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nolemmings (Todd)TBob, I've posted before as to what a miscreant Bud selig is and has been. If anyone took a minute to analyze what spews out of his pie-hole, they would see his utter lack of credibility. The Twins are an aberration, he says. But they contended last year and will contend for the next few--even if they lose a player or two to free agancy. Their formula of building from the farm and adding some reasonably priced free-agent pieces is or will be the model for more than half of the franchises. Yet Bud wants to squelch that approach by saying its an abberation, i.e. it cannot work. What better way of saying that you must have bucks to pay free agents and run up your payroll in order to compete- no other approaches will be tolerated. That being said, how/why should we believe that its the players who are greedy and that owners deserve sympathy, when the owners' hand-picked toady basically insists that you must spend,spend, spend?
Still and despite selig, the Twins need to get their stadium deal done. Their attendance is actually down a smidge, at least that's what the Star-Tribune reports. Minnesotans are a proud bunch--their legislators hike taxes and tell them how to spend money and they generally follow like sheep. An outsider tells them what to do/how to spend and they rebel almost out of spite. This latter trait makes me proud to have grown up there. In any event, the right deal needs to be finalized, soon and from within.
As for me, I'll be there next week to watch the Twins play the Orioles in the Dome. I hope to make it an annual pilgrimmage.