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  1. Fire Dan Gladden
    Look, everybody is overanalyzing this. It comes down to a few basic points: 1) The Twins took the cash from Ballys knowing all of this was possible, even likely. 2) They did this as other teams worked with MLB for less revenue today, but a more optimistic financial future and to keep games on television. 3) This move, in conjunction with the other financial decisions made this winter, show that this ownership group has zero regard for the fans and 100% only cares about dollars. There were no mistakes here. Nothing got missed. This was part of the accepted risk and tactical decisions of ownership. For comparison, look at Glen Taylor and the Timberwolves. For all his faults, he has never balked at spending money to improve the on-court product. He halted the sale of the Wolves to A-Rod amidst reports A-Rod was going to gut the team to save money. He tries to win and appease the fans while also making money, either through cash flow or increased value of the team.
  2. Fire Dan Gladden
    Short term financial gain at the expense of long-term thinking. The decisions that have been made are due primarily to one reason: the fans will come back. They can destroy whatever goodwill they want because they know all it will take is a strong winning season and the fans will come back. They always do. Like moths to a flame. The Pohlads have had little to no regard for the fans since they took over. It is strictly a business. Cash in hand is all that matters to them.
  3. Fire Dan Gladden
    Yes. The sample size since his return is small. To say he is fixed is premature. You were referring to the totality of his history. He had one good year, then a bad one.
  4. Fire Dan Gladden
    Thanks for providing options. In the northern part of the state, Audacy is a great option (though it runs 30-60 seconds behind live). Biggest tip for listening to the Twins on the radio? Any time Dan Gladden is in the booth, find the other team's radio broadcast of the game. His inability to describe play by play and always repeating what Atteberry says makes the game unlistenable. Glen Perkins is a HUGE improvement.
  5. Fire Dan Gladden
    He had one solid year, then a disastrous one where performance and injuries would not let him out of AAA. Heck, he didn't even make the team out of Spring Training after the Twins signed Santana because they did not have faith Miranda could handle it. Anybody saying they expected him to be successful at this point is not being honest. Hoping, yes. Expecting, no.
  6. Fire Dan Gladden
    I saw the title of this article and started laughing. This is such a divisive discussion amongst Twins fandom it almost feels like a click-bait article.
  7. Fire Dan Gladden
    Then you obviously haven't read much of my comments. Sample size is always a important. Austin Martin was ok, not great while he was up. Am I writing him off? No, he just needs a longer period of success. Do you need more examples of jumping on the bandwagon early? Where is Matt Wallner right now? I am not saying Miranda is lucky, I am saying 54 ABs is an extremely small sample size. Heck, 200 ABs is a relatively small sample size
  8. Fire Dan Gladden
    54 ABs.... Yep, let's anoint him as fixed.
  9. Fire Dan Gladden
    If the Pohlads could make $5 doing this, this is exactly what would happen.
  10. Fire Dan Gladden
    #6 on the is list would be Matt Bowman. Lots of good things for the Twins to look forward to with this young man. He... oh, wait.... Never mind.
  11. Fire Dan Gladden
    I am a pretty consistent visitor/reader to the site. I would say my general view of everything is positive, though I do have a few items I think need to be addressed: 1) As with every social media site, comments are basically anonymous. Because of that, you see a lot of negativity and attacking (though the site does a pretty good job directing things towards the team and away from each other). This is basically unavoidable. 2) Many times there will be streaks of articles saying exactly the same thing. It feels a little lazy and more like the need for having "some" content vs "quality" content. 3) Along those same lines, there are a few contributors whose articles I have a tough time clicking on because of the number of click-bait articles. Along the lines of Stephen A Smith or Skip Bayless, it feels like an attempt at a cheap click count. It also takes away from when they write other articles of quality, 4) I believe there is also a place for long-form articles here. I understand the time investment can be rough on the writer, but the occasional change of pace would be great! 5) Lastly, I understand the need for advertising, but there will be times I try to access a story or write a comment and there are so many advertising windows pop up I have to refresh the page. There has to be a better way... Thanks for the efforts guys!
  12. Fire Dan Gladden
    You didn't really specify the "when" part of letting a player go. Is it now? Some point in the season? End of season? The only player with any real risk here is Margot. If Buxton goes down for an extended period of time, Margot is 100% safe. The rest of this article is an exercise in wishful thinking. Every player on that list has a history of performing better than they have. There is no player in the minors to replace them with a high expectation they will perform better. The Twins are obviously not going to increase payroll on a player from outside the organization. What you see is what you get.
  13. Fire Dan Gladden
    The "narrative" you are talking about just also happens to be the the truth. When healthy, he can be among the best in the game. The issue is he can't stay healthy, and when he tries to play at substantially less than 100%, he is pretty much brutal at the plate. You can really go down a rabbit hole discussing the semantics of the word overhyped. I just don't think that fits here. When I hear overhyped, I think of guys that have had all the publicity and never backed it up.
  14. Fire Dan Gladden
    Overhyped? Not sure where that is coming from... When healthy, he has been very productive. Streaky, but very productive. Even a Buck playing 120 games in the OF with average offensive production is worth what he brings.
  15. Fire Dan Gladden
    Sure, he pitched well during his time here. But we are talking about potentially losing the last guy in the BP. This is seriously not an issue...
  16. Fire Dan Gladden
    Whatever the future holds, Martin did not exactly blow things away while he was up. If we are getting excited over a slash of .226/.294/.371 this team is in big trouble.
  17. Fire Dan Gladden
    You play who you play. Beating up on two terrible teams is a necessity. The hope is that this builds some confidence going forward.
  18. Fire Dan Gladden
    How quickly we all forget... Stop defending him... just stop. https://www.yardbarker.com/mlb/articles/twins_miguel_sano_reported_to_camp_overweight/s1_127_25769009 And of course his own manager calling his work ethic out https://twins-time.com/2016/08/miguel-sanos-up-and-down-play-gives-twins-more-to-ponder/
  19. Fire Dan Gladden
    This isn't an argument of humans vs. robots. This is a discussion of an elite athlete that bites the hand that feeds him. The Twins kept giving him chance after chance to see if he would turn the corner and he didn't. I am talking low-hanging fruit here. Stay in shape. Work on your defense. Listen to your coaches about your hitting approach. He did none of these things. He had to get totally kicked out of baseball before the light bulb went off. Shameful is the correct word. Shameful that the Twins did not recognize this earlier and cut bait. Shameful that when he got his big money contract he coasted. I have argued multiple times on this site that sometimes players need a change of scenery to figure things out. This was not the case here. He just didn't care enough to improve. Everybody needs to stop defending him here. His failure was lack of caring.
  20. Fire Dan Gladden
    The iron man days of catching all the time are basically done. 130 games caught in a season is a unicorn. 100 is a realistic goal/expectation. Vasquez has been productive defensively. We probably can't discount how much he has helped Jeffers while he has been here. I am not going to argue rotation and health, because it worked last year and continues to work this year, I hope that Vasquez can start provide offense closer to his numbers before he came to MN.
  21. Fire Dan Gladden
    As a Duke fan I stand by my statement!👍
  22. Fire Dan Gladden
    100000000000% THIS!!!!!!!
  23. Fire Dan Gladden
    Lets see... Skilled player relies on natural ability early in career, has some success, but generally does not care about improving himself or his team. Skilled player eventually gets released and is looked upon so poorly no other team is willing to sign him. Skilled player gets older, matures, finally realizes he failed to live up to his god given talent. Skilled player looses extensive weight, gets back into shape, and is able to finagle a second chance. Skilled player sees success... The thing that irritates me about this narrative is the amount of time and money the Twins poured into this guy. Shameful...
  24. Fire Dan Gladden
    There is really nothing to wonder about. Ownership has been upfront that money drives 98% of their decisions. That is why you are seeing hand-wringing over $500k decisions right now. They are not willing to make necessary moves to make the team better. One thing I wonder about: When someone smarter than me runs a cost analysis on this team, what do the ratios of wins vs. payroll vs. attendance show? Does winning the division increase income enough to offset a 10-15% increase in payroll? How does that effect attendance? My guess is there is a sweet spot where the Twins are competitive (but not great) with a mid-level payroll that generates enough attendance to make money. Which means we as fans accept high-mediocre teams at an acceptable rate by ownership.
  25. Fire Dan Gladden
    Backups are backups for a reason. Expecting Margot to be the second coming is unfair. These types of signings always carry risk... Farmer and Santana, not just struggling but being horrific on offensive, are two of the biggest let-downs so far this year. They continue to be thrust out there because of lack of institutional choices at the moment.
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