The Great Hambino

Oh yeah? According to what code section or treasury reg? There is nothing preventing a business from taking out a loan/drawing on a line of credit/etc, making a distribution of cash to owners, and then contributing that cash to another entity. Any basis rules would not apply since there's no way the Pohlads are close to being out of basis in the Twins. Hell, if the two businesses were both wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pohlad Companies, the IRS wouldn't even consider the two businesses to be separate. I'm sure there's MLB rules preventing using the club as collateral for outside interests, and at some point doing too much of this might violate some debt covenants with your bank, but the idea that there's no way to get loan proceeds into a different company's hands is just not true My current organization just did this exact thing. Had the bank's blessing and everything

The owners are also the ones putting on this whole WBC shindig (and benefiting from its revenue) in the first place. I'm sure they understood that their players might be involved in this from time to time and happily accepted whatever risks resulted from that.

Not often you see a take age so poorly so quickly. I don't see Tulane losing by less than negative ten

That's not a bad idea

Clyde's awesome

Calls to Finebaum after the game are gonna put the Alabama power grid in peril

Tulane will keep their game closer than Bama. This is not a good team

This family is an excellent argument for an estate tax of 100%

I hope they're planning on a lot of Oliver & Ham in max protect schemes if they plan on letting Rouse be involved in any way. It's not a simple as "just give him a shot and see what happens" when it puts the young QB you've staked your entire professional reputation on in a shooting gallery

I'll be ... let's call it irritated if they're willing to pay a free agent reliever more than Duran's $7.6MM projected arb figure

Very well said. In the first of what somehow turned into several embarrassing open letters to the fans coming from Twins leadership, Falvey tried to sell us on how the returns from the trades were going to deliver an immediate impact. As we enter 2026, that "immediate impact" at the major league level appears to be a couple of backup outfielders and two young starters that very well may be competing with each other for the final rotation slot. But they're still operating as if they plan on competing this year. It's hard to be honest with your fanbase when you can't even be honest with yourselves. So what will it take to win back trust? Time. The organization is fundamentally broken and there are no quick fixes. If they really want this to work in the long-term, they're going to have to be willing to endure some more tough times to build this thing back up. I'm not sure they can damage fan morale any more than they have already, so I don't think that would make things much worse on that front. Then, once they've actually built a sustainable core, follow through on your promises and do what it takes to push that core over the top. Nothing short of a World Series will get the fans' trust back, so plan and act accordingly. And no more excuses. I don't want to hear the word COVID from a Pohlad's or a Pohlad lackey's mouth ever again. No other MLB teams racked up that much debt because of it. No other Minnesota sports teams racked up that much debt because of it. The failure was yours, full stop. Want to regain fan support quickly? Sell the team.

Calling it now: Seahawks lose at Carolina next week but still somehow get the one seed while the Panthers miss the playoffs anyway

Joe will definitely have to play Boar On The Floor (IYKYK)

Random ominous thought: why did the family pick Joe to run the team before Tom in the first place?

High bar to clear for the rest of this week's slate

They should

I think the Monstars stole Stafford's talent some time around the end of the third quarter

This is feeling like a tie or a defensive score is coming our way

See also: Manning, Eli (I will absolutely die on that hill)

Announcers suck, Part Infinity Seahawks biggest plays have been screen, long run, punt return, busted coverage, and the flukiest 2 pt conversion ever Translation: Is Sam Darnold about to win the big game?

How does the Holy Roller rule where another player can't advance a fumble on 4th down/inside 2 minutes not also apply on conversions? I bet it will next year

In hindsight, maybe it should've been more telling that the Astros went to Jim and not Joe to get the Correa trade going

The Rams are his kryptonite

I'd be curious what the effect of OAA/DRS/etc has been on their second basemen as they've moved their first basemen closer to the line. Regardless of where they're put, you have 4 guys to defend the infield. Shortening the range required for one means you're asking more from another. So any gains made by the first basemen should be netted against any losses by the second basemen created by asking him to cover more ground by default. I'm not saying it's a bad strategy - it makes sense to have guys with limited range cover less ground and guys with more range cover more ground, and the point someone made that balls down the line being more likely to be extra base hits is valid - but the effect this puts on second basemen shouldn't be ignored. They certainly haven't been churning out gold glove second basemen going this route