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  1. NYCTK
    26% is a lot! This means each MLB team is getting a nice $95 million check before anything else even happens. The teams that are uncompetitive, like the Pirates and Reds and the Twins, are uncompetitive not because of a lack of money, but because of a lack of desire to actually be competitive. It really is that simple.
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    This is a very underrated point. The Twins organization already stinks in reputation and one of the best players on the team wants the opportunity to improve the team. How does it look to other players, in the organization and out, if the Twins say no? How would you feel if YOUR boss just threw your input in the trash without considering it? If the Twins don't even give him an opportunity in ST, the organization deserves the fate of the 2024 White Sox, to be quite frank.
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    As we all know, it's not "sustainable" because the loser billionaires that control the purse strings would rather use their franchise as a way to make money rather than actually concern themselves with winning or growing their brand in any way. Sacrificing long term investment for short term payout. It's their right, but we don't have to pretend as if the poor innocent billionaires are losing money. Because we know they aren't.
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    Teams already share 48% of local revenues with the league. This idea that the MLB system is inherently unfair because a bunch of cheap owners use their revenue sharing to pad their bottom line is just nonsense. There should be incentive for teams to actually improve their own revenues, not just relying on revenue sharing from better organizations.
  5. NYCTK
    LGM! Mets have the advantage in Game 6, let's see if they can take it!
  6. NYCTK
    You especially don't need to get offended that people believe a billionaire banker kicked people out of their homes for his own personal gain. Because he did.
  7. NYCTK
    Bring back Margot. His streak is still alive! Finish the story!
  8. NYCTK
    And hopefully again today. I'm going to Citi Field tonight.
  9. NYCTK
    I'll say it again, the AL was just so inferior to the NL this year. The Yankees are the only good team in the entire league and they're not actually that good. They'll have a chance in the World Series, but there were probably 4 NL teams better than the Yankees this season. Guardians just proving they're not actually contenders.
  10. NYCTK
    Sparkplugs are important, but I think it boils down to the Twins hitters just not being good enough. JD Drew was just a much better hitter than almost every single member of the Twins. In his peak he averaged a 132 OPS+ over 485 PAs. The Twins only had two players with at least 485 PAs and their OPSs were just over league average. Jose Iglesias was absolutely a catalyst for the Mets this year, but he's likely going to get benched in the playoffs now. Not because his fire isn't welcome, but because he stopped hitting and that's more important.
  11. NYCTK
    The best players in the sport getting compensated appropriately is not going to kill the sport. Soto is going to get over $500 million this offseason, and he's more than earned it. Good on him. Let's not shame an employee for getting compensated fairly while crying about how it might hurt the billionaire employer.
  12. NYCTK
    It's fairly sad because it has been almost 70 years, and he sucks total ass, but I kind of agree with you. Mostly because...just across the Bay there exists a great franchise. Not to mention that franchise was moved itself by a greedy POS owner. Baseball fans in Oakland still have baseball within public transport distance. It's hard to be too upset about it, especially with a move that has a chance to become a huge net win for baseball as a whole. Plus the Athletics have been moved around twice in their history already. They're basically a traveling team. Las Vegas be stewards for 50 years and then...onto Charlotte? (mostly kidding)
  13. NYCTK
    Spoiler alert: Billionaires don't get to be billionaires by being good people, especially in community banking. Yet here you are getting all defensive because some deceased billionaire keeps getting disparaged. Carl Pohlad was basically Mr. Potter from It's A Wonderful Life. The fact that he made some philanthropic donations (solely for tax benefits almost certainly) doesn't change that. Why are there so many people on this board that keep carrying water for the quintessential evil billionaire? I keep having comments deleted because...it’s too mean or whatever. But I'll keep saying it because it remains true...
  14. NYCTK
    Fun Fact: Mets LCS tickets are going for twice as much as Yankees LCS tickets on the secondary market right now. The Yankees aren't fun and everyone in the city knows this. The Yankees...they're a hat company. Do not be surprised if the Mets overcome the Yankees as THE New York team in the next 3 years. If the Yankees are truly a $7 Billion, franchise, I can tell you that Steve Cohen envisions the Mets potential value instead of their current value. Forbes has them at $2.9B? That's nice, but Steve thinks they can be $5B in 5 years. And $10B in 10 years. So, I say again, are the Mets worth 2x as much as the Twins? Hell yeah they are.
  15. NYCTK
    New ownership is quite literally the most important thing happening with this team over the next 6 months, if not 2 years. What sense would it make to ban discussion about it?
  16. NYCTK
    Potential value of the Mets IS the Yankees and Cohen is doing his best to get there. Yankees are old news. Are they more popular with the old families in NY, sure, but NYC is a transient city. 2/3 of New Yorkers weren't born in NYC. And the Mets are way more popular with this demographic. The Yankees are a boring corporate team. The Mets are fun. The only reason the Mets aren't already bigger than the Yankees is, despite having a far superior stadium, the game day experience is lacking. Well, Cohen is spending a bunch of money to develop the area around Citi to try to fix that. So, are the Mets 2x as valuable as the Twins? Absolutely. LFGM
  17. NYCTK
    We just fundamentally disagree. This is just wrong. It's possible nothing really changes, sure, but the new owners will 100% have a sway on the direction of the organization and to think otherwise is foolish.
  18. NYCTK
    So enjoy it man! You're allowed to be optimistic, without the caution! This is way more important than a wild card. Imagine how you felt when the Twins beat the Blue Jays last year. You should basically be just as happy.
  19. NYCTK
    Like I said, the Genesis of this exchange is the first dude completely misunderstanding the comment. So how are you supposed to have a nuanced conversation? I get that it's likely the new owner isn't great. We all know this. But we also all know it's very unlikely to get worse. And a very good chance to get better. The only people disagreeing with this are people that are trying to argue that the pohlads aren't that bad actually. And those people are wrong. End of nuance.
  20. NYCTK
    You people are so afraid of an unlikely outcome that you can't even enjoy great news.
  21. NYCTK
    Payroll is one small thing. You commented on someone's comment suggesting that they were wrong to be happg at this news. The pohlads suck. The worst case scenario with this is the twins end up with a new owner that sucks. You'll have to forgive me for not being fearful that the new owner will be worse than the owners that tried to kill a franchise and threatened to move them constantly.
  22. NYCTK
    Well this is specific exchange is off them misunderstanding someone else's comment, so makes sense. Pohlads aren't good owners. No one here needs to do anything but roll their eyes when someone pretends they are actually decent.
  23. NYCTK
    You seem to be carrying a lot of water for the Pohlads so I won't try to convince you they're bad. You just stay with the belief that they're good actually and the Twins were lucky to have their stewardship for 4 decades. Carl was really just looking out for us when he tried to contract the franchise after all.
  24. NYCTK
    I don't think you're understanding what they're saying. The pohlads are objectively bad owners. And people here are scared of the sale because there is a small chance the new owner is somehow worse. This is great news and anyone pretending it isn't is Debbie downer.
  25. NYCTK
    I said it in the other thread, and I'll repeat it because it's true. This is WAY more exciting than if the Twins had gone 5-5 down the stretch and limped into the playoffs. This is actually potential hope for the franchise. We all know the Twin Cities to be a great metropolitan area and undeserving of terrible ownership whose only goal was to extract dollars. The Pohlads hated the fans so much, their mindset permeated the fanbase, having Twins fans suggesting MSP is a small market and that it should consider itself lucky just to have a team at all. There were even people on this very website questioning if the fans were the problem. The 2024 Twins were a loser organization with a loser mentality and the fans that still existed had resigned to that fact. If the sale actually happens, there's a real chance this organization can reshape its mindset and actually be a winning club with a winning mindset, because for years and years that hasn't existed.
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