if they’re going to stay in Minnesota.

Sure, the post was a little dramatic, but if I thought the Twins were within a few breaths of leaving I’d be ready to incite a little panic, too. If it meant that people realized that it was a big deal, and if it meant people realized what they might lose without action, absolutely.

When push comes to shove, a measured and paced argument isn’t going to work for everyone. But it’s not like DN was going all Bushwhacker (remember those guys?).

Good for them for taking a stand and being an example.

… if the Vikings didn’t ridiculous fail at Superbowl triumphs, or hadn’t been ridiculously mismanaged for years and years.

The state of Minnesota could chose to use its power of eminent domain to acquire the Vikings instead of using it to take land for a new stadium. Under the new powers created under the Supreme Court’s (incredibly bad, BTW) Kelo decision the state could force the Wilf’s to sell the team to the state who could sell it to someone who won’t move the team. All they have to do is prove there is a compelling economic interest in forcing the transaction. Ironically, the evidence the state will need has already been provided by all the pro-stadium propaganda from just about every team has used since the Colts moved to Indy that has always exaggerated teams’ economic benefits. The benefit of this action is that if successful it will kill the economic blackmail that is the key part of pro sports business plan. If this happens I predict a whole host of billionaires will suddenly discover there was a spare $400 million hidden their couch cushions that they can use to build stadiums.

I just think it’s amusingly absurd all around. In fact, if it does turn out to be an anti-stadium lobbyist who turned them in, I think they’ve got a movie plot on their hands. Not a good movie, mind you, but one I might watch if there was nothing else on.

I get it what you are saying, but in a political battle leaps in logic don’t really matter.

With the Twins cutting payroll and the loss of 2 All-Stars and one Good player, stadium opponents are given fresh ammunition to blast publicly funded stadiums as corporate giveaways. I think we will see the legislator hold hearings and discuss the Twins, their revenue and how their profits from a tax giveaway are being spent.

I am not saying I agree. All I am saying is it gives the opponents another bullet. And in an economic environment that we are in now, stadium proponents, should be pissed that in already stacked deck, the “anti” folks have another argument.

As I have said I have never been as down on my Squad/FO/team as I have been this year.

A new stadium should’ve allowed the team to take some gambles on payroll this year to make up for the poor decisions they have made in previous years. That is the whole point of new revenue. Instead they are taking the metrodome approach and being risk adverse on a government subsidy.
And I get annoyed with the folks who either cheerlead for the Pohlads bank account or too easily accept the "can’t afford xxxxx" when clearly the Twins can, they just refuse to do so. Couple this with their taking of tax dollars and it turns me into the Debbie downer I don’t want to be.