Hard to believe the Twins and Marlins were almost done away with.

[Journeyman]

I wonder how Mr Selig feels seeing the Minnesota Twins (a team he wanted to do away with) playing so well the past 2+ years?

What ever happened to this great plan baseball had to do away with Florida and Minnesota lol?

And has anyone heard what condidtion the Arizona franchise is in these days? A couple years ago they were borrowing money to make payroll? Baseball has been tight lipped on all three of these past concerns...did Fla and Minn. play their way back into baseball`s future?

 

[areeff]

What does a teams performance have to do with their economic status as a profitable business. Are you a paid poster? You're asking one of the rhetorical question on the bottom of a red robin coaster.

 

[FunkSoulBrother]

areef, you're making an ass of yourself...

 

[WildBill]

Buddy would still dump them if he could. Winning and losing games means nothing to the MLB owners these days.

 

[areeff]

*yawn*

 

[JohnnyDeMarco]

with exceptions for most of the AL East of course.

 

[RobFunk]

areef is right though. but if you watched the movie where the little kid manages the twins it just wouldnt be the same. "and whats with all this 3rd person stuff?" "they all do it, danny tartabull. . ." "well let danny tartabull's mom worry about danny tartabull!"

who the hell is danny tartabul anyways?!

 

[Journeyman]

Team performance can have everything to do with how a team in MLB generates revenue...What kind of ridiculous reply back was that?

Just look back to the late 70`s when Oakland drew just over 300,000 fans for the entire season, before Billy Martin rejuvinated the city, and then the Rickey Henderson era comes along and the team is back on its feet, it happens all the time...there are many examples of a team`s winning in the standings directly impacting a teams profit/loss magin.

 

[RobFunk]

 

[Journeyman]

Minnesota and Florida have won 4 of the 17 World Series Championships....just under 25%

While the Red Sox, NY Mets, Orioles, both Chicago teams, San Francisco, Detroit, St.Louis, haven`t won any....

 

[RobFunk]

alright thanks for your help guys. i just discovered danny tartabull was a black dude that played for the yanks and the royals. are there any pictures of this guy in existence where he is not wearing a yankee uniform?!

 

[RobFunk]

tampa hasnt won it either. but they got the best fans journey.

 

[Journeyman]

He did strikeout quite a bit but he had some pretty good years with KC than NY...He kinda fell off the table quick though...I remember a night when hit 2 grandslams vs Baltimore, he had a bushel of RBI`s , he always killed the Orioles..

His father was also a bigleaguer

 

[RobFunk]

sounds like a great place to spend thanksgiving. "rob youre welcome to come over for thanksgiving if you'd like." "no, thats o.k.. . . I'm going to the tartabulls."

 

[ChuckSims]

Journeyman, The Marlins and Twins were never even close to being done away with. It was a bargaining chip the Commish was using to get concessions from the union for the collective bargaining agreement.After the collective bargaining agreement, the word "contraction" has never been brought up.

 

[RobFunk]

nobody is going to get closed especially when jessie ventura is going to bat for you. he was really mean and fierce with his bald head when he addressed "mr.selig" i was just waiting for him to hold his belt in the air during and tell him he was coming for selig in wrestlemania 63 or whatever number they are on. this was like 3 years ago. why are we talking about this again?