Minnesota Twins to Host Front Office Diversity Roundtable Series

[John Bonnes]

This Tuesday, the Twins will kick off a series of roundtables featuring underrepresented minority groups from the Twins. The goal is to introduce possible job applicants (students and current professionals) to a side of the team they may not know exists.The event will kick off with a zoom webinar featuring five Black members of the Minnesota Twins Front Office:

• Sean Johnson - Director of Amateur Scouting
• Deron Johnson - Senior Advisor, Scouting
• Josh Ruffin -Analyst, Advance Scouting
• Navery Moore - Fellow, Pro Scouting

The roundtable will be moderated by Noah Croom, former Assistant GM of the Timberwolves and current General Counsel & Partner at Beautiful Game Group. The event will also feature an introduction from General Manager of the Twins, Thad Levine.

 

If you’re interested in attending, you can register here.

 

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[strumdatjaguar]

Good job Twins. But - Let’s hope there is no diversity of success on the field this year. Let’s hope our players are universally excellent and healthy. I am so pumped for baseball - let me out of the Covid Cage -

Play Ball

[Seth Stohs]

I just registered. Really looking forward to listening and learning... 

 

I've had some good chats with both Sean Johnson and Deron Johnson. Great people. This should be a great event!!

[Squirrel]

 

I just registered. Really looking forward to listening and learning... 

 

I've had some good chats with both Sean Johnson and Deron Johnson. Great people. This should be a great event!!

 

I just registered, too ... looking forward to it.

[Darius]

Hopefully this talk honestly addresses real issues and concerns, with real, practical plans to resolve any issues noted.

 

What I’m really running out of patience for is public figures that are doing nothing more than virtue signaling and stirring up animosity by shifting bigotry (a lot of anti-white and anti-Semitic garbage being spewed that is called an illegitimate concern right now - very frightening). It’s doing the opposite of helping. Throwing stones from their literal ivory towers (gated communities, personal security, etc.). It’s further dividing and inciting violent/politically charged exchanges, not bringing people together. It’s creating standoffs, not open discussion. We’re seeing racial divides increase, not decrease. Crime is skyrocketing around the country, and insane politicians and political figures are condoning/enabling it because they’re scared to death of being called a racist and being cancelled by extreme left Twitter mobs (mostly comprised of privilege, white suburbanite twenty-somethings trying to cover their own rear end). People are calling out peoples addresses, children’s names, etc.

 

How long have people been marching in streets (some peacefully, some violently)? Have we heard one honest, real solution or plan? Honestly, give me one. I’m sorry, but it’s nothing but political/corporate public relations opportunism. The legitimate gripes are being drown out by corporations, politicians, and disingenuous celebrities virtue signaling in an attempt to leverage a moral high ground for self-gain. Shame on these sick, sick people.

 

Once we’re done addressing this, why don’t we also make sure we get Asian, Native, Latino, and White players proportionately represented in the NBA and NFL. I’ve never felt the need to go down that road, but you can’t have it both ways. You can’t push these initiatives to set race quotas only when they benefit you or your “group,” or it’s a fraudulent cause. You can’t only let certain “groups” have a say. It’s counter productive. It’s for your personal gain, a power grab, not a righteous cause. It’s replacing one broken system with another.

 

People’s willingness to listen is waning. The nation’s attention was captured. It was decided that yelling, chiding, accusing, canceling, was the best approach. You aren’t keeping anyone’s attention by constantly insulting them (no matter the veracity of the claim). Do you think some broke, white guy working two jobs to feed his kids is going to “change” as a result of billionaire Pharrell Williams from his cabana telling him he’s so awful, ignorant, and racist that he can’t see how much more “privileged” he is? The time of the perversion of these serious race-based issues for PR purposes has to end now. It’s sickening. Wake up. Grow up. Make real, constructive change.

[bighat]

This looks like a great Round Table that will be interesting and beneficial to many. Looking forward to it.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Hopefully this talk honestly addresses real issues and concerns, with real, practical plans to resolve any issues noted.

 

.....

As do the rest of us.

 

You are biting off more than you can chew.

 

As stated in the original post, the goal of the Twins panel is to : “to introduce possible job applicants (students and current professionals) to a side of the team they may not know exists.”

 

Please take your concerns to the blog section, the sports bar, or better yet, elsewhere.

 

I have every reason to believe the Twins have their heart in the right place and are what is in their power to do right now to improve this situation.

Edited July 17, 2020 by Hosken Bombo Disco

[Matthew Taylor]

Just registered. Looking forward to learning!

[Richie the Rally Goat]

I just registered as well. Very excited

[ashbury]

There's not an attendance limit? I would hate to take up a spot that an actual job applicant might want.

[Melissa]

This is great to see. Sadly I have an unavoidable conflict form 7:00-9:30 that evening.

[USAFChief]

There's not an attendance limit? I would hate to take up a spot that an actual job applicant might want.

the thing is, at your age, you ARE an underrepresented minority group.