Minnesota
Patrick Reusse: Here's a label for Twins fans who labeled owners “cheap”
Griffith was cheap because costs were exploding as we stopped coming to the ballgames. And now Minnesota’s baseball fan base, which has been overrated for its loyalty for 55 years since the loutish Martin was fired, is taking a chest-thumping victory lap for driving the “cheap Pohlads” to sell.
You showed ’em, folks … forcing Minnesota’s second family of Twins ownership to get rid of a business it bought for $44 million four decades ago for $1.3 billion, maybe more. And, surely, you’ll get those new owners that pay the billion-plus, take the $40-50 million hit on lost regional TV revenue, and then will add $100 million to the payroll.
And that will get you to an actual ballgame? Probably not.
Great complainers, mediocre baseball fans.