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  1. nicksaviking
    Yes, he most definitely is. Gardenhire was specifically chosen to replace Kelly because he was the teacher on Tom Kelly's staff and the young players responded to him. Before becoming a manager Paul Molitor freely went to spring training for decades after retiring as a player to teach and instruct the young players. It is not a coincidence that they got way more out of their young players than Baldelli ever has out of his.
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    Can't decide if I want to laugh at the Falvey bit or like the fact that just because I want Baldelli replaced doesn't mean I hate him.
  3. nicksaviking
    The Pohlads also are at fault. But Baldelli couldn't and wouldn't develop young players. And if you're going to roll with a rebuild and young players, you have to get a manager who is willing and able to use them in any and every situation. Not someone who constantly micro manages them so they never learn when and how to trust their own natural athletic abilities.
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    He can hire a spread sheet guy. The spread sheet guy just has to also be a natural teacher to develop the young players. Like Gardenhire or Molitor. Molitor wasn't an anti-spreadsheet guy, he just wasn't versed in that language.
  5. nicksaviking
    Right. Clemens has no business being on a rebuilding team next season. The only thing about his game that doesn't scream fluke, is his dreadful .281 OBP.
  6. nicksaviking
    But no other team is adding a half billion of bad business debt on to their franchises. The Twins selling below market value shouldn't impact future team sales since this is a known anomaly. Plus, won't this give other terrible mid-to-low market owners the green light to just do the same thing? Wouldn't the owners want to stop more Bear Sterns style demands for free money or else they'll ruin your economy?
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    This is the only thing that makes sense to me, however, it is clear to everyone, including future prospective buyers that this is an isolated situation. No other team is adding on a half billion in debt on to their team. I don't think the Twins selling below asking price will impact future sales because the fraud being perpetrated here is now widely known. And wouldn't a rejection of the investors be a warning to Bob Nutting and other terrible men not to try the same?
  8. nicksaviking
    As reported, no other MLB team has debts anywhere close to 500M. This is the Pohlad's uniquely, and prehaps fraudulently taking advantage of the system and bilking the other owners out of a lot of money over the years. At the same time it is devaluing the Twins and by proxy MLB baseball. The A's and Rays have tanked payroll to help facilitate new stadiums or relocation which will benefit the league overall, this doesn't benefit anyone other than the Pohlad's.
  9. nicksaviking
    I've asked this question in a couple threads and I'd really like to get a different perspective. Everyone believes the Pohlad's will still slash payroll, I believe they plan to as well, but I need explained why the other owners would let them. The Twins have been taking the revenue sharing from the other billionaires for years, while clearly adding their real estate debts onto the Twins ledgers. So the other owners are in essence paying off the Pohlad's non-relate business losses. Why would these other billionaires, who don't do anything that doesn't benefit them or their interests, approve the Twins new investors without assurances from the Twins that they will re-invest their free money back into the team and therefor MLB baseball? Wouldn't the other owners just veto the new investors and force the Pohlad's to sell for less than their asking price? What is the benefit to the other owners to let the Pohlads stay and continue to operate this way? There has to be a benefit; they don't do charity.
  10. nicksaviking
    The Texans traded Cam Robinson to the Browns for a 6th. He wasn't elite last year but way better than Skule. Wish the Vikings would have made that move. Or just re-signed him in the off season. They knew Darrisaw wasn't going to be ready to start the year anyway.
  11. nicksaviking
    I wouldn't count on the minority owners to do right by the fans. But in continuing to lower payroll, what I don't understand, and what nobody else has explained, is why MLB would approve these minority owners if the Twins are just going to continue to use their revenue sharing they get from the other billionaires, to pay off their real estate losses, and not re-invest in the team. Why would the other owners give them free money that won't benefit the Twins and MLB interests as a whole? These aren't generous people, they only do anything to benefit themselves. So if the Twins are going to lower payroll even more, wouldn't the other owners say, 'Nope. We're not approving your investors. Deal with your debts like the rest of us do or sell the team.' I'm open to understanding a different point of view on this, but I haven't heard one.
  12. nicksaviking
    I'm not disagreeing at all. The gist of my post is that this team is so bereft of talent, players much much worse than Larnach will be retained. But Stringer was already being polite only listing 13 spots. On a normal, decently stocked team, I only count 19 players the Twins would be foolish not to protect.
  13. nicksaviking
    Sorry, but you don't cheer for the 'small' markets if you ever want change in the spending inequality. The Steinbrenner's will just point to the Reds and say "See, we don't need to share revenue for a small market team to win". Even though it happens about one out of every 15 World Series. And then the Pohlad's will turn around and tell the fans, "See, spending money has absolutely NO correlation to winning a World Series!!! Enjoy your 100M payroll Twins fans!"
  14. nicksaviking
    I mean I get it. As a MLB player he’s been pretty unimpressive. However the Twins largely don’t field MLB players so on this team, he’s basically elite.
  15. nicksaviking
    Also the last TD drive in the 4th quarter. That late game drive was most encouraging to me since it wasn't scripted all week in practice. Compare that to the chaos that occurred in the final drive when they were forced to push it deep and to the sidelines. I think they can make the quick read passes work. The biggest obstacle is that this kind of play style lends itself to lots of screen passes, something this franchise has not been able to do since KOC took over. I really don't think the pulling lineman know who to block, they just stand around often facing the wrong direction.
  16. nicksaviking
    The Eagles will be dancing on his tattered corpse.
  17. nicksaviking
    Right, Wentz could be better than McCarthy, but it doesn't matter. Have to keep trying the young guy, and if he doesn't show what we need to see, you try again in the draft in the next couple years.
  18. nicksaviking
    He ran for 40 yards and got chased down by a LB and then didn't even try to get out of bounds. I gotta put that all on Addison.
  19. nicksaviking
    How did Addison get chased down by a line backer?
  20. nicksaviking
    I love Mike Tomlin. But I'd never want him coaching my team. He's way too old school conservative.
  21. nicksaviking
    It was, but I was coming here to ask, 'Why did he have to make that so difficult?!' It sure didn't look like he HAD to be standing at the last centimeter of the end zone.
  22. nicksaviking
    I have to say, that drive looks like they made some adjustments. Wentz still had no time, but the reads were way quicker. Not sure if it was the play calling or the QB but I'd guess more of the first. This game is over, but if they can do quick reads and releases they can still win some games.
  23. nicksaviking
    Pumpkin pie filling. I don't think he's leaving Ireland alive. Unless the Vikings want McCarthy knocked out long term, they better start grabbing QBs off of other teams' practice squads to use as tackling dummies the rest of the year. This O-Line is going to be injuring them all season long.
  24. nicksaviking
    Ha, my fantasy teams do WAAAAY better than my favorite real team.
  25. nicksaviking
    I don't like the OL coach. Lineman also have no idea what they're doing out in space. This team has to be the worst at running screen passes; the big guys seem to never know where to be or who to block.
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