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  1. TheLeviathan
    France has a two run double against 25 other CFers. Just how things go sometimes.
  2. TheLeviathan
    Hitting approach does feel different so far too.
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    Early returns on the infield defense are as feared....
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    4 seasons, one of which had dramatically reduced obligations due to a shortened season. If all 425M is baseball related: then the Pohlads are so cartoonishly stupid that I feel even more strongly they are screwing up this sale. No reasonable levels of expenses, with their pfofits, could account for that.
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    Forbes reported that around a third or the league is over that limit all the time and aren't aware of MLB intervening very often. Again, simplest explanations and not conspiracies: perhaps the current generation of Pohlads lack the same business acumen of their predecessors. Unless the team was buying golden chairs and diamond pencil sharpeners for their front office staff, you can't account for 450M in three years in any rational way other than that money not being related to baseball operations.
  6. TheLeviathan
    This is based, imo, on the misplaced assumption that debt is driven by baseball operations and not the absolute bath they took on commercial real estate.
  7. TheLeviathan
    As I've said many times: for a great many Twins fans they will rejoice at the price, be happy for the certainty, and pony up. I'm genuinely glad they are getting something they want at a price they are ok with. But for another, very large, group of fans.....that sticker price won't be worth their time. They'll sail the seven seas, turn on the radio, or just plain tune out. There really needs to be a long term plan.
  8. TheLeviathan
    I'm, like, 99% sure that Randy Dobnak played with Boof Bonser. Also like 98% sure they're the same person. It maths in my head.
  9. TheLeviathan
    The only people who know their sources are the reporters. I have never claimed the sources are Falvey or St. Peter or anyone else. For all we know, Hayes talked to Joe Pohlad himself. And before you start to say that there's no way Joe would be dumb enough to say anything to the media: I present you 10 years of media malfeasance and "right sizing". I don't know who is saying what or why. But I do know journalists don't rush to publish gossip in The Athletic. They aren't going to publish something on feels and vibes. The man is a credible reporter which means he has sourced the information and believes it to be accurate. It may not be the whole picture, but it's almost certainly not complete nonsense either. This ownership group has earned skepticism. I see no reason to believe this situation is any different.
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    If the brokerage is dumb or incompetent....guess who hired them? If the media leaks are wrong....guess who is employing them? It's one thing to believe all of those things are true rather than the Pohlads are running this like the gong show we've seen from their marketing, TV deals, and other "right sized" public communications....but there is yet another layer that make this absurdly unlikely: Mass media incompetence/malfeasance? Your position also requires tht every media person was hearing that the deal was going to be done by the home opener and just went along with bad sources. This would entail that every reporter who has written a story on this (not just Dan Hayes) is willing to impugn their credibility, defy reporting norms, and listen to people they know are lying or ignorant. That's quite a credibility attack to keep going with an opinion that keeps getting less correct the more information we get. But sure, I bet it's all of that and not that the Pohlads continue to run their baseball business like a bunch of dinks.
  11. TheLeviathan
    Always have been. Hence why I was skeptical and hoped the beat writers would do more digging so we know more about where this process is and why it's so profoundly weird. That digging has only reinforced my reasons for skepticism and also revealed that your stance about Ishbia being just one buyer of many, or this pro-Pohlad post here, or any of the other comments made during the last round of this just don't hold up under scrutiny. Maybe the simple explanation is the right one: the sale process is being run about as well as the team. Marketing certainly matches historically.
  12. TheLeviathan
    At some point are you willing to consider that you just haven't read this situation correctly?
  13. TheLeviathan
    I'm going to push back on this a little bit - $450M simply can't be accounted for because of Covid. That's roughly 3 entire seasons of major league payroll. Minor leaguers, support staff, and even TV revenue drops don't account for that much money. I'd argue not even close to that much. It's far more likely that a major portion of those debts relate to Pohlad business activities outside of baseball. Which means our hopes of a sale rest on someone else being willing to bail the Pohlads out of their terrible business ventures. If that's the bar, then yeah....I agree with you. It ain't happening any time soon.
  14. TheLeviathan
    It appears I need to update that meme I used last time.....
  15. TheLeviathan
    When Ishbia bowed out there were so many people that brushed that off as it being "just a buyer dropping out, no biggie".....that never made sense to me. This is the Pohlads we are talking about here. Shady practices, incompetence, incoherence....these are what we've experienced for decades. The canary already sang, we're just late to hearing it. My skepticism has now grown to full blown pessimism.
  16. TheLeviathan
    Well said old man, well said.
  17. TheLeviathan
    I think I share a similar conclusion (I'm pretty down on the offense) but my opinion is a bit different. I trust Correa, Wallner, and Lewis to be really good players when healthy. I trust Buxton and Jeffers to be good hitters. If Larnach repeats last year he's in that group. My issue is that of those 6 guys, I have serious doubts about the health of 3 of them and my confidence is lacking in their potential replacements.
  18. TheLeviathan
    Man I wish that was feasible. That we could just have clubs or rec leagues, but we're so far past that we can never unring that bell. I hate it, and rooting along with you, but we'd be better off just considering college semi-pro at this point.
  19. TheLeviathan
    Yup, off to a great start. Great actors who really understand their characters. Jon Berenthal was born to play the Punisher.
  20. TheLeviathan
    Adolescence on Netflix is brilliant. Just a stunning piece of art.
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    I think this is right - you hold and hope. At the same time, nothing also implies you don't double down either. We're approaching the point where many organizations would extend someone like Lewis potentially and buy out a few of his FA years with raises now. That, I think, would also be a mistake. I think nothing is correct in that you neither invest nor devest in Lewis as an asset to the team going forward. To me that's the takeaway of this article - you can't center your future on him and hope that he can be "The guy" for the core going forward. At the same time, it'd be foolish to move off of him. Hold and hope.
  23. TheLeviathan
    Dig the simulator, well done!
  24. TheLeviathan
    @Danchat who are you eyeballing my friend?
  25. TheLeviathan
    He has some technique to learn. I liked him early but the tape says he is really raw. But yeah....the measurables? Gimme that.
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