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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.

Just because you say something over and over doesn't make it true. "I keep saying it, but the Twins cleared a billion in profit last year." See how easy it is? Doesn't make it any more true. Truth requires things like evidence or data. The Pohlads are worth 4 billion dollars and are one of the wealthiest families on the planet. Joe Pohlad's only experience in business is running several media companies into the ground and selling them for pennies. He has no history of success, none. Most people on this board are more qualified to run the team than he is. The Twins make so much money the older Pohlads gave Joe the Twins as a toy so he'd stop ruining their other businesses, and because they hate the Twins and don't want anything to do with running the team. I'm guessing the elders saw how quickly Joe was able to tank the Twins, saw that in a new tv revenue environment they'd actually have to work for revenue, and are sick of their name being associated with cheapness and losing, so they're cashing out. It must have been really comforting to know that no matter how badly they ran the Twins, how poorly they did on the field, how drastically they alienated their customer base, they had a $1.5 billion windfall waiting for them. If not for a single judge the Pohlads would have killed this franchise 25 years ago. Congratulations, this is the most pocket protecting-est post ever made on this site, and that's saying something!

I can agree with that friend! It's just odd to hear so many people who have insisted that the Twins spending is constrained by their market size (which is true to an extent) are now saying a new owner is going to move the team to a smaller market. MN sports fans have every right to be paranoid but I just don't understand why a new owner do that. But, of course, it's possible.

There was a stadium referendum that failed badly. And Beaver wasn't "pro sports owner" rich, he was "minor league owner" rich. The "Golden Triad" thing was not serious, it was the Pohlads holding the state hostage until they got their government handout for a new stadium. Charlotte is like the 50th biggest market in the country. The next owner of the Twins ain't moving there.

Except he didn't buy the team because he didn't have the money, he didn't have a stadium, and NC taxpayers voted not to build one. Other than that... Again, Charlotte is a smaller market than MSP. If being competitive in MLB is all about revenues, why would any owner pay good money to reduce their revenue pool?

I mean, you're describing a fairly typical business challenge. Markets change, costs and revenues change, businesses need to constantly adapt. In the Twins' case instead of relying on that free Bally's revenue they'd have to make it up by actually earning it - marketing hard, caring about the TF experience, growing a fan base, establishing goodwill in the community. I think the Pohlads preferred just sitting back and letting the cash flow in. If owning the team now requires actual work/effort, well, let some other sucker do that.

A little slow on the uptake over here!

Some wild comments here about relocation. First of all, the Pohlads have apparently so brainwashed fans into believing the Twins are a small market team that fans actually believe it. MSP is a top 15 market in the country. If the Twins are a business, and MLB is driven by revenue disparities, why would an intelligent owner want to move to a smaller market? Second, and most importantly, do folks really not remember that the Pohlads not only tried to move the team once but ALSO TRIED TO CONTRACT THE ENTIRE FRANCHISE OUT OF EXISTENCE? My goodness. A new owner guarantees nothing, of course. But we KNOW the Pohlads are terrible. (Reminder: 1 divisional series win in three decades.) Good bleeping riddance!

The Pohlads love DSP for the profits he consistently delivered. He's getting a golden parachute out of this sale and will ride off into the sunset without a care in the world.

I guess I'm not worried that a new owner would pay millions to break a TF lease for the opportunity to relocate to a significantly smaller market.