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  1. ashbury
    Based on the photo at the top of this article, if I were ownership I'd put Derek Falvey on notice: Either drop 30 pounds, or else stop wearing knit polo shirts in public. As for Falvey's job performance, after 2021-22 I was questioning whether the FO was driving this team into the ditch. 2023 was a welcome outcome, with memories I'll treasure. But 2024-25 was back to being a downer, and I blame ownership direction as much as anything. I think with this change at the very top, Falvey probably has two years, not just one, to show that the team's on the right track. IMO the FO have indeed driven the franchise into the ditch, but due in part to back seat driving from Joe. It's been an ownership-FO collaboration.
  2. ashbury
    I didn't spot a comment that spells it out a little further, but when you say "MLB", you mean both ownership and the players union. It's the collective bargaining agreement. Probably the players hate debt so much that they insisted this be in the CBA. No way in the world do they want a team with long term player contracts to say one bright day, "oops, the money is gone and we can't raise more." I think it's fair to say that the players in effect forced the Twins to take on additional investors.
  3. ashbury
    It's Pohlads all the way down.
  4. ashbury
    Regardless of its actual content, this article includes possibly the best example of Betteridge's law of headlines I have ever seen. Do something that's never been done? I'm gonna stick my neck out and answer: NO! 😁
  5. ashbury
    Private equity firm. Po-tay-to, po-tah-to.
  6. ashbury
    Note to the Twins' PR department: try to provide major media outlets such as the NYT a less insipid photo of Falvey than the one that keeps getting used.
  7. ashbury
    In what way? $23M a year is pocket change.
  8. ashbury
    This explains why batters who tire of excelling at hitting baseballs retire and become NBA Hall of Famers.
  9. ashbury
    Sign me up for a shortstop, whichever one falls to three.
  10. ashbury
    What was your favorite Daniel Susac moment as a Twin? I've thought about this for a while now, and I'd have to say it was that one time.
  11. ashbury
    This sounds about right. The folks who view each player solely through the lens of their trade value, and who want to "trade high," are overlooking the actual value that a year of play each player brings to the team. It would have been easy to garner an absolute haul in return for Kirby Puckett after 1986. "His value will never be higher!"
  12. ashbury
    Chuck Jones's Grinch is the indispensable one for my holiday viewing pleasure If a teevee show doesn't count, then I guess It's A Wonderful Life. Most contrarian for me I guess would be Elf - Will Farrell is hilarious when he's being funny, but his "warm" persona always hits me as snide, even when I'm assured it's not.
  13. ashbury
    If Mariah Carey* ever did a cover of it, the universe would likely collapse in on itself from the sheer awfulness. * I believe "All I Want For Christmas Is You" is a perfectly reasonable holiday song, and the people who hate it are reacting to Carey's vulgar performance of it. Yes, that's the Christmas hill I would die on. Try Robyn Adele Anderson and Von Smith's version and decide for yourself.
  14. ashbury
    Ask your doctor or pharmacist if The Internet is right for you. 😁
  15. ashbury
    Before the firing I wondered whether the Twins would eventually offer Rocco a job in the front office rather than completely cut ties. I still wonder if they did, but this news fits in with my perception that he's a better fit for an administrative/analytics type of position.
  16. ashbury
    They need outfielders, not a DH and a ninth inning defensive replacement. Can't hurt to ask, though.
  17. ashbury
    Yeah, but Too Soon.
  18. ashbury
    Motel 6 never provides more than coffee in the morning. Speaking from years of experience here.
  19. ashbury
    Claiming at the outset they aim for "a sustainable, championship-caliber team," then trading away important bullpen pieces who were under control past the end of the 2025 season, but now saying that they plan to keep the "core", is the dastardly work of sportswriters?
  20. ashbury
    Did you know that all tautologies are tautologies? You can look it up! Might as well shut down the forums and cancel the off-season articles. We're not allowed to speculate, apparently. Meanwhile the sports books will continue to accept money on both sides of the line they set, and will adjust that line to keep the money in balance and earn themselves some easy money with the juice.
  21. ashbury
    I'm almost indifferent whether the FO chooses the particular direction you suggest. But what I do want to see is this: Pick A Lane for 2026. Lately their actions seem to vary depending on which way the wind happens to be blowing.
  22. ashbury
    The gambling aspect was probably out of an abundance of caution. The real problem lies in whenever the game you think you saw on the field wasn't real. "Integrity of the game." The game always needs to be seen as a genuine contest of skills. Gambling is the best known of the reasons for that to be called into question, so they felt they needed to check it out, or at least that's my interpretation. There are times, such as "getaway day" during the long season, when people may perceive a little difference in what they usually watch, but this case went over that line considerably even if you take his story at the time at face value.
  23. ashbury
    For reference, guys already on the major league squad aren't that numerous, really. Using their ages today, the guys not already mentioned above are: Age 24: Lee, Bradley Age 23: Keaschall I hope I didn't miss someone. The pipeline isn't really that strong, batters and pitchers alike, in terms of what's about to emerge. Maybe there's more hope further up the line with the younger ones; but that's always the story, isn't it?
  24. ashbury
    I was preparing a passionate article on why the Twins shouldn't sign Lou Gehrig to play first base for them, but this one pretty much covered all the points I was going to raise, except that Goldschmidt isn't deceased.
  25. ashbury
    That average seriously misrepresents free-agency value. Every long-term contract is different, but the one Seattle signed Raleigh to blends his arbitration years with some free agency. B-r.com shows it as: $2.67M, 12.67, 13.67, 24.67, 24.67, 24.67 It's pretty clear what both sides of the bargaining table thought was a fair value for his free-agency years, modulo it being guaranteed to him several years in advance. The Mariners may feel they've locked in someone they'd have to pay even more to, when the time came. And free-agency is exactly what the Twins and Jeffers would be bargaining over. We've already gotten the benefit of his cheap years. Jeffers isn't Raleigh, but he isn't Vazquez either.
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