91-Year Old Penny-Pincher Talks Smack At Yanks

From the St. Paul Pioneer Press -

[Twins Owner] Pohlad said he has no preference as to which team — the New York Yankees or Oakland A’s — his Twins face in the first round of the playoffs next week. Then he paused.

“I’d rather play the Yankees,” he said, “because I know we can beat them.”

Privately, there is no club Pohlad would rather beat than George Steinbrenner’s Yankees.

“That’s right,” he whispered.

Careful what you wish for there, old-timer. Be very careful.

September 28, 2006 | Filed Under Trap Door Items

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3 Responses to “91-Year Old Penny-Pincher Talks Smack At Yanks”

Raf on September 28th, 2006 4:53 pm

For his role in the contraction scheme, I don’t like Mr. Pohlad.

I hope the Twinkies match up with the Yanks. I also hope that the matchup winds up like the previous matchups.

I hope they never win another playoff game as long as he’s the owner.
MJ on September 28th, 2006 9:05 pm

And beating the Twins would also be sticking it in the eye of Bud Selig, the man that received a “loan” from Pohlad conveniently around the time the billionaire founder of Wells Fargo Bank couldn’t wait to sign the contraction papers and get his $150M buy out instead of trying to sell the team and giving someone else a chance to do a better job.
Raf on September 29th, 2006 10:39 am

Every time he’s mentioned, I think of the Chiefs owner in “Slap Shot”