Comments on: Purely Fictitious Rumors

By: mark

mark — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:04:59 +0000

Yup Joel Zumaya. Why? I dont know. Another $800,000 down the drain for another washed-up no arm pitcher. Carl Pohlad is rolling over in his grave.
And “NO” the Twinkies do NOT get the Bud Lite All Star Game in 2014. That game will be played at Wrigley Field. Plenty of HR’s will be hit the the HR Contest that 44,000 people will pay $85 each to watch.

By: KL

KL — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:09:29 +0000

See, we’re so far removed from the sources of the leaks, we have no idea where they’re even coming from. Bone-dry over here.

All I know about Zumaya is that I’m pretty sure I was at that 2010 game. I had kind of happily forgotten about that awful sight until the other day.

By: thrylos98

thrylos98 — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:55:06 +0000

Actually, it is rare that the Twins’ front office will leak something before it happened. Caveat: if some interns, low level staffers, training staff etc are involved in the process, it has higher probability to leak.

Number one source of leaks are players agents. For a good reason (they need to spread the news to make others interested.)

Number two source of leaks are staff in other teams’ front offices and those leaks are of the kind a. “what the hell is going on there? The Twins are getting after someone we want” or b. “gee the Twins want XYZ player but are not willing to give us anything good.”

That’s why you’ll see that most of the leaks out there reported by national reporters who have the ears of agents (and the agents who want to spread the word) or people who know people in other front offices…

That’s pretty much how it works.

By: Jim Crikket

Jim Crikket — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:43:43 +0000

HEY! You mean someone found out something from us first?!?!

By: CapitalBabs

CapitalBabs — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:35:45 +0000

yeah, craziness.. I guess it makes me nervous because he hasn’t ever really been the same but.. a one year contract isn’t too bad and it’s not like they are overspending and we need pitching and if he can come back? dang, that would be nice.

By: lisatwink

lisatwink — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:32:48 +0000

Joel Zumaya?!??…?

Really?

By: CapitalBabs

CapitalBabs — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:57:36 +0000

*snort* *choke* *dies laughing*

ok, that’s some good stuff right there… maybe we should have a regular off-season Monday rumor sheet. That could be a LOT of fun.

By: TT

TT — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:55:10 +0000

There is a story about the leader of a state legislative body by the name of Dick.

Dick comes out of his office and announces to his staff “Rumor has it blah blah blah.”

One of his staff asked “Where did you hear that rumor, Dick?”

Dick: “I just made it up.”

And sure enough within hours it was all over the capitol and mentioned on the evening news.

Almost everything you see in the media is unreliable. Some of it is true, but you have no real what is and what isn’t. This is why most people just believe what they want to believe.