We make sure kids don’t play with fire because it will hurt them. We shield them from it.
baldelli cannot resist using pagan in that situation. He got burned. Take the fire away - aka release pagan.
We wouldn’t care as much if it were someone else…but the repeat negative WPA moments has just been too much.
I’m ready to pivot too. I’ve been a diehard fan since 1987 (12 yrs old). I went to games in the late 90s where there were less than 10,000 people in the stands.
We used to budget one family game a month - for affordability.
Now it just isn’t worth it. The cost to experience ratio is way off and the Twins better start listening to their fans before it is too late. What is the financial level where they cannot afford to run Target Field anymore?
So to the point, I just can’t take it anymore.
I’d probably go with the Cardinals. They seem to try on a consistent basis.
Can we just use the money lost out on Correa on:
Giving big contracts to Guardian/Dodger/Ray scouting and development people
Raising the pay scale of our minor leagues so that international players are more likely to sign with us (50,000 ones, not big ones)
We are never going to play/pay with the big boys, so why not be creative on how we spend the money and not be used for emotional leverage again?
Very true. However, this sort of thing cannot be normalized from the Twins perspective. If it were Philly or New York, umpires would be punished by the crowd and fans. There cannot be multiple sets of rules based on fan reaction - the MLB umpires need to pony up and say they messed up. Otherwise the silence emanating from them implies they had a ‘perfect’ game.
I think that dooms our trading this year. With that high a price tag, the twins might bow out of all trade possibilities…
if I were a seller, I’d hold out for something like what they gave up.
What was Griffin Jax’s #s last year? Somewhat similar to sands.
Not yelling at the computer because of analytics changes, just begging for a change from what has caused 4 of the last losses. We cannot keep doing the same thing and expecting the same result…that’s insanity.