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  1. DutchFarmer
    Just think if we were to publicly finance a new stadium for the team. Then they would be able to afford to sign a Greinke or a Sanchez....ah well, pipe dream, as they are stuck with a stadium that doesn't bring in the revenues to allow the team to sign anything more than low-mid level FA's.
  2. DutchFarmer
    #4=Funny
  3. DutchFarmer
    Who is asking for guarantees of success? An effort would suffice. Business making profit is great and I would have no leg to stand on here if I was simply a customer. However, as has been stated here ad nauseam, the stadium was publicly funded. This should allow us as fans to hold them accountable (profits being only part of the equation). I come to TwinsDaily daily (yes, pun was intended ) and have refrained from commenting until the last week. I think I'm going back to refraining from commenting as there is little point in arguing with those suffering from stockholm syndrome. I'm just happy at this point that I think we all share one common bond and that is that we want the Twins to win. Go Twins!
  4. DutchFarmer
    Nah, we'd be terrible for the business, not concerned enough with gauging the taxpayers.
  5. DutchFarmer
    ...and you deserve to be a marlins fan with your boom or bust attitude.
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  7. DutchFarmer
    And what annoys me is that pendulum does not seem to swing at all for some folks.
  8. DutchFarmer
    Good point! However, merely semantics. The pitch was that there weren't enough suites (either in absolute # or they weren't selling them. Which one I don't recall) and thus they didn't have the money to "compete year in and year out." Which, I think we can all safely assume meant that they didn't have the revenue to to sign the players to compete. Takes some forward thinking to get there but in reality we are talking about the same thing, no?
  9. DutchFarmer
    Perhaps we should be entitled to those things. #publiclysubsidizedstadium
  10. DutchFarmer
    Aren't I? You don't want to go in on Sanchez at that price? $15m/yr? 52% of revenues should put us at about $106m (if I recall last years revenues correctly). We are in the low 80's. We could absorb that easy, even if over 5 yrs. If they were honest about maintaining that percentage they could please both of us in that they could sign multiple players and have that one​ player be included.
  11. DutchFarmer
    You are, at least implicitly (or at least I'm inferring it as I admittedly cannot tell you what you are implying). They don't want to spend money because a player might not end up being worth the money in the end. If the public paying for the new stadium was about being able to take the chances on more expensive players then take the chances on more expensive players.
  12. DutchFarmer
    Do you all remember when we were told the Twins couldn't compete because they couldn't sign FA's because they were committed to spending 52% of revenues on player salaries and revenues were significantly capped from the Dome? You all bought into that argument as justification for public subsidies for Target Field and yet when the Twins don't actually spend close to what they said they would you all toe the corporate line. I'm with the author on this one, even if the deals turn crummy in retrospect, I hate knowing I was had by all the Pohlad apologists. Regardless, go Twins.
  13. DutchFarmer
    Release him.
  14. DutchFarmer
    He's a lefty. Otherwise I agree.
  15. DutchFarmer
    It feels strange to me that I'm about as interested in our A+ team as I am the big league club....
  16. DutchFarmer
    Just looked at the OPS for our Ft. Myers squad. Over half of that team has an OPS over 800! What an incredible team (at least as hitters go) this is.
  17. DutchFarmer
    This is an inevitable event (at least Buxton being moved) as I just made plans to be CR to watch him....er...I mean them, in mid May.
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