If I Owned The Minnesota Twins: A Wish List

[Fred]

On 10/11/2024 at 10:24 PM, knothole61 said:

Payroll, in and of itself, is not the major item on my "wish list." Spending more, at the right time and for the right pieces is beneficial of course, but throwing good money after bad will only end in failure and frustration. Look, the deplorable White Sox spent more than the Twins in 2024 while KC, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Baltimore, and Detroit (all playoff teams) spent less. Indeed, America's Team, the Tigers, spent some $32,000,000 less!

At the top of my wish list: I want the Twins to be owned by a legitimate, dyed-in-the-wool baseball guy. Carl Pohlad served in WW II and was awarded Bronze Star and a Purple Heart and went on to make a fortune in banking and other endeavors, but he, and his sons and grandsons, could not be considered either athletes (as far as I can tell) or baseball guys. I want the new owner to live and breathe baseball and to understand the romance and magic of a complex and frankly quite antediluvian game. I am not limiting my wish to former MLB players alone--I'll take anyone who genuinely knowns and loves the game. I want someone who knows firsthand what good movement on a fastball means and how hard it is to square up; someone who knows how best to deal with a two-strike count, or who can time a pitcher's movements well enough to get a good jump on a steal.

I mean, Calvin Griffith was not a gifted athlete by any stretch of the imagination, but he was absolutely a baseball guy. And sure, you might point out that his teams were never world champions, but many of them were excellent squads replete with superior and even a few Hall of Fame players. Did you know that be was the bat boy for the 1924 World Series champion Washington Senators?

So give me someone who loves the game as much as most of the TD contributions and I can foresee much better days ahead.         

Griffith's problem was that the Twins were his only source of income. If he lost money he didn't eat

[ashbury]

43 minutes ago, Fred said:

Griffith's problem was that the Twins were his only source of income. If he lost money he didn't eat

The billionaire who won't spend has no advantage over the millionaire who can't spend. 😀

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On 10/12/2024 at 4:56 AM, Karbo said:

When they have give-aways, give to every ticket holder, not just to the 1st 10,000

Or at least the first 30K. Even the Dodgers, don't risk a silly surplus. Better that way, too, for Ebay etal. But I get your point. DON'T BE A CHEAP OWNER!

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"The Twins do some nice things with their Twitter account, which expresses a fun personality and engages in various ways with the denizens of “Twins Twitter.”"

If the marketers (and writers) are catering to the Twits on Twitter, there is a real problem, especially since there hasn't been a Twitter for a long time now...... and there is less and less using what is left.