O/T: Santana Trade

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Posted By: Todd Schultz

And I was proven wrong about the first part of my statement, although the rest remains true. Jeff, since birth I've never pretended to be God-like--pardon me if I doubt you saying the same. I had the Giants plus the points, BTW.

Barry, your comments about free agents are true, they are nearly always overpaid. So why the continual harping by folks on Pohlad being cheap? Honestly, do you believe offering Torii Hunter $15M per year and Santana $20M per year to be cheap? Anyone care to comment how they've locked up Mauer, Morneau and Cuddyer, the heart of their order?

Carl Pohlad is 92 years old. He may have great grand-children as old as some posters here. Do people really believe he spends his days in the corner counting money? Although he stays involved, he, unlike the buffoonish Steinbrenner, has long since relinquished most control of the Twins and the family finances. This old miser talk and its usual accompaniment "He got his money foreclosing family farms during the Depression" (he was 14 when the Depression started) are tiresome. It would be nice if folks would at least do some homework and use common sense rather than building on the media's lazy and almost mythical portrayal of Carl Pohlad as some sort of Simon Legree.

And so it goes. The haves, with their nearly limitless revenue streams from media and other outlets, will continue to have, and the have nots will continue to have not. So in the words of Bacall from that very To Have and Have Not, let's all give a whistle-- "You know how to whistle, don't you, ...? You just put your lips together and... blow."