So Carl Pohlad's dead

Carl Pohlad is dead, and all over the Star Tribune writers and people are all like, "Boo-hoo, he was the best!" and praising him for his loyalty and how he was a great owner and blah blah blah. Please.

Sorry if this sounds cold. I'm not saying I'm glad he's dead or anything. I just wish he wasn't the owner of the Twins for about the last 15 years. Pohlad was the cheapest owner a baseball team could have. Over the years we've lost players like David Ortiz, Torii Hunter and Johan Santana because of Pohlad's cheapness. I remember him threatening to sell/move/contract the team, and I hated having him as an owner.

I read all sorts of praise about how the Twins are so competitive and won championships with their small payroll. Yeah? We haven't won it all since 1991, and when we've made the playoffs, how many times have we advanced past the first round? Every year we're looking for that one big bat that could bring everything together, and every year we get someone cheap who's washed up, terrible, or Nick Punto.

Pitchers and catchers report to training camp in 6 weeks, likely with "CP" patches on their jerseys or caps, and in April the Twins will open the 2009 season in the Dome and have tributes and banners for him. I doubt much will change (his kid Jim Pholad's running the team now I guess), but who knows. Maybe the boy will spend some of dad's billions and in a few years will look back and see this as real turning point for the franchise.