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  1. tarheeltwinsfan
    I needed this optimistic article on this Monday as the baseball playoffs continue without the Twins.
  2. tarheeltwinsfan
    My point is, if the franchise is sold, there is no guarantee that it will remain in Minnesota. However I don't want to argue that the Twins will move at all. Just saying it is a possibility. I will just drop his subject for now and we'll all have to see how this plays out. Friends?
  3. tarheeltwinsfan
    Don Beaver, who lives in North Carolina.
  4. tarheeltwinsfan
    I don't recall that election and I have lived in North Carolina for the last 75 years. The Charlotte Knights stadium was built with future expansion in mind and was built downtown and is next to the Panthers' stadium for parking and restaurants and traffic flow. As far as Don not having the money, you must know more about my friend's, finances than I do.
  5. tarheeltwinsfan
    Don Beaver lives in North Carolina.
  6. tarheeltwinsfan
    Exactly. Charlotte has been wanting a major league franchise for years. Don Beaver from North Carolina was a ready, willing and able potential buyer of the Twins 25 years ago. He now owns the Charlotte Knights, the Hickory Crawdads, the New Orleans Zephyrs and is a minority owner of the Pittsburg Pirates. Don pitched in the Little League World Series when he was a boy. He lives in Hickory, NC, 30 minutes from my home.
  7. tarheeltwinsfan
    Richie, Thanks for providing the fascinating Harvard article, which says that MLB teams on a lower budget, should allocate their budget more evenly among the players and not sign an individual player who has to be paid 27 per cent of the annual salary allocation. However, I sure do like watching Correa play short stop.
  8. tarheeltwinsfan
    I am cheering for a Twins rival in the AL Central, the Chicago team.......oh wait, the record setting White Sox are not in the playoffs. As the obnoxious Hawk used to say: "They gone!"
  9. tarheeltwinsfan
    Jax is the best choice here. Question: If Jax wants to start, should the Twins give him that opportunity?
  10. tarheeltwinsfan
    "Fatigue", or lack of energy, can be contagious in any endeavor.
  11. tarheeltwinsfan
    I have never agreed with Gardy's famous quotes, that it is a long season. It is not. It is a short season because the games are played one game at a time. No matter whether it is April, July or September, the most important game is the one game today.
  12. tarheeltwinsfan
    Adrenalin gives energy bursts when needed. The Twins lacked adrenalin.
  13. tarheeltwinsfan
    Agree 100%.
  14. tarheeltwinsfan
    What is the least important position among the 10 players who are "in the game" on a baseball field? Is it starting pitcher? Shortstop? Catcher? Hitter batting 3rd or leadoff? Closer? Or is is "long reliever"? In this award, called "Most Improved", I submit that the position played, does not matter. However if it did, I would not chose a long reliever for any awards, except "The Best Long Reliever Award". As far as the "2024 Most Improved Award" I would have selected Buck, because he had the most improvement of his WAR. He went from 0.8 to 3.6...the largest improvement by far among all Twins players from 2023 to 2024.
  15. tarheeltwinsfan
    Once again I will state: Pohlads spent spent $130 million on players payroll in 2024: How much did the 4 American League teams who are still in the playoffs spend in 2024 in payroll? Yankees - $330 million, Cleveland - $106 million, Kansas City - $122 million and Detroit - $98 million. The allegedly "cheap Pohlads" outspent on players salaries 3 of the remaining AL playoff teams, plus more than the Baltimore Orioles, who also made the playoffs. Was the Twins' failure to be in the 2024 playoffs the fault of a Twins payroll that was higher than 4 other AL teams which did make the playoffs in 2024? Or was it the fault of the players who failed to win enough games? Or management (manager and coaches) who failed to effectively lead, teach, direct and motivate these Twins players? Or the FO, which chose the specific players to whom a $130 million dollars was paid? Or injuries? Or fate? Or Minnesota nice? Or predestination?
  16. tarheeltwinsfan
    3 of the 4 American League teams remaining in the playoffs have salary totals less than the Twins (Cleveland at $106 million; Detroit at $98 million; KC at $122 million). Only the Yankees have a higher payroll of he American League teams remaining in the playoffs at $309 million. If I were the owner of the Twins, I would be asking this question of Derek Falvey and Thad Levine, Dave St. Peter and Rocco Baldelli: "How did Baltimore at $109 million, Cleveland at $106 million, Kansas City at $123 million, and Detroit at $98 million make the American League playoffs and my Twins with a salary of $130,000,000 did not?".
  17. tarheeltwinsfan
    I agree with your article Mathew. Rocco is Minnesota nice, intelligent, positive, respected by the players, well spoken, and experienced. I'm very glad he is going to manage my favorite team in 2025.
  18. tarheeltwinsfan
    Those two decisions to keep Rocco and Derek Falvey are good decisions. They have become like family to me. We're all disappointed that the Twins did not win the World Series. It has been an interesting season. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The owners, FO, management, players and total organization are "the men in the arena". (Now is a good time to read Theodore Roosevelt's great quote about those who strive in the arena, those whom strive for unattainable perfection, but keep striving. Whether it is in the classroom, a sales job, a courtroom, a hospital, politics or a baseball field.) I appreciate the Twins organizational efforts to entertain us Twins fans. I will continue to be the biggest Twins fan in North Carolina. I will continue to be positive and to "wait til next year". My wife and I will be at Ft. Myers in March again for a week of optimism, sunshine, the smell of freshly cut grass, the pop of baseballs hitting gloves and the sounds of bats squarely hitting baseballs... and springtime. We will talk of the trip we will take from North Carolina to Minneapolis for the playoffs in October, 2025. I'll continue to watch the games on tv with announcers and others who love the Twins. I enjoy my Twins Daily family, writers, contributors and friends. We will win some. We will lose some. Some will be rained out. We'll do it together. Without these types of seasons, there could be no 1987 and no 1991. It is worth it. I'm used to it. I'm a 79 year old Senators/Twins fan.
  19. tarheeltwinsfan
    T.S. Eliot's epic poem, "The Hollow Men", has an apropos ending that applies to the Twins 2024 season: "This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper".
  20. tarheeltwinsfan
    Just what the Twins needed...some bats.
  21. tarheeltwinsfan
    If mice had wings they could fly.
  22. tarheeltwinsfan
    Free tickets for all fans who will come to the park and cheer on the team. Goooooooooooooooo Twins.
  23. tarheeltwinsfan
    I forgot Wallner's arm, Lewis's bat and Ryan's uniquely released fastball. Thanks for mentioning these additional attractions. I'll add one more, Willie Castro jumping up and jogging to 1B after being hit by a pitch.
  24. tarheeltwinsfan
    My favorite plays are watching C4 throw the baseball, Buck run the bases, Wallner hit massive home runs, Vazquez's defense behind the plate and pick offs, Santana's scoops at 1B, Pablo's dogged determination, Ober's stares at the batters, Duran's 102 mph pitches and Jax's SO pitches. Also, I enjoy Corey's excitement, Audra's interesting interviews and Justin's astute observations.
  25. tarheeltwinsfan
    ouch
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