub didn’t buy the new Target Field grass from a business with a Minnesota ZIP code.

A fair share of Minnesotans seem to be miffed as well, their rants in print and to call-in radio shows falling along two lines:

How dare the Twins and their tax-subsidized ballpark use public money to buy grass grown in Colorado?

And:

Whatsa matter, our grass not good enough?

Yes, folks, it’s good enough. And smart enough, even. But doggone it, Minnesota didn’t have a dog in this hunt, so get over it.

The parochial narrow-minds of many in this state never ceases to amaze.

If people who are peeved had bothered to give even a cursory look into the particulars, they might take a more perceptive view of how major professional sports operations go about sodbusting their stadiums.

Certainly those in the sod business should be a bit more circumspect about their comments.

“I think we could have done it certainly for less,” said Minnesota Turf Association President Gary Blocker, who farms sod north of Duluth. “They are getting a good product, but I wish it would have come from Minnesota.”

And this from Leon Dahle, who owns a Morristown sod farm:

“I don’t know why the Twins did that. Grass is the same or better here than what comes from Colorado.”