Jump to content
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

TheLeviathan

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    20,798

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    47

 Content Type 

Profiles

News

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospects Ranking

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

Minnesota Twins Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by TheLeviathan

  1. TheLeviathan
    KOC crushing it on the challenges.
  2. TheLeviathan
    You can. It's a godsend when you bring kids!
  3. TheLeviathan
    It depends on how you feel about the role of the manager. I'm in the camp that thinks (especially in the modern game) that managers have little impact on the in-game decision making and overall philosophies. They inact organizational philosophies consistently instead. So if you have a problem with the way things are decided, then your issue is less with the manager and more with the FO. Where the manager does have an impact is in the clubhouse. And to that end...all of his players (current and former) rave about him. So he seems to be doing that part, but I don't know enough. Maybe he's not. I'd like to see him institute more in terms of working on pregame routines and fundamentals. But if we're being honest, those are things that should be worked on before they show up in the big league clubhouse. All told, I'm good with either decision here. If this FO stays and had replaced Rocco, the replacement would just make the same decisions IMO. If they keep him, ditto. I don't see much changing from an in-game strategy perspective until the people at the top change.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Most likely, yes. You wouldn't confirm that to the media is you were replacing his bosses I'd think.
  5. TheLeviathan
    This offense still doesn't have Hockenson yet either. Man they are good.
  6. TheLeviathan
    How about keep imagining on behalf of the Packers that Love is ready to be out there. Low throws from fading back is gonna get more of his guys killed.
  7. TheLeviathan
    Well now you blew it! The jinx was working! :)
  8. TheLeviathan
    We need to collapse the middle, he cant plant and drive.
  9. TheLeviathan
    This is the first OL winning the battle against our front.
  10. TheLeviathan
    Agreed! But maybe if they asked all the unicorns they may move the needle over time?
  11. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, I tend to agree with that. I'm hopign the Wolves and Wild (who are both due soon) either stay out of Minneapolis (Wild) or move out (Wolves). Still, given how they built, I think Target Fields' location on 394 was brilliant. It really is much easier than most stadiums.
  12. TheLeviathan
    So help me out, which part did you disagree with? I'm not sure on what premise you were taking issue with. I understand your point about Minneapolis being stretched too thin/overstuffed, I wouldn't disagree with that.
  13. TheLeviathan
    Dave St. Peter has earned his firing for 20 years. He's also the person I expect to see die in his role before he's ever removed.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Let's hope this year they get the budget number in November and not February. Then let's hope they do a better job allocating the restricted dollars than Margot/DeScalfini/etc.
  15. TheLeviathan
    While we're at it, Bailey Ober: We’re the ones performing out there and didn’t get the job done,” Ober said. “He’s putting out the lineups and we’re trying to do it. I feel like most of the blame should be on the players. But everyone’s entitled to their own opinion. If the players hear that, I don’t think anyone’s agreeing with that. It’s like, seriously, can’t you see what’s going on? He’s not the one at fault for this mishap that happened. We didn’t get it done.”
  16. TheLeviathan
    As many have said, the focus should be on ownership. They want to be the Rays by their own admission. We need more heroes like this one: The Pohalds banned him for a year and tried to have him arrested.
  17. TheLeviathan
    I'm happy for Buck that he got to have 100 games. He's such a good dude, he deserves better than constantly being hurt. I would expect this is probably the high water mark for this contract and, if so, the Twins probably will get their money's worth out of it.
  18. TheLeviathan
    Look, I'm going to be as blunt but as fair as I can be here: The prices you're talking about are not reserved for the Twins. Expensive beer and expensive parking is what you get in 100% of pro sports experiences. Traffic and parkings snarls too. The Twins building their stadium on the edge of 394 has easily made it a top 10% stadium I've been to for ease of entrance. (I don't live in Minnesota but when I return I travel from outside the metro, I"ve also gone to half the major league ball parks in addition to non-baseball arenas in many places too) It's easier to get to than the Dome was and way easier than the vast majority of stadiums. These complaints simply aren't valid in the larger context. You may feel them to be true, but they're true everywhere and do not explain the original article's point. "Chicago. Riots. Swore off Minneapolis" I grew up in rural Minnesota. Now that I've lived in urban areas and many other states I can tell you this: I know what that's code for. You don't have to be stuck in that kind of backwards thinking and it's ok to grow as a person past it. Minneapolis - and all it's fine citizens - are perfectly wonderful to enjoy a game with.
  19. TheLeviathan
    The Twins need to start asking people like you how they have won and retained their loyalty and how to replicate that. Great post!
  20. TheLeviathan
    You are aware that you have yet to share a single link, study, or data set in support of your opinion....right?
  21. TheLeviathan
    Why does capacity percentage matter and why are you not doing that math (or any?) In service of your claim? Your second paragraph is a strawman. No one claimed winning wasn't correlated. I suggest you go back to my post you "wholeheartedly" denied: i said winning isnt the only thing. Other factors clearly matter. As demonstrated by the significant attendance advantages in Colorado (where they have won nothing and made a litany of bad decisions and frequently field stripped down garbage teams) and Milwaukee (who has low payrolls, sells off established vets just like we complain about, and have won at a similar clip) To avoid another strawman, allow me to be clear: winning matters, but so do other factors. Milwaukee and Colorado are doing something (probably many things) that are allowing them to draw hundreds of thousnds more fans than we are despite worse or roughly equal amounts of winning. Which, by definition, means your sole focus on winning is not supported by evidence. Certainly not always and in all markets.
  22. TheLeviathan
    No one said it was static, just consistently higher than this: https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MIN/attend.shtml By sizable margins too. That's the point, as it was in the article with the Rockies who outdraw the Twins by a ton and have only been good 4 times this century.
  23. TheLeviathan
    The article references Colorado, which also directly contradicts your assumption. Here is Milwaukee from another, similar thread: https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MIL/attend.shtml
  24. TheLeviathan
    Evidence has been posted that in two comparable markets: St. Louis and Milwaukee, this simply isnt true. They draw well regardless. There may be a myriad of reasons, but winning isnt the exclusive reason. (especially in Milwaukee's case)
  25. TheLeviathan
    Winning solves when winning happens, but all teams go through non-winning stretches. These other franchises with more consistent attendance are doing things beyond game results to encourage and retain fan investment. Winning certainly helps, but it doesn't explain everything.
×
×
  • Create New...