WEBVTT - Twins OFF the market, Padres match Dodgers, Alonso is Mets HR King 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.240 O G Crew again. Get used to it, AJ Kratz, 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:08.399 I'm bron AJ. Some people were shocked mid show when 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:10.520 they saw that you had a live studio audience. 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:13.920 Is that the case again today or you rock and solo. 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.520 Solo? Yesterday it was a special day. Uh, my friend Pickle, 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:21.160 who you got to see, was here with my son 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:23.640 and some other friends. But no, there's nobody here today. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.080 Our our producer lady made me close the door behind 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:29.400 me in case a ghost walked out. But no, there's 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:33.640 nobody here. It's just me. I'm in the battery, chilling. Yeah. 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:35.959 Ready to rock. Let's talk baseball? 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:39.879 Yeah, well, business first, but eventually we'll get to baseball. 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:45.200 When you mentioned Pickle yesterday mid show, I should have known, 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:47.479 but I didn't know. 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:50.560 Well we got I think you met didn't you meet Pickle? 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:51.240 At some point? 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:52.479 I think I might have met Pickle? 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.800 Yeah, I probably met Pickle. He lives in Orlando. Good guy, 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:56.640 good funny guy. 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.360 But a lot of also play on this week's after Sense. 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:02.920 Also, you know, when your name's Pickle, you got to 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.039 be a good guy, because no one named Pickles a bad. 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:08.640 Guy unless you're unless you're in the mob and you're 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:10.840 just taking people out. But that's right, the kind of 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:12.679 pickle I don't think. I don't think you hang out 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:13.680 with those types of pickles. 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.160 No, I try to stay out of those pickles, and 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:21.759 like certain people, I try to stay out of those pickles. 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:24.200 That would be a good deal to stay out of 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:25.000 that type of pickle. 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.360 See, I knew Kratz couldn't resist, not only the deal part. 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:30.520 I was waiting for that, but also just the classic 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:34.000 getting into a pickle situation, krats How difficult is it 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:34.680 to hold back? 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.800 It's difficult. But every time there's a rundown in any 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.560 game I'm ever at, I'll be barely paying attention. I'll 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.560 just be like pickle. If you don't yell pickle when 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:47.520 there's a rundown, I don't care what the situation is, 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:48.840 you're not doing it right. 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.280 You don't have a soul if you're not yelling pickle right. 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:58.880 Easy, Yeah, Okay, business first, let's charge the mound. 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:01.920 Charge about. 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.160 One of the most shocking headlines of the year. And 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:12.760 I'm not being sarcastic. The Twins are not for sale. 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:18.480 I repeat. The Twins have been taken off the market. 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:23.240 They have been owned for forty forty four years they 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.440 sold for forty four million I think forty something years 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.760 ago to the pol Ad family. They have pulled the 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:33.760 plug on the sale of the team. Via press release 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:37.080 They're bringing in some limited partners I'll summarize for you, 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:38.000 or I'll give you a little bit. 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:38.280 I guess. 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.079 After a detailed and robust process, the family will remain 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.040 the principal owner of the Twins to strengthen the club 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.800 in a rapidly evolving sports landscape, one that demands strong partnerships, 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:48.800 fresh ideas, and long term vision. We are in the 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.600 process of adding two significant limited partnership groups, each of 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.560 whom will bring a wealth of experience and share our 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:58.560 family values. Also from the pole Ads, we see and 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:01.200 hear the passion from our partner, the community and Twins fans. 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.960 That passion inspires us. This ownership group is committed to 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.320 building a winning team and culture for this region, one 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.480 that Twins fans are proud to cheer on. 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.440 Scott take it away for us. Okay, I'll take it 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.840 away for you as you're hired a PR. You're fake PR. 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.520 Back in twenty twenty three when we won a playoff 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:19.880 series as a wildcard series, but a playoff series for 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.680 the first time in a very long time, like two decades. 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.760 Our commitment to you after that new ballpark that we 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.280 made the city pay for was to cut payroll by 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.880 thirty million dollars. Then take a year to think that 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.160 you were going to get a new ownership group that 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.560 was actually going to take care of you fan base. 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.120 We even teased you at the trade deadline and sold 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.720 away forty percent of the team, and then what did 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:42.040 we do. 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:45.560 We rubbed you two weeks later, we rubbed your baby. 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.400 We're keeping the team. We sold half the team. 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.680 Payroll is freaking rock bottom, and we just made a 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.040 whole heap of money from minority investors. 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.160 Had I do aj thing, I'm gonna get hired, You're. 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:58.840 Probably not going to get hired by him. But you 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:02.520 told that that's that's what basically happened. I mean, it 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.120 is what happens. And let's not forget they were what 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.480 four hundred million in debt, so by getting rid of 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.160 Carlos Korea and some of the other players, they probably 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.600 save some of the debt. They get minority owners to 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:14.480 come in and cover that debt. They're back to zero 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.159 and Joe Poullett can still own the team. Like that 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:18.960 was one of the big sticking points they said. Remember 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:20.600 they were going to sell them, but they were like, oh, 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.640 Joe Pollett has to stay on board as something important. 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.279 And I think the issuels were like, no, we're going 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.560 to start over, and Apology was like, nope, we're going 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.360 to pull the team back, so we're going to keep it. Listen, 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.080 I know a lot of people in Minnesota. I started 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.360 my career in Minneapolis. Is a great city, great place, 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:39.280 great baseball fans, but it's just it runs its course, right. 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.640 It's time if you're not going to invest in the 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:43.840 team enough and continue to invest in the team, and 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:45.760 it's time to move on and get your two billion 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:47.880 and move on. Wh Why do we Why do we 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:49.360 want to keep doing this? Why? 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:49.719 Why? 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:51.120 That's all I want to Why do they want to 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:51.680 keep doing this? 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:54.279 Yeah? Good? 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:56.320 Oh. I was just gonna say I was gonna rank 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.800 it as one of Scott's best soliloquies of the year, 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.880 maybe of all time, because it was spot on, and 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:06.800 I hope out of all this this conversation, the one 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:11.240 idea it said, was a fresh ideas from this new 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.560 capital group that's coming in to infuse some money. I 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.039 hope they bring fresh ideas. I hope they have a 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.760 long term what does it say, long term vision? I 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:22.960 hope there's a long term vision, because any team that 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.599 buys some or gets some good graces with the city 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.880 and then sells players, and then gets good graces and 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:33.680 sells players has no long term vision, long term vision. 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:37.840 Look at the other teams that have lasting success, if 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:39.799 that's what you really want. I hope that new group 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.599 coming in has that fresh ideas and an actual long 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.440 term vision, because ultimately then the poll Ads will make money, 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:49.720 which I think is really all they care about. 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.440 Dan Hayes wrote an article He's dialed in on this 0:05:54.560 --> 0:06:00.720 whole sale attempt and failure to sell the team, or 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.800 at least to a majority owner, right, which is what 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.240 we all thought was going to happen, including the Commissioner 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.839 of Baseball if you believe them. But anyway, Dan Hayes said, 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.240 though the team drew the interest of multiple limited partnership groups, 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.239 nobody with the financial wherewithal to purchase a large chunk 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:22.640 of the club emerged despite messages that the sale was 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.960 progressing with multiple interested parties. The sources suggested the Twins 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:32.720 were having difficulty attracting potential majority owners. 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:34.000 I'd like to know. 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.160 What the price was, because I bet you there were 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:40.719 people that were interested in buying the team that said 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.240 this ain't worth it, and then they said, well, then 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.279 we're not selling and then they said, cool, well wait 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.440 for something else to open up, whether it's in baseball 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.280 or otherwise, you don't get whatever price you want. I 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.560 understand that it's their scarcity. There's a limitation to this, 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.360 and it could be an awesome asset to own, right, 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:00.000 I mean, look at them. They bought it for forty 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.280 four mil and they're trying to sell it for one 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.880 point seven bill. And I am telling you every single 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.520 soul in that city that likes baseball and likes the 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:12.240 Twins is desperately crying for somebody else to take over 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.600 this team, every single soul. I'm telling you, it is 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:17.360 by far the biggest story. And it's why I gave 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:18.920 the Twins an a at the trade deadline, like, hey, 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:20.679 if this helps player books and get a team sold 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.800 or get yeah, the team moved over to another ownership group. Great, 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.200 now it's an f because it didn't happen. And if 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.320 we believe that they're holding true on this aja and 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.080 that it's not just a little bit of chicken with 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:37.080 a potential investor. Then this is a travesty for the 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.520 city of Minneapolis. There's no other way to state it. 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.400 Yeah, listen again, I played for the Twins for twenty 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.440 plus years ago, and at that time we were one 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.600 of the low market teams, low budget. They just said, oh, 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.680 it's we just need a stadium. We just need a stadium. 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:56.120 They got the stadium, they start putting money in. The 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.600 team is rolling, the team is selling out at target 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:01.320 Field Field. If you haven't been as one of the 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.040 best ballparks in the league, I'm sorry. I love target Field. 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.360 It's awesome. It's right on top of you, it's built 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.440 straight up. It's a great place. Okay, And then they 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.560 win a playoff series and they say, oh, we're cutting payroll. 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.720 What but the chance in the AL Central. Now, let's 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:17.600 not forget the AL Central is very winnable for every 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:21.600 team if they do it right. And then again this 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:23.920 past year they're like, we're cutting payroll even more going 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.640 into the year, and then at the trade deadline they 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.119 trade their whole team away, and now they're like, oh, well, 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.040 we're not going to sell the team because we got 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.360 out of debt and we're going to start over. Like 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.200 I just I don't know, I don't know. I know 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.720 you can't make a guy someone sell a team. But man, 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.080 just the Twins fans again that are there are not 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:45.000 happy today because they want a new a new message, 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.839 a new life, a new anything for the Twins, and 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:49.800 I don't know when it's going to come because they 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.560 just don't seem to want to be able to do that. 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.040 We have a little breaking news on Hello Fresh. 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.120 We've talked about them for a long time, but this 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:00.840 summer they have their biggest menu upgrade yet. Ready for this, 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.920 Todd Father, talk to me. 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He said, essentially, there will be a transaction. 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:18.720 It's not a matter of if a deal for the 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:24.240 twins can be struck, but when. And here's another direct quote. 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.760 I know some things that you don't know. I can 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:29.760 tell you with a lot of confidence that there will 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.160 be a transaction there and it will be consistent with 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.480 the kind of pricing that has taken place. There will 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:40.559 be a transaction. We just need to be patient while 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.920 they rework end quote. 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.480 There was a transaction. They added minority ownership. He was right. 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.880 But here's some. I think you said to Scott on 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:55.080 our call of our pre call before this show, how 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:56.839 many owners were like, Hey, you want us to pay 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:58.360 a lot of money and there might be a work 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.600 stoppage after one year. Why would we buy it now? 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.200 Why don't we just wait a year until there's a 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.199 new CBA. I can't argue that if I'm trying to 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.600 go buy a team right now and I know a 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:10.760 possibility in a year I might have to sit out 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.320 for a long time and not make any money. Wouldn't 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:14.760 you wait too, if you have enough money to buy 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:16.360 a team, wouldn't you just wait until that's done and 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.440 then you can jump right in and start making money 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:19.360 the way you want to. 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:21.840 Well, there's two sides to this. 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.559 Yes, most would wait because they don't like question marks, 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.280 especially major question marks that could cost the team a 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.720 lot of money if they do actually hold out for 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:33.840 a long period of time when we go through the 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.480 lockout process a couple of seasons from now. But AJ 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.040 the other side could say, sure, you can wait, but 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.400 we're going to try to sell the team. So if 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:43.840 you want to wait, you might not have this team, 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:45.199 so then you don't care enough. And if you want 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.000 to wait for another team go for it, right, So 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:47.800 it is too. 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:51.840 Early, but Scott apparently everybody's did that because if somebody 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.160 would have stepp up, they would have sold the team, right. 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.320 So I mean, what I want to know is is 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.040 how much of this Again? It goes back to remember 0:11:58.080 --> 0:11:59.839 when they said the issue is were supposed to buy 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:02.000 this team. Everyone thought the issues were buying this team, 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.240 and then don't forget they were like, oh, whoever buys 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.800 this team, Joe Pola has to stay apart in an 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.559 integral part of this, and that like all these stipulations, 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.920 you're selling the team. You don't get stipulations right, you're 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.040 selling the team. If Joe Polad has to go find 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:17.920 a different job, than Joe Paulad's got to go find 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:18.760 a different job, I'm. 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.920 Sorry he doesn't have to work again either. 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.320 You know, when you take the investment from forty four 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.240 mil to one point seven bill, or even if it 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.920 was one point five, you can still get away. 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.240 With one point one billion dollars, so I've heard. 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:32.240 I don't know from personal experience, but I think you 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.440 can get away with that unless you're really a big spender. 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.079 Then we need to talk about other things. But Cratz. 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:42.520 The thing for the Twins is that this team was 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.280 building up, got to that point in twenty twenty three 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:46.840 and they're like, all right, here we go, We're gonna 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:48.840 have something special. We're in our winning window. And then 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.480 they immediately retreated. And I think that there was some 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.720 forgiveness if they actually went through with what they said. 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:02.640 And now we are literally back to square one. 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:05.080 Literally back to square one. You had, you, you you gave, 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:08.200 You gave the city hope. But the players gave the 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:11.040 city hope. This was a great window. Look at the 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.160 you can go down the roster of who they had, 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:18.440 and they just did it all based on a money transaction. 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:23.040 They broke the team down after the success was there after, 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:25.640 like they should have been in the playoffs last year. 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.600 All this stuff this has nothing to do with like, 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.880 I just don't see this as our window. This is 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:35.120 just a money money, money, money money, and he the 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:39.280 Pole Ads have moved high up on the list of brutal, umpire, 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:43.360 brutal owners of teams. And my question is off this 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:47.960 topic is the CBA. Obviously owners want to push for 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.760 the salary cap, and that's what we've heard. Does the 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:55.199 value of the organization go up. If a salary CAP's installed, 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:59.520 does it go down because the twins have to spend money, 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.440 then they're not they're not at the floor. They have 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:04.440 to spend money, but they're gonna be getting a big 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.520 influx of money in too. So does the value go 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:08.680 up as an organization? 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:10.840 Right way up? 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:15.880 Yeah, he's gonna gonna They're gonna they're gonna be exponentially. 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.079 They're banking on that right a j And we know 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.560 where they're voting. They're gonna vote to miss as many 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:21.480 games as possible. 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.160 Oh, they will trust me. They want to take Yeah, 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:29.280 they listen. Owners that I don't want to say all 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.760 owners because but a lot of owners want a cap 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:34.960 in baseball because they know what they're gonna spend and 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:36.960 they can set their budget and whatever they make over 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:38.800 that number, guess what, they get to keep it all 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:40.720 so they don't have to put it back and they 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:42.400 and they can just go to the fans, well, we 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.400 have a cap. We can only spend so much. Right. 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.600 But then owners like Stevie Cohen, the Dodgers, the Yankees 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.280 that sometimes the Red Sox, when they want to they 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:51.760 can say, well, we can spend as much as we 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:53.880 want so the fans can't complain then and say, well, 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.120 our owner doesn't care. But if they have a cap, 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.520 then it limits the certain teams to say, well, we 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:00.720 can only spend so much guys, sorry, we did the 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:02.960 best we can. Oh and we still made two hundred 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.440 million over our one hundred and fifty million dollars. Gap. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.880 Oh no, whereas before we'd have to spend two hundred 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.040 and fifty and only make fifty million. Oh no, poo 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.640 pour us. Right, that's why all these owners want a cap. 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:15.240 Let's not get it confused. 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:16.360 Mm hmm. 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:19.040 Yeah. 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:25.480 This obviously has some funny components to it, with all 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.800 of the bs and the lying and the quotes that 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.960 have come out over the past year, but it also 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:32.760 is devastating for the city. 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:33.400 It really is. 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:37.320 You have no control over this whole process, and it's 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.160 very difficult right now for many Twins fans out there 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.800 to continue to show up and continue to support the team. 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.360 It's real, right, it really hurts. This is the ultimate 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:46.160 gut punch. 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.720 Rally around Byron Buckston. Byron Buckston wants to be there. 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.760 He said it. He said that much, and as a player, 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:58.440 he's realistic. I assume he's realistic. Hey again, no help, 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.360 they're not bringing anybody. You got to grind through this. 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.960 Barron's like, I spent my whole career trying to stay healthy. 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.520 Now I'm an all star healthy. I told the city 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.080 I want to be here. Oh and my boss says, 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:16.200 that's cool, thanks, but baseball thing's probably not going to 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:17.160 work out for us here. 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:20.080 Yeah. 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.040 I mean, he was using all the buzzwords, the revenue, 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:23.880 the payroll. 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.640 It's so tough. I have to do the tough stuff 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.680 and run the business. Oh feels so bad. 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.240 It's so hard. It's so hard to run it to you. 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:36.480 I mean, I'm looking back at the quotes over the 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.600 last couple of years. They're atrocious. They're atrocious. And again, 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.320 the only reason why the whole world wasn't ripping them 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.600 even more than they already were was the fact that 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:48.080 there was a promise that this was going to be it. 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:53.480 I actually legitimately thought aja that the downfall from the 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:56.360 playoff high of twenty three and the next twenty four 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.640 months after that truly led to them saying, you know what. 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:00.760 Worth it anymore? 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.760 My family legacy is all about this. This is really negative. 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:06.959 This sucks. This is what I'm gonna be known for 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:08.280 cash out and leave. 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.000 I thought you were. I agree with you, Scott. I 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:14.600 thought after the vitriol of the fans of last year 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:16.920 and two, last year I thought was bad. This year 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.440 was even worse because of what happened. I thought that's 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:20.879 why they were selling the team. And when you have 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.400 the commissioner come out and say there will be a transaction, 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:25.639 I know more than you, nanny nanny boo boo. I 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:27.560 know more than you do. Right, we all know you 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:29.359 know more than we do, Rob because you're on the inside. 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.760 You work for the owners. Okay, so let's not forget 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.919 about that. But when you come down and say the 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:36.800 Twins are going to be sold, not if, but when, 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.600 then people are like, yes, we finally get a fresh start. 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:41.879 Now it's like nope, just kidding, huh. We're going to 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.960 keep the team and keep you guys. Basically, it's like 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.400 a I don't want to say a hostage situation. It's 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.480 not like that. But that's like the analogy that comes 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:53.040 to mind. Right, the pole Out family has the Twins 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:57.720 and they're like, there's a lot of baseball fans in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:01.000 The Dakota's Iowa that all go to Minutis for games 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:03.920 and they are now like, well, we have the team, 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.080 we can do whatever we want. So, I don't know, 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:09.840 it's a weird situation. It's a it's an interesting situation. 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:11.400 I just wish it was a different situation. 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:13.439 Yeah, there's nothing you can do about it. 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:15.800 And yeah, as far as the commissioner goes, either he 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:18.680 was kind of playing the game with everyone else on 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:20.880 the Polo ad family side so that they could try 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:24.199 and bargain right and say, hey, you've got interest, something's 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:27.240 going to happen, or he legitimately thought that they were 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:29.320 going to sell and then the poet said, yeah, it's 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:29.840 my damn team. 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:30.439 I'm not selling. 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:34.040 So either way, the whole thing is just a bloody mess. 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:37.639 It is a bloody mess in Minneapolis for baseball on 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:39.800 this day, Twins fans were here for you. 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.560 That's all we want you to know. We're talking about 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.119 this the way it should be talked about. 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:48.320 So we're about to talk about the Mariners, and I 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:50.400 do want to let fans know that there is hope. 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.879 The Mariners were as closely linked to the Twins as 0:18:54.920 --> 0:19:00.760