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  1. Johnny Ringo
    I identify strongly with the Twins and Vikings as I muddle along in mediocrity. The only difference is I can't charge people $15 for a beer to watch it.
  2. Johnny Ringo
    I was at the game yesterday and Dobnak's "best" pitch is a 83 MPH puke job right down the middle that would only seem to work in town ball. Only White Castle has a worse slider. The mediocrity was stunning. If the White Sox were at all competent or cared even a smidge, it could have gotten really ugly. Everyone seems to love the inspirational Dobber story. Well, he is making more than his St. Paul teammates combined and has not been kept down by unfortunate injury but by throwing slop. I like to think I am an empathetic person but the embrace of his underdog tale is a bit of a head-scratcher. I am sure he is a nice man. I wish him the best of luck (somewhere else).
  3. Johnny Ringo
    The Twins shouldn't do it and wouldn't do it even if they should. Boras doesn't take discounts unless he is absolutely forced to do so. (For instance, the season is starting and a player doesn't have a contract; not applicable here.) I love the player but this idea is a non-starter. Of course, we have no idea of the longer effects of his myriad of injuries, but aging well in his 30s seems very unlikely. You have him (relatively) cheaply until then.
  4. Johnny Ringo
    I really think that this sort of talk is wildly premature and probably a curse. Tom Kelly was a chess master. He was unfortunately hung with a lot of truly terrible teams in the late 90s and that obscures his genius a bit. I will always say that I believe that TK was the MVP of the 1991 World Series. I am lucky that I don't many regrets in life. OK, I should have bought Apple in 1980. But the one regret that I have is that I never had the opportunity to buy TK a beer and asked him about the players he truly hated. Not to be presumptive about the great man's thoughts but I am pretty sure that Marty Cordova would be near the top of the list. I seem to recall the remark that " some guys are more interested in looking good at the beach than they are at the plate." TK, on the off chance you read this, the beer is on me.
  5. Johnny Ringo
    You don't need to be a fan of ownership to be a fan of the team. I dig watching Lewis, Correa, Miranda, Castro, et al, play. It's great. They love the game. It loves them back. I am pretty sure those guys didn't set the payroll and they weren't in the room with the lawyers negotiating the TV deal. To conflate Pohlad venom with appreciation of the game and the guys who play it is just silly. Ps. I do agree that Dan Gladden should be fired though. He sounds even more brutal (which I didn't think was possible) compared to Perk and Molly. Confused, supremely arrogant, inarticulate. He's got it all.
  6. Johnny Ringo
    The reason we got swept by the Yankees is pretty fundamental. They are a lot better than we are. This is not shocking given that their payroll is over two times ours. Imagine working at a company where across town, a competing company pays its employees twice as much. Their holiday party might be a bit more fun. They have a nice tribute band. We are playing a boom box. The Yankees go out and get Juan Soto. We complain about a TV deal and then willingly sign one where no one can watch. The whole thing would be laughable if it weren't so sad. So I have to chuckle that a few walks are the problem. That is like saying my cologne is the reason that I'm not dating Jennifer Garner.
  7. Johnny Ringo
    Ten innings. Can you imagine? Most young people following the game today (all 11 of them 😁) would ask if that is still even legal. Nice article. Thanks for the memories.
  8. Johnny Ringo
    Seth, great stuff as always. Perhaps much has been written on Festa's pitch mix, etc. and I have missed it. Why is he inducing so many Ks? You noted that he only chucked 5 innings which is the minor downside to strikeout versus contact pitchers. Any commentary on that? Thanks for championing this part of content on TD!
  9. Johnny Ringo
    “Bologna is just summer sausage that was homeschooled by an idiot.” This glorious sentence can be applied to so many situations in today's world. Ps. Am I the only one that thinks that the subtext of this dugout sausage obsession is getting a little uncomfortable?
  10. Johnny Ringo
    I am certainly not one of those old fools who thinks that everything was better back in the day. But I am delighted that vendors are back in the aisles. That is a good part as we romanticize baseball’s past. It really is a key piece of the game’s mosaic . In a year of boneheaded fan moves, the Twins got one right. This is a delightful article as always, Melissa. Thanks for it.
  11. Johnny Ringo
    Who would have thought that Falvey’s mom could hack a website? Impressive.
  12. Johnny Ringo
    For special access to how money grubbing the Pohlads are, become a caretaker of this site and sign up as a Patreon subscriber. They are all sharks, boys. The only difference? Some wear Hermes ties and some wear Chinese food on their shirts.
  13. Johnny Ringo
    So Byron Buxton looks again like the HOF player we have always dreamt of and we can't soak it in even for a day? Instead the main focus is arguing over one possibly errant throw down to Correa. Nice. I am going to launch an alternative site for those fans: Pedantic Inanities Daily. Since I am taking cheap shots, it will be accompanied by a companion podcast, Richard Measuring Weekly. It will only be available on Patreon and will cost $100 an episode. If you balk at the price, when then we know how you measure up.
  14. Johnny Ringo
    Can someone alert me when the payroll Greek chorus subsides on TD? We did it now to emulate the Rays? Is all of this just click-bait? Is it to appease Bonnes who spent 10 Patreon episodes exploring how to spend a $170 million payroll and then spent 10 more episodes ripping the Twins for not spending the money he invented in the first place? If he had been an Uber driver he would be arrested for driving customers around in circles. It is so tedious. It ignores the reality that baseball lived off the fat of the cable bundling land for years and those days are gone. Gone. Get used to it. Here's a novel idea. Try enjoying baseball instead.
  15. Johnny Ringo
    If you listen to this board, signing Joey Gallo was the worst thing in the world. It blocked future stars from the majors, was the missing money to the Ohtani trade and might have caused the COVID epidemic. This is part of a bigger issue. I personally am sick of the F grades around ownership and the FO. Was Joe Pohlad impolitic in some of what he said? Yes. Yes he was. New guy. A few dumb words. However, the truth that people don't want to face (especially GATG but I will loop back on this) is that replacing the 2023 Bally money moving forward is a BIG challenge. Did the FO want to reduce payroll out of cruelty and the lust for a good challenge? No. No they did not. They were given a budget. They are operating within it. But this board has increasingly become the home of the hate. Its not so much about the Twins anymore. Its about venting. We used to hate Joe Mauer because he wasn't worth all that money. Now we love him because he's one of us and headed to Cooperstown. I would guess in his quiet moments, Joe has a good chuckle about that. GATG almost connected the payroll dots on a recent podcast. They went through the economics of the Padres streaming service this year ($99) and likely Twins subscribers (50,000) and got an inch way from the rightful conclusion and saying "Holy cow. That construct leaves a $40-$50 million revenue hole." But they didn't say it. Perhaps because that would invalidate about ten Patreon episodes ranting about money. Ironic, no? Ps. Go Twins. See you at the yard, meat.
  16. Johnny Ringo
    I get the feeling you have been carrying that Rocco/Phish joke around in your pocket for awhile but that doesn't make it less great.
  17. Johnny Ringo
    Can I politely suggest that if you are this angry before one regular season pitch is thrown that perhaps you aren't a fan of the Twins but a fan of being angry?
  18. Johnny Ringo
    I have always been a FO neutralist but this trade is completely a head scratcher. Margot is fine but he has the same skill set and price tag more or less as plenty of RH free agent outfielders who don't cost you Noah Miller. It is like giving away a lottery ticket where you have six out of seven numbers right and the last number hasn't yet been revealed. You may ultimately discard it as worthless but option theory tells you that you are a fool to do so prematurely.
  19. Johnny Ringo
    I always try to be respectful when I post here. So I say respectfully that it seems a tad ironic to give "here's how you should run your business" advice to a family that has turned a $40 million investment into a $2.5 billion one. However, I agree completely with your point on DSP. It is my experience that the truly tone-deaf never recognize it in themselves. How else do you explain all that bad karaoke? One thing that we have to acknowledge about the Pohlads. They never get rid of anyone. Bill Smith, Terry Ryan, TK. They are all still on the payroll. I wouldn't be surprised if Billy Martin is still drawing a check. DSP seems the beneficiary of that philosophy. I bristle every time he trots out that "you don't love us enough" nonsense. Please join the rest of us in the real world Dave. But I have to warn you. Self parking can be a little scary.
  20. Johnny Ringo
    I love the town of Nashville and I love the take. I know The Southern is perceived to be a tourist trap but man the food and people watching are tremendous. If you haven't been to The Cobra, you must go. One night we saw an all-girl Beatles tribute band in there, the Femme Four. Fab indeed. I am not sure if this article is written seriously or if it some American Fiction (the best movie of 2023) clickbait exercise. I thought Bonnes had the money rant turned up to an 11 but this really comes off the top rope. Falvey shot straight early that the payroll was an issue this year. There is a reason he did that. He is a straight shooter. Here are facts. We can accept them or not: Falvey doesn't set his budget. The Pohlads expect the Twins to be a financial stand-alone entity. They are not going to sell a bank to buy a FA pitcher. The Twins have no certainty as to media revenues after this year which made this FA season tough as they shied away from multi-year player deals. The article rips the blackouts. It's bad. It is a annoyance. But they took the Bally deal because it was the only viable deal. So would you NOT have them take that and have to slash expenses more? I want my cake. I want to eat it too. And I want you to pay for it. I think people need to curb their finance and bankruptcy incredulity at the door. They act like they have access to the books. They don't. The stuff that gets said here is filled with (to put it generously) imperfect information and knowledge. I am going to the yard on February 27th for my first ST game of the year. My heart will be filled with spring and hope and baseball. Moral outrage? No thanks. You can have mine too.
  21. Johnny Ringo
    The 50% rule was either misconstrued or meant for localized revenue bands. Any fiancé guy will tell you this can not be applied universally. .
  22. Johnny Ringo
    This was a tough listen for me, too. They spent the first half of this podcast vilifying the Twins for their payroll and always spend a quarter of any other installment flogging the Patreon podcast. John speaks with authority on the Bally bankruptcy case but it is clear that he knows zero about bankruptcy jurisprudence. One of the monied Patreon crowd surely is a lawyer in the field and could explain some of the rudiments to him, pro bono. To be clear though, that does not mean he is a fan of the lead singer of U2. Somewhere, GATG and other Twins pundits got it in their heads as gospel that a $1 drop in revenue should translate automatically into a 50 cent drop in payroll which, of course, ignores the tremendous fixed costs of running a MLB team. Financial planning and analysis is such a drag, man. That nuance is for the green eyeshade nerds. A few weeks before Falvey drop the payroll "bomb", GATG proffered that the 2024 club spend should be $170 million. Now GATG seemed determined to prove why they are still right. Personally, I would just like to hear about a little baseball.
  23. Johnny Ringo
    Someone kind of blatantly stole my idea on the good ole Daily. 😳 Melissa, I pitched this idea to you last year but I really do think people would be interested in a "tasting menu" tour article on Target Field. Your best ideas for what to eat in some sort of progression. Lets face it, food always tastes better at the park!
  24. Johnny Ringo
    Spring training is the best. I took my young granddaughter to a game in Ft Myers last year and we were proximate to the on-deck circle. (At the stadium, the seats are quite close.) My granddaughter struck up pretty long conversations with Carlos Correa during both of his ABs. Honestly, Carlos could not of been more gracious. Flash forward to July and I took her to other game at Target. My granddaughter was quite confused as to why she couldn't talk to Carlos again during the game. Ps. If you are looking for nighttime entertainment while down here, let me recommend Everblades hockey in neighboring Estero. It is sort of like the (old-time) St Paul Saints on ice. Cheap, fun and the best people watching outside the Blu Martini in Naples. Watch a couple of episodes of Shoresy before you go.
  25. Johnny Ringo
    One of the rejected ideas for a giveaway night this year was a "Gladden/English, English/Gladden" dictionary. Sample: "When life serves you middle/in, go from scufflin' to whompin'." Translation: " Turn lemons into lemonade."
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