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3-5 years after the Pohlad family doesn't own the team anymore. Otherwise, likely never.

I have zero faith this is actually the case. Pohlads will want a near minimum payroll so I expect Ryan and Lopez are gone in the offseason. 100+ losses is a near lock in my opinion for 2026. If things go poorly it could get 2025 Rockies ugly next year.

Falvey thinks he's prime Bill Belichick waiting until the last second to announce any roster moves. As if CLE cares.

I was at the Twins vs Cardinals game they talked about here when I was a young teenager. I remember being super let down that Big Mac hardly even made contact.

I'm not sure our 97 OPS+ first baseman is the best argument for a solid Falvey pickup.

I wonder if the Pohlads can even afford to pay for another manager. Also, with the team for sale I'm not sure we would have many top tier candidates interested who then might get fired when a new owner wants to bring in their own guy. I fear we are just stuck with what we have until the Pohlads are gone. 20 years too late.

The most obvious answer is that generations #2 and #3 of this ownership group is just not that good at business in general. They have sold off multiple businesses at a loss over the past few years and muck up nearly every Twins opportunity that comes in front of them. Grandpa Carl's fortune was vast enough that the kids and grandkids had a lot of margin for error but that seems to be at an end and they need to cash out of the baseball team.

I remember 2001 much more fondly. It was the first light we had seen in nearly a decade and was at least something to build on. I would take the feeling from 2001 10 times out of 10 versus the garbage of 2024.

I am surprised nobody has mentioned that Duran is yet another haul from the Pierzynski trade where the Twins got Joe Nathan, Francisco Liriano, and Boof Bonser. They later traded Liriano for Escobar, who then of course landed them Duran.

Isn't Ch 45 owned by Sinclair? The same parent company of Bally which I'm guessing would be a non-starter.

According to Umpire Scorecards the home plate umpire favored the other team in all but one playoff game which was the game 3 drubbing. Game Umpire Fav Outcome WC Game 1 Andy Fletcher 1.46 runs for TOR 3-1 MIN WC Game 2 Adam Hamari 0.96 runs for TOR 2-0 MIN ALDS Game 1 Brian Knight 0.43 runs for HOU 6-4 HOU ALDS Game 2 DJ Reyburn 0.77 runs for HOU 6-2 MIN ALDS Game 3 Bill Miller 0.31 runs for MIN 9-1 HOU ALDS Game 4 Jansen Visconti 0.48 runs for HOU 3-2 HOU After this many years of getting hosed it's hard to not at least nibble on some conspiracy theories that MLB puts their finger on the scale to get their preferred matchups. The moral of the story is that the Twins can't just be a little bit better. They need to be a LOT better than the big market teams to move farther into the playoffs.

I feel like the best old school argument against Cole for Cy Young is that he pitches for a loser in the Yankees. His heroics have been for nothing. I don't actually buy that argument but I really enjoy typing that the Yankees are a trash team that has been playing for nothing for the past month.

He is near the top of all of the offensive players on the team in Win Probability Added, which does take into account game situation. You can complain about being injured too much but arguing he does not impact games is just silly.

Always a great time to relive that memory. :-)

I love the image of you jokingly considering adding two and a half hours of drive time to avoid driving through Iowa only to find out it requires extensive South Dakota and Nebraska road time.