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Aaron Gleeman Trashes Minnesota Twins Ownership AGAIN
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In case you missed it, the Minnesota Twins are for sale. If there was one move this franchise had to make this offseason, it was firing their owners. And by some divine miracle, that’s essentially what’s happening, The Pohlad family is firing themselves, and selling the team. The buyout will be in the billions. More importantly, Twins fans will get what they’ve been waiting 30 years for. New owners, likely ones who care more about winning, than making a small amount of NET revenue, year-over-year. But we should not let them go quietly. No farewell parties, no video commemorations. This ownership group let fans down for three decades, after the hottest start in Minnesota pro sports history (two World Series in the first 7 years. Then, they sold out for the next 33. While other mainstream sportswriters are writing odes to the Pohlads and ‘be careful what you wish for’ pieces. The Athletic’s Aaron Gleeman has been the one consistent source of ownership criticism in Twins media circles. While others make excuses

This article first appeared on Minnesota Sports Fan and was syndicated with permission.

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