{"id":160,"date":"2010-03-05T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knuckleballsblog.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2010-03-06T01:20:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T07:20:27","slug":"twins-to-sign-new-tvradio-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/knuckleballsblog.com\/2010\/03\/05\/twins-to-sign-new-tvradio-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins to sign new TV\/radio deal… and Mauer, too?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hadn’t seen or heard anything about this in any of the “usual” online sources for Twins’ news that I read rather religiously (doesn’t mean it wasn’t there… I may have missed it), but Peter Gammons had this little nugget in his mlb.com report on the Twins<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“… regardless of the weather, the Twins will realize a significant bump in revenues with their new park. They’re about to sign a new radio and TV deal.<\/p>\n

‘It’s not quite a Seattle deal,’ said one club official, but another says it will put the Twins within ‘the top 8-10 revenue teams,’ giving them a higher payroll than the Dodgers.”<\/p>\n

Seriously? Although I guess maybe the whole soap opera revolving around the divorce of the Dodgers’ owner might be inhibiting the Dodgers’ payroll and, if so, maybe it’s not as big a deal as it sounds. I just assumed the Dodgers probably were one of the $100+ million payroll clubs.<\/p>\n

I suppose it’s foolish to hope this new TV\/radio deal will mean I’ll actually be able to watch\/listen to Twins games in Eastern Iowa.<\/p>\n

In any event… now that they’ve got this TV\/radio contract pretty much ironed out, maybe they can make some progress on another contract issue of significant interest to the fan base.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Those of you who actually live in\/near the Twin Cities probably can opine about the reliability of “Common Man”, but Jesse over at TwinkieTown<\/a> posted a link to Common’s podcast<\/a> in which he claims to have a source with a “family member with the Twins” who says a Joe Mauer contract agreement will be signed by Sunday. Eight years @ $22 mil per year plus a couple of option years. Sounds a bit like one of those “friend of a friend of a friend who has a sister who dates the janitor” kinda things to me… but who knows? We can hope, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hadn’t seen or heard anything about this in any of the “usual” online sources for Twins’ news that I read rather religiously (doesn’t mean it wasn’t there… I may have missed it), but Peter Gammons had this little nugget in his mlb.com report on the Twins: “… regardless of the weather, the Twins will realize a significant bump in revenues with their new park. They’re about to sign a new radio and TV deal. ‘It’s not quite a Seattle deal,’ said one club official, but another says it will put the Twins within ‘the top 8-10 revenue teams,’ giving them a higher payroll than the Dodgers.” Seriously? Although I guess maybe the whole soap opera revolving around the divorce of the Dodgers’ owner might be inhibiting the Dodgers’ payroll and, if so, maybe it’s not as big a deal as it sounds. I just assumed the Dodgers probably were Continue reading Twins to sign new TV\/radio deal… and Mauer, too?<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,3],"tags":[27,25,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/knuckleballsblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/knuckleballsblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/knuckleballsblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/knuckleballsblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/knuckleballsblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/knuckleballsblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"http:\/\/knuckleballsblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/knuckleballsblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/knuckleballsblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/knuckleballsblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}