Twins Get Relief in Legal Spat with Metrodome

A state court judge in Minnesota has ruled that the Minnesota Twins were not subject to the terms of an expired contract the team had with the owner of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.   The defendant Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission unsuccessfully argued that the old contract was enforceable merely because the team continued to play there after the contract had expired on October 31, 2003.   The court based its decision on the fact that the parties, after the contract had ex