TheGiantTeapot

The Pohlad family understands banking. They understand business. They understand profit and loss. They do not understand, nor care about, sports. They are not sports fans. They don't understand sports fans. They apparently did not notice the rabid joy in this state when the Twins beat the Jays in the 2023 playoffs, or they simply didn't understand it. Granted, Carl Pohlad liberated the team from notorious skinflint Calvin Griffith in 1984 and the Twins won the World Series in '87 and '91 under his ownership, but from the accounts I've heard his wife Eloise was the actual baseball fan. Carl also threatened to sell the team to a straw buyer or offer the team for contraction if he didn't get a new stadium. Profit and loss... The prospect of a new Twins owner does not guarantee anything, but I'm willing to take the chance. I really hope something happens soon.

THIS. I'm new here as well. There are some great people here. There are also some very serious minded folk who see zero room for humor and have little patience with those of us not metric savvy. I like TD and I hope it thrives, but I find myself spending as much or more time at Twinkie Town.

http://www.startribune.com/consistenly-awful-kyle-gibson-needs-to-go-after-this-season/440970213/

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I dunno. Feels like the FO is as surprised as anyone at the team's unexpected competence this season. We're all hoping they can sustain it, but are we really optimistic? They may have gotten everything they're going to get from Hector. Gibby is showing his typical flashes of brilliance before he reverts to his nibbling norm. Give Turley a shot, his numbers are promising enough. You roll the dice, you take your chances... it's a long season. Never know who might step up and shine!

Hughes to the DL, Gibson called back up. Is it just me, or is there an impending sense of doom drifting this way? Under TR this would've been a death knell for an encouraging season. I really hope Falvine can work some magic...

Ortiz as victim. Of course! Because... victim.

I agree. What I find interesting is their reliance on a 50 year old model. One of the conundrums of selling broadcast entertainment to advertisers is proving how many listeners or viewers their ads will reach. There's never been a reliable method to measure the audience. The new portable people meters are a great step forward, but they aren't carried by every person on the planet. (I just had a great idea for a very Orwellian science fiction script...) So, the numbers that networks try to sell to advertisers are still estimates. But, you can precisely count mouse clicks and downloads and views and streams. Networks live and die by advertising dollars (which is why boycotts by "offended" groups work so well). The only conclusion I can come to is that the number of people consuming sports entertainment via "new" technology isn't significant enough to measure and sell compared to the old model of estimating viewers watching Sunday Night Baseball down at Bobby's Sports Hut. It just strikes me as weird, and perhaps a missed opportunity.

Short piece about the four letter network's attempts to attract advertisers: https://www.marketplace.org/2017/05/16/business/counting-television-viewers-outside-their-homes

This.

You roll the dice, you take your chance... Getting anything for DanSan is a win, imo. Next up, Tonkin.

All fair points. I just don't get how it's a detriment to the flagship radio station if we hear the exact same broadcast online, ads and all. It's a messed up industry, that much I know.

Same as Wilson Ramos and AJ Pierzinsky and Tim Laudner and George Mitterwald. It's cold here, let the flames begin!

The comment or the contract?

Dear God. $23 Million for this.