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if I have this correct, I'm not sure. I think the entire 1.6 billion to build the latest Yankee stadium came from the public and around that stadium is not really good area either. most of the people that live near the stadium couldn't afford hardly to buy a loaf of bread yet. they're paying for this stadium but I don't know how far reaching the taxes were to pay for the stadium. think of businesses. they have buildings people come in. hopefully they are successful and people will buy their products or services and the general public is not obligated to pay for their place of business and neither should a sports team ask the public to pay for their place of business so they can make millions of dollars. I think it was $135 million that came from taxes or was that the ownership that paid that amount? I do believe that Hennepin county had a a 0.15 of a penny went to the building of the stadium which is much better than most places. as far as public paying for it goes most likely.

it's like paying $50 for a loaf of bread. why would you want to do that? players are laughing all the way to the bank. Tori Hunter could see this so he would buy tickets for underprivileged children.

So the average income family lets say 100k working should help donate to a player making half a billion for ten years you like that? Why? Its about who pays this very kind player Jeffers 24 mil Twins if they don't he goes elsewhere. Since 1976 players move instead of stay home but no player is home anymore. Its a money grab. Boycott this nonsense appropriate pay would happen.

thank you. the bad pronunciation comes from Google

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gosh, musk is not playing a ball game. you can't compare that. when I started talking about this money the players get. I really didn't think anybody anywhere would agree. somebody making super millions of dollars playing a game. I am very price conscious with everything but when it comes to sports it's crazy money out there. ridiculous absurd and we have to pay the price okay?

I have taken this phone to the phone store and they tell me it's Google and they can't do anything about it.

Google does the pronunciation on here not me and I would have to read every sentence and redo every single sentence that I write and I have written to Google about this. you need to leave what I do alone. it is none of your business. Google how I write anything and you can't get worse pronunciation than what Google puts out. Am I the only one that has to deal with this all kinds of mistakes? one after the other so I just stopped proofreading it. you know this is not business. this is just recreation. I'm sorry if it's a problem. it definitely is for me.

I think somebody said I'm not sure if this is right or not but that Carl polad was the richest owner in baseball when he took over yet he didn't put a whole lot of money of his own into it. that kind of insinuates that if he has the money he should spend it. but isn't he owning this business? that's what it is to make a profit not just spend money he could spend and go in the whole profit wise but maybe see a world series championship. what is that worth when it comes to financials to an owner? My phone doesn't seem to always show the results of someone writing to me and I haven't read what I think is a message from you just yet because this popped up and I'm not even sure it's going to be there. sometimes it's not. we'll see. you can't be such a young guy based on what you're name on here is. and I started filing Minnesota in 1965 because we had Harmon Killebrew one of the best personalities on and off the field. I like to root for people of integrity and Ken harrelson who is doing games for the White Sox call. the Minnesota twins after he tongue-in-sheet says the Twinkies the best run organization in the game and he's talking about the integrity of who they will hire as a free agent and who they will draft in the draft. looking for people who have on and off the field integrity. otherwise I wouldn't be following them at all since I'm in Virginia. but I hardly go a whole day even in the off-season without looking to see what news might be up there for them. I realize the business it is but the guy puts on the twins uniform and it becomes different to me and I'm a grown man. what I'm rooting for is the Minnesota twins putting the team on the field that can prosper in the playoffs and if they don't I'm still going to follow it on a daily basis.

and that's our program for tonight. I did not say it's $1,000. a ticket everywhere. most likely New York still has a $10 seat the Yankees. I don't know anything about the Mets. when the stadium opened they had seats that were priced at $1,600 per game. not very many seats just behind the Yankees dugout. My point is in the past pricing was a lot better based on the economy at that time. now the inflation of baseball is about a hundred times more than the regular national economy and people like you seem to think that's fine. do you want to pay $50 for a loaf of bread? is that fine too? but a baseball player. you must get on your knees and bow to this person because it seems to be a good idea to pay exorbitant prices if you want to pay them or you can take the cheaper seat and not get to be very close to the field. look dude. I'm an old man and I know the past and I know it was better than now in all things and I really would rather you not write me anymore. not reply to this. I'm not going to read it. attitude is everything and yours is not good. it's abrasive. it's not becoming of this site to talk like that and it's very typical of the New York Yankees fans who are by far the worst in the league. why? because they beg the owner to pay huge money for the best possible player out there rather than develop their own. that's asinine backwards. no more

excuse me, I missed one part of your message about me being dead wrong The way to solve the problem of the owner making well, let's say 90% of the money. you don't charge as much for the tickets that evens it out some. we need a better bargaining agreement between the players and the owners to where the players make lots of money still because they are how the owners make their money and let's go back to Calvin Griffith. not a good guy in my opinion because he hated black people. that's why he moved the team to Minnesota because he said they hardly have any black people there. but he was the last owner. I think it is that made his soul 100% of his income from baseball. there was no other business to fall back on so therefore in 1983 he could not compete anymore. he couldn't pay the players like the other owners did. he thought baseball players should make the average salary that the common worker makes and not the $30 million a year that the constant complaining Bryce Harper makes won't even shake the commissioner's hand because he knows the commissioner wants a salary cap. so Mr Harper doesn't care how much money the people pay as long as they can afford to come out there for $1,000 a game he would be all for that cuz then maybe he could make $50 million a year. it's just my feeling and I've seen him do it in the amount of leagues. he is a jerk extraordinaire. hopefully he's learned something since he he was in the minors on that but I just don't like the guy. he is disrespectful to the game of baseball to him. it's about money and that's it. The owner, the old owner. he's gone now that I admired the most. was the Baltimore Orioles because he said I'm not going to hire Superstar crazy money people and have to raise the prices on the fans here in Baltimore. what a guy! I absolutely love that and that was the closest stadium to my house 3 hours when he said that the highest price ticket in the stadium was behind home plate at $75.

that is true but the most value I think is human life. your loved one in a major operation in a hospital. I think more value is placed there, hopefully than a ball game. I've not said this yet but players like to talk about how much fun they have being on the field and getting paid to do it. how much is just having fun? supposed to be worth how much should you get paid just because you're having fun but there is another side to it. they're away from their families for quite a while at a time. their children are wanting Dad to be at home and he's not for 3 out of 6 months but Mexicans get on a plane, come to California and work on the farm for 6 months and they don't see family for 6 months in a row. they don't get paid very well. it's just the ultimate con job to me and it's not the player's fault. this Con job exists. you see free agency started I think in 1976. George steinbrunner took Jim Hunter from the Oakland A's and brought him to New York for $350,000 and that was huge money at the time. when people come to see a game they know the players that's going to be there. there's not all these massive changes in who's going to be on the field for that City. so so much of the talk is about well. we need to sign all these players and how much can we afford to pay to try to buy our way into a championship instead of doing it by drafting and trades and no sport is harder to make the right call on a trade then baseball is. to just pay for your championship and this world series proves the huge money does not always make you a winner but you are paying to try and get your championship, not do it from the smarts of your brain for baseball knowledge. I would love to see the Minnesota twins win a championship not buying anybody. just doing it by making trades and good drafting that would be more rewarding.

honestly sir, I have no idea where the seat was. that's a long time ago. the contract money. hopefully the new bargaining agreement will fix that issue because it's not right that the dodgers get $300 million worth and the twins get $35 million worth that's no good. The prophets such as contract money should go to the players. it should be a part of the contract. the profits of the teams that kind of thing part of it goes to the players. part of it goes to the owners and we don't need to be charging so much money to enter the stadium and see a game. I watch through DirecTV where there are blackouts of two teams which is a slap in the face to the baseball fan. I am 5 hours from any Major League Field but baseball is always going to put a black out unless you're in the tri-state area of Minnesota. I have a pretty large screen television and it's about $30 a month or less for 6 months and I don't find that price excessive at all.

you can't compare what musk does to a ball game. let's compare it then. if that's what you want to do, you know anybody that's had a heart transplant to stay alive. I do well, not personally somebody I very much look up to. I read his book. it was incredible. his name is rod Carew. you might know who I'm talking of. he gets a heart transplant and a kidney transplant the same day. how much is that worth? how much should the doctor and everybody in that operating room make from keeping Rodney alive? they do that because they know how they bring your loved one life. shouldn't they make more than a baseball player? I don't know but somebody that does that probably makes a half me in a year. that's my guess and a baseball player can live on that easily. I am so surprised that people think the right to see a game is good in these days. I was falling out of my chair so to speak that one guy who probably like most they definitely don't get paid enough. they should get paid even more. $70 million a year is not enough so how about when it gets to be 100 million for one season? how absurd is that? is it going to reach 500 million? how about 1 billion for one season? there's no way that anybody should enter a baseball stadium with the prices that the players make like it is. you the player are not here for us. you're here for where you get paid the most. there is no loyalty unless your name is like Joe Mauer and he took the home team discount at 23 million a season. that sound like a discount to you? pricing on the ball field started to get out of hand like the late 1980s. I don't remember what year was it that Kirby Puckett was paid? the first $6 million player came right out of Minnesota. That's unbelievable. money to play a game.

if it's playoff time even I would pay $300 for a seat but that's regular season pricing if you close to the field. you see baseball the better seats. they started charging the prices of the NFL who has 10 home games. baseball has 81 home games. that's crazy money. they don't need that much money. what was the average price of a world series ticket? multiply that times. what is it? 50,000 people you know they are hoping for not just four games with money revenue like that. The finances of baseball is outrageously out of hand because there's no salary cap and it's going to be a really good deal for the players if they accept the salary cap which will be an outrageous amount of money. but most likely they'll be no baseball for a while. you got to hold your ground. if the players walk with the money they're making now, we should boycott the entire season once they start playing. we're not coming to see you. if you're not satisfied with the money we provide you with now, you're not worth that much money that you're paid now. so if you don't play, we don't come watch when you come back because you're already light years overpaid as it is. that proves they're not loyal to your city. they just want to take advantage of your pocketbook for the few that can't afford it. let's get real people. you're being beat down

$1 million is more than enough for anybody to take care of himself and his family. how close do you come to that? or let's say for most people, how much do they need to? have a nice home. nice car. whatever does it take a million dollars to do that? The one drawback on my feelings on it is they can't do this as a career for 40 years. 20 years maximum. the average is about 5 years so that holds them up on whatever career they have the ability to do until they finish baseball. but if they play for 5 years, they're still going to make millions and they don't even need to work anymore. just invest it. do you think a guy who can play really good will work for that? well that's a going rate. the most money Harmon Killebrew made in the season was $110,000. he played Jim Kaat played for 13,000. Bert Blyleven played for 9,000. today I'm going to guess that's about 120,000 something like that.

Crazy. Even Derek Jeter when he was making 15 million for 3 years. total of 45 million called it. crazy money. so it's okay to have a ticket to see one ball game at $1,600? That's absurd. you remember George Bush had part ownership in the Texas rangers and he was on TV with the current commissioner when he worked for the New York Yankees and George was criticizing everything about the money that the stadium charged parking and sessions prices for tickets. he was part owner and couldn't stand it. No ball game is worth that kind of money. I was offered a seat at the 87 world series for $100. too much not doing it. why do you think it's worth why do you think a ball player is worth $70 million for one season? you know we have two people in the NFL and they only have 20 games to play. that makes $70 million to play 20 ball games. that's insane. why is it okay? you are being screwed whoever you are every time you go to a ball field and pay that big money to see a ball game. they're laughing at you all the way to the bank. these players with money like that. 1972, I paid $15 for a box seat behind home plate. 1967, I paid $4.50 for the same seat. inflation hardly goes up to where it is now. a loaf of bread would cost $50 if it did. it's absurd.

maybe some of you have read my financial commentary. this is about huge money for a qualifying offer for a dude playing a ball game. my son was not good enough to be drafted but he did play on a travel team after high School up and down the East Coast. he was there shortstop but he realized he had to give that up and get a job. you see he's doing it for fun. he loves to play baseball. he's was very intelligent about what's going on on the ball field with every pitch. is that worth any money? doesn't matter if it is or not. point is he's doing it for fun. so let's say you're a $10 million or $30 million a year player. would you do it for fun instead of make all those millions? if those millions were not available I dare say some guys would if they could. very few people make over a million dollars a year to earn their living. most people come home happy with in today's terms. 150k or more a year. you can take care of your family pretty well with that. so we get on here and we talk in terms of of he's worth $15 million or he's worth $30 million and let's go ahead and give him that much money. The entertainment of sports. all sports is way out of focus. crazy money and we talk about it like this is just normal. this is good. let all of us either go to the ball game or watch it on television and pay all this money so these ball players can make crazy money with whichever team pays them the most. does that sound like they are community-minded where they're playing when they get traded or become a free agent and they go somewhere else? they're going to be all excited as they're seen on the ball field for where they're playing at right now and forget how much excitement they showed the year before for their previous team. now they're trying to beat the previous team. this is professional sport. it's not high School where they do have a feeling of loyalty. I am not happy with all this money. these guys get nobody deserves money like that to play a ball game. I don't care how good they are. The ball teams have cheap seats and then they have the ridiculously high seats. price wise. I know New York has when they open their new stadium $1,600 to see a ball game behind the dugout of the Yankees. okay enough said and you younger people will write back like there's nothing wrong with this. well there is wrong with this.

He received a 9.5 mil bonus already and he hasn't really hit much in single A. How many college players are pro ready? Not many obviously based on his single A hitting. Once he can show hitting promise in AA then maybe a contract. I'm hopeful.

Terry I don't even know how to approach this. this is about discussing baseball. it is not about how somebody writes a message. I see mistakes all the time and I don't care to point it out to them. this is not a high school test on how you write. I'll take this one. step farther. I had employment direct sales where I sold books to k through 12. I dealt with superintendents principals, librarians teachers, people who know how to enunciate. I don't have a college degree. I have attention deficit disorder which made my grades rather poor but I am told by the schools they had no idea. I was not educated like they are because I could talk as good or better than they can. I don't need lessons like this when you're 74 years old. lessons I like to have at this age is learning more about the will of God because you never know it all. teaching me more about Bible stories that I may not have understood along the way of life as good as I could have and I could have said the word well instead of the word good. living in the country bumpkin areas of the state of Virginia people don't say well. they say good. try to have a nice day and don't pick on people how they right. just respond to what they write about if you feel like it and I'm not proofreading this, I don't have the time and another reason I'm not proofreading. it is because it simply just plain doesn't matter.

thank you

Nice to read such a message from Nashville twin. thank you. I am advocating bringing back Arraez also but the only thing I partially don't agree with here is trading. Joe Ryan. he and the new pitching coach are familiar with each other. let's see what we can work out to make his arm not die off after the All-Star. this is really a good message however for the twins team to pay attention to.

maybe I'm just stupid but I'm not following what your issue is here. Google at least on my phone will not start a sentence with a capital letter. it will put periods in the middle of sentences or question marks where they don't belong where a? does belong. it doesn't put one. it's enormously irritating so if I'm writing something more professional I have to review everything. but this is not that so I don't proofread it. I simply just let it go like right now. I was just trying to make a comparison between then and now and how four guys can throw enough pictures to win 20 games. and if I recall correctly there were no injuries and you don't have time for injuries to win 20 games. so maybe it's better just to stay on the topic at hand rather than being so critical of somebody's pronunciation spelling. I'm one of the best spellers I know. few people can spell as well as I do large words give them to me. I spell them correctly most of the time.. I'm known to have fairly high intellect. not the best but better than most but here on doing this. I don't care about any of that

The Orioles had four starters mid to late '60s and they all won 20 games. wow! that would never work today because somehow pitching is faster but you have to have more time off. well you know that makes sense, doesn't it. Palmer Dobson mcnally and cuellar each one won 20 games. they can't be injured and win 20 games but these days we're doing six-man rotations seems to be coming into play and they're getting paid 10 times as much if not more. how does a guy make $20 million a year and only pitch in 15% of the innings the team plays for season? so we're going to somehow have a new bargaining agreement and there may be someone who's doing that for the team and complaining about his income not being higher. you know that's possible, especially if your name is Bryce Harper but he doesn't pitch. Joe Ryan is an entirely wonderful young man the way I see it as far as I can tell, not knowing him personally but yes I see him as a every 6 days guy from the start of the season to maybe have a better second half but will he be on the mound enough to even win 13 games. okay everybody what am I doing wrong with this message?

out of the three mentioned here, I would say Vesia if available would be the one to sign but not the other two. too much. downside all this talk about well. this statistic means they're in run averages and as bad as it looks and all that stuff, no they're unrun average is what it is but Vesia is the impressive one my gosh looks good to me.