Comments on: Emptying the Carl Pohlad notebook

By: LARTWINFAN

LARTWINFAN — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:11:16 +0000

Thanks to Carl Pohlad and condolences to his family and thousands of friends and fans who appreciate the last 25 years.
To the negative bloggers I read above on this.
You have no class—-none at all.
As Carl would have wanted,
HAVE FUN !!! GO TWINS!!!

By: GENO

GENO — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:53:26 +0000

In regards to the N&N article about Revere,i have a little different take on it.I think we should wait until next off season to make that evaluation.Then,we will be in better position to judge the potentials of Go-Go,DY,Span,Revere,Hicks and Morales.I think Hicks will the CF in 3 years,with Go-Go traded for maximum value

By: GENO

GENO — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:44:25 +0000

The people that actually knew the man,speak differently of him than some posters on this board.Who’s opinion are you going to believe!

By: mj1

mj1 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:56:52 +0000

great article by nick and nick –see their blog….talks about trading revere….very interesting, and you can link up on this page….

By: mmmhmm

mmmhmm — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:17:11 +0000

“How bout Baker, Liriano and DY for Wright?”

Similar question: How bout Buscher for Pujols?

For a trade to happen, first both teams must want to trade. Then, there has to be some semblance of reality in the trade’s components.

By: Boneyard

Boneyard — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:18:30 +0000

I never knew Carl Pohlad, so I can’t (and never have) commented on what kind of guy he was from my own personal persepctive. What has been known through the media is that he apparently loved his family and had some big philanthropic endeavors. He was an incredibly driven and astute businessman. There are worse epitaphs than the above, a lot worse.

That being said, he wasn’t a good baseball owner in the last, oh, 2/3 of his tenure. He allowed the team to be awful in the 90’s, was willing to contract at a huge profit to himself, then allowed the team to get pretty good but would not take the necessary steps to go to the next level. This winter is no exception. I mean, the Rays did something to improve, for crying out loud. No sitting on their hands even with poverty and a recent trip to the Series as excuses not to do anything. The culture of the Twins to wring their hands and whine about all the reasons to do nothing relates directly to the owner. This does not make him a bad human being.