It’s been the same type of comments over the last 3 seasons. Same problems with an offense that’s not good enough. We have a gluttony of 26/27 year old players that aren’t taking the next step at the MLB level. It really feels like this team is stuck in perpetual mediocrity.
Yeah it will but I believe this was the plan all along. Last year was the final push with Hunter and Kirk and it’s unfortunate how it played out. The Vikings are in good shape for 2025 with the 1st round pick and $80-100 million in cap space.
2024 was always the planned transition year. All I hope is KOC and KAM don’t panic and throw in McCarthy before he’s ready. Protecting the 2025 1st is key because I think we will be picking top 10, maybe 5 overall. 5 wins is all I see.
Interesting that this news came out today for the NFL. A new 3 year agreement with Netflix.
So now there are 4 streaming services (Peacock, ESPN+, Amazon Prime, Netflix) broadcasting at least 1 NFL game in 2024. They all want at least a sliver of the pie and rake in a couple thousand extra subscribers who forget to cancel.
The Roku/MLB partnership indicates the interest and demand from other platforms streaming baseball games… Before this thread began I didn’t know there was a Roku channel.
People at the very least had to sign up for the 7 day trial and remember to cancel it in time. NFL is not immune to complaints about fragmenting their content. People still refuse to get Amazon Prime for Thursday Night Football. Still, probably 75% of their total games are on OTA channels FOX, ABC (there were several weeks where both ESPN and ABC broadcast MNF at the same time), CBS, and NBC.
I’m not sure about gophers bball I don’t follow them.
I’m right there with you on every point you made in your post. All of us could pirate the content. It’s easy to find in a Google search. As you said, it’s out of pure principle. At this point, I don’t want to support an organization that is shutting out a significant percentage of people from their content. I’m also not going to spend $80 a month to gain access to 1 channel.
The choice is yours, MLB… I’m doing other things now instead of watching baseball. So will my 80 year old aunt that can’t load a webpage, let alone figuring out which streaming platform to click on to watch the Twins.
Yeah, Glen Taylor getting credit for anything is wild. He’s ran the organization into the ground for 20 years before striking gold with Anthony Edwards. Their multi-year ownership transition is something we’ve never seen in any sport before. Now that Taylor got cold feet because the team is finally great, it’ll never happen again.
Yeah I figured it had more to do with their parents’ watching habits. Then once they head off to college it will be out of sight, out of mind for them too.
Spot on. There is immense power in out of sight, out of mind. You’ve got insight that others don’t, coaching HS baseball. Do the kids even watch MLB games? Or just the highlights on Twitter or Tik Tok?
The Twins have been killing their brand for more than 3 years. DSG pulled Bally Sports from popular cable alternatives like YouTube TV and Hulu TV in 2021. Those folks have new routines now, and watching the Twins isn’t a part of the routine anymore. The relationship with Bally Sports is only getting worse.
Beyond the TV disaster, Dave St Peter continues to say tone deaf things every year. Placing the blame on fans not showing up to the ballpark as the reason for trading away players and reducing payroll. That’s not how this works in 2024. Not when there are other sports and entertainment options available in the area.
My formative teenage years were in the golden age of Napster and Limewire so I’m not naive to the other options online. The thing is, I don’t want to do that on a consistent basis. For now I’m giving the Pohlads what they want - one less pair of eyes watching their content.
Let the fun begin!
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- Row of carrots
- 3 rows of white onion
- Green and Red Bell Peppers and Jalapeño
- 2 romaine, rosemary, basil, and a half row of radishes for my dad
Wouldn’t surprise me if that was and still is the plan. MLB just can’t take on the debt Diamond Sports Group has on their books, so MLB is waiting for them to finalize bankruptcy. Amazon coming in to bail out DSG this winter delayed the inevitable.