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  1. Original_JB
    https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/look-vikings-reveal-alternate-winter-whiteout-uniforms-including-first-all-white-helmet-in-team-history/?ftag=SNL-04-10aaa0c&ET_CID=359908&ET_RID=26378219
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    Either way they could have chosen to let MLB broadcast them instead of Bally's as they are for other teams, but they went for the (if we think we know the numbers) higher, yet riskier payoff for this year, which I could roll with, if the plan was to utilize those extra dollars on players, but they didn't even do that.
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    For whatever reason I'm suddenly reminded of the days of people selling "black box", roof mounted DIY receivers to pirate the new (at the time) HBO signal being broadcast from the top of the IDS building; and the supposed vans that were scouring the cities detecting who was obtaining the signal illegally, threatening monster sized lawsuits similar to the music piracy ones of the '00's. (not trying to highjack, but providing like content while we wait for some sort of movement on the broadcast front)
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    Riverbrian, I feel your pain. The wife and I have already modified our Happy Hour/evenings locales based on who does or doesn't carry the games. At least in here in the Twin Cities some establishments* are "working" the strife/turmoil: * Please remove if disallowed. I do not work for Pub42, it's just one of the local establishments in my area I frequent from time to time.
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    Also the aspect that the Twins are not the Pohlad's only business venture. But it is probably the one that easiest to selectively 'create' profit or loss numbers to balance their overall "family" books tax-wise. Make too much profit somewhere else, they "invest' in a new video board for the Twins (business expense). Tough economy, high interest rates, Twins get "right sized". ***part of me has a niggling feeling that we are seeing the early vestiges of an owner getting ready to sell, before the $$$ start to change downward league-wide***
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    Although Victory Sports One didn't have enough content to carry an entire network. If you had the Twins partner with just one of the Wild/Wolves, I think they could make a go of it.
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    4) Ms. Meka Morris perhaps championed the new "M" hats/logo and predicted huge revenue $$$ from it.
  8. Original_JB
    And just because no one REALLY knows what the h*ll the Twins are thinking sometimes, a quick look at the Target Field lease shows that the Twins pay $600k/yr for rent, and are locked into the lease (not allowed to vacate) for 30 years (2037 is the end date). https://law.marquette.edu/assets/sports-law/pdf/Minnesota Twins Lease Summary.pdf
  9. Original_JB
    https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/04/twins-sign-tony-kemp.html Twins sign vet 2B/OF Tony Kemp to a Minor League deal.
  10. Original_JB
    A bit tongue in cheek, but you never know..... As we know, Kwik Trip is a big sponsor. For those who may not know, they are are a gas/grocery/snack chain that has stores for the most part in the outer suburbs and all around the state. Seven years ago, "global" Circle K bought all (522) of the Holiday gas/snack stores and have gradually been converting them to Circle Ks, mostly in the out-state areas. What if Circle K is ready to go "all in" and convert the rest of the Holidays? They have some name recognition, but not much in the metro area. A patch on the Twins' jersey could help bring some recognition/good will during the store's rebranding. But I don't think Kwik Trip would be too happy about it. Could/would the Twins play the two against each other?
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    And here we are, into the season, with no patch. Wonder what the hold up has been, especially with the dire need for payroll cash. I'd hate to think they were going to go with Bally's or something ridiculous like that, but who knows. Why else the delay? Perhaps we'll find out when they release the City Connect Jerseys on June 14th. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39776958/tracking-mlb-city-connect-jerseys-uniforms
  12. Original_JB
    Where's that "logjam" thread again.....
  13. Original_JB
    Ouch.... https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/04/carlos-correa-leaves-game-with-oblique-strain.html
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    Were they showing clips of the "testicular eclipse" on the big screen at the time?
  15. Original_JB
    Now remember, if we do the "guessed at" QB thing, that will eat this year's 2 and likely next year's 1st round draft picks. We already have no 2nd rounder this year. We need a center, another OL, pretty much the entire secondary, and DL help. Yes, you can be very, very good at lower round drafts picks and FA's (which we know KAM is so good at), but the top talent is in the top rounds.
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    I know this won't be popular, but I really think they should be working on a draft day trade of Justin Jefferson. The Vikes have gotten too old and expensive for the talent level on the team; too expensive to get good 'buying' FAs to improve. They really don't have the cap space with the talent they have on hand, to be paying JJ top of the league WR money --- even if he deserves to be paid that way. They didn't get the extension figured out last year.... If Darnold is only OK, and whoever they draft isn't the savior, what then? The likelihood of any of those top 6 QBs being a franchise guy is actually pretty slim. If JJ is as wanted and liked around the league as much as he appears to be, wouldn't a trade for an extra 1st rounder and and couple of 2nds (or whatever the pundits say is 'fair') of young, high talent, 'low cost for a few years' type players be overall, more help to this club?
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    Solid choices.
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    Did they follow through on not selling large sections of the park until the lower bowl (more expensive seats) was 'sold out'? If so, people may just be waiting for seats in their price range to be available.
  19. Original_JB
    Well, they are in the 'entertainment' business; The Twins (and they are not wrong) know that by and large people like to get attention, be spectacles. Back in the dome days, I was looking to get some extra playoff tickets and was offered top of the 1st deck seats right next to the milk jug like I was being offered some insider special deal; I told them that I'd rather sit in the upper deck anywhere towards the infield than out there. Ticket salesman was incredulous that I didn't want the seats that "get shown on TV all the time". I asked if he was joking about that, no one cares about that, c'mon. He was not. So, I'll bet that those dock seats get sold for every game, even at $1200, to people who really don't care that they aren't that good of seats, or that a game is even being played, as long as they get their Social Media shots.
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    Ahh yes; brings back the memory. Got online the minute the tickets went on sale. Got what I thought would be good seats (about 2/3rds of the way up the lower level along the 1st base line). And they were, for the infield and viewing the left fielder's shoes. They don't count as 'obstructed' (yeah, saw some of those "pillar" view seats), but the 2nd deck overhang is so low, you kind of watch through a slot. I guess the locals had it figured out because all the seats around us were filled with travelling Twins fans.
  21. Original_JB
    Did this trip the 1st time the Twins played at Wrigley years back; caught the trifecta: Ribfest and the Chicago Blues Festival were also that weekend. Stayed at the "historic" Palmer House and got an "El" pass for the weekend. Wrigleyville was fun, Wrigley itself was a dump in sort of a quaint way. Even caught a Snappers game on the drive home. Highly recommended.
  22. Original_JB
    I guess after hearing the interview, and just watching the other developments, (expansion, really?), I just cant continue to pretend that Baseball is the game I grew up with anymore, especially with the owner coming out and stating as much. I mean, I know it's a business and have forever, but in my mind, tried to keep thinking of it as the game I grew up with. It came to me today that the closest business that MLB compares to is Six Flags. It's all about the entertainment and ways to collect the consumer's cash. When your "at one time" biggest ride (Mauer) is broken down and used up, you put up another one (Correa). When you don't have the funds or wherewithal to add a new ride, you add "new" concessions, you add "concerts after the park closes", etc., to keep people coming in. Sounds just like Valley Fair, doesn't it? I hate amusement parks.
  23. Original_JB
    Less and less like the Senators, and more and more like the Generals as time goes by.
  24. Original_JB
    With the number of injuries plaguing this team the last few years, at this point, I wait until the logjam actually appears before I spend too much time worrying about it. Unless magically, a trade opportunity arises where we're picking up a frontline pitcher and the other team wants an infielder, and even then, worry about that if/when it happens.
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