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  1. Mike Sixel
    Bummer....
  2. Mike Sixel
    St. Peter just said it last week.....it is easily findable on 1500 am, for example.
  3. Mike Sixel
    Great writeup Seth, thanks.
  4. Mike Sixel
    When the Twins say Marquis throws strikes, and other factually incorrect things, and the beat guys repeat it like it is true.....are they doing their job? When St. Peter says payroll does not matter, and not one of them follows up and asks why they needed a new stadium, are they doing their job?
  5. Mike Sixel
    If their role is PR, why read it?
  6. Mike Sixel
    Why would that offend me?
  7. Mike Sixel
    Adjusted for baseball inflation...ok, give the money to the county.
  8. Mike Sixel
    If I was governor, I'd push for a law requiring the Twins to pay the state and county for every dollar below the last year on the dome, adjusted for baseball inflation. They wanted money, if they won't spend it, pay back the taxpayers....... I hope no one goes this year, if they are bad again. It is the only power we have to get changes made.
  9. Mike Sixel
    When beat writers or tv reporters say something other than PR work for the twins this spring, I will pay attention. Until then, I doubt I will believe anything they write. Call me cynical, but this spring is all PR from reporters so far.
  10. Mike Sixel
    He wants to win. I would leave if I was him.
  11. Mike Sixel
    Why is it dumb? If you never spend the money, because Every FA contract is an overpay, you never spend money. How is it bad for the Twins, this year and next and the following year, if they had "overspent" on 1 player for the next three years? They never spend the money, ever. There is a limit to draft money and international money now, so FA and re-signing your own players are the only way to spend real money now. So, why is it dumb to spend the money, rather than pocket it? What are you saving that money for, if you will never spend it? The Indians tried to be better, they are mostly filled with young cheap players, so they added veterans that cost money around them. Had the Twins signed Jackson and Sanchez, how would that have hurt them the next 4 years? They have no where else to spend the money......they are getting $25MM more in revenue, every year, starting next year.....they will likely have 1 player on their roster next year making more than $5MM per year, one. How is it dumb, if there is no where else to spend the money, and you make your team better?
  12. Mike Sixel
    Bauer is 21...not sure what people are expecting in terms of maturity.
  13. Mike Sixel
    I actually don't feel the lines are too slow at all, given the number of people. I've found service there to be quite good.
  14. Mike Sixel
    MLB is partly immune to the antitrust laws....I don't think they'd win a suit, any more than did Maurice Clarrett.
  15. Mike Sixel
    So, you are asking if I should trust the Twins' medical staff, or a different medical staff? It would be great if he could pitch, less time watching AAA-AAAA pitchers pitch, the better.
  16. Mike Sixel
    LIkely, likely, likely. Sure, he could be awful, But given what we know today, has anyone read anything by any credible scout that he is worse than a 3, and is not likely to be a 2 or 1? Either I'm not typing well, or people are not trying hard to read my posts. Odds. Likelihood. Percentages. What we know today. Yes, there are no certainties in life, but given what we know, given everything you've read on line, given all that, relative to other players available, are people actually confident he won't be a 3 at worst, relative to how confident they are about other players? You have to draft someone......are you more or less confident in Appel's ability to be a legit starting MLB pitcher than other available players?
  17. Mike Sixel
    Great free agent signing. Sometimes you have to be willing to spend more than other teams to sign a legit, big time, FA. I'm very glad Bill Smith was the GM at that point.....
  18. Mike Sixel
    I don't think it is a random guess to say the Twins are likely to win 70-75 games. Likely is a lot different than certain. It is also likely the earth will continue to rotate, that my water will work, that planes won't crash, that processes at my work will run about as efficiently as they did yesterday. Nick, you are almost arguing they should not add good players, because it is only a random guess that, say, Zack Grienke will be better than Kevin Correia, since we can't know with certainty what will happen. Odds are, Zack will be better.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Dave, I meant Dave St. Peter is now saynig payroll does not matter.....which is fascinating, given all the lobbying he did to get a new stadium to make the team more competitive....because, you know, they needed more revenue.
  20. Mike Sixel
    Thank god we taxpayers built target field, it is signings like this that make paying higher taxes totally worth it. But then, now that they have target field, Dave is saying payroll does not matter.
  21. Mike Sixel
    Fair enough, I am not a big Summit fan. Lift Bridge, Fulton, Indeed, the list is long of great MN craft beers.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Limiting where I can get good beer to one location? Is that what is happening to craft beer? Another reason not to go.
  23. Mike Sixel
    That was not the point people were making above.
  24. Mike Sixel
    Ugh...... This myth that any free agency is a bad idea is so tired. How do you feel about Antoine Winfield, or CC sabbathia. Yea, some guys bust, so do draft picks. There is no one right channel for adding talent. Sano was essentially a free agent....how do you feel about him?
  25. Mike Sixel
    Who cares if they are awful but not as awful as Cleveland? I do not think finishing with 72 wins, but ahead of Cleveland, is anything to be happy about.
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