OT- Sad Day For Twins Fans!
Sure, right after incinerating the team, assholes! :@
Twins owners decide to keep team after exploring sale: 'The franchise has become part of our family story'
"We see and hear the passion from our partners, the community and Twins fans. That passion inspires us. This ownership group is committed to building a winning team and culture for this region, one that Twins fans are proud to cheer for."
https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/twins-owners-decide-to-keep-team-after-exploring-sale-the-franchise-has-become-part-of-our-family-story-153905452.html
Bullshit…!!!
sad day indeed...
Only thing I can read into it is that they didnt get an offer that put enough $$ in their pockets.
F' them....Now they're talking about fielding a winning team after one of the great garage sales in recent MLB history.
They can GTH...
Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger!
They must not have gotten an offer to offset the debt they dumped on the Twins books. Fuck the Pohlad's and their entire family, may they rot in hell. Attendance will drop because they don't care about the game, it's the bottom line they are most concerned with. They lost a lot of the fans today with this stupid announcement.
Only the Rockies owners are worse. Be nice to have the NFL's best owners come save one of our sorry teams. Say, Zyg, you like mountains? Rocks lost 103 games two years ago. 101 games the year before. Almost unfathomably, they're on pace to beat both marks this year. You can buy the Rockies for 1/4 the value of the Vikings. Pocket change.
Greylock wrote:
They must not have gotten an offer to offset the debt they dumped on the Twins books. Fuck the Pohlad's and their entire family, may they rot in hell. Attendance will drop because they don't care about the game, it's the bottom line they are most concerned with. They lost a lot of the fans today with this stupid announcement.
I read somewhere that the Covid year of no fans cost them around $400mm in debt on the books
So these "new partners" help in that payoff.
Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger!
MaroonBells wrote:
Only the Rockies owners are worse. Be nice to have the NFL's best owners come save one of our sorry teams. Say, Zyg, you like mountains? Rocks lost 103 games two years ago. 101 games the year before. Almost unfathomably, they're on pace to beat both marks this year. You can buy the Rockies for 1/4 the value of the Vikings. Pocket change.
I know you are joking, but there used to be a rule about owning other professional franchises in other cities. Not sure if that changed.
greediron wrote:
I know you are joking, but there used to be a rule about owning other professional franchises in other cities. Not sure if that changed.
Not sure if there was an old rule preventing that. But the way it is now, owners can't own two teams in the same league, but they can teams in different leagues and cities. For example, the guy who owns the LA Rams also owns the Colorado Avs and the Denver Nuggets.
MaroonBells wrote:
Not sure if there was an old rule preventing that. But the way it is now, owners can't own two teams in the same league, but they can teams in different leagues and cities. For example, the guy who owns the LA Rams also owns the Colorado Avs and the Denver Nuggets.
The Wilfs already own Pro Soccer franchises (Mens and Womens) in Orlando.
MaroonBells wrote:
Not sure if there was an old rule preventing that. But the way it is now, owners can't own two teams in the same league, but they can teams in different leagues and cities. For example, the guy who owns the LA Rams also owns the Colorado Avs and the Denver Nuggets.
It must have changed then. I remember something about it back when the Vikings were sold by McCombs I think.
New partners allow Pohlads to tap ‘hidden profits’
By bringing in minority partners, the Pohlad family can tap into the Twins “hidden profits” without losing control of the team, according to a sports economist.
The Pohlads said Wednesday that while they didn’t unload the Twins outright as planned, they sold minority shares to two unnamed investor groups, one in the Twin Cities and one on the East Coast. The size of the minority stakes wasn’t disclosed.
That allows the Pohlads to “tap into the hidden profits” of the ballclub’s massive appreciation since they bought it in 1984, said Victor Matheson, a professor and sports economist at the College of Holy Cross in Massachusetts.
The Pohlads purchased the Twins for $44 million, or around $137 million in today’s dollars when adjusted for inflation. The Twins have an estimated value $1.5 billion to $1.7 billion.
Smaller, family-owned teams like the Twins can be “asset rich and cash poor,” Matheson said. The stock sale “allows the Pohlads to really capitalize on this asset. It allows them to cash out part of the value of the asset without relinquishing control.”
Minority owners often have some say in a sports team’s direction, even if they lack full control, Matheson said.
“We don’t have any sense if the new owners are ‘damn the torpedoes full speed ahead, let’s spend what we need to win the central division next year,’” he said.
“We don’t know if we have sports fans or accountants with these minority shareholders.”
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Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger!
- Be the Minnesota Twins
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- Experience greatest success team has enjoyed in decades
- Win playoff series in rousing victory at home
- All the momentum in the world
- Strong pitching staff and bullpen
- Talented core when healthy
- Team eager for reinforcements in offseason
- Do…
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Mid-mkt teams struggle in MLB - league is run like s hit.
Twins have a double whammy - sisters of the poor television contract. Why in the world would a team like the Dodgers give up their advantage vs others? No incentive to do so.
Cant possibly compete? Short answer might be yes, but the Pohlads still need to go.
Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger!
It was never more clear the Pohlads aren't interested in winning when they completely dismantled the team after the 2023 season. Let our top 3 starting pitchers go, slashed pay roll, and didn't add anyone.
We had young ready to play prospects coming up that could have helped push that team over the top. Instead we fell back to mediocrity and now we're in a complete rebuild.
I get the Twins aren't a big market team, but look across the border at Milwaukee who has done an excellent job of turning their franchise into a perennial playoff team the last decade.
Why is Minnesota considered a “mid-market” anyway? There are 17 Fortune 500 companies headquartered in Minnesota. I guess it’s strictly based on the television market size of Minneapolis/St Paul which is the 15th largest( out of 210). Is that actuality “Mid” IDK… :huh:
I'm a Royals fan. Competing for championships is difficult but not impossible. Twins ownership is comically bad. The fact they couldn't even sell the team right checks out.
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