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  1. Finfineman
    Baseball is broken.....Dodgers 2025 payroll is 321 million. Ohtani's one year salary - 70 million. A's, Tampa and Marlins entire rosters are between 70 and 80 million a year. Baseball is broken. Why bother?
  2. Finfineman
    Wait for the new owners. There could be a whole different situation with the right owners. And Duran is a generational talent. You wouldnt trade him unless it was a very good starter, not a bunch of prospects.
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    Funny How Patrick Ruesse - with many fans agreeing - in a recent column said that we fans have forced the Pohlads into selling and how we could end up with a worse ownership. Worse than three young nephews running it who know nothing about baseball? They do know a Profit and Loss Statement and how to cut their salaries. There is an excitement with any of these options. Getting a former baseball player would be good, ARod or Jeter. And I think Shaq would be awesome. I would like to see some big money included. Unfortunately the way baseball is, with no real salary cap, the way to compete year over year, is to have money to buy the best players. Sure, there are exceptions, but the small market teams come and go. Money, unfortunately, keeps you from losing your players. It would be fun to finally have a team after fifty years that could bid on the very best players instead of the junk yard, mediocre or injured players.
  4. Finfineman
    These three Pohlads who are running the Twins have no idea what they are doing. And worse, they dont believe any of their moves have consequences. They are clueless and dont have the background to manage a major sports business.
  5. Finfineman
    The Twins were an Ace away from making the playoffs. They would have beaten Houston. That would have been at least six playoff revenue games they could have paid for that Ace. Yet they cheaped out. They played the PandL game instead of having the guts to lay it out there and take a chance. The ownership wont take a chance even if its a close call. They are who they are.
  6. Finfineman
    Thankfully a real product.....The Vikings...
  7. Finfineman
    no it went as expected. They could have gotten an Ace after they didnt try for Sonny Gray. They cheaped out. They put in Mathews and others that lost over ten games. It was about money first, winning second.
  8. Finfineman
    The Vikings are such a better Minnesota product than the Twins. Sell the Twins to Iowa. Get a few dairy cows and call it good.
  9. Finfineman
    Three things: 1). The Pohlads had a chance to get an ace and they were too cheap. The Twins would have been in the playoff and at least two playoff games would have helped pay the salary. These owners are about the bottom line and not about winning. Pitting an Ace, Lopez and Ober against Houston could have gotten them to round 2 and more revenue to pay that Ace. Again, they were too cheap. 2). This team quit on Baldelli in September. I think they need new blood at manager. The Pohlads cant hide from their responsibilities as owners by hiring someone else. But alas, they are too cheap to care. 3). The starting pitching needs an Ace. Period. Go get one. Be an ownership that looks like you have actually played sports and want to be competitive.
  10. Finfineman
    MLB is broken. Small market teams arent given the same chance as major market teams. I stated that three years ago and was told I was wrong and to look at the Rays and Blue Jays. Well look at them now. The small market teams win and their players get poached or leave. It will happen to Baltimore, just watch. That doesnt alleviate the responsibility that a small market team has. When its your turn, you need to make the most of it. The Twins opted out this year. They were one Ace away from the playoffs and want us to accept Mathews and Festa in his place. Thats a poor product. Only poor gate attendance will get their Profit and Loss minds back. It may be too late.
  11. Finfineman
    Yah, we didnt need Sonny Gray like so many readers said. Sure. We have Mathews and Festa with their 10 losses. Gray brought the hapless 71-win Cardinals up to their current 81-win season. They will say he is on the DL. He is on the DL because their season is over. Why waste him? He would have been the difference in making the playoffs for the Twins. Since the Pohlads are about money, that means at least two games of playoff revenue to help pay his salary. Dont tell me he didnt want to stay. Thats been disproven. The Twins had a choice to have a third very good pitcher and they gave an insulting offer. Lopez, Gray and Ober would have given Houston issues. If you beat Houston, you are playing at least four more playoff games. That is four more games of revenue paying his salary. Gray was the only Twin to beat the Yankees last year. They cheaped out and this is the result.
  12. Finfineman
    So I guess we celebrate a guy working 61.72% (100/162) of the time. If my employees worked that little, I wouldn't have a business. I would be bankrupt as would 99.9% of the businesses out there. I think it's ironic and more than a coincidence that he always seems to be hurt toward the end of the season. He either comes back just in time for the playoffs or is shut down. He has made more money on sick pay in one year than most people will make in their lifetime.
  13. Finfineman
    So the word "penury" actually means "poverty, homelessness, economic downturn, etc." That's hardly the case for the four-billion-dollar Pohlads and a misuse of the word. You actually used the word "avarice" correctly, meaning greed etc,. So let's work from the avarice premise. Here are the facts. The Twins earned 342 million dollars last year and had a payroll of 162 million dollars. There were bonuses in there so let's say they had profit after gross revenue of 170 million dollars. This is hardly "Penury". They obviously had administrative salaries, their own salaries, rent etc. It seems hard to believe that the "poor" Pohlads couldnt find ten or twenty million dollars to buy an Ace. One Ace and the Twins would have been in the playoffs. One Ace and you pitch him, Lopez and Ober in a three-game playoff. I like the odds. Sorry, the Pohlads could have done a lot more. Winning or losing......starts with them.
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    You get what you pay for. The Four Billion dollars Pohlads earned 342 million dollars last year in revenue. Their payroll was 156 million dollars. Yet they couldnt find enough money to get an Ace pitcher. Instead, we have been asked to be satisfied with Mathews and Festa with a 3-9 combined record. It goes to show had they not inherited all that money, they would have been below average Joe's languishing somewhere out in the real world. They arent winners. And ironically, they cant take it with them.....
  16. Finfineman
    The biggest problem amongst many is starting Mathews, Festa and the others who have about three wins and ten losses. Ive been saying it all year with soooooo many dissenters and negative replies. They should have signed Sonny Gray. His 13 wins with a 71-win team last year would have translated to the Twins winning the division and/or being solidly in a wild card position. Dont tell me he wanted to leave. That has been proven not true. The Twins didnt try. Good teams keep their good players. The Twins revenue according to Forbes was 342 million in 2023. Their payroll was 156 million. That is almost a 200-million-dollar difference. The Pohlads are worth about four billion. Are you telling me they couldnt find 25 million to pay Gray or another Ace? They paid themselves...... very well thank you........once again. The bottom line is they lined their pockets and cheaped out......on us.......the fans.
  17. Finfineman
    Its alot of things but mostly starting Mathews, Festa and the others who have about three wins and ten losses. Ive been saying it all year with soooooo many dissenters and negative replies. They should have signed Sonny Gray. His 13 wins with a 71-win team last year would have translated to the Twins winning the division and/or being solidly in a wild card position. Dont tell me he wanted to leave. That has been proven not true. The Twins didnt try. Good teams keep their good players. The Twins revenue according to Forbes was 342 million in 2023. Their payroll was 156 million. That is almost a 200-million-dollar difference. The Pohlads are worth about four billion. Are you telling me they couldnt find 25 million to pay Gray or another Ace? They paid themselves...... very well thank you........once again. The bottom line is they lined their pockets and cheaped out......on us.......the fans.
  18. Finfineman
    Its defense. Its also starting Mathews, Festa and the others who have about three wins and ten losses. Ive been saying it all year with soooooo many dissenters and negative replies. They should have signed Sonny Gray. His 13 wins with a 71-win team last year would have translated to the Twins winning the division and/or being solidly in a wild card position. Dont tell me he wanted to leave. That has been proven not true. The Twins didnt try. Good teams keep their good players. The Twins revenue according to Forbes was 342 million in 2023. Their payroll was 156 million. That is almost a 200-million-dollar difference. The Pohlads are worth about four billion. Are you telling me they couldnt find 25 million to pay Gray or another Ace? They paid themselves...... very well thank you........once again. The bottom line is they lined their pockets and cheaped out......on us.......the fans.
  19. Finfineman
    The Twins made a pathetic effort to keep Sonny Gray. They offered him a one-year contract, 20 million dollar contract. He received a three-year deal, of 25 million dollars. There were many in the beginning of the season that thought his hamstring would be an issue. Gray is 7-3 with a 3.00 ERA on a team that won 71 games last year. He would easily be the best starter on the Twins. He is the fifth best pitcher in baseball. He also beat the Yankees last year as a Twin. He pitched seven innings with three hits and no runs. The Yankees find a way to keep their best players. The Twins worry about payroll first and are in the bottom third. Gray would have paid for himself with more wins, and thus fans and the real possibility to advance in the playoffs.
  20. Finfineman
    1/3 of his injuries are bad luck 1/3 of his injuries are dumb choices 1/3 of his injuries are from a skinny, injury prone body
  21. Finfineman
    The Ghost of George Steinbrenner haunts MLB. Steinbrenner convinced the world that it needed the Yankees in the playoffs every year to have the playoffs interesting. The idea is broken. The NFL has proven that. When there is equal revenue sharing and a mandated payroll amount, teams can be relevant after a down year. Its not left up to how much an owner "WANTS" to pay. It allows all the small market teams to compete. When you are buying retreads that are at the end of their career, you get ups and downs. Its the end of their career. When you are buying the best players like the top teams are doing year and year, you dont have the ups and downs. These players are in the Prime of their career. Of course their are examples outside of this thought. But year over year, having teams spend up to three times as much as other teams is a horrible business plan. Its not working. The system is broken and no-one is talking about fixing it. George Steinbrenner is laughing at all of baseball from his grave.
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