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  1. Old Twins Cap
    I do not know the interest/principal payment on $400M in debt, but it's significant and has to be part of the budget for the baseball club, let's say -- @5% interest, @$25-30M a year. That's worth a couple of really good ball players a year. I would bet the new owners came in with cash to largely erase that debt payment and now will move forward with some level of decision-making stake in the team. The bet is that, with improvement, their stake in the team increases in value. Eventually one of the two investors will win the right to outright purchase and take the Twins forward. Why the Pohlads racked up so much debt is a great question. It's easy, I suppose, to be a billionaire and just let expenses ride knowing the underlying asset, i.e. the baseball club, will eventually pay out @$1.75B. On the other hand, the debt payments are a drag on the operations budget making it tough to field a good team and win. And, once a downward spiral starts, the chances of preserving any good options for financial escape decline precipitously. When Joe Pohlad says: "things could not have worked out better" because of the developments in the sale process, I think we should take him at his word. The Pohlad's poor management has been thrown a life-line by the new minority stake owners and the only real casualty was Baldelli, because, now the need to win and improve is very important to two parties not named Pohlad.
  2. Old Twins Cap
    Watched a little of the game to see Zebby pitch. He's a thrower right now, and he throws it hard. When he learns how to pitch, he could be a stud. The lady umpire missed a lot of strikes for Zebby in the first inning. It cost him at least one out and put him behind in several counts. In baseball, that level of inaccuracy really slants outcomes.
  3. Old Twins Cap
    What was that quote from Joe Pohlad? Whatever it was, TD should put that up in lights so everyone will treasure it forever.
  4. Old Twins Cap
    Gallo was at least a pretty good defensive player.
  5. Old Twins Cap
    Joe Pohlad's "let them eat cake" quote is looking worse by the series. Why is it that no one else can see how "optimal" this whole process has worked out?
  6. Old Twins Cap
    I disagree with the premise of this article. Lee has not played much SS with the Twins because of Carlos Correa, and sorry, it's not like he lit up the baseball world over his three years with the Twins To my eyes, Lee looks very good at SS, with solid footwork, a good glove and crisp throws. If he can make it at SS, his BA and power stroke actually stacks up pretty well with the rest of the league. And he switch hits, so bonus credibility should be applied. Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater on this one. Culpepper looks like the future for sure, but the present is all we have and I am hopeful it will be surprisingly skillful.
  7. Old Twins Cap
    Hey, get real. I guarantee that this was mandated as part of the Twins' team sale: whoever is buying the team dictated this. Who wants to buy a team and be cast as the bad guy, breaking up the nucleus? No one. This is all part of the Twins' team sale. Fire sale. 'You guys do that, and then, I come in and look like the savior or at least, as part of the recovery. ' So, no. No one runs a franchise like this unless the wheels are coming off, about to change. And they will change. All that said, reality is: lineup will be Lewis 3B, Lee SS,. Eeles 2B, Julien / Sabato1B, Larnach/Buxton/'Outman/Wallner/Martin Starters will be fine: Woods-Richardson/Ober/Mathtews/Ryan/Lopez, etc It's the bullpen. Fires, no one available. Eventually, this will work itself out, meanwhile we get a better slot in next year's draft.
  8. Old Twins Cap
    Paul Blair. They had a team.
  9. Old Twins Cap
    I thought it was, "Pitching, defense and 3-run homers". Mark Belanger, Brooks Robinson, Frank Robinson, that center-fielder, not Bumbry, but a black guy with speed. Doesn't hurt when you have 4 20 game winners, either: Palmer, Cuellar, oh man, who were those other guys....?
  10. Old Twins Cap
    Walker who?
  11. Old Twins Cap
    Anyone who did not go to bed in the 8th inning last night needs to get a life. For the rest of us, it's the highlight reel of baseball fantasies, which seemingly, never happens when we watch the actual game. I'll take it for sure, but, I'd love to have it happen when I am watching.
  12. Old Twins Cap
    I'm no expert, but it look like his back leg swings out when he swings and it is robbing him of his power. Get an overhead camera angle on that back leg and watch. If the Twins can't see that his stance is screwed up, then I give up.
  13. Old Twins Cap
    Yeah, just need to see the kids turning to run beyond the RF wall and not stopping. That's a blast, for everyone.
  14. Old Twins Cap
    It's all about having a career year from multiple guys. That's what to focus on. Anyone having a career year right now for the Twins? Buxton, maybe. Larnach, kind of. Jeffers, possibly. Bader, yeah, could be. Lee, got a shot at it. Everyone else, it's time to turn on the jets because here we are in mid-May -- the season is sailing into mid-season. Not feeling it from the Twins this year, but sure glad we have a .500 team to watch compared to what it could be.
  15. Old Twins Cap
    Is this the first game they've won when scoring three runs or fewer?
  16. Old Twins Cap
    Much more concerned that Buxton, Correa, Lewis and Wallner have good years. Twins' starters are fine, to excellent. Not sure why Jax is getting tatooed this year, but small pieces can get fixed or changed out. They really should be a .500 team
  17. Old Twins Cap
    McCusker is this year's Eales. Er, make that two Eales stacked on top of each other.
  18. Old Twins Cap
    Wait, McCusker is not a top 20 prospect?
  19. Old Twins Cap
    No out pitch. Hoping for the best but Matthews is standing by.
  20. Old Twins Cap
    They are going to trade him. It's plain to see. The outfield is covered. The infield is full. They'll get some non-rostered prospects and put them in MiLB.
  21. Old Twins Cap
    It validates the old maxim about making a playoff run: a team needs multiple players who are putting up career-high numbers in order to play deep into October. Twins had some good streaks, but looking at the entire season shows why and how they were not ever going to make a run.
  22. Old Twins Cap
    The Julien error. I now realize that, reliving pain does not actually make it better.
  23. Old Twins Cap
    All of this article is true. Life, and almost any pursuit, is about learning to deal with the naked reality of suffering. The Buddha is masterful in his reach. That said, the part about why teams -- especially its fans -- want to make the playoffs is the most poignant. In reality, playoffs are simply an extension of the season, a chance to play more games, bigger games sure, but more games nonetheless. Games that perhaps crystallize and epitomize the strengths and weaknesses, the character and foibles, of not only the team, but the individuals on that team. At the end of the day, if the team is fun to watch, exciting, athletic, brave and ballsy, then extending the season into the late, late days of what used to be summer makes sense. What level of transcendence will become them builds a ton of hope, energy, joy. However, if the team is compromised somehow, not all that interesting, its stars kind of selfish or otherwise limited, or just that their weaknesses are never confronted and surmounted, then playing more games is not really necessary or even fun. It's just confirmation that, in fact, the team was never heroic, iconic, transformational, but simply mediocre. Like the rest of us. Until next year, friends, when we get to discover it all over again.
  24. Old Twins Cap
    Tuned in to a few innings in Cleveland last week, and it looked to me for all the world that Buck let a couple of very catchable line drives land in front of him. Acutally, went back on them to play the bounce. It's one thing to age out of a position, but I was hoping for a little more fire in the belly to win these crucial games.
  25. Old Twins Cap
    Help me if I am wrong, but put Eeles on one side and McCusker on the other, there's a foot of height difference there. Kind of an odd couple to be ripping it up in AAA.
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