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  1. TheLeviathan
    I mean...I don't know what else you want there. Wallner got to stay in against the lefty. They waited until there was two strikes and Julien definitely had the element of surprise. They forced them to balk but the umps were as shocked as the Sox and didn't make the right call. More of that. All of it.
  2. TheLeviathan
    The story of Born Again is very heavily rooted in the original show. I think you'd be ok without watching it, but truth be told - it's well worth the watch. First season of Jessica Jones as well. It's simply good TV. (For the most part, half of DD season 2 was pretty mid)
  3. TheLeviathan
    I know this article is a bit old now, but Gleeman had some good information over at The Athletic. Basically....from what Forbes can estimate, there is no way the team has $425 million in debt unless it was accrued almost entirely in the span from 2020-2022 or it simply isn't baseball debt. I know which one my money is on.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Agreed, I really do like what they're doing on the pitching development side, but it just isn't enough to offset anything. Sadly, without an ownership change, I'm not sure how much actually gets altered.
  5. TheLeviathan
    I agree with you, but most of that criticism seems to be pointing at the front office. Our pitching pipeline is starting to look pretty decent, but on the positional side it's a mess. I think the scrappy, piranha identity was more a function of necessity and the cheap owners. But at least players came up to the big leagues with a good glove and a set of skills. It feels like we're constantly rebuilding hitters into functional fielders (and hitters!) at the big league level. That doesn't seem like a viable strategy IMO. Rocco has his faults, but what seems to be ailing the team is far more systemic.
  6. TheLeviathan
    I hear blowing in it might work too!
  7. TheLeviathan
    I can get behind criticizing Miranda and others about terrible at-bats..... But how did Buxton get a pass? Our number 8 hitter being bad isn't on the same level of importance.
  8. TheLeviathan
    Never has the team's play on the field so closely aligned with my feelings on ownership.
  9. TheLeviathan
    Bats are cold, but the lineup is definitely my biggest concern with this team. You aren't going to win many games no matter how good your pitching, managing, or defense are if you're only going to scrape out 3 hits.
  10. TheLeviathan
    The visits have a lot of gamesmanship to them as well. No team brings in their 30 favorite guys, there is a method to it beyond that. To be honest, that whole part of the process seems silly to me. I don't get why they have those restrictions other than to be merciful on the prospects maybe?
  11. TheLeviathan
    Honestly, this is the recipe for anyone in the bottom 2/3rds of baseball in revenue and payroll. Then.....the blind luck every World Series team needs in the small sample playoffs.
  12. TheLeviathan
    This was my takeaway as well. The team battled, but in the end the Cards made the margins-type plays in the field to deliver a win. But for those that didn't like things from last year there were a lot of promising developments: we stole a base in a close game to give ourselves a chance, the team went opposite field a lot, and they didn't do any crazy substitutions. It's early, but all good signs. You're gonna lose some, things happen.
  13. TheLeviathan
    France has a two run double against 25 other CFers. Just how things go sometimes.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Hitting approach does feel different so far too.
  15. TheLeviathan
    Early returns on the infield defense are as feared....
  16. TheLeviathan
    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.
  17. TheLeviathan
    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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. TheLeviathan
    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.
  23. 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.
  24. TheLeviathan
    At some point are you willing to consider that you just haven't read this situation correctly?
  25. 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.
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