Jim Souhan on Pohlad family selling Twins: ‘The name is synonymous with cheapness’
The Pohlad ownership group announced Thursday it’s exploring putting the Minnesota Twins up for sale. FOX 9’s Dawn Mitchell caught up with Minnesota Star Tribune columnist Jim Souhan, a long-time baseball writer, to talk about the move.
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16 comments
Fair assessment
Jim left out Pohlad's owned a bank #marquettebank so his claims of "money tied up" is false. We will miss the family policy of using adultery to negotiate better contracts, no difference between which Pohlad owned the team. Refusing to add a name once again when playoffs were imminent was one too many. Pohlad's won't be missed, and they struck gold taking 10 million to 1.5 billion. Make sure following sale any Pohlad decendent is banned from team and removed from board of directors so we don't have the Griffith lingering effect. The Pohlad's can now focus on harassing private citizens and cashing in on foreclosures.
I wouldn't go to a Twins game if you paid me a thousand dollars!
Really nice interview Dawn very good questions, God I miss real journalism
lmao Souhan calling them out for being cheap. He protected their pockets like no one else.
Lol, he's the main person defending the Pohlads year after year at the trade deadline when there were ace pitchers available and the Twins didn't make a move on them
Keep in mind the Pohlads are the 3rd richest owners in the league and yet the Twins payroll has always been 14-16th.
Souhan works for a "news" paper that enabled the Pohlads to rob the fans (and Hennepin County taxpayers!) of billions of dollars. And they aren't through yet since the Target playpen increased the team value by hundreds of millions dollars. Talk about a banker robbing the customers! Mr Souhan can retire now!
Minnesota sports fans are marks.
Keep subsidizing these professional MN sports teams you fly over cows. Your all naive suckers.
There’s cheap and then there’s CHEAP. When the Twins did nothing to improve their team before the trade deadline it was clear they were CHEAP.
Pohlad Pocket Protector yappin' in front of the stadium
The twins did not have a good decade after getting their new stadium. The pohlads should sell the team asap and never involve themselves in sports again.
Jim Souhan is an idiot. Always has the wrong opinion.
A friend of mine had a brother who was a banker.He had meetings with Karl pohland when it came to buying lunch Pohland never bought lunch for anybody other than himself.
Pohlads are cheap? Twins had higher payroll than Guardians, Royals, or Tigers. Pohlads are paying too much for wrong players.