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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    92, then 93 for Mahle there.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Hard to be upset about the Kirilloff situation, he literally had a bone shaved down in an attempt to get back on the field. I’m less impressed with the Polanco situation. He had seven months off, it seems like *something* could have been done to prevent this.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Somehow I was unaware of this story until now. Fantastic. https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/newsletter/2023-03-21/andrew-toles-dodgers-dugout
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Nick mentioned Polanco has a wrap on his knee so I have some concern about him. It’s also not the end of the world if he’s not in the lineup on OD.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Ugh, this is so boring.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    It's better to see a guy throwing hard than seeing a guy not throwing hard but I'm not going to get too worked up over a single start. If it continues, then it's a potential problem.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Actually, yes. I have no interest in spending literally $100 a month for a product I use to watch baseball and literally NOTHING else.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I honestly don’t care about veterans in spring. The action I want to see is all the young guys in their first or second camp and how prepared they look to don a Minnesota uniform in the near future.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Comparatively a very small subset of fans care about spring training and even a smaller portion know Buxton isn’t playing. This trend isn’t unique to the Twins. Other teams are playing their star veterans less in spring, too. There just isn’t any upside in doing so while there’s a fair amount of downside in it.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Players aren’t playing in spring because there’s no point in it. They can get in the cages and swing away against live pitching whenever they like, which is more valuable than getting two PAs in a spring game and sitting around for two hours. It’s not as if Buxton or Correa need reps in the field, either. I agree it’s probably time to shorten spring by a couple of weeks.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I mean, fans fight all the time, though. All fanbases of all sports. It's a different breed that jumps onto the field of play and attacks someone... twice.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    The only fanbase I truly hate is the White Sox. First, they're the primary rival. Second, their fans literally jumped on the field and beat up an old man and an umpire in two separate incidents.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Someone sent me this so I felt it necessary to share: Ponder this question: When you say you hate a particular team, are you talking about the team itself, or the behavior displayed by its fans? Crestline surveyed 1,000 baseball fans across the country to ask their opinions of MLB fan bases and players. Key findings: Minnesota Twins fans were voted the 2nd best-behaved and 6th least annoying fanbase in MLB. Carlos Correa was voted the 5th most annoying player in MLB. The most annoying fan behavior: 1. Getting in fights at games 2. Bad Sportsmanship 3. Fairweather/bandwagon fans. Nationally, 62% of respondents expect the new rules changes in 2023 will increase fan complaining. Across baseball, 43% of fans said they had another fan ruin a sporting event for them. Twins fans were the 3rd most likely to have a game ruined by another fan. Take a look at the full report and let me know if you can use any of this data for a story.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, we all knew players would start dropping and this isn’t a particularly concerning injury.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    No, it's not unreasonable. I'm only saying that the Pohlads are middle of the pack in this regard. They spend right in line with their market size. Could they do better? Sure! Do I get upset they don't punch above their weight class? Not really.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    And before we praise San Diego too much, I lived there while they were fighting over Petco. It wasn't awesome. For Petco to be built, they had to level the downtown arts district full of amazing people who gave life to the downtown area. So all the area that Petco consumes and all those high-rise condominiums that exist around it came at the expense of the people who made San Diego such an awesome place to live. It's not really a formula to be emulated or trumpeted.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Absolutely, sure, fine. I'm all on board with cities owning franchises but it's also wildly out of the perspective of reality.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't know but you also need to realize 28 teams are asking the same question. Literally the only two owners in baseball who are throwing caution to the wind are Cohen and Siedler. Would it be fun to be a Padres fan right now? YES, because I'm an actual Padres fan (went to high school in SD). It's wildly fun! I love it! But I'm also pragmatic enough to realize the Padres are an outlier. If every team behaved that way, it only sets the bar further for teams to operate in a financially viable way. And objectively speaking, the Pohlads are middle of the pack. They're fine. They're not amazingly delightful but they're fine.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I've kinda lost track of the 40-man... is there a pressing need to open a spot?
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't see them moving Celestino to the 60-day for a potential six week injury.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    The easiest way to contextualize the schedule change is the following: The less-unbalanced schedule means the Twins replace about 20 games against .450 winning percentage teams with 20 games against .500 winning percentage teams. What's that worth? One more loss? Two, maybe? It's not much and could literally end up being nothing.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, that's why I even mentioned Miller. IMO, he's the only guy with a legit shot at SS in the foreseeable future.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Maybe Miller but more likely someone not yet in the org.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    As for being "cheap", I follow a lot of baseball. The Pohlads are 100% mediocre, middle of the pack owners. They're neither great nor awful. In an offseason that saw the Twins bring back Correa, I don't feel I have a lot to complain about. Are they as good as, say, Milwaukee? I'd argue no but realize there's a huge contingent of Brewers fans that hate Attanasio for being "cheap" despite the Brewers having a payroll $10-15m less than the Twins in a vastly smaller market. On the other hand, the Pohlads are miles better than the Nuttings and Ricketts of the world, who are just awful.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    San Diego isn't doing it with TV revenue. Their TV contract isn't very good. They're doing it by: Siedler is a crazy person in a delightful way He bought up a ton of real estate around Petco and then developed the hell out of it Why do you think San Diego is 60% the size of Minneapolis? The San Diego and Twin Cities markets are damned near identical in population size.
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