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  1. Woof Bronzer
    Is there a business in the world that operates on this fantasy of not investing any of their own money until customers spend enough to cover costs? The "blame the fans" theory going around TD is just mind boggling to me. The Pohlads got a half billion dollar handout from fans. More than 20 million fans have spent hard earned money at Target Field. The value of the franchise has increased by a billion dollars since the Pohlads bought it despite them having poor business savvy and having multiple long stretches of abysmal baseball teams. They need to invest more into this franchise, period. Fans are not obligated to spend money on a terrible product in the hopes that maybe, just maybe the Pohlads would reinvest it...but given everything we know about them, there's no guarantee they wouldn't just pocket it and cut payroll anyway, just like they did this year.
  2. Woof Bronzer
    Milwaukee didn't crack 2mil in attendance for the first 31 years of the franchise's existence. Why? The team was bad. 2 playoff appearances in 31 years. Their recent attendance has been much better; that's because the team has been better. 6 playoffs in 7 years. Their attendance has followed accordingly. I'll let you make the correlation between winning and attendance. Last year their attendance was 100k above 2022. Fans did their part, they turned out and spent cash. So for 2024 the owner reinvested all that additional 2023 revenue into the team. Right? That's how you are saying this should work? Fans spend, ownership spends, it's a reinforcing circle and everyone wins. Right? Nope. They pocketed the extra revenue and cut payroll by $20mil. Fans aren't the problem. Greedy owners are.
  3. Woof Bronzer
    I think you're a bit confused. The Pohlads spent more than a decade begging for a half billion dollar government handout for something they could have easily pulled themselves up by the bootstraps and done themselves. They were so adamant in having government subsidize their operations, rather than rely on their own hard work and self-sufficiency, that they invented a buyer out of whole cloth, and when that didn’t work, they threatened to just fold the team. Now THAT is dedicated anti-capitalism!
  4. Woof Bronzer
    That sure is a take lol. As they say in business school, "if your product is crappy just blame customers for not buying enough of them to make it better."
  5. Woof Bronzer
    This is fascinating. When you think about it though, this is really in keeping with the Pohlad's unshakeable ownership philosophy that fans should unquestioningly invest as much money and time into the Twins as possible while the organization invests as little of their own money and time as possible. Fans should turn out in September to spend money on a team free falling out of the playoffs; fans should also up their season tickets without asking any questions or having to waste the time of a customer service rep; etc etc.
  6. Woof Bronzer
    You're...blaming the FANS for this mess??????
  7. Woof Bronzer
    Aren't you the guy who's been echoing the Pohlad company line for the last month? Go pocket protect elsewhere, the Pohlads have been pulling this crap for decades and most of us are exhausted by it.
  8. Woof Bronzer
    Sigh. No, no they absolutely are not. Want proof? The Pohlads still own the team.
  9. Woof Bronzer
    Humans are flawed. Plenty of young athletes need to grow up at some point. Sano isn't the first athlete to take this path and won't be the last. It didn't work here. I'm sure he wishes it had. But that's not "shameful", that's life.
  10. Woof Bronzer
    Great point. He played 134 games and was so injured (by his own admission) that he was the 11th most valuable hitter on the team by WAR, behind such luminaries as Kyle Farmer (his backup) and Mike Taylor.
  11. Woof Bronzer
    You mean a guy who has missed more games in his MLB than he has played, and a guy whose medicals frightened off two teams who had wanted him so much they were willing to pay him a quarter of a billion dollars? Astounding take.
  12. Woof Bronzer
    Counterpoint: opinions are not invalid.
  13. Woof Bronzer
    For me it will always start with ownership. Their disinterest in winning permeates the entire organization, their greed constrains the roster, and their crack PR team does a great job of alienating the fans who line the Pohlad pockets. Next is FO. Their entire philosophy is based on mistaken interpretations of statistics and the game of baseball, they can't develop pitchers, their trade record is spotty at best, and their lack of humility ensures that the philosophy will never change (for example, they'd rather lose games with Joey Gallo than admit their mistake and improve the team by releasing him). They could get away with more mistakes with a higher budget, so they are constrained by ownership to an extent. I'll leave players and coaches tied for 3rd because we don't know what players are being told to do. Thanks Cody for not indulging the injury mea culpa.
  14. Woof Bronzer
    This isn't helping Chief!
  15. Woof Bronzer
    Thank you sir for talking me off the ledge. I feel better now :)
  16. Woof Bronzer
    What are we hearing on Lopez? Declining velo, arm soreness....I hate to say it so I won't....but color me extremely nervous.
  17. Woof Bronzer
    I agree, the cold is not an excuse.
  18. Woof Bronzer
    Just came across this article randomly. LOL.
  19. Woof Bronzer
    Ah yes, who can forget all our "4th best regular season winning percentage (excluding half the league)" banners! In a town and a team famous for its low bars, this is the lowest I think I've ever heard. We have the 4th best regular season winning percentage if you leave out half the league. That might be the saddest sentence I've ever typed.
  20. Woof Bronzer
    The Twins had the least man games lost in the league in 2019. So if you are going to excuse Rocco for 2022 injuries you can't give him credit for 2019 as he got extraordinarily lucky with health. We can do this all day. You just like Rocco. That's fine! Just say that! No need to pretend that a manager who is presiding over his 4th straight season of offensive futility is just an innocent bystander though. I'm not calling for his head, and he's not the biggest problem by far, but nothing is working right now, and that includes Rocco.
  21. Woof Bronzer
    Well then Rocco is failing. They're 7 games out and it isn't yet May. I believe Rocco was also the manager in the 1st half of 2023, the entirety of 2022 (78 wins), 2021 (73 wins)..do those count? Why does it only count when the team does well?
  22. Woof Bronzer
    It's not just the coaching, and I am not calling for Rocco's head because he'd just be replaced by a clone, but your post actually has me convinced it's MORE coaching than I previously thought. An entire roster of players underperforming against their career norms by similar margins under this coaching staff. Which scenario is more likely: that an entire roster is coincidentally individually underperforming, or some philosophy or coaching or approach is causing an entire roster to underperform by roughly similar proportions? Let me ask you this: what metrics do you use to rate a manager? And how is Rocco performing against those metrics?
  23. Woof Bronzer
    One win for each of their consecutive ALCS appearances. Yes, the Astros and the Twins are exactly the same, yes sir. How do you know how they are being coached? I just provided a specific example of a player saying he was told to throw a pitch that he would not have thrown. Sure sounded like Jax was being coached to do a certain thing that led to failure. Does that count? Do these hitters look prepared to play to you?
  24. Woof Bronzer
    Does he put guys in situations to succeed though? The hitters seem so ill prepared and some guys are clearly being asked to carry out a philosophy that goes against their strengths. The Jax quote from the other night was very telling: basically the sabermetrics told him to throw a changeup so he did, even though that pitch "wasn't him". Home run, game lost, rinse and repeat. I'm not excusing the players but I think Rocco's hands are all over this mess too. Ditto the FO. Ditto ownership.
  25. Woof Bronzer
    This is another area where Falvey's offensive philosophy conflicts with itself. The odds of hitting a HR on an 0-2 low are screamingly low, so if you wanted to build a philosophy solely to hit HRs you would want to avoid 0-2 counts like the plague. For how much the sabermetrics guys flaunt math and statistics and studies a lot of these strategies are supported by none of it. It's a philosophy that makes no logical sense and no statistical sense either. And yet....
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