Love Him, Hate Him or Kinda-Sorta Dislike Him

...he literally came in at the last minute and saved it. There was no movement to save the team like what the Sonics had and they were as good as gone before he came.

I was glad to see him buy the team, especially after the disaster of the Wolfenson/Ratner years. But as time has passed, I am thankful Taylor didn’t buy either the Twins or Vikings. I think it’s time we simply see how the next season or so plays out to see whether or not this franchise has rebounded from its mistakes. How many times have we heard:

“People think I’m way too loyal to Kevin and I should replace him. Maybe I’m really pretty loyal and maybe I get a little stubborn in my loyalty, but that loyalty probably goes into all my businesses.”

Okay, I think we got that by now. Let’s see if all this effort to save one Iron Ranger’s reputation actually amounts to something. At least no one got tossed under a bus this time.

... for a Glen Taylor “loyalty” joke?

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/2008/08/the_fall_of_glen_taylor.shtml

...fuck-tard that David Stern is, check out this NY Times article from 94 about the Wolves in Minny:

Stern said that while the support of the team’s ownership and fans have been firm, the financial problems with the Wolves’ arena, the Target Center, will be difficult to resolve.

“There’s a concern about whether midsize cities can support a team,” Stern said at a press conference in conjunction with the All-Star weekend. “There’s a terrible economic issue involved. We have to work to have an apparatus to keep teams in cities like this. The N.B.A. wants a team here. We want the Timberwolves to stay here in the present building in the present form.” Team’s Future to Be Discussed

This is the guy who just helped move a team from Seattle to OKC. It’s also a guy that fielded offers from Nashville and NOLA to move the Wolves….both areas with smaller media markets than Minny. Stern has been running the same BS for nearly 2 decades now with the stadium crap.

Also, it should be mentioned that the Wolves didn’t go to NOLA because the NBA board of governors voted to reject the sale to the NOLA ownership group because of inadequate financing. Taylor stepped in after this vote…although his purchase was probably agreed to before the boards’ vote. Seattle should have seen the Minny/NOLA situation as an example of what needed to be done to keep a team. Stern only helps when his league makes money. Taylor guaranteed the sale in the market with solid finances.

I’m in the kinda sorta camp. Doing one thing right doesn’t excuse you from doing things that aren’t right after it.

Bit the same with Mchale. Drafting Garnett was genious (though he admitted he was actually low on Garnett, went to a workout to make other teams believe they were high on him so someone else might drop to them .. only then they saw that he had the talent and the amazing work ethic) .. but that doesn’t make al of his mistakes afterward right.

Kinda bit the same like I’m not liking America going all crusade on the middle east but the only reason I’m not speaking German is because thousand Americans helped us in a war that didn’t really threathen them directly .. so even though something that makes you gratefull in the past doesn’t mean everything is excused .. it still accounts for at least something

We’ll see how it goes; they’re going the right direction and it seems Taylor seems more involved so maybe that’s part of the positive effect.