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I can safely say the last 3 games comprised the worst MLB series I have ever seen. Two evenly matched teams doing everything in their power to lose. Sox would issue free baserunners, we'd respond by handing them free outs. Defense so sloppy it looked intentional. Embarrassing hitting (watching hittable pitches, swinging at balls). Professional athletes unable to muster up the self respect to run the bases hard. And the strikeouts. Sweet jeebus the strikeouts. Whatever this is, it aint baseball and it aint entertainment.

Also a mistake to sign a player to a massive contract and then less than a year later cut payroll, thus ensuring one player will make up a quarter of your payroll for years to come.

This is a pattern with Correa: long stretches of poor performance that he retroactively blames on an a secret injury. I'm sure he didn't tell the FO because it's not true, he's just looking to avoid accountability for being completely unprepared to start the season for the 4th year in a row.

Emulating 2 organizations who have never won a World Series, and another whose last Series came nearly 8 decades ago, is extremely on brand for the Twins.

The defense of a manager who has won a single ALDS game in his 7 years and whose team has quite clearly stopped caring is mind boggling. "Well respected" by whom? Certainly not his players, who cannot muster up the respect to run to first or play defense. Again - Baldelli has 1/6 the playoff wins as Twins Daily favorite Ron Gardenhire. He has missed the playoffs 3 of the last 4 years, including 2 historic meltdowns, and is well on his way to making it 4 of the last 5. "Scapegoat"? lol.

This is a terrific piece. (Sadly, in these times, it's also a bold piece, because I'm sure the doofuses will come out of the woodwork on this.) Anyway, thank you Matthew. Love pieces that view baseball through a wider cultural lens.

The dude started a game as DESIGNATED HITTER. Joke team.

The salary comment was a response to another poster's suggestion that since Miranda makes league minimum, mental mistakes are ok.

If your takeaway from these 15 games is "Look at these alert, hard-working guys" then we are watching different sports.

Didn't Falvey just get a promotion? The Pohlads think he's doing great!

Search "3M PFAS". It ain't good.

Well if AI slop says it's true it must be lol! I don't think mlb.com has ever been to Minneapolis either. Finally, you admit you haven't been to Minneapolis for 15 years. It's bizarre that you keep commenting on the current state of affairs in a place you avoid, but hey, you do you. Enjoy the outrage!

Spoiler alert: it's just about money. Carlos Dior has been checked out for the better part of a year. I think he realized the media, organization, or fans will never hold him accountable for anything so he's content to just sit back and collect the paycheck. He plays like someone daring a manager to sit him.

It hasn't been called the warehouse district in maybe 20 years? And nobody anywhere has ever called it the "downtown warehouse district." Again, thanks for telling us you've never been to Minneapolis.

Analytics used to be about finding and exploiting competitive advantages. Now it's about doing the same thing as everyone else.

Personally I blame Rocco, the FO, ownership, and the players. A "total system failure" if you will. However, I'd encourage you to consider that maybe these players are simply not very good, and are in fact performing to their abilities.

My goodness are Lewis' comments alarming. Someone in this organization needs to demonstrate leadership and have a serious conversation with Lewis. "I’ve only made it here because of who I am. I’m not gonna change who I am," he said. "If I start changing who I am, then I think as a player, I’ll start diminishing my value. " "Who you are" is an injured player who cannot stay on the field. "And what I do is very special." What you do is watch more games than you play. So do I. It's not special. When you do play, you are a below-average at everything except hitting for power, and for most of last season you were terrible at that. MLB is drowning in players whose only tool is power. You are not special. "Maybe I should just play more like Kyle Schwarber and be smart about it." Sounds like a great plan. Kyle Schwarber is infinitely more valuable than you are, because he plays. "But at the same time, if I start doing that, I’ll diminish my value." Your value is negative. Not only do you not play, you take up a 40 man roster spot when you are injured, so you aren't even as valuable as an empty 40 man spot. Last year, the team asked you to add value to the roster by playing 2nd and you declined. "say something to someone’s face and see what happens." Grow up, Royce. You are handsomely paid to play a game, fans pay that handsome salary and they have a right to express their opinions. You do not have a right to not be criticized. You do not have a right to physically attack someone who criticizes you, and the lame tough guy act makes you sound ridiculous. Two Octobers ago I thought this guy was the franchise. Now I don't think you can count on him for anything. He's an afterthought.

Yeah forgive us fans who have seen this movie before. Last August/September, last April, last 2 months of 2022, all of 2021....this is who Rocco's Twins are! And thank you for expecting that $30mil/yr buys at a bare minimum hustling down to first. Recall last year's elimination game where Correa loafed to first on a bad throw that anyone running hard would have beat and extended the season one more out. Seems to me Correa has entered his "just show up and collect a paycheck" phase of his career and I have no idea why Twins fans aren't calling out a proven cheater who once called himself the Christian Dior of baseball players for his lack of leadership and effort and just all around poor performance. Good teams need good leaders who lead by example and instill a winning culture; we have a "leader" who trots to first when the season is on the line.

What's more realistic, that this start isn't reflective of the team's potential...or that 2023 was the outlier, and the 21, 22, 24, and 25 versions are more representative of an organization, which, friendly reminder, has one ALDS victory in 35 years?

If a manager's duties do not include "getting the best out of his players"...what DO they include?

If you need to rely on misinformation to make your point, maybe it's not worth making. Also, continuing to use the same misinformation after multiple people have corrected you, is simply lying. And what a bizarre thing to lie about.

Serious question: do Correa and Buxton enjoy baseball anymore? Correa is picking up where he left off last September loafing it to 1st on the last out of the season, and Buxton appears to be more interested in whatever he is doing after the game. When your best players and "leaders" can't be bothered to care you've got no chance.

I mean, didn't the Pohlads do the exact same thing last offseason with Polanco? I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility.

Where did I say he owned a bank in high school? The "small time tasks" you hilariously reference were foreclosing on loans and sell off the repossessed assets - unpleasant things the banker didn't want to do himself. Carl didn't own his own bank until decades later. No comment on his corporate raiding? Most of his tactics are illegal now. Carl and his buddy Irwin Jacobs left a lot of destruction in their path. Sorry, can't get behind the "Carl was a good guy" revisionism.

Tell that to the families whose farms Carl foreclosed on, or the employees whose livelihoods were ruined in Carl's corporate raider days when he would take over a company, fire everyone and strip it for assets. Carl made his fortune on the misery of others.