Twins Live Chat Transcript
Pujols to the Twins? Ideas Welcome!
Last night, I held a two-hour
live Twins chat. I answered Twins fans’ questions about many
Twins-related topics, posted a few polls, and it was fun. Hopefully this can
become a weekly thing. I enjoy hosting the live chats because if there is a
Toughest Part of Blogging, it is trying to know what the readers want to read.
With the live chats, readers can get their very specific questions answered and
we can cover a large range of questions. It is fun. I am hoping to do one of
them a week, and hopefully more and more people will
want to participate.
If you would like to read
the transcript to last night’s chat, click here. Let me know what you
think?
One fun thing I did during the chat was
encourage user participation. I needed a three minute break at one point, so I
asked the participants to think about how the Twins could go about acquiring
Albert Pujols. When I was on ESPN710 in Bismarck
on Tuesday, Jack Michaels challenged
me to make it happen and to be creative. Maybe give him a good salary and then
$500 a month in lottery tickets to see how much more he could make. I thought
it was an interesting question, so I encourage people in the chat room last
night to think about it. And I ask you the same thing today? How could the
Twins go about getting Albert Pujols? Be creative. Below are some of the responses
from last night:
From Joe: “Pujols? Just give him 10 years 300 million; Pretty sure that will get it done”
From Brandon Warne: “Exclusive
naming rights to the entire stadium once Target's existing deal expires, a
lifetime contract at $25 mill a year, and the entire city of Orono, no, Wayzata.”
From Jim: “Rights
to the "Bert's Burger," a bronze statue in Target Plaza, and pen pal
letters from Nick Punto.”
From Jim Crikket: “Give him ownership... of the T'Wolves”
And how about this
one from Dez: “How about we offer him
Albertville?”
And later: “How
about Albert Lea?”
Or both. What do you think? How would you get Albert Pujols
to the Twins? Any thoughts?
And finally, yesterday Ron Gardenhire announced that Carl Pavano
would be making the Opening Day start for the Twins against Toronto. Lots of
people were upset that it wasn’t Francisco
Liriano. To that, I say, “Who Cares?” The pitcher
that starts Game 1 will, assuming health and not too much realignment,
start 33 games with a five man rotation. The Game 2 starter will start 33 games
as well! Opening Day is a nice honor, and Liriano
could have done it, but there is nothing wrong with Pavano
getting the start. He had a terrific year last year too.
Please feel
free to comment in the comments section.