..from a different perspective: They don’t spend a lot by choice and instead of having a Santana/Garza 1-2 punch with a Span, Mauer, Bartlett, Morneau, Cuddyer, Kubel, Hunter, Punto, whoever at 3rd batting order, they’ve stuck their fans with a new stadium that will be used to pay Joe Mauer and host April and (hopefully) October games without a roof. Being the little team that could is a slap in the fans face. It’s a fantastic marketing job by everyone involved with the team but I think it’s BS. It’s especially crappy coming from the Pohlad family…who got its start with Carl foreclosing on family farms during the Great Depression and later following that up by gutting Minneapolis’ street car system so that the city (i.e. taxpayers like you and me) could buy the buses that Carl just happened to own. He later repeated this trick with the new stadium after “warning” the town with contraction (which would have brought him a gigantic contraction check from MLB). 5 years from now the Twins will still be spending a relatively small amount and they’ll still be using AAA players to fill in the gaps around their historic talent…all the while being the Little Team That Almost Could.