Great time to be a TWINS fan! Who's hungry?

I know many of the FTLSOBW organization do not like Fatrick Reusse, but he hits a pretty solid triple off the wall here. It's a great time to be a Twins fan. Frankly, it's therefore a great time to be a baseball fan again, because I think i speak for everyone in America when i say, as goes the Twins so goes baseball. Also, Reusse is just huge, but don't let that distract you from his point.

Between Wilf and (it pains me to say this and I know I may retract this at a future date when they start pinching pennies like their old man, may he rest in peace, i actually liked him so don't say anything about me referencing him being dead) the Pohlads, we finally have owners in our major teams willing to spend to bring championships here.

For those people trying to find the cloud in the silver lining, who try to tarnish whats a great day for the small amount of sentimentality left in baseball, by suggesting joe is robbing his team of its ability to pay for his supporting cast, or that the twins are shortsightedly mortgaging their future, i simply say "you are so stupid".

One, its sort of an odd argument. Iguess in order to solve the problem of not being able to pay for a supporting cast, people want to make sure there's nobody to support. I suppose that solves the problem the way people wnat to solve the education gap by making good schools worse. I guess technically speaking you solved A problem, but i'm just not sure you're solving the right one. I'd rather have a strong small core to build the rest of the team up around than try to turn nick punto into a number two man.

Second, the small market thing is getting a little tiring. We aren't fargo. We aren't omaha. With a new stadium and a winnig team, there should be revenue. We had shit because we had shit. But just a point of reference -- the twin cities are the 14th largest market in the US. Basically identical to or slightly bigger than St. Louis, CO, AZ, Seattle and the florida teams, and bigger than Pittsburgh, torontp, cinncy, milwaukee, cleveland, and san diego (sort of). Almsot all of the major market teams are also split -- NY, LA and Chicago (which obviusly are in another world altogether), and then DC/Balt and San Fran (and the A's are perennial small ball). My point is, a myth has been established that we are at asuch a disadvantage, and the truth is we are in as good as or better market situation than most of the teams in the league, and it's really about the product.