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  1. jctwins
    This made me laugh.
  2. jctwins
    It makes me wonder what he's been told when he says "The new direction Twins/MLB broadcasts are taking." Hard to think he was doing it for the money but maybe that's what it took to justify the time away from home.
  3. jctwins
    You're sure it's not Assistant To the General Manager?
  4. jctwins
    Because an org would hypothetically send multiple high value prospects for a guy that is big show ready for half a season when they are one piece away. This isn't that difficult.
  5. jctwins
    I'm guessing he'd accept a trade for the same money to go play for the Dodgers or the Yankees. Well not the Dodgers, but you get the point.
  6. jctwins
    Dumb question maybe, but wouldn't a major league baseball team have a standard regimen for learning a position? i.e. some crazy number like 10,000 ground balls to each side of the glove, 1,000 double play reps, something like that?
  7. jctwins
    Kind of surprised this didn't surface here yet: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6007826/2024/12/20/royce-lewis-workout-twins-2024/
  8. jctwins
    Truth hammer here.
  9. jctwins
    As I understand it, attendance for the year is pretty well baked when Season Tickets are set. I have yet to receive my final 2025 ticket invoice, which indicates they are working to finalize things before doing so, even though they normally would have by now. They collected post season ticket money for 2024, so they have cash, just unsettled numbers. Thinking about much of anything else at this point is a fool's errand IMO cause this ownership group is just tying bows with the goal of getting a clean sale and moving on. Consider 2025 a see what we have for a new era year starting in 2026 if you're being realistic.
  10. jctwins
    Is this just assuming Lewis is going to be on the IL all year?
  11. jctwins
    Considering the uncertainty around the next few years, I really don't hate this plan.
  12. jctwins
    This is where I thought Gleeman did a good job of putting words to this. At some point it goes beyond business and becomes a piece of the local culture that these owners are stewards of.
  13. jctwins
    You're right. Saying Comcast was a misstatement on my part. You are also right that this year spending doesn't equate to this year, but they are selling future revenue as well as current revenue. That's how you assign a value to a business.
  14. jctwins
    Attendance lags in baseball, so it should have been higher in 2024 following a legit playoff run in 2023. You missed them agreeing to extend with Comcast and letting the fans get blacked out? Sigh
  15. jctwins
    This is oversimplifying. Many of us would argue that an increase in spending in 2023 and 2024 would have led to higher fan engagement, and built goodwill with the fan base, which then grows or at least maintains the fan base. Additionally, aggressively locking down a television contract would have had similar results. Both result in a higher valuation of the business. They made decisions not to do either.
  16. jctwins
    I heard the same thing. It's hard to know who has really been making what decisions. I'm not convinced St. Peter understands the business anymore, either, and I have to think he has at least been a voice in the room when Joe doesn't know what to do.
  17. jctwins
    I think it's a very distinct possibility that the Pohlads, or at least this generation of Pohlads, just aren't very good business people. The examples are numerous that predate this series of decisions.
  18. jctwins
    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. That's pretty funny.
  19. jctwins
    I'd consider it more likely they move a veteran to add prospects rather than trade prospects for a veteran.
  20. jctwins
    I read in today's newspaper it's actually to minimize rainouts during the rainiest part of the season.
  21. jctwins
    I should revise my comment to say...if you've worked for one ownership group for 30 years and are in the sunset of your career, the last thing you want to deal with is a younger regime moving things into the next generation. A guy like St. Peter knows he's gone one way or another, and would rather do it on his own terms.
  22. jctwins
    These are all reductions to streamline the operation for a new owner.
  23. jctwins
    There has to be a trickle down effect from the pending ownership transition. How bad would it be to have Falvey "save money" by committing to fill every hole with guys from the system. It uses what will likely be a lost year anyway and you either develop guys or see what you don't have. It also expedites the process of cleaning house that new ownership might want to employ anyway.
  24. jctwins
    Once you've been to the show, AAA is not where you want to try to honeymoon out a career.
  25. jctwins
    You're assuming they're better business people than they really are.
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